CPD Seminars
Enhance your expertise with our professional CPD presentations. Designed to share knowledge and best lighting practices, these non-sales-based sessions provide valuable insights to support your professional development. Explore the summaries to see what each CPD has to offer.
To book a CPD presentation, please email info@trtlighting.co.uk
Handrail Lighting – How? Why? & When?
Discover how illuminated handrail lighting is transforming the design of safe, accessible, visually intuitive environments. This CPD presentation explores integrating lighting into handrail systems to create dual-purpose solutions that enhance wayfinding while reducing clutter and infrastructure. Using real-world applications—bridges, staircases, ramps, and public walkways—it shows how low-level, controlled light improves edge definition, supports inclusive design, and minimises light pollution. Attendees will learn to define the lighting task, select optics and colour temperatures, coordinate structural and electrical elements, and address standards, emergency requirements, and user-focused principles for compliant, efficient, people-centred outcomes.
Presenter: Gordon Macfarlane (Area Sales Manager)
To book a CPD presentation, please email info@trtlighting.co.uk
Light Pollution & Dark Skies
Light pollution, often overlooked, disrupts ecosystems, wildlife, human health, and energy efficiency while diminishing the beauty of the night sky. Its components—glare, sky glow, light trespass, and clutter—result from excessive and poorly directed artificial lighting. Addressing light pollution is vital as most urban and suburban areas are heavily affected. Fortunately, it is reversible. Solutions include adopting “Dark Sky” lighting, which focuses light downward and uses warmer Correlated Colour Temperatures (CCTs) of 3000K or less to reduce blue light pollution and its harmful impacts on flora, fauna, and night sky visibility. While warmer CCTs slightly increase energy costs, they support ecological health and improve the ambiance of outdoor spaces. Dark Sky certification, provided by the International Dark-Sky Association, ensures lighting meets strict standards. Success stories like Presteigne and Norton (1st Dark Sky Community in Wales & mainland England) demonstrates how communities can balance environmental stewardship with responsible lighting practices.
Presenter: Gordon Macfarlane (Area Sales Manager)
To book a CPD presentation, please email info@trtlighting.co.uk
Principles, Challenges & Solutions of Road Tunnel Lighting
This CPD presentation explores the fundamentals of road tunnel lighting, focusing on the principles, challenges, and practical solutions involved in designing safe and efficient tunnel environments. It covers key topics such as visual adaptation, luminance levels, glare control, uniformity, and compliance with relevant standards. The session examines the unique challenges posed by tunnel entrances, interiors, and exits, as well as maintenance, energy efficiency, and whole-life performance. Attendees gain insight into modern lighting technologies, controls, and best-practice design approaches that enhance driver safety, improve operational reliability, and support sustainable, cost-effective tunnel infrastructure.
Presenter: Steve Raybould (Head of Business Development – Tunnel Lighting)
To book a CPD presentation, please email info@trtlighting.co.uk
A New Take on Luminaire Design
This CPD presentation delves into the future of luminaire design, offering a forward-looking perspective on the trends, technologies, and principles that will shape the next generation of lighting solutions. Attendees will explore how advancements in materials science, energy efficiency, smart controls, and sustainable practices are redefining the role and design of luminaires. Key topics designing with user-centric principles for enhanced well-being and employing sustainable materials to minimize environmental impact. Through this session, lighting professionals will gain insights into emerging design methodologies and innovations, empowering them to create luminaires that are not only visually striking but also more sustainable, and seamlessly integrated into future architectural and urban environments.
Presenter: Matt Bennett (Area Sales Manager)
To book a CPD presentation, please email info@trtlighting.co.uk
