Industry News
A Surge In Apartment Conversion Projects
Apartment conversion projects surged across the U.S. in 2024, characterized by both the volume and pace of adaptive reuse—where underperforming properties are redeveloped into multifamily residential units. According to…
Bright Light At Night Is Bad For Your Heart
A large-scale study by Flinders University analyzed over 13 million hours of light exposure data from 88,905 people aged 40 and older, revealing that bright light at night significantly…
UX That Matters: Making Advanced Lighting Features Intuitive
By Allana Wooley, User Experience Lead, Lutron When you think about lighting control, your first instinct may be to picture a physical interface – a wall switch or touchscreen…
Interview: Eric Jerger On Field-Adjustable Luminaires
Craig DiLouie interviewed Eric Jerger, VP/GM of Cooper Lighting Solutions, a Signify business, about field-adjustable luminaires. This interview will inform an article by DiLouie in the January 2026 issue…
Opsins Highlight Design Flaws Of LED Lights
By Dr. Martin Moore-Ede, Publisher, The Light Doctor If you want to know which wavelengths of light are most important for sustaining human health, look at the opsins. These light-sensitive…
Putting A Hex On Micro-LEDs?
Researchers at Xiamen University have demonstrated that adopting a hexagonal mesa structure significantly enhances the performance of indium gallium nitride (InGaN) micro green light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Published in Optics…
Why Lighting Rep Line Cards Keep Expanding?
US Lighting Trends recently published an interesting article about why lighting reps keep increasing the number of manufacturers that they represent on their line cards. The article was written…
Interview: Signify’s Tony Costa On 3-D Printed Luminaires
This is an interview Craig DiLouie did with Tony Costa, Product Marketing Manager, 3D Printing at Signify. It will inform DiLouie’ article for the August 2026 issue of ELECTRICAL…
Interview: Colleen Harper On IES & AES Services Agreement
I had the pleasure of interviewing Collen Harper, the CEO and Executive Director of the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES). SHILLER: IES’s announcement, two weeks ago, that it would provide…
Product Monday: High Temp LED Tape Light By Alloy LED
Alloy LED has introduced ThermaLine™ 3 as an IP67-rated tape light engineered to perform in high-temperature environments that traditional LEDs can’t survive for long. Fully encased in heat-resistant silicone…
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