Craig DiLouie

New application of a 15-year-old technology is creating a minor revolution in fluorescent lighting, enabling linear fluorescent lamps to be installed in applications once reserved to HID lighting and expanding retrofit opportunities. Amalgam technology is now available in linear T5HO, T5VHO and T8VHO lamps, enabling these lamps to extend into applications that get as cold [...]

Tom Shottes has assumed responsibility for the new Professional Lighting Solid State Lighting and Light Management System groups as Senior Vice President. He has been succeeded as CEO of OSRAM Opto Semiconductors, Inc by Don Klase. In his newly created role, Shottes will be responsible for the development, marketing and sale of professional SSL solutions [...]

Designed for “one-for-one” replacement of less efficient 400W metal halide fixtures, Hubbell Industrial Lighting’s new 200W E-HID ECOBAY provides up to 54% energy savings (247W for every 400W fixture replaced), color-correct light output (92 CRI, due to temperature stability), and 88% lamp lumen maintenance. Click here to learn more about this product.

The Department of Energy has published a new guide, LED Luminaire Lifetime: Recommendations for Testing and Reporting, which provides an important first step toward consistent, industry-wide understanding of LED fixture lifetime. Download it here. (Bad link has been fixed)

Between 2005 and 2010, Federal efficiency standards became phased into effect, covering fluorescent magnetic ballasts designed to operate full-wattage F40T12, F96T12 and F96T12HO lamps. Subsequent standards expanded this scope to include energy-saving versions of these lamps (e.g., 4-ft. 34W T12). In July 2010, efficiency standards regulating fluorescent magnetic T12 ballasts entered their final phase, effectively [...]

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors has launched a new web initiative dedicated to providing information and resources for LED, solid state lighting standardization and regulation on its’ new LED Light Site, ledlight.osram-os.com. LED and solid state lighting standardization and regulations are of growing importance as the shift to LED lighting rapidly becomes a reality. Over the past [...]

Lighting Services Inc is thrilled to announce that Autodesk Revit files are now available for download on the LSI Website. Autodesk Revit is “Building Information Modeling” software that supports the design, drawings and schedules required for building projects. Revit works the way architects and designers think, allowing them to work naturally, design freely, and deliver [...]

Aecom Technology Corp. has acquired Tishman Construction Corp. for $245 million. Get the story here.

Even with modest improvements in the overall U.S. economy, nonresidential construction spending is expected to decrease by more than 20% in 2010 with a marginal increase of 3.1% in 2011 in inflation adjusted terms. Poor conditions remain because of an oversupply of nonresidential facilities in most construction categories, weak demand for space, continuing declines in [...]