June 2012

Cooper Lighting recently announced the winners of the 35th Annual SOURCE Awards national lighting design competition. The winners were recognized at LIGHTFAIR International 2012 in Las Vegas at the Keynote Speaker Luncheon on May 8 in front of an audience of 500 design professionals. Five professional awards and six student awards were presented. The annual [...]

American Lighting, a specialty lighting manufacturer, recently announced the addition of its Entertainment & Professional Lighting Division (E-PRO) to accommodate the growing needs of the entertainment and architectural sectors in the club installation, mobile DJ, event, live show production, church, theatre and stage lighting markets. The E-PRO division will offer American Lighting’s lighting brands – [...]

Hubbell’s Precision Paragon unit recently published the results of a 2011 survey of 2,900 lighting professionals, which found that energy-efficient lighting is a growing market. The survey also discovered that while LED lighting is growing in popularity in relighting projects–with 10.3% of respondents saying it is the predominant light source it intended to specify for [...]

Many LED luminaires are highly integrated products. An alternative approach is to modularize the light source and other components using standardized interfaces, similar to conventional lighting products. The Zhaga Consortium has been working hard on creating these interfaces; the first standards and compliant products are now coming online. EC&M recently published an article about Zhaga’s [...]

GE’s new Visual Comfort Lens diffuses LED directional lamp so that the light “dots” or spots are eliminated. Used in conjunction with GE’s Energy Smart LED Retail PAR30 and PAR38 lights, the lens also contributes to a CRI rating of 92. Click here to learn more about GE’s LED product line.

H.R. 5325, the fiscal year 2013 Energy and Water Appropriations bill, which recently passed by the House of Representatives, includes a provision–the Burgess (R-TX) Amendment–which prohibits funding for enforcement of national energy efficiency standards for certain lamps created by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. The inability of the Department of Energy to [...]

Fifteen award winners representing architectural lighting design projects from seven countries comprise the winners of the 29th Annual International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) International Lighting Design Awards, recognized at a presentation held May 10, 2012 at the Renaissance Hotel in Las Vegas during LIGHTFAIR. Of the 15 projects recognized, two entries earned Special Citations, [...]

Guest post by Ted Konnerth, President/CEO of Egret Consulting Group We spent two full days at LightFair; which was larger than in the past, very well-attended and brimming with energy. Several recurring issues really resonated with us as we compared notes on the flight back home. Here’s a summary of the state of the state [...]

The IALD is developing a new certification for lighting designers. By August, the credentialing task force will make a recommendation whether to proceed with a certification, which would then take an estimated 12-18 months to put into place. ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING recently published an excellent article on this topic, available here. Being Lighting Certified (LC), naturally [...]