Craig DiLouie

Education + Resources, Lighting Design

Glare 101

Lighting designers have a responsibility to provide lighting systems that deliver visual comfort, which goes beyond simple visibility by addressing issues such as glare. This article, which I wrote for Electrical Contractor Magazine, describes the basics of glare, and how to address it.

Awards

GE Lighting Announces Call for Entries for Prestigious GE Edison Award Competition

GE Lighting has announced a call for entries for its 29th annual GE Edison Award competition, recognizing excellence and quality in professional lighting designs that employ the significant use of GE light sources (lamps and/or LEDs). The competition is open to professional designers, architects, engineers and consultants for projects completed during the 2011 calendar year. [...]

Events

IALD Enlighten Americas 2012 Call for Presentations Now Open

The International Association of Lighting Designers is seeking experts in lighting, design, architecture, building integration and business skills to present at Enlighten Americas 2012. Enlighten Americas will be held October 11-13, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. The Enlighten Americas 2012 conference theme, Speaking of Light, reflects a need for the [...]

Lighting Industry

Lightswitch Relaunches Website

Lighting design firm Lightswitch has redesigned its site for easier use on mobile devices, better showcase its projects and help users become acquainted with the firm’s designers. Check it out here.

Products + Technology

Product Monday: Enform 1 by Énergie

Énergie now offers the highly efficient Enform 1 luminaire from German manufacturer Trilux, which utilizes a single 26W T5 lamp with a lower ballast factor (0.95) to achieve significant energy savings compared to other direct/indirect linear luminaires. Luminaires can be designed to provide 35 footcandles of visually comfortable illumination onto the task plane for just [...]

Construction + Economy

AIA Report Finds Ongoing Credit Crunch Accounts for 20 Percent of Stalled Projects Nationwide

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) recently released a comprehensive report which concludes that the major obstacle holding back job creation in the United States is the persistent lack of construction financing, despite record low interest rates. “This report should lay to rest any doubt about what is a key source for holding back job [...]

Codes + Standards

Code Alerts

On August 10, 2011, the Utah Uniform Building Codes Commission voted to adopt the 2011 National Electrical Code. Only a single amendment was approved by the Commission: to revert to the wording in the 2005 Edition of the National Electrical Code for ampacity of service conductors and main power feeders for individual dwelling units. On [...]

LED + SSL, Research

Jim Brodrick on Round 13 of CALiPER Product Testing

Guest post by Jim Brodrick, Department of Energy Results of the latest round of CALiPER testing were released recently, and as usual they can tell us a thing or two about the current state of solid-state lighting. As you may know, DOE’s CALiPER program supports testing of a wide array of SSL products available for [...]

People

Lunera Lighting Names Executive Chairman of the Board and CEO

Lunera Lighting, Inc. has announced the appointment of Doug Hickey as Executive Chairman of the Board and Michael Keddington as CEO. Hickey has more than 20 years of operational experience holding senior-level positions in the telecom, Internet and technology space. Most recently, he was a partner at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and CEO of Critical [...]

Events

LIGHTFAIR to Return to Phillly in 2013

The 2013 LIGHTFAIR International event will take place April 23-25, 2013 in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Staged alternately annually on the West Coast and the East Coast, LFI returns to Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Convention Center in 2013. I love New York, but I have to say attending the show in Philadelphia was [...]

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