Craig DiLouie

Lighting Services Inc (LSI), a manufacturer of specification-grade track lighting systems, has announced a 12-year limited warranty on its products. Within 12 years of date of purchase, Lighting Services Inc will repair or replace any luminaire, track or busway product with same or equivalent product if it breaks or ceases to function properly due to [...]

From auditing to installation to financing, Cree now offers a comprehensive package of lighting upgrade services as a delivery mechanism for their LED products into the existing buildings market. Click here to learn more. It’s an interesting move, a step toward manufacturers selling Light as a Service.

Leviton recently announced the acquisition of Intense Lighting, LLC, a manufacturer of LED luminaires. Intense Lighting, based in Anaheim, Calif., enhances Leviton’s current product offerings with a wide variety of specification-grade LED lighting solutions for the commercial, hospitality, supermarket, retail and residential markets. Intense Lighting will operate as a new, standalone business unit and maintain [...]

In what is a very innovative year in the lighting industry, I’d like to show you another interesting new product, this one from Kim Lighting. Kim’s ArcheType X series, available in a flood, wall or site/area luminaires, offers independently adjustable LED emitters, providing limitless lighting distributions and possibilities from one product family. This allows the [...]

The SOURCE Awards competition is an annual lighting competition, open to all design professionals, that recognizes excellence in designs that use Eaton’s luminaires in an interior or exterior project. A coincident student competition recognizes excellence in conceptual designs using the company’s products. Projects are judged on aesthetics, creative achievement, technical performance and the degree to [...]

The U.S. Department of Commerce recently released its estimate of construction spending for April 2015. The annual rate of construction spending is projected to top $1 trillion for the year, the highest level of spending since the 2008 financial crisis and resulting economic downturn. Construction spending increased 2.2% in April. Private nonresidential construction increased 3.1% [...]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced the release of the final ENERGY STAR Luminaires V2.0 specification, which will replace V1.2 on June 1, 2016. Click here to learn more and download the specification.

Lumec.com recently published an interview with lighting designer Galina Zbrizher of Total Lighting Solutions in Vancouver. Galina had a number of interesting observations about lighting, one of the most salient being the amount of consideration LEDs require to produce an effective design. She says: “I find that more attention is needed when designing with LED [...]

Cree’s WaveMax Technology is a waveguide optics platform that promises precise optical control, uniformity and up to 90% optical efficiency. With WaveMax, high-CRI and warm-white LED solutions can be achieved without sacrificing efficacy. The first interior LED luminaire to feature WaveMax Technology is Cree’s LN Series suspended indirect/direct ambient luminaire. Featuring a modular design to [...]