Craig DiLouie

The Open University (UK), in honor of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics being awarded to three scientists for developing the blue LED, produced the below infographic, which I’m happy to share with you below. Click to enlarge in a new window on your browser.

With all geographic regions and building project sectors showing positive conditions, there continues to be a heightened level of demand for design services signaled in the latest Architecture Billings Index (ABI). As a leading economic indicator of construction activity, the ABI reflects the approximate nine to twelve month lead time between architecture billings and construction [...]

Introduced in 2009, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) 2030 Commitment Program, a voluntary initiative for architecture firms and other entities in the built environment to commit their practice to advancing the AIA’s goal of carbon neutral buildings by the year 2030, has produced a report assessing their work. “There is some very encouraging data [...]

On November 12, Parsons The New School for Design and Philips will present Luminous Talks 3: The Changing Room, a symposium that addresses thought-provoking topics of importance to professionals who work in design disciplines including architecture and design, scientists and scholars who are making advances in the field, and the members of the public who [...]

USAI Lighting’s Color Select is a proprietary LED technology that offers a wide range of tunable white light for the architectural lighting market, with independent control of color temperature and intensity. Available in USAI’s BeveLED 2.0 luminaires, it can be adjusted from a candlelight-like 2200K to a 6000K that’s comparable to bright daylight, and from [...]

VCC, a provider of indication and specialty illumination solutions, offers advanced design services that include LED light modeling and human vision simulation that predicts light behavior and provides a complete analysis of all photometric and colorimetric characteristics of any product design. By combining cross section, contrast, iso-curves, spectral and chromaticity coordinates for analysis, VCC can [...]

The international jury for the Zumtobel Group Award 2014 has selected projects from Arup of Germany, Studio Tamassociati of Italy and Elemental of Chile as the winners in their respective categories. To promote innovations for sustainability and humanity in the built environment, the Austrian lighting group had invited submissions for the award in three categories: [...]

The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) recently announced the publication of Recommended Practice for Roadway Lighting, RP-8-14, an American National Standards Institute (ANSI) approved standard. The IES, as an accredited ANSI standards developer, revised RP-8-14 in accordance with ANSI consensus-based procedures. The primary purpose of this Recommended Practice is to serve as the basis for design [...]

The 2014 edition of LEDs and the Worldwide Market for Lighting Fixtures is now available has been published by CSIL, including historical data up to 2013 and 2014-2018 forecasts. In less than 10 years, LED share on the lighting fixtures market worldwide jumped from 1% to 25%. In just five years, LED share will be [...]