Craig DiLouie

The Lunder Conservation Center held a one-day symposium on LED lighting in museums in March 2013, which included a series of presentations by museum and lighting specialists. Here’s Naomi Miller of PNNL.

The Lunder Conservation Center held a one-day symposium on LED lighting in museums in March 2013, which included a series of presentations by museum and lighting specialists. Here’s Scott Rosenfeld, lighting designer with the American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery.

USAI Lighting’s BeveLED 2.0 FLAT downlight measures less than 4″ tall from the finished ceiling plane to the top of the housing and presents a 2-3/4″ housing height in the trim version and a 3-3/8” tall housing height in the trimless, providing design flexibility. The downlight emits up to 2,350 lumens at up to 84 [...]

A first-quarter survey by the Business Roundtable indicates CEOs expect U.S. GDP to increase 2.8% in 2015, up from 2.4% last quarter. Reuters has the story here.

Republication of Postings from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solid-State Lighting Program by Jim Brodrick, SSL Program Manager, U.S. Department of Energy High-flux lighting applications in high-temperature environments present a formidable challenge for LEDs. The higher the luminous flux from a luminaire, the more difficult it can be to properly dissipate the heat, to [...]

I wrote this article for the March issue of tED Magazine. Reprinted with permission. The year 2014 represented a major milestone in adoption of LED technology in terms of demand and product design. With energy savings as high as 30-40 percent (not including additional control impacts), long rated life (with the promise of little or [...]

I wrote this article for the April 2015 issue of tED Magazine. Reprinted with permission. From walls to paper to plastics to clothing, white abounds in the built environment. Lighting research, however, has focused on the rendering of colors. The color rendering index (CRI), in fact, is based on the rendering of colors by a [...]

An estimated 50-70 million Americans suffer from chronic sleep issues, according to the National Institute of Health. In honor of National Sleep Awareness Week, GE Lighting has developed a light bulb to help promote the body’s natural sleep cycle; GE Align lighting is available on Amazon.com. GE Align LED lighting technology is engineered to help [...]

Total construction put in place (CPIP) for 2015 is predicted to grow 8%, according to FMI’s recently released Q1-2015 Construction Outlook. This supports that earlier FMI predictions that CPIP will top $1 trillion in 2015, which the market has not seen since 2008 and indicates that the economy is on track for a resilient recovery. [...]