May 2015

Awards

2015 IES Progress Report Open for Submissions

The Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES) has announced a call for submissions for the 2015 IES Progress Report. This program offers organizations in lighting an opportunity to present important new products, research, publications and design tools. All lighting products must be introduced commercially and all research, publications and design tools must be completed [...]

Light + Art

Light Painters Wow on AMERICA’S GOT TALENT

Fun segment of GOT TALENT in which the Aurora Light Painters show off their talent with light painting. (Sorry the video was taken down from YouTube since I scheduled the post, I replaced it)

Daylighting, Research

Study Attempts to Link Office Worker Daylight Exposure and Sleep

My lighting column in the March issue of ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR covers a new University of Illinois study that attempted to link daylight exposure to quality and duration of sleep among office workers: “Recently, a multidisciplinary team at the University of Illinois, Urbana-­Champaign, set out to determine the effect of daylight on the quality and duration [...]

LED + SSL, Research

DOE Publishes CALiPER Report on Lumen and Chromaticity Maintenance of LED PAR38 Lamps

The U.S. Department of Energy’s CALiPER program has released Report 20.4, which is part of a series of investigations on LED PAR38 lamps. Report 20.4 focuses on lumen maintenance, chromaticity maintenance, and catastrophic failure in 32 of the Series 20 LED PAR38 lamps and eight benchmark lamps, which were monitored for nearly 14,000 hours at [...]

Products + Technology

Product Monday: Fin Exterior LED Luminaires by WAC Lighting

Adding to its new Endurance collection, WAC Lighting’s Fin Exterior LED Luminaire is offered in three wattages and two color temperatures options, all in a single diminutive size. ENERGY STAR- and DLC-rated, Fin adheres with industry norms of an outdoor luminaire with an IP66 wet location listing. The company went one step further and created [...]

Events

HumanCentric Lighting Society Announces Upcoming Conference

The HumanCentric Lighting Society has announced a conference to be held June 11, 2015 in Seattle. The group was formed to promote education about how next-generation lighting can deliver much more than energy savings, focusing on the impact of dimming and color tuning on human health and performance. Click here to learn more.

Light + Health, Lighting Design

Creating a Less Intimidating Hospital Experience with Lighting

The World Health Design website published an article about the role lighting can play in supporting calming healthcare environments that facilitate healing. Check it out here.

LED + SSL, Lighting Industry

MADE Implements Comprehensive Testing of LED Light Engines

Comprised of one or more LED modules together with an LED driver, variations in light engine output account for most of the variations in LED color temperature, brightness and other output characteristics. This can be problematic for manufacturers as well as end-users wanting consistent brightness and color. To alleviate this problem, many LED light engine [...]

LED + SSL

State-of-the-Art Snapshot: LED Luminaires

In April, I contributed a feature story to ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR that attempted to capture a snapshot of leading trends in LED luminaire design. Here’s an excerpt: In 2014, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics to a group of scientists for their 1990s invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs), [...]

Products + Technology

Product Monday: Cimarron Luminaire by Spaulding Lighting

Hubbell Lighting and TOTUS Solutions, a provider of outdoor lighting based security platforms, have teamed up on Spaulding Lighting’s award-winning Cimarron LED luminaire, which is now available with integrated surveillance, communication and control. Spaulding Lighting’s Cimarron outdoor luminaire is integrated with an Ethernet-controlled 360º hemispheric camera and communications platform. This system can surveillance and analytic [...]

Events

WILD on Wikipedia Webinar
High Point Market
LightSPEC West
HD EXPO + Conference
National Energy Codes Conference
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ArchLIGH Summit 2024

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