Osram Uses Headquarters to Demonstrate Human Centric Lighting
Osram Opto Semiconductors is introducing employees and customers to its Human Centric Lighting (HCL) concept with installations at its headquarters in Regensburg, Germany. The installation includes a brightly lit façade on the company’s new main building L01 and interior lighting designed to enhance the working environment for associates, as well as improve sustainability. The company used its own LED technology to create a shining example of how commercial buildings designed around human lighting needs might make the workplaces of the future greener and more hospitable.
The concept features technologies from the entire value chain of the Osram Group, from individual LEDs to the complete lighting solution. The HCL concept aligns interior lighting with the needs of human biorhythms, creating a setting that prioritizes personal wellbeing, the company said in a release.
“Our employees are the key to our success,” said Gerhard Maihoefner, head of the Regensburg location of Osram Opto Semiconductors. “As a world leader in LEDs and optoelectronics, it makes sense to utilize our light-based innovations to contribute to a positive working environment.”
Osram said studies have shown that there is an “ideal” color temperature value for people. If natural light does not reach this ideal value, artificial light can make up for it. In addition to preprogrammed light curves that take the season into account, sensors record the current value and adjust the lighting accordingly. Sensors also detect when no one is present in certain rooms and office areas and automatically switch to energy-saving mode and dim the lighting.
Highlights of the new outdoor lighting at the Regensburg headquarters include linear lighting on the building contours, as well as flexible elements such as the indirect lighting of windows and the “Sky Garden” employee cafeteria in the corporate color orange at dusk.