May 2020

The American National Standard for Roadway and Area Lighting Equipment—Enclosed Setback Luminaires and Directional Floodlights for High-Intensity Discharge (HID) Lamps has been updated.

For an article I produced about germicidal ultraviolet (GUV) for the June issues of ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR, I had the pleasure of engaging the Illuminating Engineering Society’s Mark Lien in a short interview about GUV. The IES recently produced a guide to GUV.

ALVA Lighting’s Eva, Priscilla, Lidea, and Slim shades are completely sealed and constructed from a proprietary vandal-resistant resin that can be wiped or sprayed down daily with disinfectants or diluted bleach. All shades are ADA compliant, making them suitable for both hallways and interior rooms.

ARCHITECT and ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING reviewed 198 submissions in its annual product recognition program and selected 28 luminaires and technologies that exemplify design excellence.

The DesignLights Consortium has responded to the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic by adjusting portions of its Technical Requirements v5.0, effective immediately.

Messe Frankfurt has canceled Light + Building 2020 after previously postponing it. The next Light + Building event will occur as normally scheduled March 13-18, 2022 in Frankfurt am Main.

In this article published in a recent issue of LD+A, Northwestern Energy’s Steven Schmitt describes lessons learned from a four-year project to convert more than 40,000 street and area luminaires from HID to LED.

The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) recently released the results of a U.S. Department of Energy-funded study, Measuring Light Exposure and its Effects on Sleep and Behavior in Care Center Residents.

Columbia Lighting has introduced three new flat panel solutions for the commercial indoor marketplace. These products provide customers with a full range of product options when a flat lens panel is needed, multiple price levels depending on product features and options of product availability with Stock, QS and MTO lead-times.