Australian English · Independent editorial
Established from the LED trade press
Workplace and office lighting · 2 September 2025
How to read maintained illuminance, uniformity and task categories in AS/NZS 1680 when you are specifying a real Australian office rather than a catalogue page.
Read AS/NZS 1680 office lighting levels for Australian workplaces
Topic hubs
How to write a lighting spec, choose a spectrum, use daylight, and design for Australian climates.
Retrofits, DALI, Section J, audits and the payback arithmetic that survives a meter rather than a brochure.
High-bays, cool rooms, workshops and the emergency fittings that have to work when the aisle goes dark.
Car parks, facades, campuses and sports fields — after-dark light that has to survive weather, glare complaints and a meter.
Merchandise, fresh food, restaurants, hotels and showrooms — light that sells without flattening the room.
AS/NZS 2293, NABERS, Green Star and lighting that remains legal for people who cannot see the render.
Lux, glare, circadian claims and meeting rooms — how Australian offices actually get lit under AS/NZS 1680.
Latest essays
Energy and controls · 28 September 2025
How to replace T8, T5 and halogen stock in a real Australian commercial building without breaking emergency lighting, asbestos ceilings or the control strategy.
Standards and compliance · 25 September 2025
How Australian buildings should test emergency lighting under AS/NZS 2293, keep a logbook that would survive an audit, and treat monitored systems as tools rather than a substitute for competence.
Retail and hospitality lighting · 20 September 2025
How to light Australian shops so colour, vertical illuminance and glass cabinets help people stay and buy, rather than flatten the stock or glare the till.
Design and specification · 18 September 2025
A structure for Australian commercial lighting specifications — scope, performance, substitution rules and hold points — that still works after value management.
Energy and controls · 15 September 2025
How NCC energy provisions treat interior lighting power, control credits and climate zones — and why they do not replace AS/NZS 1680 in an Australian building.
Industrial and warehouse lighting · 12 September 2025
Optics, mounting height, aisle versus open hall, IP and IK — how to specify a high-bay that still works when a forklift looks up at 2 a.m.
Why this journal exists
The domain once pointed at an Australian LED wholesaler that talked about fittings, transformers, colour ratings and the risk of unsafe imports. Those questions never went away. They moved into Section J, NABERS, AS/NZS 1680 and the maintenance logbook on the wall.
We publish guest essays from designers, contractors and facility teams who have commissioned or maintained real rooms. Paid placements, if we ever take them, are labelled and carry rel="sponsored".