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AGM date set
The CIBSE annual general meeting will be held on 10 May 2012 at Imperial College London in the Skempton Building. It will be followed by the incoming president David Fisk’s presidential address. His theme is ‘Reality-
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l Teams battle it out to be crowned RSL champion
The Society of Light and Lighting (SLL) recently held its 10th annual outdoor lighting competition, Ready Steady Light (RSL), widely regarded as the best event in the lighting calendar. The brainchild of Mark Ayers and Martin Lupton, RSL was created as a way of generating more excitement within the industry and getting people involved. The event essentially follows the format of television cookery show Ready Steady Cook – but with light instead of a bag of groceries! For those not familiar with the television
show, contestants compete to create a culinary masterpiece in 20 minutes from a random selection of ingredients. With RSL, things are done on a slightly larger scale: teams are randomly allocated an external site in the grounds of Rose Bruford College, given nine pieces of lighting equipment and are then given three hours to create a lighting masterpiece.
Staging the event at the end of March – in a bid 16 CIBSE Journal May 2012
for the best possible weather while ensuring an hour of complete darkness to reveal the lighting in all its glory – makes for some great entertainment as the teams rush around in the last hour, realising they’ve over-lit their site or that it now looks different in the dark from what they expected. RSL has grown a lot in the past 10 years, not only in terms of the numbers of people taking part, but it has also become increasingly competitive as independent design practices go head-to-head with teams of students and manufacturers. Importantly though, the ideals of its founders are still realised, year on year, as computer calculations are thrown away, no one cares about the Light Output Ratio (LOR) and it’s a hands-on, real-life, lighting experience.
Of course, the March weather isn’t always kind, but fortunately lighters are a hardy bunch; this outdoor event happens rain or shine – in some cases, snow and freezing conditions – but every year the consensus from everyone involved is what brilliant fun that was. Bring on the next 10 years! Liz Peck
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Celebrating 10 years of Ready Steady Light
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