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Nach seinen bisher sehr erfolgreich durchgeführten Seminarreihen, möchte Nimbus mit seiner Nimbus Academy weiterhin praktisches Fachwissen vermitteln und über die neuesten Entwicklungen der LED.next Technologie informieren.
Die Lichtplanung mit LED-Technik unterscheidet sich von der Planung mit konventionellen Leuchtmitteln, und erlaubt es dem Gestalter auf Grund der neuen Bauart eine viel intensivere Auseinandersetzung mit der Raumplanung. Nahezu jede Beleuchtungsaufgabe der Allgemeinbeleuchtung im Innenraum lässt sich heute mit LEDs realisieren. Der Markt kennt heute schon ausgereifte und nachhaltige Produkte, die aber in der großen Vielfalt des Angebotes identifiziert werden müssen. Nur dann gelingt es anspruchsvolle und qualitativ hochwertige Lichtlösungen zu realisieren.

Das Tagesseminar für Architekten und Innenarchitekten gliedert sich in die Bereiche:
• Basiswissen: Grundlegende lichttechnische Begriffe, Gütemerkmale von Lichtlösungen
• Grundlagen der LED-Technik in der Allgemeinbeleuchtung und aktuelle technische Entwicklungen
• Planen mit LED-Technik

Das Seminar richtet sich an Architekten und Innenarchitekten und ist als Fortbildung im Rahmen der berufspraktischen Tätigkeit für Mitglieder der AKNW anerkannt. Eine rechtzeitige Anmeldung ist aufgrund der begrenzten Teilnehmerzahl erforderlich.

Termin/Veranstaltungsort:
18. Juni 2012, Design Post, Köln

Dauer der Veranstaltung:
09:30 bis 17:00 Uhr

Referenten:
• Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Mathias Wambsganß, Hochschule Rosenheim, Fakultät für Innenarchitektur, Professor für Lichtgestaltung, Lichttechnik und vernetzte Gebäudetechnologie
• Hans-Peter Beutelspacher, Freier Lichtplaner, Büro für Lichtgestaltung, Stuttgart
• Stefan Huml, Vertriebsleiter Nimbus Group, Stuttgart

Die Kosten der Teilnahme an dem Seminar belaufen sich auf 75,00€. Die Teilnahme ist nach Eingang der Zahlung verbindlich, eine entsprechende Rechnung wird Ihnen zugesandt.

Anmeldung und weitere Informationen unter:
seminare@nimbus-group.com

Frisch von der LIGHT + BUILDING.
Nimbus zeigt seine LED.next-Leuchteninnovationen für den Home- und Officebereich im e-wohnen der zukunft. Lassen Sie sich in entspannter abendlicher Atmosphäre bei Snacks und kühlen Getränken von unseren revolutionären Neuheiten SQUEEZE – designed by Karim Rashid – und ROXXANE begeistern.

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Showroom e-wohnen der zukunft
Mendelssohnstraße 27 . 10405 Berlin

WANN
14. Juni 2012, ab 18:00 Uhr
Product Launch bei kulinarisch musikalischem After-Work-Clubbing

ANMELDUNG
Bis spätestens 1. Juni 2012 per Mail an:
v.scheuba@nimbus-group.com

Am Mittwoch, den 13. Juni 2012 freuen wir uns, wieder den aed – Verein zur Förderung von Architektur, Engineering und Design in Stuttgart e.V. zu Gast zu haben.

"Global Design - Hier schön, überall schön?" lautet das Thema der kurzweiligen Vortrags- und Diskussionsveranstaltung. Im Anschluss laden wir Sie zu einem kleinen Snack und zu einem "Private Viewing" des EM-Vorrundenspiels Deutschland-Niederlande ein!

Moderation: Dr. Jons Messedat (corporate design & architecture, Stuttgart)
Referenten: Thomas Auer (Transsolar, Stuttgart), Tobias Wallisser (LAVA, Stuttgart), N.N. (Gira, Radevormwald)
Veranstaltungsort: Nimbus Mock-Up, Leitzstraße 4, 70469 Stuttgart
Beginn: 19:00 Uhr
Eintritt: kostenlos
Eine Anmeldung über die Webseite des aed ist erforderlich.

Der aed ist eine von Stuttgarter Ingenieuren, Architekten und Designern gegründete Initiative, deren Ziel es ist, die große Gestaltungskompetenz in der Region Stuttgart – vom Produkt- und Grafikdesign über Multimedia und Engineering bis hin zur Architektur – zu fördern und der Öffentlichkeit nahezubringen.
www.aed-stuttgart.de

The Consense, an international trade fair and congress for sustainable building, investment and operation, will be held for the fifth time this year. With a forward-looking programme, the Stuttgart Trade Fair Centre and the German Sustainable Building Council will provide their international exhibitors and visitors from the whole of the construction and real estate sector an ideal platform for exchanging knowledge at the trade fair centre on 19th and 20th June.

