Lighting Research & Technology (LR&T) is CIBSE's international journal containing refereed papers on all aspects of lighting research and technology. It is published for CIBSE and The Society of Light and Lighting by Sage Publications Ltd.
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Take a look at some classic papers that have been made open access, via the Sage website or read Dr Christopher (Kit) Cuttle's 2013 paper, A New Direction for General Lighting Practice (Volume 45, Issue 1)
In Volume 54, issue 7 (Nov 2022) of the Journal is a themed issue around the work of Kit Cuttle. Kit has been creating a new approach to interior lighting design and this is his final paper on that topic:
There is also an interesting paper from Kit on the nature of lighting standards. This will be of wide interest to the lighting profession
The 2 papers above have been made publicly available until the end of May 2023:
Access LR&T Journal classic papers via https://journals.sagepub.com/lrt/classicpapers
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