Craig DiLouie

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Alfred LaSpina, LED Product Group Marketing Manager, LEDVANCE. The topic: what’s new in LED downlights.

In “How to Light a Bridge,” Paul Boken, Mulvey & Banani Lighting discusses the various choices made when lighting a bridge, an ideal canvas for light.

A 2016 study at the London School of Economics and Political Science proposes that the way urban spaces are lighted reinforces inequality by providing visual cues to class segregation. Check out this video to learn more.

Extremely cool live effects! Check out the video here.

Designed by Bjarke Ingels Group, Artemide’s Alphabet of Light is a new family of products that offers a “light font,” linear and round luminaire modules that can be combined to form letters, numbers, symbols, and more complex structures, with wall or suspended mounting. Very cool!

In 2015, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued new energy standards for general-service fluorescent lamps. These standards identify categories of lamps and impose minimum efficacies, expressed in lumens/W. Primarily impacting 4-ft. 32W T8 lamps and some reduced-wattage T8 lamps, the new standards are now set to take effect January 26, 2018.

In “Light and Media in Architecture,” Rune Nielsen, Kollision explores the idea of a language of light, a dialogue between dynamic and interactive lighting systems and users.

Our industry is facing significant changes … LED has transformed lighting, which has typically been a 15-20% category for most distributors. The lighting market is fragmenting rapidly; with the advent of Smart Lighting, IoT and specialty lighting market growth (UV, Horticulture, Agriculture, Biological, etc.). So, where does that leave the legacy alliance model of traditional electrical distributors and manufacturers? The answer is simple… it’s changing, and the key to preserving the legacy relationships is the agreement for both partners to craft a new way forward.

In November 2017, the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) released its new 2015 U.S. Lighting Characterization report. The 135-page report, which follows similar reports issued in 2001 and 2010, estimates the total installed lighting stock in the United States by light source and building sector. Dense with tables and graphs, it provides data useful for business planning while clarifying trends.