Lighting control visionary awarded MBE

John Woodnutt, an entrepreneur and inventor of electronic lighting control technology, has been awarded an MBE for services to business and entrepreneurship in the 2023 New Year Honours list.
The recognition is the culmination of more than six decades of commitment to creating smart, energy-efficient building technologies.
In the late 1950s, Woodnutt pioneered innovative electronic techniques which revolutionised the control of lighting and, in 1959, founded Delmatic Lighting Control to develop