Craig DiLouie

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Scott Roos, Vice President Product Design, Juno Lighting Group (Acuity Brands). The topic: lighting and health. I’m happy to share his responses with you here. The interview informed an article I wrote for the August 2016 issue of tED. DiLouie: What do we currently know with a fair [...]

Nearly three quarters of U.S. architects say the health impacts of buildings are influencing their design decisions. That finding parallels a strong market demand by building owners, with a solid two-thirds surveyed also reporting that health considerations affect how they design and construct buildings. These findings and others were recently released in a new report, [...]

Lighting Services Inc’s LumeLEX 2048 Series is an elegant fixed pendant downlight designed with Dim to Warm and Xicato XTM LED technology up to 23W. Developed specifically for hospitality and transitional space lighting, the LumeLEX 2048 with Dim to Warm differentiates itself by providing up to 1,300 delivered lumens with a system efficiency of 59 [...]

Below is my lighting column published in the October issue of tED Magazine. Reprinted with permission. Strategies Unlimited has forecasted that by 2022, LED luminaires will achieve a 60 percent share of global luminaire shipments. In the U.S., three major manufacturers of indoor LED luminaires say LED already constitutes a majority of their indoor luminaire [...]

Republication of Postings from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solid-State Lighting Program by Jim Brodrick, SSL Program Manager, U.S. Department of Energy Among the many possibilities enabled by the advent of SSL is the use of light to trigger or suppress certain physiological responses of living things — from humans, to animals, to plants. [...]

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Chris Bailey LC, LEED AP BD+C, DDI, MIES, Director, Business Development and Product Innovation, Hubbell Lighting, Inc. The topic: trends in LED optics. I’m happy to share his responses with you here. The interview informed an article I wrote for the June 2016 issue of tED. DiLouie: What [...]

LED A-line lamp shipments posted a 21.2% quarter-over-quarter decrease in the second quarter of 2016 compared to last quarter, but enjoyed year-over-year growth of 40.6%. Meanwhile, halogen A-line lamps shipments show virtually no year-over-year growth at 0.2%, but after a decrease in the first quarter, saw a 14.5% increase in Q216. Compact fluorescents lamp (CFL) [...]

Cree’s new portfolio of LED lamps includes 25 new products, designed to offer better light quality, dimming, life (most up to 22+ years), warranty and pricing. Color rendition is improved, with smoother, quieter dimming to levels as low as 1 percent. The new lamps meet or surpass the requirements for ENERGY STAR product certification and [...]

New technology and change can sometimes be baffling. The Northwest Lighting Network’s Andy Gerde offers four simple questions that can be used to evaluate anything that’s new: Is it right for the job? As always, compare any lighting solution against the needs of the customer. Can it deliver the lighting performance required? It may be [...]