Cooledge is pleased to share the four pillars of The Cooledge Advantage: unique characteristics of Cooledge products incorporating revolutionary innovations that obliterate conventional ideas about how lighting can and should be applied to the built environment.
True Acoustic Lighting: The large scale of Cooledge luminous ceiling products provide a fundamental advantage over other, inferior approaches to produce beautiful illumination with substantially lower levels of noise by delivering BOTH of the elements required for serious acoustic performance: exceptional sound absorption AND significant absorbing area.
Cooledge’s market leading acoustic lighting products were designed and built from the ground up to provide solutions that don’t compromise light quality or design aesthetics AND perform as well as the best passive acoustic solutions for reducing noise pollution in open spaces. Unlike others, we didn’t just fake it by wrapping existing lighting products in acoustic felt or bolting a common light fixture to a passive panel and call it acoustic lighting.
The Cooledge Advantage provides meaningful noise reduction without sacrificing the exceptional quality of illumination Cooledge is known for, nor the ability to bring the feeling of the outdoors to interior spaces that are enabled by large luminous surfaces. Our immersive lighting products offer the best in both breathtakingly beautiful lighting and superior acoustic management to transform a space unlike any other design solution available.
Luminous Surfaces: Cooledge gives lighting a new role in the built environment: integral to design, unencumbered by traditional notions of size and shape, and central to occupant wellness. At Cooledge, we use light as a building material by enabling luminous surfaces that scale with ease and generate immersive, uniformly-distributed illumination more closely resembling natural than artificial light.
Lighting is often added as an afterthought, conceived as packages of light that are restricted to points and lines and added to the space at the end of a project. The Cooledge Advantage arises from treating light as a fundamental design element that seamlessly enhances the environment and is digitally controlled on a scale that evokes a connection with nature.
Illumination for Wellness: Lighting is one of the most important components of designing for wellness. For thousands of years, humans spent their lives under a canopy of illumination - the sky. That influenced not only our visual system but also our emotional and physiological responses to our environment. Now that we spend up to 90% of our time indoors, Cooledge luminous ceiling products provide the opportunity to re-create the type of environment humans inherently crave and which best meets their wellness needs.
An increased awareness of the relationship between health and our environment – which is growing in importance as businesses focus on attracting people back to their workplaces, shops, and venues in a post-pandemic world – has resulted in new and higher standards for building design that consider all aspects of the user experience.
Our products offer unparalleled advantages versus traditional lighting, reflected in their ability to score points in virtually all of the lighting categories of new standards such as WELL v2, and simultaneously contribute to points for noise reduction.
The Cooledge Advantage is the unique combination of scale, light quality, acoustic performance and control delivered in formats that are best suited for people not found anywhere else.
Immersive Illumination: Much as a diffuse sky delivers high levels of light by virtue of scale, the immersive illumination experience created with Cooledge luminous ceiling products similarly provides sufficient general area lighting without the visual discomfort of traditional lighting. The result is a subjective feeling of being surrounded by light in a way that feels comfortable and natural, like being outside.
Although of critical importance, immersive illumination encompasses so much more than simply scale. The quality of the light is the feature that transforms the experience to become something more than ordinary. Superior color rendering, low glare, and flicker-free light, fully controlled, whether through deep dimming, tunable white, or dynamic color change is the foundation that places Cooledge ahead of imitators.
Other lighting products may have some elements of immersive illumination, but The Cooledge Advantage is delivering ALL of the properties that create a truly immersive experience.
About Cooledge
Cooledge fuses light and acoustic performance with architectural surfaces to change the way illumination is applied and experienced. The company’s products range from integrated lighting systems and luminaires to highly customizable luminous surface solutions, all exploiting the advantages of LEDs beyond conventional “point and line” fixtures to maximize design versatility – whether for large-scale specialty projects or common everyday spaces. Cooledge luminous surfaces have transformed thousands of environments worldwide, including the offices, venues and retail properties of esteemed global brands. The company operates out of headquarters in Vancouver, Canada and a North American sales office in Burlington, Massachusetts, and is supported by a network of sales agencies and distribution partners throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Additional information is available at www.cooledgelighting.com
