Nick Smith Associates are specialist exterior lighting consultants set up by its founder Nick Smith in July 2004. The company is based in Chesterfield but operates all over the UK. Nick Smith Associates principally carries out street lighting design, highway lighting design, sports floodlighting for clients who require who require a lighting designer or lighting consultants to deal with the lighting requirements associated with their project, be it to either private, secured by design, BS5489 or to adoptable section 38 lighting design standards. Nick Smith Associates has good working relations with many Local Authorities within the UK. We continue to provide lighting impact assessments to form part of an environmental impact assessment (EIA) or as a separate lighting impact assessment for new and existing installations, looking at how the lighting and lighting design impact on the surroundings. We do work for Local Authorities, Developers, Consultants, Highways Consultants, Architectural practices and Manufacturers who require the expertise offered by a Exterior Lighting Consultant. We use the latest computer design techniques offered within AutoCAD, Keylights, AGI32, Autolux and Lighting Reality to prepare our designs with three-dimensional masking being applied to show the actual effect buildings will have on the distribution of modern exterior lighting equipment.