There have been recent revisions to the emergency lighting requirements in the UK British standards BS5266. The new regulations are to bring it in line with the European emergency lighting luminous requirement specification standard BS EN 1838:2013. Facilities managers must review their current installations. Commercial buildings such as hotels are required to undertake regular reviews[…]

All employers, business owners, landlords, occupiers or anyone in control of a premises are all responsible in an emergency. You are known as the ‘Responsible Person’ and if there is more than one of you, you must work together to meet your responsibilities. A responsible person must: Carry out a fire risk assessment of the premises and regularly review it. Inform staff about risks.[…]

In places where emergency exits signs are legally required, having a low ceiling can be an issue. Ringtail Lighting has developed a range of products to specifically overcome the issues of restricted ceiling heights and avoid DIY disasters like the botched job in the photograph below! There is no need to install your exit signs[…]

Ringtail Lighting has recently supplied its X-MRD LED Emergency Spotlights to a new £36m hotel development in Southampton.  When completed, the complex will feature the 85-bed and 12 apartment Southampton Harbour Hotel and Spa that will become the city’s first luxury five-star hotel since the Grand Harbour Hotel was downgraded in 2009. The hotel is[…]

Ringtail lighting has just supplied a number of LED 110V slave luminaires into the world-famous Blackpool Winter Gardens Site. Committed to quality and innovation, Ringtail uses cutting edge technology to develop creative emergency lighting solutions, designed to the latest lighting industry standards. Blackpool Winter Gardens is a large entertainment complex located in the town centre[…]

LEDs and LED luminaires have been hailed as the future of lighting as they use very little energy and can have a long operating life.  Unlike some forms of lighting, they are instantly bright when energised which can be an important feature in some applications. Early LEDs were limited by high prices and relatively low[…]

Ringtail Lighting, an established leading UK manufacturer, designer and supplier of professional LED emergency and amenity lighting equipment has been selected to work with Edinburgh Napier University to assist in the reduction of their carbon footprint.  No stranger to working with this great academic institution, Ringtail supplied the new contemporary ceiling mounted exit signage (X-MPC)[…]

The UK Government has set out a target to reduce carbon emissions by 60% by 2050. Currently 30% of the UK’s carbon dioxide emissions are emitted from housing. The government has therefore taken drastic steps to reduce carbon emissions from housing association homes by setting up several schemes. Reducing heat loss and changing light bulbs and[…]