Craig DiLouie

David Shiller, President of Lighting Solution Development, LLC, recently blogged his top 11 takeaways from the 2016 Strategies in Light Conference. Socket saturation, OLEVs, price erosion, mini luminaires, R9 and more interesting observations here.

Below is my lighting column published in the June issue of tED Magazine. Reprinted with permission. The large majority of commercial building luminaires feature some type of optical system that controls the light emission. The type of optics employed ultimately determines where light is directed, how much light reaches that point, and with how much [...]

After beginning the year with a decline, the Architecture Billings Index has posted three consecutive months of increasing demand for design activity at architecture firms. 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 Architects (AIA) [...]

GE shows us how it’s done. This video shows off the company’s R&D capabilities. Scientists generated 2 million volts of electricity using a Marx generator. Super capacitors, capable of emitting and absorbing large surges of energy, captured that “lightning” in a bottle. The scientists use the bottle to power an electric car and drive off.

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Jason Brown, Manager, Strategic Solutions for Current, powered by GE. The topic: lighting and the Industrial Internet of Things. I’m happy to share his responses with you here. The interview informed an article I wrote for the June issue of ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR. DiLouie: How do you see lighting [...]

Based on the Source Four Mini LED platform, ETC’s Irideon FPZ combines the optics and features of Source Four into an industrial design while bringing new capabilities to the table. Zoom optics, lockable three-plane shutters, and the ability to dim using either DMX or a local dimming knob located on the DataTrack adapter demonstrate just [...]

Between 2003 and 2008, lighting design firm Speirs + Major produced a traveling exhibition, lecture series and book, “Made of Light – The Art of Light and Architecture.” In November 2015, the tenth anniversary of the publication of MADE OF LIGHT, Speirs + Major collaborated with filmmaker James Newton to create 12 short, abstract videos [...]

This article about tunable-white lighting was originally published in tED Magazine. Reprinted with permission. The color appearance of light sources—whether warm or neutral or cool—can have a big impact on how people and spaces are perceived. In applications like hospitality and high-end retail, the color temperature of a light source is a critical design decision. [...]

NEMA’s linear fluorescent lamp shipments indexes continued their year-over-year decline in 2015Q4. After declining for seven consecutive quarters, the index for T12 lamps posted a 4.2% quarter-over-quarter increase, but declined 17.4% from fourth quarter 2014. T8 and T5 shipments also continued to decline, decreasing by 13.4% and 9.3%, respectively, on a year-over-year basis. T8 lamps [...]