Craig DiLouie

The Romanian Lighting Convention will be held May 18-20, 2011 at the JW Marriott Bucharest Grand Hotel in Bucharest. Click here to learn more about the event.

Cooper Lighting has announced that its Halo brand of recessed and track lighting has been named by Remodeling magazine as the Brand Leader in Lighting. Sweeping all four categories, Halo was notably chosen in the lighting categories of Brand Familiarity, Brands Used in Past Two Years, Brands Used Most, and Brands Used in Past Two [...]

The Yas Hotel, on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, was conceived as two towers connected by a bridge and united by a stunning glass and steel grid-shell element. The hotel’s sweeping grid-shell element, built by Austrian specialist Waagner-Biro, illuminates at night using more than 5,000 custom LED fixtures and a sophisticated control system, the result of an intensive design effort by Arup Lighting, who was engaged by Asymptote to create a lighting solution for both the iconic canopy and the hotel’s exterior.

BEGA/US has a new catalog. Learn more here.

Alliance Lighting has announced the launch of a new office in the United Kingdom to represent its partnering manufacturers (Whitegoods, Vode, Technilum, Lumenpulse, Filix and ALM) to UK lighting specifiers. Jointly directed by Mark DeVries from Alliance Lighting in the U.S. and Douglas James of Whitegoods in London, the formation of Alliance Lighting UK will [...]

Specifically, how to protect yourself and your clients from bad product. This article, which I authored for the October issue of TED Magazine, the official publication of the NAED, covers standards and testing, labeling and awards programs that can be used to find LED products that are most likely to provide reliable performance while saving [...]

“If you retrofit an inefficient, lousy lighting job with new lamps and ballasts, the result is an efficient, lousy lighting job.” —Willard L. Warren, energy consultant

Litecontrol has unveiled the L20, the debut LED luminaire for Litecontrol, designed to functionally provide higher light output and efficacy than a similar linear fluorescent luminaire.

New Buildings Institute (NBI) has announced the publication of the inaugural online version of the Advanced Lighting Guidelines (ALG). ALG is a premier resource for energy‐efficient lighting design, technologies and applications representing the latest and best thinking of experts in the field (I was pleased to contribute the controls chapter with Dorene Maniccea, and edit [...]