Groups and societies

Anyone for tennis ... or any other sport?

Lighting Guide 4: Sports Lighting has been rewritten since the first edition and fully aligned with the European Standard BSEN 12193: 1999 on sports lighting. It will be an invaluable tool for anyone specifying, designing, installing, managing or maintaining sports lighting installations.

Copies cost just £25.50 to CIBSE and SLL members, £51 to others. In each case please add £5.10 for postage and packing for UK orders, £7.65 for overseas orders. You can order by post from CIBSE Bookshop, 222 Balham High Road, London SW12, by phoning +44 20 8675 5211, by faxing +44 20 8673 3302, by emailing pubsales@cibse.org or going to the website www.cibse.org

Seeing through a glass darkly

‘Normal’ light levels of 200 lux plus are in the photopic region. Researchers have defined two areas for low light levels: the mesopic and scotopic.

On Tuesday 21 November, the Society of Light and Lighting’s monthly London meeting will discuss mesopic vision and its implications for lighting. The speaker will be Teresa Goodman of the National Physical Laboratory, who is also closely involved in international work on light and vision through the International Commission on Illumination.

Venue: the Institution of Structural Engineers, 11 Upper Belgrave Street, London SW1, 6.00 pm (tea/coffee from 5.30pm). All welcome, no need to book.

More masterclasses

On Thursday 16 November the fifth series of Lighting Masterclasses will be held in The Tate in Liverpool.

The theme for the series is ‘New technology, new legislation, new opportunities’. Topics will include the use of LEDs. Guest speakers are Bob Venning and Florence Lam of Arup Lighting and Barrie Wilde, formerly of BDP Lighting.

The cost is just £30 plus VAT – including lunch, coffee and a memory stick. Download brochures and booking forms from www.sll.org.uk or call 020 8772 3622 and ask for a copy by post. Masterclasses are also planned for next year in Birmingham (25 January), Dublin (22 February), Huddersfield/M62 (15 March) and Bristol (19 April).