Craig DiLouie

I recently interviewed Scott Roos, Vice President of Product Design for Juno Lighting Group about what’s new in residential lighting for an article I’m writing for TED Magazine. The transcript is below: DiLouie: What are the major recent trends in single-family residential construction and design, and how are they impacting lighting needs? Roos: Sustainable materials [...]

Alumen8’s GLASS HOUSE Series of LED (or T5HO) direct pendants is characterized by a rigid, low-scale architectural, linear box-like design. A classical low-glare direct luminaire, its wide light distribution comes from a three-sided 270-degree lens shape. Downlight shielding choices are a clear- or opal-acrylic lens that create a soft illumination from below, maintaining very high [...]

The Department of Energy’s booth at LIGHTFAIR was hopping, with in-booth educational sessions packed with attendees. Experts addressed life-cycle assessment and environmental testing of LED products; performance of LED troffers, kits, and tubes; dimming and flicker; and provided updates on the L Prize® and Next Generation Luminaires competitions, LED Lighting Facts testing, CALiPER analysis, and [...]

The 2012 GE Edison Award was presented to Hervé Descottes, Jeff Taylor and Jessica Tchah of L’Observatoire International for lighting Vintry Fine Wines in New York, New York, USA (Architects: Rogers Marvel Architects, New York, New York, USA). A personalized Steuben crystal award for the winner of this 30th annual lighting design competition was presented [...]

GE Lighting has entered a joint-development agreement with Cooledge Lighting Inc. to develop a customized GE Lightech LED power-supply driver as a key component in Cooledge’s first full range of LED light sheet solutions for fixture companies, which debuted at LIGHTFAIR. GE Lighting’s agreement with Cooledge extends beyond the LED driver integration to include the [...]

GE Lighting recently posted a video tour of its impressive 2013 LIGHTFAIR booth presented by the highly knowledgeable Mary Beth Gotti. Watch it here:

Philips Ledalite’s BoldPlay, which won Best New Product of the Year at the LIGHTFAIR 2013 Product Innovation Awards, presents a new portfolio of high-performance direct/indirect LED lighting systems that consume 28% less energy than traditional technologies such as fluorescent with efficacies as high as 106 lumens/W, according to the company. Integrating daylight harvesting with the [...]

LED product manufacturer Solais Lighting, Inc. recently announced its acquisition by PowerSecure International, Inc., a provider of utility and energy technologies to electric utilities and their industrial, institutional and commercial customers. The acquisition strengthens and complements PowerSecure’s existing LED business with Solais’ demonstrated strengths in innovation, product design, manufacturing, marketing and sales. As part of [...]

NEMA’s April Electroindustry Business Confidence Index (EBCI) for current North American business conditions showed continuing improvement in April, with the index increasing to 66.7 from the 65.9 reported in March. Confidence in future business conditions declined in April, but remains firmly in territory suggested of positive growth. The EBCI for North American conditions six months [...]