About lumi medical

Lighting people

lumi medical is the healthcare lighting range from NMK Engineering Ltd, commercial lighting specialists based in Bangor, County Down. We’ve worked on commercial lighting projects for years, sourcing and specifying luminaires for projects of every size, and we supply customers across Europe.

The range covers sealed recessed and surface-mounted panels for operating theatres and treatment rooms, many with CRI 95 versions and some made in a plant with an ISO 13485 quality system; frameless panels with flush, easily cleaned faces; corner luminaires; a continuous line for laminar-flow ceilings; wall luminaires for wards, corridors and bathrooms; and a bed-head unit that combines reading, examination and night light with sockets and switches. We choose products for their light quality, sealing, cleanability and documentation, so you can specify with confidence.

Who we work with

We work with architects, M&E consultants, healthcare planners, contractors and estates teams, and directly with hospitals, clinics, private healthcare groups, care providers and laboratories.

If you’re at an early stage, with a room list and a set of plans rather than a full specification, that’s fine. We’ll help you work out which luminaires suit each room and what your infection control and estates teams will want to see.

How we work

We’d rather help you get the installation right than sell you more luminaires. That usually means:

• Matching each luminaire to the room’s clinical use, ceiling and cleaning regime
• Fitting the lighting around surgical lights, ventilation canopies and medical equipment, not the other way round
• Thinking about the patient lying in the bed as well as the staff standing beside it
• Using the light level and colour rendering the task needs, and no more
• Being clear about what the manufacturer states, what has been tested and what still needs checking

Why healthcare needs care

A hospital luminaire has more jobs than most. In a theatre it has to seal to the ceiling, stand up to repeated disinfection and give accurate colour for clinical judgement. On a ward it has to be calm and glare-free for a patient lying beneath it, then give staff enough light to examine them, then dim to a night light that lets everyone sleep. And everywhere, it has to keep working for years with little maintenance.

That’s why we put as much weight on colour rendering, glare, sealing and cleanability as on light output. Our guides on healthcare lighting standards, IP ratings and sealing, hygiene and cleaning, colour rendering and planning healthcare lighting set out how we approach each of these.

Manufacturing

Every lumi medical product is made by an established manufacturer with its own testing and quality systems. Some are made in a plant certified to ISO 13485, the quality management standard for medical devices. Our luminaires are general lighting, not medical devices, and we say clearly what each certificate does and doesn’t cover. We bring the range together under one point of contact, so you deal with people who know the products and your project.

Full backup

• Datasheets and photometric files (IES and LDT) for design and calculation
• Lighting calculations and layouts coordinated with your ceiling, ventilation and equipment plans
• Technical information for infection control and estates teams, including materials, sealing and stated cleaning resistance
• Installation guides and advice on sealing to the ceiling
• Warranty and aftercare, with us as your contact for the life of the product

See technical & support for more.

Our sister sites

NMK Engineering also runs lumi clean, Lumisono and lumi facade.

Get in touch

NMK Engineering Ltd Unit 4C Enterprise Road, Bangor, County Down, BT19 7TA +44 28 9048 0562 · info@nmkengineering.co.uk

Or start a project and send us what you have.