Craig DiLouie

After its first negative score in ten months, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) showed a nominal increase in design activity in February, and has been positive 10 out of the past 12 months. As a leading economic indicator of construction activity, the ABI reflects the approximate 9- to 12-month lead time between architecture billings and [...]

Traxon Technologies has introduced MediaGlas through a partnership with Galaxy Glass & Stone. MediaGlas is a highly customizable line of monolithic and laminated architectural glass products designed specifically for use with Traxon and e:cue LED lighting and controls. It’s well suited to a wide variety of aesthetic and functional backlighted LED applications, such as medium-resolution [...]

The Illuminating Engineering Society New York City Section’s (IESNYC) Student Lighting Competition (SLC) recognized several remarkable winners in its 15th annual competition. “denCITY,” a design collaboration by Nura Venta, Sergio Taveras and Selin Ergeneli (Parsons The New School for Design) won the Grand Prize and cash prize of $2,000. Second prize was awarded to Pratt [...]

The Nonresidential Construction Index (NCRI) from FMI rose two points in Q1 to a score of 64.8. This normally is a positive economic sign. However, construction companies are facing the challenge of having enough people to keep up with increasing backlogs, warns Phil Warner, researcher for FMI. The engineering and construction executives that comprise the [...]

2015 has brought a significant drop in rebates for LED replacement lamps such as PARs, MRs, A-lamps and decorative lamps, according to Briteswitch. While the average rebate for replacement LED lamps was $11.12 in 2014, this year it dropped to $7.51, a 32% decline. This change comes as rebate programs try to adjust their offerings [...]

Lots of great products to peruse in the 2014 IES Progress Report. Check out the products selected here.

Lighting Services Inc’s SSLGR16 Series is a line-voltage luminaire designed specifically for 5W and 7.5W SORAA MR16 LED lamps with 35,000-hour life and a GU10 base. Choice of beam spreads including 10, 25, 36 and 60 degrees. It can fit up to two SORAA Snap accessories or a full range of LSI accessories. The luminaire [...]

Guest post by Ted Konnerth, EGRET Consulting Group Strategies in Light held their first joint conference with the LEDShow during the last week of February. Attendance was solid and the technical conferences featured four different tracks of presentations covering arcane technical issues to overall market influences on the adoption of LED. On Tuesday, they held [...]

Researchers at the Universities of Basel and Valencia recently reported that they have succeeded in laying the ground work for a novel solid-state light source based on light-emitting electrochemical cells (LECs). The group, led by Basel professors Catherine E. Housecroft and Edwin C. Constable, see LECs as potentially advantageous compared to LED because they are [...]