Craig DiLouie

The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has launched a new collaborative initiative, the Lighting Energy Alliance, to increase the benefits of lighting while reducing its environmental and monetary costs. Member utilities and efficiency agencies will direct the work of the Alliance in order to produce the information needed to effectively reduce lighting [...]

Focal Point’s ID LED High Ceiling is a new member of the company’s LED downlight family designed especially for high ceiling applications. A choice of 6” or 8” apertures, multiple beamspreads from 30°-65°, a range of outputs up to 7,500 delivered lumens, and a selection of dimming drivers provide a range of options and capabilities. [...]

Here’s an article I wrote about LED replacement lamps for the April issue of The Electrical Distributor (TED) Magazine, which you might find interesting: Demand for LED replacement lamps continues to experience rapid growth as performance improves and costs decline. According to Navigant Research, worldwide shipments of LED lamps will grow from 68 million in [...]

Following a modest two-month recovery in the level of demand for design services, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) again turned negative last month. As a leading economic indicator of construction activity, the ABI reflects the approximate nine to twelve month lead time between architecture billings and construction spending. The American Institute of Architects (AIA) reported [...]

Autodesk has published a whitepaper on 3D printing of LED optics. The whitepaper describes the role Autodesk played in a project for manufacturer LUXeXcel that demonstrates the direction in which the market for optics development may be moving. Click here to read it.

Republication of Postings from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solid-State Lighting Program by Jim Brodrick, U.S. Department of Energy Although solid-state lighting has come a long way in the past few years, it still has quite a ways to go to fulfill its considerable potential to save energy and improve the way we deliver [...]

Philips Lighting’s Hue Entity and Tempest table and pendant luminaires, co-created with design teams WertelOberfell and Strand+Hvass, feature color-changing Hue lamps and are manufactured using 3D printing, which provides more freedom, control and even personalization when designing lighting products. Click here to learn more.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s CALiPER program has released an Application Summary Report that focuses on the bare-lamp performance of 31 linear LED lamps intended as an alternative to T8 fluorescent lamps. The testing covered light output, input watts, efficacy, color, power factor and beam angle. Products listed as satisfying DesignLights Consortium criteria and those [...]

Visa Lighting’s Serenity line of luminaires was designed specifically for healthcare environments, including patient rooms, treatment rooms and long-term care. Serenity over bed fixtures are extremely versatile and come equipped with separately switched reading, ambient and exam lighting settings. The luminaires distribute the multi-function performance lighting around a luminous frame, while their illuminated center panel [...]