Craig DiLouie

On Thursday, April 4, from 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM Eastern Time, the Department of Energy’s Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) will host a webcast, “Solid-State Lighting: Highlighting Indoor Applications.” The webcast is part of FEMP’s First Thursday Seminars series, which provides training for Federal energy and environmental professionals. Presented by Naomi Miller and Jeff [...]

Cooper Lighting, Ametrix Asyx, a series of LED asymmetric luminaires featuring the company’s LightBAR technology and patented AccuLED Optics system for precise optical control, is available in pendant and wall configurations for both indirect general illumination and highlighting architectural features. These 70W luminaires deliver 6,000 lumens, operating at an efficacy of 86 lumens/W, and are [...]

Oldenburg Group Incorporated recently announced it has received the LEED Certified designation from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) for its Technical Center built in Kingsford, Michigan. Lighting for the project was provided by the company’s Milwaukee-based Visa Lighting. The Technical Center is a build-to-suit office facility for the Oldenburg Group’s Defense and Energy segments [...]

Guest post by the New Buildings Institute Researchers continue to broaden their knowledge about the ways light impacts the circadian system and rhythms such as the sleep/wake cycle. Generally, it’s been shown that exposure to strong light levels during daytime hours makes us more alert and focused through the day, while minimal light exposure in [...]

The Department of Energy recently published the evaluation report from a GATEWAY demonstration in New York City’s Central Park, conducted in collaboration with The Climate Group and the New York City Department of Transportation. LED post-top luminaires from five different manufacturers were installed along paved walking trails and evaluated against the metal halide luminaires that [...]

Newspapers are filled with stories describing reductions and removal of street lighting in order to reduce municipal costs. Tackling the tricky questions of when and where to install roadway illumination is a challenge for transportation agencies. Estimating nighttime crash reductions from roadway lighting is difficult in part because lighting tends to be installed along with [...]

Litecontrol’s Wall Arcos L54 is an extruded aluminum LED luminaire in the graceful Arcos curved shape and the Wall Mod L42 is an extruded aluminum LED luminaire in the popular Mod rectilinear shape. Both the Arcos L54 and Mod L42 are ADA-compliant, wall-mounted luminaires. Both are available in three output levels and four-color temperatures, with [...]

IKEA recently announced it will be converting its full lighting range to LED by 2016, meaning IKEA will sell only LED luminaires and lamps. Additionally, IKEA is changing more than one million light sources inside the IKEA stores to LED and other more-efficient lighting.

Summary of a research idea conceived at the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research, Lighting Group. This video explains the potential applications of a novel concept based on LEDs than uses a microprocessing unit to reproduce and read spectra in spaces. Ledmotive: brilliant innovation with LED technology from Josep Carreras on Vimeo.