Craig DiLouie

The Designers Lighting Forum of New England (DLFNE) recently hosted the 2014 Boston Lights Exposition presented by Platinum Sponsor ESS Lighting. The New England lighting trade show welcomed over 1,100 guests from as far away as Ghana and featured the latest in architectural lighting products and accredited seminars by renowned lighting specialists. With more than [...]

On Thursday, December 4, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Better Buildings Alliance will host a 60-minute live webinar about the Next Generation Luminaires (NGL) Design Competition and what building managers can learn from the extensive process used to select NGL-winning products. In its seventh year, NGL continues to showcase excellence in LED luminaire design and [...]

The IES Annual Conference in Pittsburgh was held November 2-4. Click here to see the sponsors. Here are some highlights courtesy of IES: Keynote speakers: Neil deGrasse Tyson led a lineup of four keynote speakers who framed their talks around the themes of Imagination, Integration, Inspiration and Illumination, the conference themes. Click here to learn [...]

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Chris Bailey, LC, LEED AP BD+C, DDI, MIES, Director, Lighting Solutions Center, Hubbell Lighting, for an article I’m writing for TED Magazine about how solid-state lighting is impacting luminaire design. I’m happy to share it with you here. DiLouie: How would you characterize demand for LED luminaires in [...]

ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING recently published an article by Alice Liao, whom I had the pleasure of working with back when I ran the magazine, that describes the importance of luminaire optics in capturing the true light and energy savings potential of the LED light source. Click here to read, “LEDs: Understanding Optical Performance.”

DOE’s Municipal Solid-State Street Lighting Consortium (MSSLC) has released the results of a voluntary web-based inventory survey of public street and area lighting across the U.S., conducted during the latter half of 2013 and intended to improve understanding of the role of public outdoor lighting in national energy use. Results were based on the responses [...]

Architectural Area Lighting’s (AAL) KicK is an aesthetically distinctive site and area lighting luminaire that angles light upwards yet provides full light cutoff. The pedestrian-scale luminaire is targeted to walkway, path and building entrance applications. The design hides the LEDs when viewed from behind. The optical system delivers 12,880 lumens at 99 lumens/W with 0% [...]

The U.S. Department of Energy has released a report on the longer-term performance of an LED lighting system that was installed on the I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis in September 2008 and represents one of the country’s oldest continuously operated exterior LED lighting installations. The report is a welcome addition to the literature on LED lighting, [...]

NEMA’s shipments index for incandescent A-line lamps dropped sharply during 2014Q2, declining 61.2% as the full effect of EISA 2007 lamp efficiency regulations took hold during the first six months of the year. Substitute lamp types such as LED A-line and halogen A-line fared better, posting increases of 35.8% and 9.9% q/q, respectively. Meanwhile, the [...]