Craig DiLouie

Selux Corporation’s Kju is a dimmable, efficacious decorative pendant with multiple mounting options and specially designed layer of lenses that promotes uniform distribution across the entire luminaire. Click here to learn more.

Demand for lighting equipment, as measured by NEMA’s Lighting Systems Shipments Index, increased by 1.4% year-over-year (y/y) during 2015Q1. However, the quarter-to-quarter change was in negative territory, with a decline of 3.6%. Emergency lighting and luminaires gained ground on a year-over-year basis while the ballast and lamp–large and miniature–components tempered these gains with (y/y) declines.

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.