Craig DiLouie

ASHRAE’s first standard focused on The Commissioning Process is now open for comment until Oct. 1, 2012. Click here for more. Standard 202P, Commissioning Process for Buildings and Systems, would identify the minimum acceptable commissioning process for buildings and systems as described in ASRHAE’s Guideline 0-2005, The Commissioning Process. By taking the best practices from [...]

Cooper Lighting’s P3LED directional series, a 3-inch aperture IC-rated LED recessed downlight series marketed under the company’s IRiS brand, complies with Zhaga Book 3 guidelines covering spotlight LED engines, providing a clear upgrade path for the LED array and enabling multi-vendor source solutions. Further, distribution can be modified by changing out trims available in downlight, [...]

RedOrbit.com recently reported: “A multi-national team led by USC with researchers hailing from the U.S., China, Pakistan and Israel has developed a system of transmitting data using twisted beams of light at ultra-high speeds – up to 2.56 terabits per second. To put that in perspective, broadband cable (which you probably used to download this) [...]

Check out this short article I produced for the IES Light Logic site on the topic of effective bathroom lighting.

The Sky Factory, a global fine art and technology company that creates virtual skylights and windows for interior environments, has just become the first net-zero solar powered business in Iowa. Designed and installed by Fairfield’s Ideal Energy, the 3,500 sq. ft. photovoltaic panel array, generating 54 kilowatts, is the largest private installation in Iowa and [...]

OSRAM SYLVANIA offers an interesting online tool identifying regulatory impacts on various light source technologies, with suggested substitutions for products being eliminated. Check it out here.

JESCO Lighting Group’s Corvi Linear LED Series is a sleek, low-profile tubular-shaped light housing, in 12-, 24-, 36-, or 48-inch lengths, well suited for merchandise display lighting. Individual units can be closely abutted for near-continuous runs or effects. It mounts easily, providing wanted high lumen levels for specific lighting tasks.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published a report, Lumen Maintenance Testing of the Philips 60-Watt Replacement Lamp L Prize Entry, after completing 18,000 hours of lumen maintenance testing. Long lifetime is a much-touted potential advantage of solid-state lighting and one of the L Prize competition requirements. The minimum test period defined for the [...]

LED technology holds significant promise for airfield lighting in the U.S, mainly in terms of the potential for longer operating lives and increased efficacy of LEDs compared to incandescent lamps, the most common light source on airport runways and taxiways today, according to a new report: Issues with Use of LED Airfield Lighting: ACRP Synthesis [...]