Craig DiLouie

Guest post by Ted Konnerth, Egret Consulting I was invited to join a panel at the new IoT Emerge conference in Chicago. As a lifelong industry guy who has grown up selling and marketing tangible products, it was an interesting and stimulating environment to be surrounded by tech guys who see the world through software [...]

Acclaim Lighting’s AL Driver 400 is a multi-protocol 400W driver to optimize the usage of low-voltage LED products. Control interface protocols include DMX, RDM, 0-10V and DALI, in addition to six-pin terminals for PWM outputs. With an input voltage between 100V and 277V VAC and an output of 12V and 24 V DC, the unit [...]

Below is my contribution to the December issue of tED Magazine, the official publication of the NAED. Reprinted with permission. The lighting industry is undergoing a dramatic transformation driven by adoption of LED lighting and lighting controls. This demand in turn is feeding emerging trends including connectivity, spectral tuning, circadian lighting and the Industrial Internet [...]

After seeing consecutive months of contracting demand for the first time in four years, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) saw a modest increase demand for design services. As a leading economic indicator of construction activity, the ABI reflects the approximate 9- to 12-month lead time between architecture billings and construction spending. The American Institute of [...]

Created by the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the Commercial Buildings Tax Deduction (Section 179D of the tax code) provides an accelerated tax deduction of up to $1.80/sq.ft. as an incentive to install energy-efficient building systems, including interior lighting. The tax deduction expired and renewed several times over the years, most recently with the passage [...]

Taking the kids on our annual lighting pilgrimage to Zoo Lights at the Calgary Zoo tonight. Hope you’re finding your holiday season filled with light. Here’s a video a Calgary resident made of her trip to Zoo Lights this year:

Selux’s Purelight LED is a stylish interior luminaire that provides 360 degrees of diffused direct and indirect light using an interior perforated reflector and secondary diffuser. A choice of square or round tubular shape provides smooth lines of light. End caps and joiners in polished aluminum, white or custom colors. Wall mounted as a sconce, [...]

Submissions are being accepted now through January 17, 2017 for the IESNYC’s 49th annual Lumen Awards. The Lumen Awards recognize and celebrate excellence in lighting design. The Lumen Awards are open to any interior or exterior architectural lighting design project completed within two years’ time of the submission deadline. To be eligible, a project must [...]

The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has recently released a free open-access circadian stimulus (CS) calculator to help lighting professionals select light sources and light levels that will increase the potential for circadian-effective light exposure in architectural spaces, utilizing the CS metric. Developed by LRC researchers, the CS metric is a new [...]