Our Street Lighting Design Services
Since formation in 2003, Cencode have provided a professional lighting design & consultancy service to hundreds of housing developers, multi-disciplinary engineering consultancies and local government authorities across the UK. Our established clients are confident in the knowledge they have a dedicated lighting consultant by their side, streamlining the street lighting design process, with little fuss approval of their lighting projects.
Section 38 and 278 Street Lighting Designs
Cencode Limited offer a quality Section 38 & Section 278 street lighting design service to housing developers, local authorities and numerous private sector multi-disciplinary engineering consultancies. Our lighting designs are expertly attended and compliant to all relevant lighting standards and regulations. We couldn’t have made the Section 38 & Section 278 process for lighting any easier or hassle free for our clients. - Greatly Reduced Design Fees, Extra-Quick Turnaround and Little Fuss Local Authority Technical Approval
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The Public Realm & Amenity Lighting Design
Nightlife can be an important part of a city or town’s culture, attracting visitors to entertainment, restaurants and bars for food or drink; well-designed amenity lighting adds character to the night scene by presenting a warm ambience and feeling of security and social interaction.
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Lighting Review for Planning Applications & Discharge of Conditions
A good lighting design means an outdoor lighting installation is being adequately controlled to prevent light pollution and nuisance during night-time. This could be a resident’s sleep disturbed by light shining into a bedroom window, our view of the night sky being blinded by sky glow, glare (the uncomfortable intensity brightness of a light source) and impact on nocturnal wildlife such as bats, or adversely affect fauna & flora, not to mention the potential for wasted energy and increase in carbon emissions.​We work with local authority planning officers, housing developers and architects to assess and minimise potential effects of obtrusive light from outdoor lighting and ensure compliance to permissible tolerances of GN01/20 and CIE 150: 2017.
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Replacement LED Street Lighting Design
In recent years we’ve been appointed as street lighting designers and consultants on three major local authority LED Street Lighting Replacement Projects, we've replaced thousands of inefficient sodium lamps with new energy saving LED luminaires that use 60% less electricity, also resulting in thousands of tonnes reduction in carbon emissions.
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Subway & Tunnel Lighting Design
Lighting a tunnel or subway, particularly long structures, requires quite different lighting design techniques to road lighting. A driver entering a long tunnel must maintain a visual scene of conditions ahead when moving from daylight into a tunnel. Much higher luminances are therefore needed for the first sections of a long tunnel to allow a driver’s eyes to adjust and to cancel the ‘black-hole’ effect at a tunnel entrance. Our lighting designs for tunnels, subways and underpasses alleviate the ‘black-hole’ effect and fully compliant to British Standard BS 5489-2 and other relevant codes of practice.Our subway and underpass lighting designs are lit to appropriate daytime and night-time lux levels and contribute greatly to a pedestrian’s safety and security.
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Footpath Lighting Design
It has always been important to light footpath & cycle tracks to adequate levels of illumination during night-time; good lighting assists pedestrians and cyclists by revealing obstacles and hazards ahead and increases awareness of movements or intent of others in the immediate area. However, BS5489-1 compliant lighting of cycle tracks and footpaths is now crucial given the roll out of electric bikes and e-scooters that can travel at much increased speed.
Our cycle track and footpath lighting designs are compliant to prescribed levels of BS5489-1 to deliver good lighting onto horizontal surfaces, and excellent colour rendering whilst minimising light pollution issues such as sky glow and glare.
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Car Park Lighting Design
The lighting of a car parks requires different lighting design techniques as car parks can vary considerably in terms of size, location and access. At pay stations, additional task lighting and good colour rendering is crucial to identify coinage or for making a payment card transaction. Lighting should be within the general extents of a car park to save electrical energy and for the avoidance of light pollution. Vertical illuminance is also important for car parks for facial recognition of others, personal security and purposes of CCTV recordings on site.
Solar Powered Street Lighting Design
Innovative control of LED luminaires, more efficient photovoltaic arrays and latest generation of lithium-ion batteries present much improved performance and reliability of solar powered street lighting, and many housing developers are now turning to a solar power to illuminate non-adopted areas of their housing developments. Solar Powered streetlights can be an ideal solution in these spaces and where a mains electricity supply isn’t readily available. Solar powered streetlights leave no carbon footprint and have the following cost saving benefits:
No Ongoing Electricity Costs
Quick and Economical to Install
Eliminate costs of a Mains Electricity Supply Point
No feeder Pillar, this also Reduces Street Clutter
No Excavations to Dig
No Ducts, No Supply Cables
In recent years we have designed several Solar Powered streetlighting schemes fully compliant to latest British Standards for Road Lighting BS5489-1: 2020.
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Cable Sizing for Private Cable Networks (PCNs).
Cencode Lighting Design Consultancy have extensive experience in cable sizing calculations for Private Cable Networks (PCNs). Whether it's a vast motorway street lighting endeavour spanning numerous kilometres or a smaller PCN setup at a new Section 38 housing development, such as a link footpath, we guarantee compliance with the latest Electrical Wiring Regulations BS 7671.Our cable sizing engineers are City & Guilds certified in 'Requirements for Electrical Installations BS7671: 2018' and 'Testing and Certification of Electrical Installations (C&G 2391)', giving you the confidence in our capability to navigate the intricacies of PCN installations.
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Cencode Independent Lighting Design Consultancy provide other professional lighting services, please follow the below links to Our Services:
Amenity Lighting Design and Consultancy for Cities and Town Centres
Major Street Lighting LED Replacement Projects
Road Tunnels & Pedestrian Subway Lighting Design
Cycle Track & Footpath Lighting Design
Cable Sizing for Private Cable Networks
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