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Cuting edge design for the urban environment

Introducing the new Sorento luminaire. Designed by Priestmangoode and Speirs and Major Associates.

Elegant and contemporary, the striking new Sorento luminaire developed in association with designers Priestmangoode and renowned lighting architects Speirs and Major Associates, does not fail to impress.

In a unique culmination of creative and technical ingenuity, Sorento’s distinctively modern design, originally borne from proposals for Cambridge city centre and later developed to suit a wider range of public-space applications, has been engineered with active ‘cool-zone’ to incorporate an extensive range of electronic ballasts and remote monitoring systems.

Offering excellent performance and virtually zero upward light spill as a result of its patented Diamond Optic® reflector and intelligent product design, Sorento provides a truly iconic post-top lighting solution.

Paul Priestman and Mark Major say: ‘We believe we have created a product that is timeless with a discreet character, beautiful attention to detail, outstanding quality and innovative engineering, which meets the most onerous of technical performance criteria.’

Streets ahead - the new future-proof LED street light

Introducing the new Monaro LED, with genuine roadway lighting photometric distribution

For the ultimate combination of style and performance, DW Windsor’s new Monaro LED offers specifiers an extremely contemporary low-profile luminaire with over 100,000 hours LED life, low energy consumption and inbuilt remote monitoring.

Available to retro-fit to existing columns, Monaro LED’s intelligent thermal self-management optimises product life and improves efficiency, delivering a minimal maintenance product with genuine roadway lighting photometric distribution.

Managing Director, Terry Dean comments ‘Monaro LED demonstrates our unique agility to engineer products that are both innovative in their design and quality, and perhaps more importantly that provide a truly sustainable lighting solution – an endeavour at the very heart of our new product development programme. With a new exterior lighting catalogue and the imminent launch of our new website, these are exciting times for DW Windsor.’

Monaro LED Key Features
Low-profile, contemporary design
All-aluminium construction
Unique LED mount/heatsink provides accurate distribution and thermal management
Can be mounted onto existing 76mm diameter columns and 42mm column brackets
Minimal maintenance with expected LED life in excess of 100,000 hours
Remote monitoring option

DW Windsor launch new customer-focused website

Hot on the heels of their new exterior lighting catalogue DW Windsor announce launch of new complimentary website

April 14 2009 sees the official launch of our new website, redesigned to offer improved usability and ease of navigation.

The site, dwwindsor.co.uk, has been re-launched with a vibrant new look and content and features the latest in search functionality including an innovative product quote basket facility and members forum.

The new integrated lighting and urban furniture site will give customers detailed information and close-up photographs of all our quality products, including project photography, product drawings and unique-to-industry suggested complimentary column, column brackets and urban furniture feature.

The new site was designed in response to extensive research, Managing Director, Terry Dean commented: "Over the last year we have conducted a series of informal research programmes, the results of which have influenced the new website design and content. By listening to our customers and taking their views on board we hope to provide a market-leading site and enhanced user experience”.

Dying to tell us ways to improve it??
We want our new website to be everything you want it to be and would therefore really appreciate your thoughts. You can be as honest as you like, so please email any comments to marketing@dwwindsor.co.uk

DW Windsor exhibit at Street Design 2009

DW Windsor exhibits at Street Design, the visionary new exhibition for the urban public realm.

Revealing a host of new products DW Windsor exhibited at the new Street Design event last week, co-located with the established Traffex and Parkex exhibitions in hall 5 of the NEC in Birmingham, between the 21 – 23 April.

Managing Director, Terry Dean commented “Following the launch of our brand new 2009-10 lighting catalogue and website, Street Design presented us with an excellent opportunity to showcase the many new products to feature in our range".

Exciting new products showcased include:

Monaro LED, an intelligent minimal maintenance luminaire with genuine roadway lighting photometric distribution.

The striking Sorento, developed in association with designers Priestmangoode and renowned lighting architects Speirs and Major Associates.

The Evora, a contemporary, low-profile luminaire with versatility designed at its very centre, available with a range of dedicated bracket options, offering specifiers a very stylish lighting solution.

Garda, a high-performance illuminated balustrade, providing asymmetric or symmetric distribution, set to revolutionise the market.

The iF product design award winning Harmonie bench and the reddot design award winning Litter Shark, an exceptionally stylish litter bin available in vandal and blast proof construction.

The show attracted over 12,000 attendees*, which given the current economic climate is a great achievement (* total visitor figure across the 3 exhibitions).

Performance with Style: new Evora luminaire provides unrivalled thermal performance

Introducing the new Evora luminaire, with intelligent thermal management.

No longer compromise performance for style. Evora’s contemporary low-profile design, available with a range of distinctive bracket options offers an extremely versatile solution engineered to meet the most stringent of performance criteria.

Available with high transmission Stay-Clean flat glass for enhanced optical performance, Evora’s clean unobtrusive styling without visible fixings, provides superior thermal management through an active Cool-Zone, optimising product life, energy efficiency and reducing life-time maintenance costs.

Designed from its very conception to provide exceptional performance, Evora accommodates all market-leading remote monitoring systems and a wide range of electronic ballasts integrally within its Cool-Zone, allowing service life to be considerably extended.

The sustainable choice, Evora is 98% recyclable and offers a product design life of circa 40 years.

Managing Director, Terry Dean comments ‘Our commitment to new product development is no better demonstrated than with our new product Evora. Providing unrivalled thermal performance, our confidence in the engineering of this product allows us to support any sales with an 8 year electronic ballast guarantee (on standard electronic ballasts)’.

Dedicated literature is available now, call 01992 474607 to order your copy or arrange for a personal product presentation.

