The Lighting Quotient (formerly SRSDI), parent company of Elliptipar and Tambient, has announced a new $2,500 student scholarship.
In honor of Sylvan R. Shemitz, founder of the company, it has partnered with the IES to sponsor a scholarship for second-, third-, fourth- and fifth-year undergraduate or graduate students in accredited lighting degree programs.
Students are required to submit a 1,500-word essay titled “The Next Generation of Lighting: How would you bring a historical lighting installation into the next generation of sustainability?” to demonstrate their understanding and vision for the future of the architectural lighting industry.
This year’s scholarship value is $2,500. The Lighting Quotient has also established an endowment, starting with a $50,000 donation, and will annually award a scholarship to one student based on the dividends of the endowment.
U.S. Lighting Technologies' Street Light Cobra/Jersey Series
The Star-Ledger recently reported that utility Public Service Electric & Gas (PSE&G) is installing 96,000 induction streetlights to replace older streetlights in 81 municipalities, including Newark, as part of a $50 million infrastructure project. U.S. Lighting Technologies is a key supplier to the project. Induction lighting was chosen for energy savings (30-40% compared to mercury vapor) and long service life (up to 100,000 hours).
LightNOW’s take: Growing interest in LED lighting appears to be increasing interest in induction lighting as a long-life alternative for applications where maintenance is difficult or presents a high cost. The cost of induction lighting appears to be declining, making it more attractive.
On April 14, 2010, from 9AM to 4PM, the Raleigh Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society will present a seminar on LED outdoor lighting for electric utility personnel and other interested people. The event will occur at Progress Energy W. Raleigh Operations Center, 7001 Pinecrest Road, Raleigh, NC 27613, in the
second-floor conference room.
A few of the topics that the speaker, Bob Henderson, LC, CLEP, IES, will be covering include:
• LED efficiency – truth or myth – how does it work?
• How to design an LED utility rate, change-out policy and associated support docs
• LED utility hardware specifications checklist
• LEDs – health, color preference, IDA
• Heat, calculations, photometrics and warranty
Lunch, snacks, and seminar materials will be provided.
To learn more and register for this event, download this flyer (PDF) here.
Posted
on March 10, 2010, 7:46 AM,
by Craig DiLouie,
under Lighting Industry.
NEMA’s lamp indices for incandescent and compact fluorescent (CFL) lamps increased 6.7% and 15.5%, respectively, during the fourth quarter of 2009.
Sales of incandescent lamps during the quarter were sufficient in tempering the rate of erosion in year-over-year growth for this index component, declining by 2.2% compared to the 12% average over the previous three quarters. Similarly, the decline in CFL sales slowed to 4.3% on a year-over-year basis versus a decline of 17.5 % for the previous quarter. For the full calendar year, both index components showed similar results by seeing a roughly 10% decline from 2008.
CFLs lost market share to incandescent lamps for the second consecutive quarter, decreasing to 22%. Moreover, the share of CFLs has remained fairly consistent for the last three years indicating consumer demand has hit a plateau that could persist into the foreseeable future absent a stronger pick-up in U.S. economic growth or re-emerging concerns over energy costs.
Posted
on March 10, 2010, 6:06 AM,
by Craig DiLouie,
under Economy.
NEMA’s Electroindustry Business Confidence Index (EBCI) for current North American conditions advanced sharply for a second straight month in February, climbing to its highest level in nearly 4 years.
The index rose 7.4 points to 64.6 in the latest month, which came on the heels of an increase of nearly 9 points in January.
Though the EBCI for future North American conditions lost ground in February, the six-month outlook remains optimistic. The index slipped 7.7 points on the month to 70.8, but came in well ahead of the 50-point mark indicative of an improved business environment.
Posted
on March 10, 2010, 4:27 AM,
by Craig DiLouie,
under Lighting Design.
Allan Toft/Speirs and Major Associates
Speirs and Major Associates, a lighting design firm I particularly admire, was given well-deserved coverage in Metropolis Magazine recently. The article profiles the firm and reviews some of its notable projects, such as the Sheikh Zayed Mosque in Abu Dhabi and the Infinity Bridge in the United Kingdom.
James Turrell’s work involves explorations in light and space that speak to viewers without words, impacting the eye, body, and mind with the force of a spiritual awakening. Situated near the Grand Canyon and Arizona’s Painted Desert is Roden Crater, an extinct volcano the artist has been transforming into a celestial observatory for the past thirty years. Working with cosmological phenomena that have interested man since the dawn of civilization, Turrell’s crater brings the heavens down to earth, linking the actions of people with the movements of planets and distant galaxies.
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