Craig DiLouie

The 11th annual Department of Energy Solid-State Lighting R&D Workshop, held January 28–30 in Tampa, Florida, educated its 200 attendees with topics including creating added value with intelligent lighting and using spectral control to shape the lighting experience. Click here to download the presentations.

Hubbell Lighting recently announced the release of the 2014 lighting education course schedule at its Lighting Solutions Center (LSC). The LSC courses are available to architecture, illuminating engineering, lighting design, electrical contracting and distribution professionals. The comprehensive lighting courses are instructed by experts who provide lighting specifiers with hands-on experience and real world solutions to [...]

In late 2012, the California Energy Commission (CEC) published a voluntary specification recognizing quality LED lamps intended to replace screwbase incandescent lamps in luminaires. Called the Quality LED Lamp Specification (QLS), it covers a range of omnidirectional and directional (spot and flood) lamps.
 California utilities are now required to promote lamps that satisfy the spec [...]

NEMA’s Electroindustry Business Conditions Index (EBCI) for current conditions in North America rebounded in February, rising to the 50 point mark typically associated with a stable business environment. The gain came on the heels of a sharp drop in the wintery month of January. Confidence in future business conditions strengthened in February for the fifth [...]

Cooper’s Metalux Encounter LED ambient luminaires feature WaveStream technology, utilizing advanced optics embedded and arranged in exacting patterns in a luminous plane. A patented optical process maximizes the amount of light injected into the WaveStream. The result is precisely directed light output, targeted ray angle control and optimal distributions, without glare, tailored to each luminaire [...]

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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published a new report that documents early challenges and lessons learned in the development of the SSL market. Solid-State Lighting: Early Lessons Learned on the Way to Market summarizes early actions taken by DOE and others to avoid potential problems that were anticipated based on lessons learned from [...]

After consecutive months of contracting demand for design services, there was a modest uptick in the Architecture Billings Index (ABI), produced by the American Institute of Architects (AIA). As a leading economic indicator of construction activity, the ABI reflects the approximate 9- to 12-month lead time between architecture billings and construction spending. AIA reported the [...]

Have you registered for LEDucation 8 yet? This event will take place in New York City on March 18 and 19, 2014 in a new two-day expanded event at the Sheraton NY Times Square hotel. The annual educational expo hosted by the Designers Lighting Forum of New York and is one of the industry’s longest-running [...]