Evora Key Features
40 year product design life
8 year DW Windsor guarantee (on standard electronic ballasts, full details available on request)
UMSUG approved luminaire
WiMAC 868 compliant
CMS compatible
IP66 / IK07 / Class I
Life- time tool-free access and maintenance via single push button latch
Quick release gear tray
Designed to accommodate integral remote monitoring and electronic gear
Patented Diamond Optic® reflector allows for increased column spacings, giving lower capital, maintenance and running costs
Toughened high transmission flat glass for zero upward light or vandal resistant polycarbonate bowl options
Side or direct entry options
Innovative range of dedicated bracket options
Evora Applications
For mounting at 4 – 8 meters
Residential
Retail & leisure schemes
Amenity and car park lighting

Afternoon Tea with the ILE

DW Windsor Lighting is proud to sponsor the ILE’s Annual Conference, providing afternoon tea on Wednesday 16th September at the De Vere Royal Bath hotel in Bournemouth.

The three-day annual conference, a key industry event for any lighting professional featuring technical briefings and networking receptions, provides a thought-provoking opportunity to review the latest challenges faced by the lighting profession.

A selection of blended teas and freshly baked scones with traditional clotted cream and preserves will be available from 2pm, with DW Windsor representatives available in the restaurant area between 11.30am and 5.00pm to present a number of our very latest new products, including the UMSUG approved Evora luminaire, with 8 year ballast guarantee* and the high performance future-proof Monaro LED, with over 100,000 hours LED life.

Book your place online; www.ile.org.uk/bournemouth or (subject to availability) register on the day from 10am.

* full terms and conditions available on request

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Brilliant Brilliance

Blackpool bolsters reputation as a lighting destination, with son et lumiere installation.

Blackpool Illuminations saw an exciting addition this year as the town’s famous lights were joined by six giant arches. Part of an ambitious regeneration scheme for Blackpool town centre, ‘Brilliance’ is a permanent installation housing a spectacular light and sound show; a night time attraction for both residents and visitors alike.

Commissioned by Blackpool Council and the brain child of concept designer Greg McLenahan of Worldwide Lighting Design and concept design and developer Brendan Keely of BDP, the unique scheme, a 21st-century son et lumiere, was designed to further boost the resort’s reputation as a lighting destination, and forms part of the Council’s Regeneration by Light initiative.

Birley Street provides the main focus for the scheme, providing the backdrop for the arches while the three adjacent streets provide a flavour of the event with gobo projections pulling people in from the surrounding area.

Concept to completion
The concept for the arches originated from the idea of a continuous ribbon spiralling in and out of the ground. BDP liased with manufacturer DW Windsor to realise the massive challenge of building the arches. ‘Fulfilling the aims of the client team was the tricky part,’ says BDP’s Brendan Keely. ‘The need to include moving head projection and sound in the middle of Blackpool with the issues of rain, wind, the saline environment and the prospect of vandalism presented all sorts of challenges. The size and weight of the moving head projectors had to somehow be accommodated, protected and integrated, and it was also necessary to control the general street lighting and dim this at show times.’

With the design team originally instructed not to dig trenches for the power and control cabling, as it was believed the street sat on a concrete raft, a bespoke trunking and street lighting system was designed and manufactured by DW Windsor.

The suspended 350m trunking spans the top of the arches. Drawing clean lines through the structures, it also acts as a housing for the innovative street lighting (probably the first time it has been done this way in the UK), which relies entirely on a series of recessed linear LED fittings (45 strips, each 1m long and with 188 white LEDs).

The clutter of conventional street lighting is avoided and the whole system uses 630W, slicing a substantial 60 per cent off earlier energy bills.
Constructing the arches, which have a tubular steel skeleton covered by marine-grade aluminium, took DW Windsor into entirely new territory. Apart from the sheer scale of the project and the logistics entailed, the torsion on each arch meant that each element of the aluminium skin had to be shaped and installed individually. The calculation of which defeated even the most sophisticated computer programmes. ‘This was literally a monumental task,’ says Terry Dean, Managing Director of DW Windsor. ‘At every stage there has been a challenge, from the logistics of manufacturing on such a large scale to the millimetre-precision need to make sure the aluminium cladding panels fitted exactly together. The two-year long project has been one of the most difficult that DW Windsor has undertaken to date, but has broadened our expertise considerably.’

A true collaboration between all parties involved, the arches are hoped to provide an instantly recognisable iconic structure, which in time may become as identifiable as the Blackpool Tower.

Client Blackpool Council
Contributory Funders North West Development Agency, European Regional Development Fund
Principal Contractor J. McCann & Co. (Nottm) Ltd
Design Concept Greg McLenahan (World Wide Lighting Design)
Concept Development Brendan Keely (BDP)
Street Lighting Design (Birley Street) DW Windsor Lighting
Street Lighting Design (Surrounding Streets) Building Design Partnership
Arch manufacture and street lighting supplier DW Windsor Lighting

DWW new product Evora® shortlisted for the Lighting Design Awards 2010

The most prestigious architectural lighting competition in the world, the Lighting Design Awards, recently announced it's shortlist for the 2010 ceremony.

Celebrating the cream of the industry's talent, the event, which will be held at the London Hilton on Thursday 11th March, features 15 award categories; 12 for lighting projects and 3 for product innovation.

DW Windsor are extremely proud to be a finalist in the 'Product Innovation - Exterior Luminaires' category, with their ground-breaking new Evora® luminaire. Evora® offers specifiers an extremely versatile solution, featuring many 'new to market' innovations. To find out more or for a personal product presentation contact marketing@dwwindsor.co.uk

For full details of the shortlist or to book a place at the awards ceremony click here