The Nimbus Group will again be among those tackling the subject of sustainability in the construction and real estate business and will be presenting innovative concepts and products.

Venue:
ICS, Stuttgart Trade Fair Centre (Airport)

Opening times:
Tuesday, 19.06.2012 9.00 – 18.00
Wednesday, 20.06.2012 9.00 – 17.00

We look forward to your visit!

More info: www.messe-stuttgart.de/consense/

VOICES_21zwo ist eine Architekturausstellung im Brandshof, die vom 16. Mai 2012 bis zum 1. Juli 2012 im Rahmen des Hamburger Architektur Sommer stattfindet. Architekten, Fotografen und Künstler präsentieren ihre persönlichen und provokanten, humorvollen oder mutigen Notationen zur Lage der Architektur und der Stadt. Der Brandshof ist eines der letzten, komplett erhaltenen Hamburger Backstein-Reedereiensembles aus den 1920er Jahren. In den spannungsvollen Räumen präsentieren und inszenieren sich u.a. Studio BÄNG, Markus Dorfmüller, Nicholas Grospierre, h&n architektur, Martin Kohler, Kawahara Krause Architects, Markus Kröger, Justus Pysall, Lydia Rintz, Hannes Stimmann, Schaltraum Architektur, Julia Ackermann, Klaus Frahm, üNN.
Und mitten drin: die Nimbus Group als Partner der Ausstellung.

Vernissage mit einem Statement über den Raum, die Kunst und junge Architektur von Hubertus Adam (SAM Basel und Architekturkritiker) ist am Dienstag, 15. Mai 2012 um 19 Uhr

Adresse:
Brandshof Brandshofer Deich 114-118, Halle A
20539 Hamburg

Mehr Infos:
www.voices21zwo.com
architektursommer.de

The Nimbus Group is a project partner in one of Berlin's most innovative construction projects. Under the motto "Living-standard redefined", a unique property is under construction in the Prenzlauer Berg district, the "e-living of the future" Project 4.

The project encompasses the entire spectrum of living and working in the future: from "e-apartments" through to the "e-office of the future". Original architecture and technology solutions have been realised on 2500 m² of space and are now being tested under "live" conditions. e-living combines energy efficiency and progressive technology for the home; it represents a unique retreat for the occupant and impresses with its new design and networked lifestyle.

Situated in the middle of Berlin, the nation's first e-house reflects the entire spectrum of a new joie de vivre. This apartment building can be seen as an example of sustainable, flexible and interactive urban living. From the first to the fifth floor, there are 32 virtually barrier-free apartments with rooms that seem to flow into one another. The interior design features integrated sculpture-like fittings where people can sit or lie down and is connected up to electronic home technology. The penthouse floor, on the other hand, is a wooden, convex roof structure which has been placed on top of the building and, as an e-office of the future, shows how a flexible working environment takes shape.

As a leading innovator in the field of LED interior lighting and a founding member of the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB), Nimbus is playing an active part in this modern construction project. The former factory building from the year 1910 was renovated from top to bottom using ecological materials and fitted with the latest generation of energy-efficient Nimbus LED.next luminaires.

The ground floor houses a showroom designed by the architect Alexis Dornier together with the founder of "e-living of the future", Dirk Fabarius. Here visitors can experience and test the vision of e-living 2022.

You would like to meet in Berlin for advice on our innovative Nimbus LED.next luminaires or Rossoacoustic systems? Simply arrange an appointment: ewohnen@nimbus-group.com

You will find further information on the project and reports on the individual construction phases at: www.e-wohnen-der-zukunft.de

Cenk Batus letzter Auftrag führte den Tatort-Ermittler am 06. Mai hinter die Kulissen der Finanzwelt - und vor allem in das Haus im Haus in der Handelskammer Hamburg, das dem NDR-Tatort als Set für die Finanzwelt diente. Neben den Schauspielern machten auch die LED Lichtdecken von Nimbus im letzen Tatort mit Mehmet Kurtulus eine gute Figur. Die Nimbus Group hat das Haus im Haus - das 2007 nach Plänen von Behnisch Architekten in der klassizistischen Börsenhalle der Handelskamer entstanden ist - als eines der ersten Bürogebäude weltweit ausschließlich mit energiesparenden LEDs beleuchtet. Über 160.000 LEDs wurden über die fünf Ebenen eingeplant. Jeweils 400 LEDs sind in den insgesamt 380 Lichtmodulplatten gebündelt, die unter den gläsernen Etagenböden abgehängt sind.

