Craig DiLouie

Besides covering the lighting industry, I also write fiction. My books have been published by big houses such as Simon & Schuster as well as small presses. You can check out my stuff at CraigDiLouie.com. I wanted to tell you about one of my series that’s a lot of fun to write and, I hope, [...]

SeventhWave is hosting a seminar in Michigan on September 8 on LED lighting technologies. It will be presented by Randall Johnson, LC, President of US Lamp. LED lighting technologies: evaluating performance and financial considerations (on-location course) September 8 │ 8:30 am–4 pm │ Marquette, MI │ $199 LEDs are rapidly changing the landscape for commercial [...]

Columbia Lighting’s (division of Hubbell) CWW is a contemporary wall wash LED luminaire designed for retail and commercial applications. Promising a “commercial-grade product that provides architectural-grade performance,” the CWW offers a slender profile, 3-in. aperture design, and ability to achieve uniformity of 5:1 on vertical surfaces from ceiling to floor. Multiple optical distributions and driver [...]

JB MacKinnon’s article in THE NEW YORKER, “The LED Quandary: Why There’s No Such Thing as Built to Last,” available here, makes an argument for lighting product durability. (Cory Doctorow makes the case in short here.) As an example, he points to the “Light Bulb Conspiracy” of the early Twentieth Century, in which it’s alleged [...]

After a strong 2015, there is a growing sense that the construction industry expansion will be more tempered over the next 18 months. However, continued strong demand for hotels, office space, and amusement and recreation spaces will ensure continued growth in the overall construction spending market over this time period. The American Institute of Architects’ [...]

NEMA’s Lighting Systems Shipments Index, a measure of demand for lighting equipment, decreased 0.8% quarter-to-quarter while posting a 0.6% increase year-over-year during 2016Q1. Fixtures and emergency lighting gained ground on a year-over-year basis, while ballasts, miniature lamps and large lamps recorded year-over-year declines.

Mark Rea, Director of the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has taken an academic sabbatical for the upcoming fiscal year. During this time, Dr. Rea will focus on developing two new LRC initiatives: the Glenn W. Bailey Memorial Fellowship, which supports activities that integrate the business of lighting into the education of [...]

OSRAM Licht AG recently announced it has approved the sale of Ledvance (formerly OSRAM SYLVANIA), its general lighting lamps business. The buyer is a Chinese consortium consisting of the strategic investor IDG Capital Partners (IDG), the Chinese lighting company MLS Co., Ltd. (MLS) and the financial investor Yiwu State-Owned Assets Operation Center (Yiwu). The purchase [...]

Acclaim Lighting’s AL Cove Eco offers a low-power, economical, dimmable LED cove light for tight spaces. The luminaire emits about 400 lumens per foot with an 80+ CRI. Available in multiple correlated color temperatures in 1- and 4-foot sections, the AL Cove Eco allows for long linear runs of up to 100 feet at 120V [...]