The Middle East Lighting Association (MELA) is an international non-profit making association formed in 2012 by Gulf Advanced Lighting, GE Lighting, Osram, Philips Lighting & Tridonic..
MELA is an active association which supports the development of efficient lighting policy in the Middle East region.
MELA’s principle aim is to represent the interests of the leading lighting product manufacturers in their support to legislators across the region in drafting and implementing policy (standards and regulations) for lighting related products and services across the Middle East region.
MELA is dedicated to promoting energy efficient lighting practice for the benefit of the global environment, human comfort, and the health and safety of consumers.
KEVAN SHAW: The 2018 LIT Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient Congratulations Kevan from us all at the Middle East Lighting Association! Kevan’s career in lighting began over 40 years ago, 30 of which have been at his firm, Kevan Shaw Lighting Design. His career began in stage lighting, which encompassed work with TV and industrial shows. From there, he…
MELA represented by Gerald Strickland in the capacity of ‘industry expert’ was present at the 2019 Future Generation Competition as part of a judging panel to assess a number of shortlisted projects on Thursday 7 March at a competition for Undergraduate and Postgraduate students who displayed their renewable/energy/efficiency related creations/innovations during the Middle East exhibition. MELA was requested to…
The 2018 LIT Design Awards Winning Designs Are: 2018 LIT Lighting Designer of the Year – Bike Square, Novartis Campus, Basel by Licht Kunst Licht AG 2018 LIT Lighting Product Design of the Year – Arrangements by Flos 2018 LIT Student Lighting Designer of the Year – *antigone lives by Adam Kostiuk 2018 LIT Student Product Design of the Year – Ecliptic by Xiaoqing…
Dear Lighting Designers, There are just THREE DAYS LEFT to submit to the 2nd Annual LIT Design Awards. Our lighting design competition was created to recognize the efforts of talented international lighting product designers and lighting implementers. We believe that lighting is an art and a science, and it is one of the most important…
Application of CIE 13.3-1995 with Associated CRI-based Colour Rendition Properties has recently been published by the Global Lighting Association. A copy is available on the association website. See http://www.globallightingassociation.org/library About the GLA The Global Lighting Association is the global voice of the lighting industry. The primary mission of the GLA is to share information, within the limits…
European Product Database for Energy Labelling (EPREL) has now been launched and suppliers to the EU market can now upload their product information as follows: https://energy-label.ec.europa.eu Deadline for compliance is 1st January 2019: this is for units of product models that are placed on the EU market for the first time as of 1st January 2019 and are subject…
