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The Energy Center of Wisconsin has announced a webinar on LED lighting to be held Wednesday, September 15, 2010, at 3-4 PM EST (2-3PM Central).

Instructor Avraham Mendall Mor, IALD, LEED AP, IESNA of Lightswitch Architectural will focus on cost of light criteria including energy costs, power consumption, labor costs, lamp costs, lifetime expectancy and light output. Viewers will be given guidance on questions to ask to ensure they’re selecting a quality product, how to evaluate the suitability of an SSL for a given application and how to decipher warranty claims. The agenda includes:

I. Introduction to LED
II. Lumen information
III. DOE information
IV. Choosing a quality LED
V. LED requirements
VI. New lighting products

The Energy Center of Wisconsin is an Authorized Provider for the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) and is committed to developing quality learning activities. You will receive 0.1 CEUs for viewing this webcast. Members of AIA will receive 1 HSW/SD/LU (Learning Unit). This course has been approved at the 200 level by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) and will award 1 Continuing Education Unit as part of the GBCI Credentialing Maintenance program. This course has been registered for 1 LEU (Lighting Education Unit) with the National Council on Qualifications for the Lighting Professions (NCQLP). To receive credit, you must complete a 10 question quiz with a minimum score of 80%. Separate registration is required for each individual requiring continuing education credit.

This cost for this webinar is $89.

You must register in advance to view this webinar and can do so here.

Fail-Safe’s SGI Series of 2×2 and 2×4 general luminaires satisfies the demands of healthcare facilities design by providing a completely sealed luminaire with an architectural styling. Designed to meet IP standards, the shallow, enclosed housing and sealed door protect against infiltration by airborne bacteria.

Check it out here.

Pegasus Associates Lighting has announced a Commitment to Education & Safety program that offers LED exit signs to education institutions at a heavily discounted price. The aim is to support schools strapped for funds and to encourage the integration of LED lights into buildings in order to cut energy and maintenance costs.

A recent survey from the American Association of School Administrators found that budget cuts will be much more significant for 2010-2011 than in the past. According to the survey, the majority of K-12 school leaders are planning to delay technology updates next year. Half of school leaders will also eliminate or delay instructional improvement programs. Class sizes will continue to escalate as well: 62 percent of school leaders plan to increase class sizes for 2010-2011. With the budget cuts affecting so many essential resources, schools are finding it difficult to reserve funds for safety updates and maintenance.

Pegasus Lighting’s Commitment to Education & Safety program will offer a free LED exit sign for every three signs purchased by a school, college or university. Both public and private institutions anywhere in the country are eligible for the program.

To receive the discount, education institutions must call Pegasus Lighting’s toll free number at (800) 392-4818 to place an order.

e:cue Lighting Control, an OSRAM company, has introduced Light Drive Elite, its first standalone DMX controller and user interface for dynamic RGB LED lighting, which does not require software programming. Users can control intensity, color and speed as well as set up their favorite color-changing effects through Light-Drive Elite’s glass interface with touch-sensitive keys and touch wheel.

Check it out here.

Controls Friday is sponsored by

In this presentation, Jean-Louis Scartezzini and Mirjam Münch, from the Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory at EPFL, present their experiences with daylighting research and technology. Their work illustrates possible integration steps toward optimized “Day and Night” lighting environments with respect to energy consumption and human health.

Marilyne Andersen, associate professor in the Building Technology Program of MIT’s Department of Architecture and head of the Daylighting Lab, also joins the discussion with an overview of her efforts to better integrate energy-efficiency and human-responsiveness to daylighting into architecture and design.

Get it here.

Here’s an interesting design for a solar lamp that collapses down for easy travel. Craziest Gadgets has a description here.

Green Technology has announced a series of educational seminars to educate the public about CALGreen, California’s new green building code, which becomes mandatory for all new residential and commercial construction in January 2011.

Click here for registration details and upcoming dates.

Columbia Lighting and Alera Lighting have introduced a new blog. Check it out here.

Several interesting energy code and related courses being offered online this fall by ASHRAE through the ASHRAE Learning Institute (ALI). Course participants earn three professional development hours, 0.3 CEUs, or three AIA learning units for each seminar completed. Courses are instructor-led, drawing upon professional knowledge of leading practitioners.

The courses are:

Understanding Standard 189.1 for High-Performance Green Buildings, Sept. 22 D

Determining Energy Savings from Energy-Efficient Projects: Applying IPMVP and Guideline 14 to performance Contracting and LEED, Sept. 27 Energy Management in New and Existing Buildings, Sept. 29

Complying with Standard 90.1-2010: Envelope/Lighting (New), Oct. 20

The Commissioning Process and Guideline 0, The Commissioning Process (co-sponsored with Building Commissioning Authority, Illuminating Engineering Society of North America and National Environmental Balancing Bureau), Oct. 27

The cost of each course is $224 ($164, ASHRAE members). Site licenses are available to organizations that will be having five or more seminar participants.

Click here to learn more and register.

EYE Lighting International has appointed Robert Freitag vice president of marketing, where he will be responsible for product management, pricing, distribution and market communications. He joins EYE from Philips Day-Brite, where he most recently served as product manager for Philips Capri. Prior to that, he also held several marketing positions with Cooper Lighting, including manager for HID and fiber optic product lines.