GE Lighting has announced five finalists for the 27th annual international GE Edison Award competition. This year, lighting design firms involved with the five finalist projects hail from three countries: Germany, Mexico and the United States. The GE Edison Award competition is open internationally to lighting professionals who creatively employ significant use of GE light [...]
April 2010
Capitol Lighting Announces $2,500 Online Jingle Contest
Do you have a song in your heart–about lighting? If so, you could win up to $2,500 in Capitol Lighting’s online “Jingle Contest.” There is no entry fee although the entry must communicate the nature of Capitol’s Unique Selling Propositions (USPs). In other words, it should convey why someone should shop for lighting at Capitol, [...]
Education + Resources, Energy + Environment
ENERGY STAR to Overhaul Its Product Approval Process
Following a scathing report by the GAO on ENERGY STAR earlier this month here, the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy have announced changes to the ENERGY STAR product certification process to ensure that only products meeting the ENERGY STAR requirements can receive an ENERGY STAR label. Effective immediately, manufacturers wishing to qualify their [...]
Edge Lighting Products to Appear on Discovery’s Construction Intervention
Edge Lighting has announced that its Monorail products were installed in a project featured in Construction Intervention, a Discovery Channel program about business owners in dire need of renovation but without the money to get it done themselves. They have just days to finish, and rely on donations from various companies to help them complete [...]
Fallon Wins Appeal in Patent Infringement Case
Fallon Luminous Products Corp., a manufacturer of lighted signs, has announced that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington D.C. has overturned an earlier decision of the District Court in Cookeville, TN, and ruled in favor of Fallon in its appeal of a patent infringement suit brought against Fallon by iLight [...]
Product Monday: FTO Series by Lighting Services Inc
The FTO Series is “stripped of its cosmetic clutter,” according to its creator Lighting Services Inc. The product mounts to LSI track and creates fill light from its 54W T5HO lamping. Optional accessories include reflector, acrylic lenses (clear or frosted) and emergency backup ballast, which provides up to 90 minutes of illumination time at 390 [...]
Architectural SSL Covers “A Sacred Place to Dwell”
The challenge: Create as sustainable and energy efficient environment as possible that still met the requirements of a space that would show a significant amount of artwork. The solution: The designers of Síol opted for natural lighting complemented with dimmable, ENERGY STAR-qualified white LED downlights that illuminate the entire space with the same energy consumed [...]
Gigahertz-Optik Introduces UV-VIS-NIR Pulsed Light Meter with External Trigger Input
Gigahertz-Optik’s hand-held P-9710-4 radiometer/photometer now features an external TTL trigger input function useful for remote timing of pulsed light measurements. In the P-9710-4 pulse energy mode, the measurement begins automatically upon the trigger input. The P-9710-4 is capable of measuring the pulse energy (joules, J/cm2, lux-seconds, effective candela) of single and multiple burst pulsed events [...]
Light Sculptor Ben Livingston’s New CD: “Trust Your Equipment”
Neon/Light sculptor Ben Livingston, recipient of the Paul Waterbury International Lighting Design Award, also happens to be an accomplished musician. His new CD, titled “Trust Your Equipment,” is available from Waterloo Records. Listen to it here free. Then buy it here.
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