Craig DiLouie

The Illuminating Engineering Society has issued a call for projects for consideration in the 2021 IES Illumination Awards. Submissions will be accepted from January 2 through February 19, 2021.

LG Electronics’ CLoi is a family of autonomous robots that emit UV-C energy to disinfect high-touch, high-traffic areas in commercial and institutional buildings. The product family will be available in early 2021 after an official unveiling at Digital CES, according to the company.

Due to uncertainties in the COVID-19 pandemic, Endeavor Business Media recently announced it is postponing the 2021 Strategies in Light event from June 22-24 to August 24-26 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.

The 2021 Lighting & Homes for Tomorrow (LHFT) competition recognized nine connected home products and platforms.

The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) recently published a new report analyzing the energy impact of lighting designs that satisfy three prominent circadian lighting guidelines. The researchers discovered a potentially significant increase in light levels and associated energy consumption.

While architectural billings failed to show much progress during October 2020, signs of improving business conditions at firms have emerged, according to the American Institute of Architects (AIA).

Acclaim Lighting’s IP67-rated Outdoor Link System allows the company’s Dyna Drum and Dyna Accent series luminaires to be quickly and simply interconnected, while eliminating excess hardware for lighting projects.  The system allows the linking of up to 32 luminaires from a single power source without the need for a connection point at every unit.

I recently had the opportunity to interview Gabe Arnold, PE, LC, Senior Engineer, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for an article about DC building microgrids for an upcoming issue of ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR, the official publication of NECA. Transcript follows.

Many of you know that besides providing journalism and education to the lighting industry, I also write fiction. My latest novel from Hachette Book Group is The Children of Red Peak, a psychological thriller with cosmic horror elements.