Craig DiLouie

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 [...]

2014 Nobel Prize in Physics winner Professor Amano Hiroshi, recently stated LED lamps will be a mainstream consumer light source by 2016, but challenges remain. Primarily, he points out, costs must come down further, starting with production costs, which should come down five times by 2020. For this to occur, demand must increase globally and [...]

The North Carolina Clean Energy Technology Center has relaunched the Database of State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency (DSIRE). Funded by the Department of Energy, DSIRE offers a comprehensive source of information related to policies and incentives that support the nation’s use of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies. The new and improved website offers [...]

Cooledge Lighting has expanded its “light sheet” portfolio with SQUARE, a 1×1 lighting product that requires no heat-sink and can be snapped together to create a larger luminous plane capable of being trimmed to size, even while powered. The light source can be affixed to almost any surface (and is flexible, allowing wrapping around columns [...]