Craig DiLouie

American Lighting has launched the American Lighting Blog at www.americanlightingblog.com. Through the new American Lighting Blogsite resellers, architects, designers, builders, electricians and customers can learn more about LED lighting, see where it’s being used, learn best practices for installation, and view the beautiful, energy-efficient and money-saving results.

The U.S. chapter of the International Commission on Illumination (Commission International de l’Eclarage) – CIE/USA is hosting a series of seminars on solid-state lighting. The seminars begin at 7:00AM, May 19, 2011 at the Philadelphia Airport Courtyard Hotel (Philadelphia, PA), the last day of LIGHTFAIR, which is being held in the same city May 17-19. [...]

I’m pleased to announce that I have finally completed the long awaited (by my publisher) update to The Lighting Management Handbook, which came out in 1994, with this 300-page book about redesigning existing lighting systems: Lighting Redesign for Existing Buildings. Because light is used to see but cannot be seen, it is often overlooked by [...]

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Con-Tech Lighting has expanded its line of “recessed stealth” products with a 3-in. adjustable (40º) ceramic metal halide wall wash unit. This small-aperture recessed luminaire utilizes the 22W or 39W PGJ5 ceramic metal halide lamp.

Today is Earth Day.

NEMA’s shipment indexes for high intensity discharge (HID) lamps declined by 11.7%, 17.1% and 0.9% on a year-over-year basis for sodium vapor, mercury vapor and metal halide lamps, respectively. For the year as a whole, shipments of mercury vapor lamps also declined for the fourth consecutive year, dipping 2.7% compared to 2009. Conversely, sodium vapor [...]

Guest post by Jim Brodrick, Department of Energy A number of … readers have written regarding a recent study by researchers at the University of California campuses in Irvine and Davis, which reported the presence of hazardous materials in some LED products. Some statements made by the authors have drawn a great deal of media [...]

As Global 100 companies continue to move manufacturing, management functions and jobs overseas, CeeLite Technologies, LLC feels that despite lower foreign labor costs, the reputed benefits of manufacturing in Asia didn’t stack up in their highly technical marketplace. Once made in Taiwan, the highly acclaimed Light Emitting Capacitor (LEC) technology manufactured by CeeLite Technologies is [...]