Impressive! This Chinese lighting company has won a globally authoritative lighting design award!
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近日，由无锡照明股份有限公司设计、施工的“运河公园城市客厅夜景照明项目”荣获第51届北美工程学会IES Award of merit奖！
The IES Lighting Awards are presented by the IES (Illuminating Engineering Society of North America), which has a history of over a century. Along with the later-established IALD Awards (International Association of Lighting Designers Awards, presented by the International Association of Lighting Designers) and the Lighting Design Awards (presented by Lighting Magazine in the UK), they are recognized as the three most authoritative lighting design awards globally today. The IES Award is the oldest among them, representing outstanding achievements in contemporary lighting aesthetics and technological advancement.
"A thousand miles of canal, only this loop."
The Canal Park is located at the confluence of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and Wuxi's ancient moat canal. Bordered by Huishan Mountain to the west and surrounded by water on three sides, it covers an area of approximately 160,000 square meters. With the millennium-old historical culture of the Grand Canal as its soul, it is a rare public art night park in Wuxi that combines natural beauty with artistic charm.
Wuxi Lighting Design Institute adopted the overall design concept of "Playful Interest, Ancient Charm, and Elegant Taste" to create three major display areas. In the Tech Multimedia Zone, it provides an ultimate experience of Lighting Metaverse interactive light and shadow show; in the Parent-Child Aesthetic Education Zone, elegant and quiet lighting serves as the main tone, complemented by a mist system, filling the Canal Park at night with a dreamy and enchanting atmosphere; in the Culture and Art Zone, lighting is cleverly linked with themed IP culture.
Notably, the Canal Park was the first to adopt the Pre-guided Smart Sensing Light Control System. Wuxi Lighting controls street lighting via a smart lighting cloud platform, customizing sensors to achieve smart linkage with urban road lighting. After 10 PM daily, courtyard lights in the park feature dynamic control effects of "lights on when people approach, off when they leave, and following movement", enhancing urban quality and intelligent management while meeting city lighting needs.
It is reported that Wuxi Lighting is a wholly state-owned subsidiary of Wuxi Municipal Public Utility Industry Group. As a leading enterprise in China's lighting industry and a pioneer in Wuxi's urban lighting construction, it has a history of 71 years. It is a National High-Tech Enterprise, a Jiangsu Province Specialized and New Enterprise, a Pilot Enterprise for Integration of Informatization and Industrialization in Jiangsu Province, a Jiangsu Province Star-rated Cloud Enterprise, and a Wuxi Gazelle Enterprise. The company positions itself at this stage as a "'Light of the New Era' Custom Provider of Domain-wide Solutions". With the business layout of "One Core, Two Wings, and Two Extensions" as the implementation carrier, it focuses on five major business segments: "Urban Light", "Smart Light", "Green Light", "Beautiful Light", and "Innovative Light". Its business scope covers urban lighting planning, design, construction, operation and maintenance; cultural tourism and landscape creative design and construction; development of smart streetlight integrated systems; R&D, production, design, engineering contracting and operation of new energy vehicle charging piles; and investment, construction, operation, and energy management of comprehensive energy projects such as distributed photovoltaics and commercial/industrial energy storage. Wuxi Lighting stated that the company will remain firmly focused on its core lighting business, clearly positioning itself as a "customized provider of domain-wide solutions" specializing in niche and innovative areas. It aims to deliver more lighting solutions to showcase the charm of modern cities and contribute greater lighting expertise to support smart city development.
