Hurry up! Time running out to design a winning lamp
The closing date of Eskom’s 2014 Energy Efficient Lighting Design Competition (EELDC) is on August 15.
Architects, interior designers, engineers, electrical contractors, consultants, lighting specialists, students and high school learners, thus, anyone with a passion for design or efficient lighting, are invited to enter this competition with prize value totaling no less than R200 000.
Eskom invites and challenges designers to think laterally, beyond convention, use their intuition and imagination and design and build a lamp prototype that not only works, but is useful and also pleasing to the eye.
Of major importance, as the name of the competition suggests, is that the design should use an energy-efficient light source.
The criteria that will be used by the judges to evaluate the entries are:
* Innovation and uniqueness of design.
* Cost-effectiveness.
* Use of an energy efficient light source.
* Marketing potential.
* Environmental friendliness of the design.
* The extent to which the design is aesthetically pleasing.
n Practical implementation, such as the ease with which the design can be manufactured by local small-, medium- and micro-enterprises.
n Compliance with the applicable SABS standard.
n Promotion of the concept of energy-efficiency.
n The extent to which the design will create jobs.
n Budget.
Full details are available at www.lighting-design.co.za, or from the competition organisers on 021 949 7419 or 083 293 2848 or via e-mail at karin@dalajunction.co.za. – @CarmenBoksburg
