December 2011

Hubbell Outdoor Lighting Inc.’s Roadway RM LED Series delivers an LED roadway solution producing 6087 lumens in a 3G-rated traditional cobra-head design. The Roadway RF LED Retrofit Kit provides a versatile solution to upgrade existing 100-175W cobra-heads in any NEMA compliant fixture.

Excellent IES presentations on the topics of light and color, and LED lighting. IES Color 1 Lighting and Color Introduction IES Color 2 Understanding Color and Appearance IES Color 3 Lighting Measurements IES LED 1 LED Sources IES LED 2 LED Luminaires

There are now more than 3,900 products registered with Lighting Facts, along with more than 300 manufacturers. The Lighting Facts label provides an at-a-glance view of an LED product’s basic performance attributes as measured according to the LM79 standard.

The deadline for “Intents to Submit” for the 2012 Next Generation Luminaires Indoor Design Competition has been extended. Written Intents to Submit are now due by January 13, 2012, and must be submitted online at www.ngldc.org.

Lighting designers have a responsibility to provide lighting systems that deliver visual comfort, which goes beyond simple visibility by addressing issues such as glare. This article, which I wrote for Electrical Contractor Magazine, describes the basics of glare, and how to address it.

GE Lighting has announced a call for entries for its 29th annual GE Edison Award competition, recognizing excellence and quality in professional lighting designs that employ the significant use of GE light sources (lamps and/or LEDs). The competition is open to professional designers, architects, engineers and consultants for projects completed during the 2011 calendar year. [...]

The International Association of Lighting Designers is seeking experts in lighting, design, architecture, building integration and business skills to present at Enlighten Americas 2012. Enlighten Americas will be held October 11-13, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. The Enlighten Americas 2012 conference theme, Speaking of Light, reflects a need for the [...]

Lighting design firm Lightswitch has redesigned its site for easier use on mobile devices, better showcase its projects and help users become acquainted with the firm’s designers. Check it out here.

Énergie now offers the highly efficient Enform 1 luminaire from German manufacturer Trilux, which utilizes a single 26W T5 lamp with a lower ballast factor (0.95) to achieve significant energy savings compared to other direct/indirect linear luminaires. Luminaires can be designed to provide 35 footcandles of visually comfortable illumination onto the task plane for just [...]