August 2017

LightShow West recently announced the opening of online registration for the trade show and conference at Kentia Hall in the Los Angeles Convention Center, Oct. 11-12, 2017. The biennial event is geared toward professionals seeking relevant education and the latest solutions from leading manufacturers of lighting, controls and related technologies. Attendees will be able to [...]

L3I Indirect Linear Pendant: This indirect pendant offers clean uplighting for commercial and hospitality applications, and it comes in several housing colors and customizable lengths. Changeable optics ensure fine control over light output and spread width. Also offers end-to-end connections, allowing for continuous lines of light. Click here to learn more. L4R Recessed Linear: This [...]

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has named Professor Mariana G. Figueiro, Ph.D., as director of the Lighting Research Center (LRC), after serving as the center’s acting director over the past year. Figueiro is assuming the directorship after Professor Mark Rea, who has served as LRC director since 1988. Professor Rea will continue as professor of architecture and [...]

NEMA’s Electroindustry Business Confidence Index for current conditions slid by more than 20 points from the near-term high of 76.5 reached in March of this year. As recently as last month, the current conditions index topped 60 but fell 7.2 points to reach July’s value of 53.3. Most of the change came from a larger [...]

Below is my contribution to the July issue of tED Magazine on the topic of change in the lighting industry. Reprinted with permission. At this year’s Strategies in Light conference in Anaheim, California, two notable speakers talked about how LED technology is disrupting the traditional lighting industry. tED caught up with them to ask how [...]

Bipartisan legislation has been introduced in Congress that would make permanent a key energy efficiency tax incentive for owners and designers of energy efficient buildings while expanding its benefits to designers of hospitals, schools, tribal community facilities and other non-profits. H.R. 3507, introduced by Rep. Dave Reichert (R-WA) and co-sponsored by Rep. Tom Reed (R-NY), [...]

IOTA’s ILB-CP10-HE-SD is a UL-Listed self-testing emergency LED driver for field and factory installations. IOTA’s ILB-CP10-HE-SD Emergency LED Driver combines patented Constant Power illumination with automatic self-testing technology for optimal Life-Safety egress performance. The ILB-CP10-HE-SD provides automatic monthly and annual testing of the system battery and load performance to help ensure proper operation. If system [...]

The Illuminating Engineering Society recently published a list of the 2017 Illumination Awards of Merit and International Awards. See the list of Merit Awards here. See the list of International Awards here. In the fall, IES will announce the final winners.

The AIA Consensus Construction Forecast projects annual growth in the 3.5% to 4% range for the remainder of 2017 as well as for 2018, with a slower growing commercial/industrial market, and an institutional sector facing several challenges. While some slowdown in the commercial sector was anticipated for 2017 and 2018, it was expected to be [...]