title: LED--panacea or marketing hype?
abstract: With energy efficiency and carbon reduction, and the importance of a relaxing, therapeutic patient environment, ever more in the spotlight, LED lighting's proponents claim the technology offers healthcare estates personnel many of the answers on both fronts. However some observers believe its benefits are being over-sold, often to the detriment of other high-performing types of more 'conventional lighting', and to a sometimes uninitiated audience too easily swayed by slick sales patter. HEJ editor Jonathan Baillie spoke to one highly experienced lighting professional, Nicholas Bukorović, a former employee of Thorn, Cooper, and Thorlux Lighting, and the principal author of the last CIBSE/Society of Light and Lighting (SLL) Guide LG2 on healthcare lighting, to seek some expert illumination.
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Baillie
mesh_terms: D003246:Conservation of Energy Resources; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D006779:Hospitals, Public; D008029:Lighting / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D040541:Marketing; D010565:Persuasive Communication; D006113:United Kingdom