Johannesburg-based lighting manufacturer Regent Lighting Solutions embarked on various projects for the industrial and commercial lighting industry last year.

The company took on a project for online retail company Takelot in Johannesburg and Cape Town from July to May of this year.

Regent Lighting Solutions MD Randal Wahl and technical sales manager Chris Gijzelaar explain that this is the first lighting management system that Takealot has implemented on its premises that not only meets its typical lighting control requirements based on the demand to reduce energy consumption but also provides valuable live and historical visualisation-based information.

This includes information regarding energy consumption, heat mapping and building occupancy, which is provided to facility managers and is targeted towards reducing operational costs.

“The final step to completing our first encelium-based lighting control system at Takealot is to run a fully autonomous process where the system interrogates every individual luminaire to determine its precise location and its influence on lux levels.”

They explain that this process maximises the daylight harvesting efficiency of the system. Owing to a busy warehouse floor, the luminaires operate all day, with daylight harvesting enabling higher energy savings than motion control.

Products used for the project include Holda Pro Highbay fittings; NASA, with a built in microwave sensor, Istria street lights and the encelium lighting management system.

Somerset Mall

Regent Lighting Solutions completed a project for Somerset Mall, in Cape Town, from March to December last year, where the light levels on the mall’s floor needed to be increased

The company installed indirect and direct bespoke circular pendants that created focal points throughout the mall with articulated “pools of light”.

The company collaborated with lighting design consultant Pamboukian Lighting Design, KMH Architects and electrical engineering consultants Rawlins Wales Cape Town to create the lighting solutions.

The company used bespoke 4.5 m and 5 m pendants, a 3500 K Canolux 80 downlight and a 4000 K light-emitting diode (LED) strip light.

A bespoke 2 m pendant with a 3000 K Uno downlight and 4000 K LED strip light Maco 120 were also used.

Regent Lighting Solutions collaborated with Pamboukian Light design and architecture company Batley Partners to supply a lighting solution to Beacon Park which commenced in October last year and was completed in March this year.

This formed part of upgrades to the park area, to the west and south of financial services company Liberty’s head office in Braamfontein, Johannesburg.

Upgrading the lighting off Ameshoff street was also part of the project.

On the exterior, the Argo post top was used to provide general lighting for the car park and garden areas. The Geo Focus and Lotis wall lights were recessed in the low stone walls that edge all the walkways, providing soft diffused light, explain Wahl and Gijzelaar.

Sliver urban element lights lined the main walkway running from north to south from the top of the park to Ameshoff street, framing the main walkway.

Further, shuttle spotlights were placed under trees and large shrubs to highlight them using indirect light, while the Lumina side-mounted street light replaced the original Sputnik light system in Ameshoff street.

Within the covered areas, special blue LED Malta fittings were placed in the support columns to provide a soft blue hue for the underside of the roof. This down-light effect was enhanced by four Kevo spotlights on every column. The reflected light onto the paved floor area from the uplights was enhanced using the Jura track light system shining down.

Steyn City

Regent Lighting Solutions installed its luminaries in the outdoor spaces of the Steyn City Estate, in Midrand. The project took place from July 2020 to April 2022.

“Entering the roadway to the piazzas you are guided by our Quattro four-way urban light elements, supplied with anti-glare baffles and cowls to minimise the glare factor. Our Eos single wall-mount luminaire accentuates the structure while providing light down the ramp to the 2 000-car super sub-basement, where our Nimbus vapour-proof luminaires have been used,” outline Wahl and Gijzelaar.

The piazza courtyards are illuminated with the company’s Sliver urban element double luminaires and its Pathway fittings.

The company’s Linear Mini, in 4000 K, guides visitors from one courtyard to another and, concealed within the staircase railings, is the company’s Linear Mini 17 x 15 mm extrusion.