June 2015

In what is a very innovative year in the lighting industry, I’d like to show you another interesting new product, this one from Kim Lighting. Kim’s ArcheType X series, available in a flood, wall or site/area luminaires, offers independently adjustable LED emitters, providing limitless lighting distributions and possibilities from one product family. This allows the [...]

The SOURCE Awards competition is an annual lighting competition, open to all design professionals, that recognizes excellence in designs that use Eaton’s luminaires in an interior or exterior project. A coincident student competition recognizes excellence in conceptual designs using the company’s products. Projects are judged on aesthetics, creative achievement, technical performance and the degree to [...]

The U.S. Department of Commerce recently released its estimate of construction spending for April 2015. The annual rate of construction spending is projected to top $1 trillion for the year, the highest level of spending since the 2008 financial crisis and resulting economic downturn. Construction spending increased 2.2% in April. Private nonresidential construction increased 3.1% [...]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced the release of the final ENERGY STAR Luminaires V2.0 specification, which will replace V1.2 on June 1, 2016. Click here to learn more and download the specification.

Lumec.com recently published an interview with lighting designer Galina Zbrizher of Total Lighting Solutions in Vancouver. Galina had a number of interesting observations about lighting, one of the most salient being the amount of consideration LEDs require to produce an effective design. She says: “I find that more attention is needed when designing with LED [...]

Cree’s WaveMax Technology is a waveguide optics platform that promises precise optical control, uniformity and up to 90% optical efficiency. With WaveMax, high-CRI and warm-white LED solutions can be achieved without sacrificing efficacy. The first interior LED luminaire to feature WaveMax Technology is Cree’s LN Series suspended indirect/direct ambient luminaire. Featuring a modular design to [...]

Product cycles in the lighting industry have shortened to as short as 1-2 years for LED products, which is of course problematic for specification into projects that can take years to develop. In this ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING article, manufacturers provide tips to specifiers on how to navigate the issue. It’s a very interesting topic. Click here [...]

I wrote this article for the March issue of tED Magazine. Reprinted with permission. The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) 2010 Lighting Market Characterization estimated some 180 million lamps were in service in outdoor stationary lighting installations. More than half of these were HID lamps, predominantly high-pressure sodium and metal halide. Some 19 million LED [...]

Interesting article in ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR about growth in development and adoption of OLED lighting, which holds a lot of promise for certain applications. Click here to read it.