Craig DiLouie

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 [...]

Product cycles in the lighting industry have shortened to as short as 1-2 years for LED products, which is of course problematic for specification into projects that can take years to develop. In this ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING article, manufacturers provide tips to specifiers on how to navigate the issue. It’s a very interesting topic. Click here [...]

I wrote this article for the March issue of tED Magazine. Reprinted with permission. The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) 2010 Lighting Market Characterization estimated some 180 million lamps were in service in outdoor stationary lighting installations. More than half of these were HID lamps, predominantly high-pressure sodium and metal halide. Some 19 million LED [...]

Interesting article in ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR about growth in development and adoption of OLED lighting, which holds a lot of promise for certain applications. Click here to read it.

The Department of Energy continues to be a strong supporter of LED market development. As with previous LIGHTFAIR events, this year, DOE held a series of informative seminars in their booth. Topics included intelligent lighting, color tuning, new color metrics and more. Download all of the presentations here.

The QUANTUM LP by Minimis is a tiny architectural LED unit that installs recessed into hollow materials and panels up to 1-in. in thickness as well as thicker materials such as concrete and stone. The luminaire measures 0.75 in. x 0.75 in. The light embeds into the the fabric of the space while providing decorative [...]

Submissions are being accepted for light installations at the 2nd Annual New York Festival of Light now through June 15, 2015. Artists, architects, technologists, educational and cultural institutions based in the United States and worldwide who work in the medium of light are invited to submit proposals for installations to be exhibited at NYFoL 2015. [...]