Outdoor Lighting by Design
Nick Smith Associates is a specialist street lighting design and exterior lighting consultancy. Founded in July 2004 by Nick Smith, we are based in Chesterfield but serve clients throughout the UK. We focus on highway lighting design, sports floodlighting, Impact assessments and more, ensuring compliance with BS5489 and section 38 highway authority standards.
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Section 38 and 278 Lighting Design
Tailored street lighting solutions that meet safety and aesthetic standards while complying with council requirements. Lighting design is a specialist area of the construction industry. The core business of Nick Smith Associates is to provide a complete lighting design service to other organisations within the construction industry. We provide full lighting design packages to our clients which include housing developers, architects, engineering consultants and independent building contractors.
Outdoor Lighting Design
We focus on minimising light spill, preventing unwanted sky glow and excessive energy efficient usage by using LED light sources with a LED colour temperature to suit the application site. Designing to a standard in keeping with the usage and surrounding area to minimise impact around the site. Most project are designed to British Standards or secured by design to meet the client requirements.
Sports Floodlighting
Nick Smith Associates can provide lighting and electrical design services for sports lighting projects. We use industry software to meet lighting requirements while controlling spill light, glare and upward light output
We have completed lighting design work for the legacy phase at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford.
Nick Smith Associates Limited
Our Mission
My Mission is to help people with their lighting problem whether that is to provide a lighting design to adoptable standards, discharge a planning condition on a development or understand the lighting design techniques to do the design yourself
Nick Smith Associates is a specialist street lighting design and exterior lighting consultancy set up by founder Nick Smith in July 2004. The company is based in Chesterfield but operates all over the UK. Nick Smith Associates principally carries out street lighting design, highway lighting design and sports floodlighting for clients who require a lighting designer or lighting consultant to deal with the lighting requirements associated with their project, be it to either private, secured by design, BS5489 or to adoptable section 38 lighting design standards. Nick Smith Associates has good working relations with most local authorities within the UK.
We continue to provide lighting impact assessments to form part of an environmental impact assessment (EIA) or as a separate lighting impact assessment for new and existing installations, looking at how the lighting and lighting design impact on the surroundings. We carry out work for local authorities, developers, consultants, architectural practices and manufacturers who require the expertise offered by an Exterior Lighting Consultant. We use the latest computer design techniques offered within AutoCAD 2025, KeyLights, AGI32, Dialux, Autolux and Lighting Reality to prepare our designs, with three dimensional masking being applied to show the actual effect buildings will have on the distribution of modern exterior lighting equipment. At Nick Smith Associates, we offer the complete lighting design solution.
Please send us your project enquiry for a quote in the first instance to hello@nicksmithassociates.com
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