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The Beauty in Darkness Outdoor Lighting Awards announced

Words by: WE-EF

To promote and encourage night sensitive lighting* that is beautiful, functional and healthy, we WE-EF LIGHTING are excited to launch The Beauty in Darkness Outdoor Lighting Competition.

The competition is designed to recognise and celebrate the best outdoor lighting projects that WE-EF Sales Partners have supported across Australia / New Zealand and calls for entries from WE-EF Sales Partners on behalf of the specifiers/project teams.

Competition details:

• Any NEW or UPGRADE project commissioned after January 1, 2020 is eligible for submission.
• Projects can span across any application but >50% of the luminaires used on the project must be WE-EF LIGHTING luminaires.
• An eligible project must meet one of the 3 ADSA categories of approval https://www. australasiandarkskyalliance.org/adsa-approved.
• There are two award categories:
  1. People Pleaser Award for best Project featuring ‘ADSA Approved’ and/or ‘ADSA Prized’ luminaires (human sensitive)
  2. Wildlife Warrior Award for best project featuring ‘ADSA Prized Wildlife’l luminaires

Selected by Judging Panel via voting, the Award winners will receive, along with other prizes, an all-expenses paid trip to the Beauty in Darkness Awards event held in a Dark Sky Reserve (location TBC) with all transport, accommodation, meals and entertainment included.

The submissions are now open, please contact WE-EF Sales Partner in your region (view the full list of WE-EF Sales Partners here) to submit your entry and/or if you have any questions. To assist in your preparation of your submission, please read the important documents.

*’Night Sensitive Lighting’ is lighting that is carefully considered, sparingly targeted, placed directly where it is needed, cleverly controlled, as warm as possible in colour temperature for the project (≤3000 K CCT), sensitive to the surrounding environment (reducing short wave-length source – blue/violet/ultra-violet) and functional.