Craig DiLouie

The Next Generation Luminaires Design Competition recognizes the highest-quality LED luminaires for commercial building applications. This year, the competition is broken into indoor and outdoor competitions. The indoor competition winners were announced earlier this year. Now the outdoor competition is formally launching. Written Intents to Submit are due by August 3, 2012, and must be [...]

Philips has appointed Bruno Biasiotta to head the company’s North American lighting operations. In his new role, Biasiotta will be responsible for driving market share for Philips’ lighting businesses in North America, including Lamps, Consumer Luminaires and Professional Luminaires. He is taking over the role from Zia Eftekhar, who announced his retirement last month, and [...]

by Jim Brodrick, U.S. Department of Energy The 2012 edition of LIGHTFAIR International was [recently held] in Las Vegas, and since the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SSL team was there staffing our booth in support of our SSL educational efforts, we thought we’d share some observations with you. For starters, LED products, which have [...]

Sunoptics recently opened its renovated Sacramento-based facility and new Daylighting University training center with an additional 12,000 square feet of offices and training facilities. The new 1,600-sq.ft. daylighting training facility, where the company will host monthly training seminars and customer presentations, will open September 1. Founded in 1978, Sunoptics Prismatic Skylights is a manufacturer of [...]

Holophane has introduced the new DualBay electronic high-bay luminaire to deliver high-quality lighting and energy savings to a wide range of high-bay applications. The new electronic high-bay luminaire uses dual-lamp technology, solid-state electronic ballast and a dedicated state-of-the-art thermal management system, coupled with Holophane ISD Superglass technology, to deliver good light quality, luminous distribution and [...]

Lighting designer David Warfel describes how he produced bright afternoon daylight for a theatrical production set in an English country house. The main challenge was to produce light with the appearance of “no color.” Click here to see how he did it. (The article appears on the Rosco website, as he used their products.)

The Department of Energy recently hosted the fourth annual Solid-State Lighting Manufacturing R&D Workshop in San Jose, California. With 200 attendees and two days of formal and informal discussion, the workshop share information about manufacturing issues, global manufacturing trends and strategies for improving product quality and reducing costs for lighting products based on LED and [...]

NEMA’s Electroindustry Business Confidence Index (EBCI) for current North American conditions slipped to 52.4 in June from 54.2 in May and has retreated more than 20 points since reaching a post-recession high in February. Despite its recent slide, the index continues to point to an economic environment conducive to industry growth, as it has for [...]

Following the first negative reading in five months, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) suffered a significant drop in May. As a leading economic indicator of construction activity, the ABI, produced by the American Institute of Architects (AIA), reflects the approximate 9- to 12-month lag time between architecture billings and construction spending. AIA reported the May [...]