November 2014

LED + SSL

DOE Street Lighting Consortium Releases Results of Public Street and Area Lighting Inventory Survey

DOE’s Municipal Solid-State Street Lighting Consortium (MSSLC) has released the results of a voluntary web-based inventory survey of public street and area lighting across the U.S., conducted during the latter half of 2013 and intended to improve understanding of the role of public outdoor lighting in national energy use. Results were based on the responses [...]

Products + Technology

Product Monday: Kick by Architectural Area Lighting

Architectural Area Lighting’s (AAL) KicK is an aesthetically distinctive site and area lighting luminaire that angles light upwards yet provides full light cutoff. The pedestrian-scale luminaire is targeted to walkway, path and building entrance applications. The design hides the LEDs when viewed from behind. The optical system delivers 12,880 lumens at 99 lumens/W with 0% [...]

LED + SSL

DOE Publishes 20K Hour Testing Results for 2008 GATEWAY Bridge Installation

The U.S. Department of Energy has released a report on the longer-term performance of an LED lighting system that was installed on the I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis in September 2008 and represents one of the country’s oldest continuously operated exterior LED lighting installations. The report is a welcome addition to the literature on LED lighting, [...]

Lighting Industry

Incandescent A-Line Lamps Decline Sharply in Second Quarter

NEMA’s shipments index for incandescent A-line lamps dropped sharply during 2014Q2, declining 61.2% as the full effect of EISA 2007 lamp efficiency regulations took hold during the first six months of the year. Substitute lamp types such as LED A-line and halogen A-line fared better, posting increases of 35.8% and 9.9% q/q, respectively. Meanwhile, the [...]

Education + Resources

LRC Partners with NYSERDA and NYSDOT to Develop Sustainable Roadway Lighting Seminars, Guidebook

Until recently, roadway lighting technologies changed very slowly. Technologies like high pressure sodium and other HID lamps used in cobra head-style fixtures were state-of-the-art for decades. In response, the best practices for roadway lighting design had remained largely unchanged since the 1970s and 1980s. A growing concern for preventing light pollution in the 1990s and [...]

Interviews + Opinion

Lighting Metatrends

It’s an exciting time to be in the lighting industry. Today, lighting systems can alter spaces without physically changing them, revitalize urban areas, facilitate interaction and community, communicate information, make spaces more interactive, and affect well being. As technology capabilities increase and costs decline, a dramatic range of possibilities offer the opportunity to transform how [...]

Products + Technology

Product Monday: Decorative LED Luminaires by Winona

Acuity Brands, Inc. recently introduced Winona FORMS LED architectural solutions from Winona Lighting. New traditional, transitional and contemporary styles are offered in a variety of complementary architectural shapes across the brand’s pendant, ceiling-mount and wall sconce portfolio. Winona has engineered a unique, patent-pending Form Analogous (FA) Optical System(tm) to fully optimize the potential of LED [...]

Lighting Industry

LED There Be Light

The Open University (UK), in honor of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics being awarded to three scientists for developing the blue LED, produced the below infographic, which I’m happy to share with you below. Click to enlarge in a new window on your browser.

Construction + Economy

ABI Shows Robust Conditions Ahead for Construction Industry

With all geographic regions and building project sectors showing positive conditions, there continues to be a heightened level of demand for design services signaled in the latest Architecture Billings Index (ABI). As a leading economic indicator of construction activity, the ABI reflects the approximate nine to twelve month lead time between architecture billings and construction [...]

Energy + Environment

AIA Report Finds Increasing Number of Design Projects Meeting Carbon Reduction Targets

Introduced in 2009, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) 2030 Commitment Program, a voluntary initiative for architecture firms and other entities in the built environment to commit their practice to advancing the AIA’s goal of carbon neutral buildings by the year 2030, has produced a report assessing their work. “There is some very encouraging data [...]

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