Craig DiLouie

Peerless Lighting’s Open LED Luminaire was recognized at the 2014 LIGHTFAIR International Innovation Awards competition for the Most Innovative Product of the Year award. Open luminaires from Peerless use constructive occlusion to reflect and diffuse LED light across an inner arch and back down to produce soft, comfortable illumination from a lens-free linear form. Open [...]

PIXI Lighting recently announced it will begin selling its products through Grainger. Effective June 1, 2014, Grainger will be the only supplier to offer PIXI products, including FlatLight Luminaires, the company’s ultra-thin, edge-lit LED, commercial-grade flat light. In addition, Grainger will offer its customers the following lighting products from PIXI: · 1’x1’, 2’x2’ and 1’x2’ [...]

The 2013 GE Edison Award was presented to Robert Shook, Maureen Mahr, Jennifer Curtis and Kimberley Corbett-Oates of Schuler Shook (Chicago, Illinois, USA) for lighting City Performance Hall in Dallas, Texas, USA. A personalized Steuben crystal award for the winner of this 31st annual lighting design competition was presented by GE Lighting on June 2, [...]

Acuity Brands, Inc. is demonstrating lighting technology that empowers retailers to enhance customers’ experiences through their mobile devices and increase in-store sales. With more than 60% of mobile shoppers using smartphones while in-store, and 85% of consumers using retailers’ native apps or websites during shopping trips (The Dawn of Mobile Influence Study, Deloitte Consulting LLP, [...]

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.