People Profiles

David Matyus-Flynn

My experience over the last 35 years has enabled me to provide lighting solutions for many sectors of industry, commerce, national and local government, by following a well defined criteria and considering all the aspects of the lighting requirements has achieved considerable successes in providing appropriate lighting schemes.

The criteria follows a design, energy, maintenance and controls pattern, therefore the criteria combined with considerable experience and knowledge of the lighting industry assures that the client receives unbiased designed and technically sound advice.

I have provided detailed lighting schemes for many sectors and in some ways too many to list, but they include Banking, Retail, Education, NHS, Sports, Local and National Government, Industrial and Airports sectors.

As a level 4 senior design solutions consultant to the Carbon Trust I have provided many technical publications for the Trusts devolved regions. I also provide for the Trust, ‘hands on’ lighting workshops for CPD training events for their other consultants of the Trust and provide workshops for different commercial and public sectors in the UK and Sustainable Energy Authority Ireland in Ireland.

I have developed, with my colleague Kristina Allison, a distance learning lighting educational course to enable others to benefit from our experience and expertise.

All lighting schemes should be energy efficient and effective, not as can occur be either ‘energy efficient’ or ‘effective’ and disregard one or the other. By using our holistic approach, this we refer to as ‘Energy Effective’ lighting, enables the appropriate solution to be achieved ‘first time’.

Kristina Allison

I have a diverse background; initially as an interior design student then progressed on to take my undergraduate degree in Multi-Disciplinary design at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College. I won 1st prize in the first stage the ‘Young Entrepreneurial Festival’ 2007 for the ‘My Great Business Idea’ competition at the university. I went on to receive 1st prize in the second stage of the competition and 2nd prize the following year with a new design idea! I continued on with my study for a further year and obtained my Masters Degree in Furniture Design and Technologies in 2007.

I have worked in lighting for over 4years now as an associate of Lighting Enterprises Consultancy & Associates I specialise in innovative Energy Effective applicational lighting solutions from consultancy advice and lighting schemes to ‘hands-on’ CPD training workshops plus teaching.

During this time the majority of my work has be providing consultancy advice for the Carbon Trust in England and the devolved governmental regions of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. I have also been involved in R&D work and technical lighting publications for the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) and market research for the SEAI Accelerated Capital Allowance scheme.

I am an Associate Member of the Society of Light and Lighting (SLL) and the Institute of Lighting Professionals (ILP). I am also hoping to obtain my IEng status very soon!

I have recently joined the Communications Committee for the SLL where I have met some very influential people from the lighting scene and have also joined the Young Engineers Network (YEN) division of CIBSE as the lighting representative on their board.