IEQ Global aims to light up the competition with its products [News]

By Dolly Chia, The Business Times, 13 Dec 2011.

Ecolight Design Consultants (EDC) was fully acquired by IEQ Global just last October and it is already invading the commercial space with IEQ’s highly efficient next-generation lighting.

Among others, it has worked with Suntec City and Bugis Junction to revamp their entire basement carpark with its high-specification light-emitting diode (LED) tube lamps which reduce energy consumption and ambient heat by more than 50 per cent.

‘The carpark is now a lot cooler than before,’ says Ong Wei Ping, executive director of IEQ.

The 44-year-old founder of EDC held the same designation in IEQ even before the acquisition took place. He assumed a larger stakeholding in IEQ after the acquisition. The company’s revenue at the close of this year is expected to be in excess of $30 million. Read more

Smart way to light up offices and cut power bill [News]

By Feng Zengkun, The Straits Times, 12 Nov 2011.

Let there be light – but not too much of it, please.

Researchers in Singapore are trying out a new way to keep offices lit that uses only half as much energy.

This is done by letting office workers customise the light that falls on their desks.

In most offices, each cubicle is lit by an individual ceiling bulb that can only be switched on or off.

In the researchers’ project, workers can specify the level of brightness they want with a remote control.

This is done through a smart LED lighting grid combined with motion and light sensors at each desk.

The system will even take into account ambient light such as daylight and glare from the neighbours’ bulbs when adjusting the brightness overhead. Read more

Smart grid lighting test-bed sees up to 45% energy savings [News]

By Esther Ng, Today, 3 Nov 2011.

A smart office is one which uses less energy, where wireless sensors placed on workstations and personal computers “talk” to each and relay information about the room back to a computer or base station, which then “tell” individual LED lights installed on the ceiling how much to light up, dim or switch off.

Such a smart grid lighting system can result in energy savings of some 45 per cent compared to conventional fluorescent lighting.

Yesterday, the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) announced a tie-up with JTC Corporation and Royal Philips Electronics to develop a smart lighting test-bed that will be the largest of its kind in Singapore.

Test-bedding at NTU’s Energy Research Institute (ERI@N) has gone on for a year and, based on test results, LED panels lead to energy savings of up to 30 per cent over fluorescent lights, while the smart grid contributes up to an additional 15 per cent. Read more

IKEA Singapore aims to pull the plug on all incandescent lights by 2012 [Press Releases]

Leading home specialist IKEA is dedicated to creating a better everyday life for the many people. Not only does IKEA offer affordable and quality home furnishing solutions, it is also committed to integrating sustainability into its business practices and product range. In its continuous bid to help Singapore move towards a greener and more sustainable environment, IKEA Singapore will begin to phase out all incandescent light bulbs in its stores and targets to completely eliminate them by 2012.

IKEA’s Responsibility Beyond Home Furnishing

Since the beginning, the goals of sustainability and environmental design have been integral to the IKEA business strategy and IKEA is constantly doing what it can to help create a world where it can take better care of the environment, the earth’s resources, and each other. This improvement is a never-ending job at IKEA. Read more

Wider Testing of LED Street Lights On the Cards [News]

LED street lights could be making their way to more parts of Singapore in two to three years’ time, as government agencies test them out on a broader scale.

It is not just the environmentally conscious who might root for the arrival of these energy saving lights. Drivers too, could have reason to cheer as LED lights create a better field of vision at night.

Almost all roads in Singapore today are lined with high pressure sodium lamps which give off an orange hue. LED lights, however, are a closer match to sunlight.

Over in one-north, a stretch of road has become a test-bed for LED street lights. In April, JTC Corporation and a Taiwan-based firm Foxsemicon Integrated Technology (Fiti) installed new lights there to compare their performance with conventional lamps. Read more

LEDs to Save Town Councils $5M a Year [News]

It’s a bright idea – install LED lights in the common areas of 2,000 Housing Board blocks islandwide and help town councils save $5 million a year.

Better still, the switch to this energy-efficient option may also yield about $250,000 worth of carbon credits a year for the next 10 years.

This is what 10 town councils here will be doing this year – registering their energy-efficient efforts with the United Nations (UN), in what will be Singapore’s first public-sector carbon-credit project.

Under the UN’s Kyoto Protocol, certain countries, including Singapore, are allowed to register for carbon credits, which they can sell for money in the carbon market. Read more

Optiled Cooperates with Cree to Deliver Ultimate LED Lighting Solutions

Meeting the international standards of Singapore’s Jurong Town public housing project with industry-leading cooperative effort

Hong Kong, August 2, 2010 – Leading LED lighting solutions provider Optiled Lighting International Ltd. (Optiled) has again successfully joined with world-renowned LED maker Cree to complete the first phase of the massive lighting upgrade at Singapore’s historic and significant Jurong Town public housing estate. Built to meet the Singaporean government’s highly precise and stringent standards, this installation is the largest public LED lighting makeover that the Singaporean government has ever conducted in history. Read more

Aztech Won Second LED Lighting Project Tender for Public Housing from Aljunied Town Council

SINGAPORE, 4 August 2010 – Singapore Exchange Mainboard-listed Aztech Group Ltd (“Aztech”) today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Aztech Technologies Pte Ltd, has been awarded a S$2 million contract by Aljunied Town Council to supply and install LED lighting for public housing estates, solidifying its position as the leading provider of LED lighting to Town Councils in Singapore.

This tender win marks the second public housing project in Singapore to deploy eco-friendly and energy-efficient LED lighting. Earlier this year, Aztech was awarded a contract by Jurong Town Council to supply and install LED lighting for selected public housing blocks. Read more