Blog Posts - 26.07.2024
Light is usually wasted in commercial buildings.
With its avant-garde approach to lighting technology, LEDCity convinced the jury of the “Green Business Award”. CEO Patrik Deuss gives an overview of the company’s origins and next steps.
- Each year, the Green Business Award honours companies that combine ecology and entrepreneurship.
- On 13 September 2023, LEDCity won the CHF 25,000 prize.
- LEDCity develops and produces intelligent lighting systems for commercial buildings.
- In the interview, CEO Patrik Deuss explains that winning the “Green Business Award” is a great opportunity to draw attention to the issue of energy efficiency.
Patrik Deuss, anyone who has ever worked in an office will recognise it: the lights are on even though no one is there.
In a commercial building, around 30 per cent of the electricity is used for lighting. And it’s true: Most of it is wasted. What’s more, lighting systems have not really developed any further in the last thirty or forty years.
Why?
The property and energy sector is a rather conservative industry. Sometimes neon tubes, sometimes light bulbs came onto the market. The motion detectors that are used are controlled manually with cables in a control cabinet somewhere. In addition, a lot of the business is about planning: you have an architect who wants to plan the building in the same way as he planned earlier buildings. The pressure now comes more from the energy side, which in turn is not very relevant for the building constructor because the tenant bears the costs later.
Do you want to read the full article?
You find the full interview with Patrik Deuss in German at 20min.ch
