Craig DiLouie

The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has launched Lighting Patterns for Homes, an interactive website to help homeowners, contractors and builders choose the right lamps, luminaires and controls to maximize energy savings, calculate lighting costs and achieve lighting effects to meet a wide range of needs in their homes. It also shows [...]

Lightline by KI is a pre-assembled, unitized glass wall system designed to flexibility in design and daylight in spaces. Unlimited butt-glazing (with no vertical posts) eliminates visual breaks, and its slim, compact rectilinear profiles are diminutive. Installed walls can be easily reconfigured as space layouts change.

CANDELAS, LUMENS AND LUX (146 pp., softcover) by Owen F. Ransen is a brief and light introduction to the concepts and mathematics of illumination. The book is aimed at architects, civil engineers, road engineers, photographers, interior designers as well as anyone who needs to understand artificial lighting. The book can be used as the basis [...]

ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING recently published an interesting article about lighting artist James Turrell. Check it out here.

The fifth annual Department of Energy Solid-State Lighting Manufacturing R&D Workshop, held June 5-6 in Boston, drew more than 150 attendees for two days of discussion. Topics included global LED and OLED manufacturing trends and strategies for reducing costs, improving product quality and increasing volumes. During the workshop, speakers and participants examined SSL manufacturing issues [...]

This recorded webinar presented by Dr. Craig Bernecker of Parsons, which you can watch below, provides a sampling of studies conducted that illustrate both psychological and physiological responses to lighted environments.

HessAmerica’s Avenue Deco Series, a new family of outdoor lighting designs including pole, wall-mounted luminaires and bollards designed by Thorn Lighting, feature stainless-steel fascias, adding interesting accents to the luminaire form. Each model shares a common design theme, with conical shapes emphasized by four distinct vertical elements. Avenue Deco pole luminaires are available in two [...]

As the once struggling residential market continues to steadily improve, the size of homes has grown in response. This is the case for both high-end and custom homes as well as additions to existing homes. In addition, preferences for accessible spaces in homes—such as open-space layouts and single-floor design—also continue to rise. Led by continued [...]

Editor’s note: This is the executive summary of the Commercial Lighting Market Attitudes Study, which I produced in 2004 based on surveys of participants across the commercial lighting product sales channel. I’ve been receiving some renewed interest in the study, which people have found valuable, so I decided to offer the report’s conclusions here. What [...]