July 2012

Lighting designer David Warfel describes how he produced bright afternoon daylight for a theatrical production set in an English country house. The main challenge was to produce light with the appearance of “no color.” Click here to see how he did it. (The article appears on the Rosco website, as he used their products.)

The Department of Energy recently hosted the fourth annual Solid-State Lighting Manufacturing R&D Workshop in San Jose, California. With 200 attendees and two days of formal and informal discussion, the workshop share information about manufacturing issues, global manufacturing trends and strategies for improving product quality and reducing costs for lighting products based on LED and [...]

NEMA’s Electroindustry Business Confidence Index (EBCI) for current North American conditions slipped to 52.4 in June from 54.2 in May and has retreated more than 20 points since reaching a post-recession high in February. Despite its recent slide, the index continues to point to an economic environment conducive to industry growth, as it has for [...]

Following the first negative reading in five months, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) suffered a significant drop in May. As a leading economic indicator of construction activity, the ABI, produced by the American Institute of Architects (AIA), reflects the approximate 9- to 12-month lag time between architecture billings and construction spending. AIA reported the May [...]

Designed around Philips’ global LEDGINE platform, Philips Wide-Lite’s AeroScape family of LED luminaires addresses all major exterior lighting applications including egress, building perimeter, pedestrian and site and area. A true one-for-one replacement for traditional HID light sources, AeroScape provides substantial energy savings, improved lifetime and good quality of light in an easily maintainable and upgradable [...]