In der "Ballade von Cenk und Valerie" ist Cenk Batus (Mehmet Kurtulus) Teil einer konzertierten Aktion der Regierung um den neuen Bundeskanzler Grasshof, in der mehrere verdeckte Ermittler in Banken eingeschleust wurden. Sie sollen dort illegale Finanzgeschäfte aufdecken und konkrete Beweise gegen das undurchschaubare System von Transaktionen beschaffen. Banker Andreas Dobler, ein junger und besonders skrupelloser Trader, gerät ins Visier der Ermittlungen. Doch nachdem Cenk ein geheimes Treffen zwischen Dobler und der mysteriösen Valerie (Corinna Harfouch) observiert hat, gerät alles außer Kontrolle. Valerie war vor 20 Jahren eine weltweit gesuchte Auftragskillerin. Nun ist sie zurückgekehrt, um todkrank noch einen letzten Auftrag auszuführen: die Ermordung von Kanzler Grasshof.

Weiterführende Projektinformationen zum Haus im Haus finden Sie in unseren Projektreferenzen.

Mehr Infos zum Tatort finden Sie hier.

A new "beginning" has been made! This February, 25 architecture students from Stuttgart University travelled as volunteers to South Africa to build a house in Grabouw near Cape Town for a non-governmental organisation by the name of Thembalitsha. The name of the project is "Ukuqala" and Ukuqala means beginning in Xhosa (one of South Africa's eleven official languages).

Thembalitsha helps children who have been directly or indirectly affected by HIV. According to the World Health Organisation, there are around two million AIDS orphans living in South Africa. This number has increased by 30 per cent since 2001. Aids orphans and HIV-infected children are accommodated in the organisation's "Village of Hope". There they receive what they need most in their situation: hope. Hope of an untroubled childhood and a longer life. But the accommodation in the "Village of Hope" is severely overcrowded. The students from Stuttgart University enlarged the facility. Using traditional and recycled materials, the future architects built a residential building back in 2011. The second project followed in spring 2012 and the Nimbus Group supported the effort with energy-saving Modul Q 36 LED luminaires. The new house is intended for foreign voluntary aid workers who go to support the organisation in the field. Besides helping children, Thembalitsha also runs a training program for youths and adults. The "Ukuqala" project will be part of this program and enable participants to gather experience on a building site, which may benefit them in their job training or when building their own house. The houses were built of sustainable, inexpensive and, whenever possible, traditional materials such as the typical rammed earth for the walls.

The Nimbus Group would like to congratulate the future architects on their achievement and is proud to have had the opportunity to support such an ambitious project! And in keeping with the spirit of the project, we would like to express our agreement with the Ukuqala slogan: "Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." Henry Ford

More informations: www.ukuqala.net/

The world's largest fair for light and building technology opens its doors once more on Sunday 15.04.2012 in Frankfurt am Main. The Nimbus Group would like to invite you to this biennial event, the world's leading fair in the sector, to explore our Nimbus LED.next luminaires' own unique genes and the new developments that have evolved from them!

Evolution by Design – ORIGINALS by Nimbus

Discover the origins and the future of Nimbus on our two stands:
Hall 1.2, Stand G10
Hall 3.1, Stand C95

From 15.04 to 20.04.2012, the Light+Building fair will be featuring world premieres in the field of lighting, electrical equipment and building automation. The major theme for 2012 is energy efficiency.

In March, deputy sales manager Oliver Waidmann accepted the APA - Architects Partner Award 2011 in Silver on behalf of the entire Nimbus Group sales team.

The third Architects Partner Award ceremony took place in Cologne on March 13th, 2012. And the name says it all: every year, prizes are awarded to those companies and consultants who prove themselves to be true partners to Germany's architects and interior designers. In awarding this prize, the sponsors – the journals AIT and xia Intelligente Architektur – help to further improve qualified consulting in the field of architecture. The award-winning sales teams and individual consultants were determined by means of a questionnaire sent to over 1500 architects.
Those questioned named 627 architectural consultants with whom they prefer to work as well as 534 brands whose sales work was worthy of particular praise. The AIT-ArchitekturSalon in Cologne was once again the host for the APA-Award ceremony.

The Nimbus Group is delighted to have received the award and is particularly pleased with the trust placed in the company by Germany's architects and interior designers!

The new Dish suspended LED luminaire from Nimbus seems to hover almost weightlessly in space. The flat light disc made of high-class white Corian and the matt or brilliant upper visible surfaces lend the luminaire a visual lightness and timeless elegance.

