Energy Focus, Inc. has announced that its turnkey lighting retrofit division, Stones River Companies, LLC was recently awarded five additional lighting energy services contracts totaling $2.5 million, bringing to a total of $19 million contracts awarded to Energy Focus’ new business unit. Two contracts are to upgrade the lighting at two universities, which will involve [...]
June 2010
Study: Supermarket Lighting May Boost Nutritional Value of Spinach
U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists recently stated the conclusions of a new study that found that supermarket lighting can help keep spinach fresh and producing new vitamins. Sorry, kids, it doesn’t make it taste any better. Get the story here.
Career Opportunity: Director of Technology/Lighting Controls
Got this email the other day. Looks like a great opportunity! DIRECTOR OF TECHNOLOGY / LIGHTING CONTROLS CLEVELAND, OH Our client is multinational, diversified organization which is consistently ranked at the very top of the Fortune 500. For over a century our client has provided the world with a broad range of consumer, commercial, industrial [...]
FTC Announces New Labels for Light Bulb Packaging for 2011
The Federal Trade Commission today announced that starting in mid-2011, consumers shopping for light bulbs will notice new labeling on packaging designed to help them choose among the different types of bulbs on the market – traditional incandescent lamps, CFLs and LED lamps. The new labels will enable consumers to save money by selecting the [...]
McGraw-Hill’s Outlook 2011 to be Held October 28-29, 2010
Join McGraw-Hill Construction for the 72nd annual Outlook Executive Conference, October 28-29, 2010 at the Capital Hilton Hotel in Washington, DC. Attendees will get a first-hand view of industry trends and the economic forecast that will impact the construction industry in 2011. For more information, and to register, click here.
LED + SSL, Products + Technology
Product Monday: Cree Launches Its Highest Performance Six-Inch LED Downlight
Cree, Inc. has announced a new high-output 6-inch LED downlight featuring Cree TrueWhite Technology. The LR6-DR1000 delivers 70% more light than the original LR6 and features an aesthetically-pleasing, 20-degree shield angle for lighting designs that require greater brightness control. Using only 12.5W to deliver 1,000 lumens, the LR6-DR1000 has a high luminaire efficacy of up [...]
Controls, Legislation + Regulation
EC&M Publishes Article on Lighting Efficiency Regulations
We are in an era of regulated efficiency. EC&M Magazine has published a nice summary of lighting regulations for their April issue here. I was pleased to be interviewed for this article about the role lighting controls can play in upgrades in existing buildings.
ASSIST Recommendation Provides New Metrics for Specifying Color Properties in Retail Lighting
A recent survey of lighting designers and specifiers by the National Lighting Product Information Program showed that for retail applications, light source color properties are considered more important than any other light source criterion, including energy efficiency. To define light source color properties, the lighting industry predominantly relies on two metrics, correlated color temperature (CCT), [...]
Federal Court of Appeals Rules in Favor of Fallon
Fallon Luminous Products Corp. has announced that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington D.C. has reaffirmed its April 20, 2010 decision in favor of Fallon’s appeal of a patent infringement suit brought by iLight Technologies. The Court denied iLight’s request that the District Court’s judgment be reinstated and ordered that [...]
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