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The who’s who of lighting will gather again for the third Annual Australian Smart Lighting Summit 2015 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre on 8th and 9th September 2015. As always, the line-up is strong with representatives from lighting suppliers, manufacturers, roads authorities, councils, state government and distribution businesses. This year’s speakers include Victorian Minister for Energy and Resources, The Hon. Lily D’Ambrosio, City of Melbourne’s Ian Dryden, Ironbark’s Paul...

Interested in lighting design? Energy efficient street lighting and outdoor lighting applications? Lighting standards, certification and regulations impacting the Australian market? The future of LED’s, smart lighting controls and solar lighting? International lighting replacement programs? Then come along to the Australian Smart Lighting Summit 2014, the premier platform for lighting industry stakeholders to discuss strategies to improve energy efficiency, new technology, project opportunities...

Ironbark's NATA accreditation has major implications for councils, lighting suppliers and Distribution Network Service Providers (DNSPs) as we are now essentially a one-stop-shop for energy efficient lighting technology suppliers seeking approval. Ironbark produces NATA-endorsed reports that covers all relevant clauses of AS/NZS 1158.6 and requirements of DNSPs. We've had a few councils ask us how we got to this stage. To find out, we have to head way, way back to 2006, the year twitter was...

Ironbark has sought and obtained National Association of Testing Authorities (NATA) accreditation as an Inspection Body, which means that we have been assessed by NATA and found to comply with the requirements of ISO/IEC 17020 (the International Standard governing the requirements of inspection bodies) and to be technically competent to inspect street lights against those requirements of AS/NZS 1158.6 outlined in our Scope of Accreditation. Here we answer some frequently asked questions.

In order to strengthen our standing as a respected, independent assessor of new street light technologies, Ironbark is thrilled to announce that we have obtained National Association of Testing Authorities (NATA) accreditation as an Inspection Body. In plain English this means we can assess whether street lights meet relevant Australian Standards as well as DNSP and council requirements. Ironbark have also been given the gold-star (well, orange and blue logo) of independence and impartiality....

One of the best forums I have been involved in occurred on 24th February 2014 at Maribyrnong Council in the west of Melbourne. The Australian Institute of Traffic Planning and Management brought 4 great speakers together. As always the panel discussion at the end was most interesting for me. After some warm up questions the topic got around to LEDs. In particular how do traffic managers deal with the constant technical challenge of new lighting types and options. The discussion moved to the role...