Craig DiLouie

The Energy Center of Wisconsin offers a wide range of online education courses, including a number of lighting courses, with topics ranging from daylighting to specifying LED products. Check out the course listing here. Note some courses present a cost for either viewing or getting education credit.

Showing a steady increase in the demand for design services, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) continues to accelerate, as it reached its second highest level of the year. 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 [...]

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published a new report, Color Maintenance of LEDs in Laboratory and Field Applications. Although concern for parametric failure of LED lighting products has largely been focused on lumen maintenance, color shift is a cause of early failure for some products, especially in applications where visual appearance is critical. [...]

Uniquely designed with LEDs in the front and the rear of the bulb, the TerraLUX Decorative MR16 LED Lamp produces warm light in all directions that is ideal for use in high-end decorative luminaires. The 4W lamp replaces 20W halogen MR16s and is available with a 20-degree narrow flood beam, 3000K color temperature and 90+ [...]

Selux’s M-Modular LED Series includes recessed, surface and pendant models available in 3000K, 3500K or 4000K, and with either 0-10VDC or DALI dimming control. Multiple optic and lensing options. Luminaires may be specified in linear arrays, with L modules available. Visit Selux to learn more.

Great snapshot of the LED rebate climate courtesy of BriteSwitch.

Republication of Postings from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solid-State Lighting Program by Jim Brodrick, U.S. Department of Energy Most of the attention given to solid-state lighting these days focuses on LED products, because OLEDs are several years behind their inorganic cousins in terms of development for general illumination. Despite some encouraging progress (e.g., [...]

The Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education is offering a seven-module course guide “Lighting Across the Design Curriculum,” as it attempts to become a leading resource for the acquisition and distribution of teaching materials and information for use by educators in the teaching of lighting design. The first course guide was developed by a team of [...]

Finelite has released an LED Talks video on the topic of flicker in LED luminaires, which was recently recognized by the IES for inclusion in the 2013 IES Progress Report for “advancement in methods or aids to facilitate lighting design and/or application.” The video is accompanied by a whitepaper. The video, presented by Terry Clark, [...]