Craig DiLouie

There has been increasing levels of demand for design services for nearly all construction project types for the majority of the year as revealed in the Architecture Billings Index (ABI). 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 [...]

Eaton has announced that it’s now accepting entries for the 39th Annual SOURCE Awards national lighting design competition. Professional and student entries can be submitted at The Lighting reSOURCE, Eaton’s new online informational hub. The competition deadline is January 20, 2016. The SOURCE Awards competition is open to all lighting designers, architects, engineers, professional designers [...]

Eaton recently announced that it has acquired Ephesus Lighting, a Syracuse, NY-based manufacturer of connected LED lighting solutions for sporting venues and high-lumen outdoor and industrial applications. “The Ephesus product portfolio is entirely complementary to Eaton’s connected lighting business and will add immediate category depth,” said Kraig Kasler, president, Eaton’s Lighting Division. “Ephesus shares Eaton’s [...]

The M130 LED by Selux is a luminaire suited to the specifier looking for more illumination combined with the same flexibility available from the company’s M-Series. Now with the M130 LED, specifiers can design using the Selux M-Series LED throughout their project. Choose M100 LED and M60 LED for various office spaces, use M130 LED [...]

You have a client opening a wine bar and restaurant in a major west coast city, and they want you to design a signature pendant to mount over the bar plus a complementary surface-mounted luminaire for the lounge area. What do you do? That was the challenge to students for the 2015 Robert Bruce Thompson [...]

In this short Philips Lighting video, Mark Roush explains the basics of lighting optics.

The U.S. Department of Energy has released a GATEWAY report on the experiences of the City of Portland, OR, in converting its street lighting from high-pressure sodium to LED. Such large-scale conversions are rarely simple matters, and the Portland Bureau of Transportation was an early investigator of LED street lighting and one of the first [...]

The Zhaga Consortium, an organization aiming to standardize LED light engines and associated components, has published Book 11 for small LED spotlight modules. Book 11 is a specification that describes circular LED modules with a diameter of 35 mm that are suitable for spotlighting and related applications. A Book 11 module requires a separate LED [...]

With a long and thin shape, Osram Opto Semiconductors’ Soleriq L 38 provides the basis for filament-style lamps and match incandescent lamps in terms of appearance and emission characteristics. Soleriq LEDs deliver a uniform appearance in terms of color and can serve as a high-quality light source that is ideal for aesthetic lighting applications in [...]