More information about this exceptional new luminaire you will find here.

The BusinessCup 2012 took place in Stuttgart last Sunday, 18.03.12. As a company committed to sport, the Nimbus Group was of course also on board.

Our team mastered the group phase in style and was rewarded with a place in the final. The final itself was a thrilling match full of commitment and emotion. After falling behind twice, the team, cheered on by its crowd of supporters, showed its fighting spirit and came up with a solid team performance.

In a furious finish, the team snatched a narrow but deserved 4:3 victory.

On 2nd June, the Nimbus team bus will be heading to Cologne for the German grand final. We wish the lads the best of success!

Here is the video of the thrilling final of the tournament:

The slogan of the Carrera race held to mark the launch of the new material database was "We're stepping on the gas!". 10 teams battled it out on the large-scale Carrera racetrack to record the fastest lap time. The trackside bristled with excitement and the races were hard fought. Despite numerous crashes, thankfully nobody was injured...

Nimbus' lean and sleek Line Z LED luminaires served as track lighting for the 12-metre course. Naturally, the Nimbus Racing Team, their breasts swelled with pride, also competed in the race – although victory unfortunately eluded them.

We would like to congratulate the winning team - RIM Boys with Leo and Sven von Bötticher!

Anyone who missed the spectacular race but would like drive a few laps is cordially invited to raumPROBE. The track is still set up and the raumPROBE team looks forward to being challenged!

www.raumPROBE.de

A new experience has been unfolding since January at the Design Post Cologne!

The Nimbus Group has not only unfurled new products from the areas of LED lighting and acoustic solutions in the design halls of Cologne's former parcel post depot – the company has also implemented an unusual folded-plate structure which visitors can walk right through and which will remain in place for the next two years.
Absolute reduction together with design which does full justice to the materials used have always played a prominent role in the Nimbus Group. Top quality surfaces and close attention to detail in the finishing process lend our products their unmistakable allure – making each solution a real original.
The new exhibition space in the Design Post is also quite unique: with its geometric diversity, the sculptural architecture forms a wide variety of spatial elements and the folds of the room-like sculpture climb almost playfully up into the void of the historical steel structure. The dissolution of wall and ceiling surfaces gives rise to fascinating areas for the presentation of the Nimbus Group's product world.

The Nimbus Group brought along a number of new and innovative "originals". An overview of the new originals:

The sculptural and extremely flexible RIM R luminaire range with the futuristic touch (recently winner of the "Interior Innovation Award" at imm cologne 2012)
The new Office Air LED family of luminaires with increased efficiency and new applications for office workplaces (recent winner of the Good Design Award 2011)
The new TP 30 Knit acoustic panel whose fabric surface possesses a marked haptic appeal (recent winner of the "Innovation Award Architecture Textile Object" awarded by the Heimtextil (Home Textiles) trade fair together with the architecture journals AIT and xia IntelligenteArchitektur)

Be our guest!

Opening hours:
We./ Th./ Fr. 10.00 - 18.00
Saturdays 10.00 - 16.00

Design Post Köln
Home of Design
Deutz-Mülheimer-Straße 22a
50679 Cologne
www.designpost.de

In 2011 the Nimbus Group successfully launched its "Nimbus Academy" to a wave of positive feedback. Our series of LED seminars, currently still aimed specifically at specialist dealers, will be continued in 2012 – including, for the first time, seminars outside of Germany.

With its "Nimbus Academy", the company intends to intensify its efforts in disseminating specialist know-how and providing information on the latest developments in LED.next technology. The experience Nimbus has gathered in over 7,000 LED projects from homes, doctors' practices, schools and kindergartens through to offices and corporate headquarters clearly shows the lead enjoyed by Nimbus LED.next luminaires in terms of design, energy concept and technology and also illustrates the high level of expertise in the Nimbus Group. In the interest of a broad-based partnership, Nimbus would like to share its experience as well as its know-how in technical and design aspects. Besides theoretical insights into lighting design, knowledge is gained and extended on the basis of the actual lighting design from a realised project.

The dates for spring 2012:
o 05.03.12 – IJburg office building on Steigereiland, Amsterdam (NL)
o 12.03.12 – ÖWG Wohnbau headquarters, Graz (AT)
o 19.03.12 – Design Post, Cologne
o 26.03.12 – Technical University, Munich
o 05.04.12 – Base-Net Informatik AG, Sursee (CH)

Our practice seminar is aimed at specialist dealers with good basic knowledge of LEDs who would like to extend their practical knowledge.
If you are interested please contact seminare@nimbus-group.com