December 2014

Awards

2015 Next Generation Luminaires Design Competition: Call for Submittals

The 2015 Next Generation Luminaires Indoor and Outdoor Competitions have both officially launched. Written Intents to Submit are due on December 31, 2014, and both judging events will take place in March 2015. NEW FOR 2015: Concurrent competitions, with both Indoor and Outdoor winners announced at LIGHTFAIR 2015. In order to maximize NGL’s value to [...]

Construction + Economy

Nonresidential Construction Index Slowly Rises

FMI, a provider of management consulting and investment banking to the engineering and construction industry, recently announced the release of the 2014 Fourth Quarter Nonresidential Construction Index report. The NRCI shows a slight increase from 62.5 in the third quarter to 62.8 in the fourth quarter of 2014. This is nearly 5.5 points ahead of [...]

Products + Technology

Product Monday: Luminous Textiles by Philips

Philips Lighting’s Luminous Textile seamlessly integrates color LEDs within fabric panels to beautify and distinguish spaces. Supported by content management tools offering standard content and ability to create, edit and play video. Beautiful stuff. Check it out here.

Legislation + Regulation

New Ballast Regulations Are Now in Effect

New fluorescent ballast energy efficiency regulations took effect in November. The new rules expand previous regulations to cover seven classes of T12, T8 and T5 fluorescent lamp ballasts. Outdoor sign and residential-­only ballasts, exempted from previous DOE ballast regulations, are now covered and will be significantly affected.
 Exempted are dimming ballasts that dim to 50 [...]

Products + Technology

BMW Proposes Street Luminaires as Electric Car Charging Stations

Automaker BMW recently unveiled Light and Charge, an LED streetlight that doubles as a charging station for electric vehicles. Owners of any electric vehicle can charge up with a click on a mobile app. “Light and Charge is a simple and innovative solution which aims to seamlessly integrate a smoothly functioning charging station network into [...]

Awards

IES Announces 2014 Illumination Awards Winners

The Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES) has announced the recipients of the IES Illumination Awards for 2014. The IES granted two Awards of Distinction, 11 Awards of Excellence, and five Special Citations. The Awards program recognizes individuals for professionalism, ingenuity and originality in lighting design based on the individual merit of each entry. [...]

Lighting Design

Photometrics Explained

This educational video by Philips Lighting describes how a luminaire delivers its light at what angles and at what intensity, and how this information is recorded on a photometric report and analyzed.

Products + Technology

Product Monday: Constant-Current LED Lamp by Soraa

Equipped with a standard GU5.3 two-pin base, Soraa’s constant current MR16 LED lamp fits into any MR16 luminaire and fully conforms to the ANSI/ IECE compatible form factor. Unlike other MR16 LED lamps, the constant-current LED lamp is designed to accept an external driver which supplies the lamp with low-voltage DC input current, eliminating the [...]

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