Next Generation Luminaires Design Competition Announces 2012 Outdoor Winners

Winners in the Outdoor category of the fifth annual Next Generation Luminaires Solid-State Lighting Design Competition have been announced. Sponsored by the Department of Energy, the Illuminating Engineering Society and the International Association of Lighting Designers, NGL was launched in 2008 to promote excellence in the design of energy-efficient LED luminaires for general illumination in commercial lighting applications.

Out of 120 outdoor entries from 42 manufacturers, 37 were recognized as winners this year, meaning they met the competition’s stringent requirements and were considered worthy of specification. A panel of eight judges, most of them from the architectural lighting community, evaluated the entries based on such characteristics as lighting quality, appearance, construction, serviceability, efficacy and value.

Four of this year’s winners were designated as Best in Class. They came from four different manufacturers and covered four different areas of outdoor lighting:

The Lighting Quotient for its for its fraqtir Outdoor – Style S170 facade lighting fixture:

Relume Technologies, Inc. for its Oxford decorative acorn streetscape and walkway fixture:

GE Lighting for its Evolve LED Scalable Cobrahead roadway lighting fixture:

And Edge Lighting for its TV and Dial LED decorative wall sconces:

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