2018 Designer Awards

4 LUX - 2018 Designer Awards Founded in 2004, it does Lighting is an award-winning lighting consultancy whose staff are thought leaders in research and design. Lorraine has been instrumental in the continued development and success of the firm, which currently delivers an impressive collection of projects, year on year. Lorraine is primarily responsible for managing, maintaining and developing a loyal client base within international sectors. She is also responsible for providing sustainable, innovative designs; managing, training and motivating a growing multi-disciplined team. Visionary, aspirational and a supportive leader, Lorraine utilises the team’s talents to supply its clients with ground breaking designs and advice. Additionally, Lorraine and the team are passionate about health and wellbeing. This knowledge is delivered through inventive use of light and peer reviewed research so that every project benefits. The team have become thought leaders for the varied uses of dynamic circadian artificial light and how it promotes salutogenic environments. Lorraine discusses the firm’s work in more detail and outlines the projects it has undertaken to increase its portfolio and build upon her team’s already extensive knowledge and expertise. “At it does Lighting, our client base is extremely diverse. It includes M&E consultants, architects, landscape architects, developers, schools, hospitals, elderly care, mental health organisations, sleep, health and wellbeing sectors. It also includes local authorities, municipalities, corporate giants such as Google and British Land, end users and pretty much everyone in-between. Recently the team have worked it does Lighting Ltd is a pioneering lighting consultancy that has a passion for lighting design and a vast and diverse experience in all types of illumination. MD and Principal Lighting Designer, Lorraine Calcott tells us more about the firm and how it has achieved the success it enjoys today. on a number of exciting projects, including working with The Wellesley Hotel and The Cavendish Hotel (both in London and possessing 5 stars), Google’s offices at Central St Giles, Countryside’s largest Essex development - Beaulieu and currently their Rochester Riverside project in Kent. Other aspects of our work focus on ecology, crime and the environment. Research for Lorraine’s PhD continues to expand the teams understanding of artificial light and its effects on employee engagement, human health and wellbeing and how they are connected. “To ensure that these projects are a success, we research at PhD level, attend significantly large numbers of CPD to ensure we know what is the current and future thinking, this helps us to stay up- to-date and pertinent for our customers’ needs. We never standstill, or believe we have achieved enough knowledge, as the team all want to learn, motivate and impart knowledge at the very highest level.” Creating the perfect lighting solution requires collaboration, both within the team and with the client, as Lorraine highlights. “When working on any project, communication is the most important tool we utilise, we listen and ask questions so that from the outset we have the clients vision in mind. We check along the whole design process that we are still on track and the client is happy and then deliver the clients vision. Budgets are also discussed early so we know what appetite there is for something away from the norm and how the clients ‘wish list’ matches the budget they have allocated. Normally, we find that the client has large aspirations for the projects lighting but has often only allocated a budget that is a quarter of that needed to realise that level of lighting design. If the design team understand this disparity at the outset we can help the client see the benefit of stretching the budget to achieve their vision or, where this isn’t possible, we can work within it.” Moving forward, there will be a number of exciting changes occurring within the lighting market, and, as Lorraine concludes, she and her team are well placed to help drive these developments and build upon their own current success. “Looking ahead, we feel that AI, VR but mainly AR will be heavily adopted in the lighting market place in the coming 12-36 months. A higher emphasis on health and wellbeing will also be adopted in many ways by clients and this is opening lighting up to a wider market of those who really want to put the ‘person’ into person centred design. We are already influential in this area and will continue to drive this focus forward to hopefully enable a healthier, happier population who can cope with an increasingly aging demographic whose needs will only increase as the numbers do. “Thanks to our strong, knowledgeable team, the future looks bright for it does Lighting. As the new Chair of the European Chapter of the International Academy for Design and Health Lorraine hopes that this role, along with other key posts she, and her team hold, can really help customers understand the role light plays in our health and how best to utilise it.” Best Lighting Design Consultancy - United Kingdom & Award for Excellence in Commercial Lighting Design Company: it does Lighting Ltd Contact: Lorraine Calcott Address: 2 The Chestnuts, Mill Farm Courtyard, Beachampton, Milton Keynes, MK19 6DS, UK Phone: 01908 560110 Website: www.itdoes.co.uk Best Lighting Design Consultancy - United Kingdom DES18004 it does Lighting Ltd Managing Director & Founder - Lorraine Calcott Google, London