Lighting Impact Assessment

What an engagement looks like

Most projects begin with a short scoping conversation to confirm which standard applies and what the lighting impact assessment needs to achieve – a planning permit condition, a post-installation audit, or a dispute requiring independent evidence. From there, we determine whether the work calls for on-site measurement, computer-based simulation, or both, depending on whether the lighting already exists or is still at design stage. See recent lighting compliance projects, or what affects light spill assessment cost.

Site visits are scheduled around your project timeline, and testing is carried out using calibrated equipment appropriate to the standard in question, whether that’s a handheld lux meter for a car park audit or full photometric modelling in AGi32 for a signage proposal still on the drawing board. Reports are then prepared for the audience that needs them – a council planning officer assessing a permit application reads a report differently to a VCAT member weighing expert evidence, and we tailor structure and language accordingly.

Where an assessment identifies a compliance issue, the report sets out what would resolve it, not just that a limit has been exceeded. For projects with ongoing obligations (VEU upgrades, ongoing council reporting, or ​staged developments) we remain available for follow-up verification as the project progresses.