Lighting is the most significant part of workplace physical conditions. Proper lighting involves adequate amount of light, proper dispersal and diffusion, absence of glare, freedom from fluctuation and freedom from injurious invisible radiations. 

Department store lighting is crucial to guide shoppers to make purchase decisions. Well lit inviting Retail store entrance areas draw in customers inside and encourage walk-ins. appropriate accent lighting in window displays attract attention, allow customers to quickly recognize, generate preference and choose among products, evaluate merchandise and read price tags, care tags and other instructions.

The Dubai Municipality has recently signed a MOU with two major developers to boost the use of energy-efficient lighting.

Inspired from the heritage legacy, Dubai Municipality’s Al Lisaili hall is facility for organizing wedding functions and all other events, providing main amenities for nuptials and ceremonies to be a jubilant memorable event. The hall has a capacity of 750 invitees in addition of service areas for visitors, kitchen utility, electric, sound rooms, and a bride room. 

Situated in Dubai’s Business Bay District, a short stroll from The Dubai Mall and the Burj Khalifa, Steinberger a cosmopolitan hotel with a German touch is the first property from the Deutsche Hospitality brand in the GCC region, featuring elegant and stylish designs with aristocratic ambience, the newly opened 5-star Hotel meets the demands of both leisure combined with German precision and efficiency. 

Several Dubai-based Visual Light Communication (VLC) companies are working with the aim of making this Middle East city the first in the world to offer Li-Fi coverage, reported Khaleej Times.

Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, Dubai Municipality and Philips Lighting today announced the launch of the Dubai Lamp, the world’s most energy efficient commercially available LED lamp.* The announcement was made at the Water, Energy, Technology and Environment Exhibition (WETEX) in Dubai. 

Traditional light bulbs in three areas in Dubai will be replaced with LED lights, the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) stated recently.

A delegation of authorities from Dubai Supreme Council of Energy and Road and Transport Authority (RTA) visited Los Angeles Bureau of Street Lighting to enhance cooperation and become familiar with streetlight projects, reported Trade Arabia.

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) will supply 2,000 existing and new homes from the Mohammed Bin Rashid Housing Establishment (MBRHE) project with 160,000 LED light bulbs and photovoltaic panels. The move aims to reduce the demand for energy as well as the long- and medium-term costs for electricity, the plan follows the signing of a MoU between DEWA and MBRHE in 2015.

Box Park is a hyper modern urban lifestyle complex in Dubai, which combines special shopping and entertainment venues with unusual restaurant concepts from around the world over a total length of 1.2 kilometers. In order to create a unique shopping and leisure experience for the residents and visitors of Dubai, the architects and designers divided the development in 10 thematic zones reflecting iconic locations around the world, such as Broadway, Times Square, Harrods or Moulin Rouge.

Hospitality Lighting One of Dubai's most architecturally compelling hospitality projects, Grosvenor House serves as a model for the region by setting a new trend in environmental sustainability while ensuring the highest standards of aesthetics through its ‘green' approach to lighting.

The UN and The World Bank Group are seeking alternative clean lighting and solar energy to reduce global poverty, reported UAE media The National.

The Meydan Bridge in Dubai is an architectural marvel. Connecting the Meydan hotel to the main road, its undulating wave form and striking construction are seen by millions every year.

Shanghai Yaming Lighting Co, a trusted brand and pioneer in lighting technology development based in China, today marked the official opening of its regional headquarters at Dubai Silicon Oasis, the integrated free zone technology park.

Acolyte LED and PROGEN have teamed up to offer full support to lighting designers, architects, and distributors in the Middle East by opening an office in Dubai’s Media City. Paul Bedard of Acolyte LED will head the new full-time Dubai office. For the past two years, Mr. Bedard has helped to build and manage Acolyte’s Asia manufacturing facility and has overseen sales for Asia and the Middle East. Paul’s new position will allow Acolyte to have full sales and customer service support throughout the Middle East.

Royal Philips, the global leader in lighting, is the first lighting company to receive accreditation as an Energy Service Company (ESCO) in Dubai. The ESCO accreditation scheme was developed by the Regulatory and Supervisory Bureau (RSB) to regulate the ESCO market and provide cities with a broad range of energy solutions from design and implementation of energy-savings projects, to retrofitting, energy conservation, managing power generation and energy supply and outsourcing energy infrastructure. 

Dubai’s The Roads and Trasport Authority (RTA) has started to replace halogen traffic lights in the emirate with LEDs, according to a Gulfnews.com report.

Philips is to hold its first ‘Illuminesca’ event in Dubai on March 14 at Dubai Festival City’s Intercontinental Hotel, inviting stakeholders to experience live demos of lighting application in hotels, retail stores and supermarkets. Illuminesca will showcase Philips’ latest retail and hospitality LED lighting innovations in the form of eight different mini demonstrations, highlighting how light can create a unique shopping experience or a memorable stay in a hotel, while simultaneously reducing carbon emission, saving energy and lowering operational c...

Radisson Blu Hotel, Dubai Media City now features energy-efficient LED lighting, ensuring that the hotel’s lighting energy consumption is reduced up to 81 percent. Hotel has launched sustained efforts for better environment with the Reduce Carbon Footprints Drive, for next year. 

Recently, UAE development company Tameer Holding will develop the world’s largest LED screen to be embedded on an intended commercial tower in the Majan district of Dubailand.