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Elise specifies workplaces, education and civic interiors. She trained in architecture and now spends more time arguing about glare and maintenance access than about pendants.
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.
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
Retail and hospitality lighting · 28 August 2025
Dining scenes, commercial kitchens, guest rooms and night-time neighbour light — a practical method for Australian hospitality rooms that still have to pass inspection.
Workplace and office lighting · 18 August 2025
Unified glare rating, window brightness and polished concrete — a practical method for making Australian open-plan floors usable after lunch.
Outdoor and civic lighting · 12 August 2025
How to wash an Australian facade without spilling into bedrooms, flattening heritage stone or leaving a flood on a timer that nobody owns.
Design and specification · 2 August 2025
What CCT, CRI and IES TM-30 actually measure, where they mislead, and how to write them into an Australian commercial lighting specification.
Workplace and office lighting · 30 June 2025
How to light Australian meeting rooms and glass collaboration boxes for faces on camera, whiteboards, scenes people will actually press, and the acoustic clashes that wreck a ceiling plan.
Read Meeting-room and collaboration-space lighting for Australian offices
Standards and compliance · 6 May 2025
Lighting for low vision, dementia and neurodiversity in Australian buildings, written against the Premises Standards context rather than a wellness brochure.