Outdoor Lighting Design
Exterior Lighting Design
Street 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. Most projects we aim to start within 2 weeks of an instruction.
We have found in recent projects that a more sensitive approach to lighting design is often required. Many new site have existing ecology which needs to be considered at an early stage within the project with liaison with ecologists, registered bat workers and planning departments within councils.
Clients currently include:
- Housing developers
- Property developers
- Lighting manufacturers
- Local authorities
- Civil engineering consultants
- Lighting and civil contractors
The service offered is a complete lighting design service. This includes:
- Production of drawings on client’s road or area layout drawings
- Lighting calculations (large paper format up to A0)
- Electrical calculations and ducting layouts
- Supply service connection details
- Equipment specifications and pictures
- Production of standard documents package including Bill of Quantities
- Cable network and feeder pillar details
- Electrical schematics
- Installation details
- Equipment schedule and numbering
- Standard detail drawings
- Liaison with the adoptable highway authority on specification and equipment
Our Mission
Enhancing Visibility Through Expert Design
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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