April 2015

I wrote this article for the March issue of tED Magazine. Reprinted with permission. The year 2014 represented a major milestone in adoption of LED technology in terms of demand and product design. With energy savings as high as 30-40 percent (not including additional control impacts), long rated life (with the promise of little or [...]

I wrote this article for the April 2015 issue of tED Magazine. Reprinted with permission. From walls to paper to plastics to clothing, white abounds in the built environment. Lighting research, however, has focused on the rendering of colors. The color rendering index (CRI), in fact, is based on the rendering of colors by a [...]

An estimated 50-70 million Americans suffer from chronic sleep issues, according to the National Institute of Health. In honor of National Sleep Awareness Week, GE Lighting has developed a light bulb to help promote the body’s natural sleep cycle; GE Align lighting is available on Amazon.com. GE Align LED lighting technology is engineered to help [...]

Total construction put in place (CPIP) for 2015 is predicted to grow 8%, according to FMI’s recently released Q1-2015 Construction Outlook. This supports that earlier FMI predictions that CPIP will top $1 trillion in 2015, which the market has not seen since 2008 and indicates that the economy is on track for a resilient recovery. [...]

I contributed a special feature on home lighting design to ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR’s March issue: “Residential interior lighting is as much art as science. A good residential lighting design is functional and comfortable, blends with the architecture and decor, and helps the owner personalize their home. The result is experienced as work, leisure, living, showcase, castle [...]

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Presidential Challenge for Advanced Outdoor Lighting recently amped up its goal of transforming America’s streetlights to higher efficiency. As part of the DOE’s Better Buildings Initiative program, the Presidential Challenge aims to work with municipalities to upgrade 1.5 million U.S. streetlights to LED over the next two years. Click [...]

Every get a craving to see what lamps look like in an X-ray image? Me neither, but the results are pretty cool. Check out Jim Hutchison’s collection from around the web at JimonLight.com here.

HessAmerica’s Linea S exemplifies minimalist design in a bollard, offering pathway illumination specifically designed for pedestrian-scale spaces. The luminaire may be specified in single-configuration or twin-mounting for installation within interiors of open areas or median-mounted pathways. It is available in 24-, 30- and 36-in. heights. CCT 3000K or 4000K, >80 CRI, 16W, 120/277V high-power-factor LED [...]

This NECA Electric TV video provides an introduction to LiFi–the use of visible light as a source of data transmission. It’s already being done with lasers, and now the potential of using LED luminaires is being explored. In the general lighting space, Acuity, GE and Philips are now commercializing specific solutions for retail spaces that [...]