Craig DiLouie

NEMA’s HID lamp indexes for each of the major lamp types (sodium vapor, mercury vapor, and metal halide) increased on a year-over-year basis during the first quarter of 2010. HID sodium lamps posted a 7.5% gain while mercury lamps showed a more modest gain of 1.3%. Metal halide lamps rebounded from a record low set [...]

A new initiative of the IALD Education Trust Fund, www.learn2light.com provides an overview of the schools that offer programs in architectural lighting design, engineering or science. These programs offer at least a major or minor in architectural lighting.

Energy Focus, Inc. has announced that its turnkey lighting retrofit division, Stones River Companies, LLC was recently awarded five additional lighting energy services contracts totaling $2.5 million, bringing to a total of $19 million contracts awarded to Energy Focus’ new business unit. Two contracts are to upgrade the lighting at two universities, which will involve [...]

U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists recently stated the conclusions of a new study that found that supermarket lighting can help keep spinach fresh and producing new vitamins. Sorry, kids, it doesn’t make it taste any better. Get the story here.

Got this email the other day. Looks like a great opportunity! DIRECTOR OF TECHNOLOGY / LIGHTING CONTROLS CLEVELAND, OH Our client is multinational, diversified organization which is consistently ranked at the very top of the Fortune 500. For over a century our client has provided the world with a broad range of consumer, commercial, industrial [...]

The Federal Trade Commission today announced that starting in mid-2011, consumers shopping for light bulbs will notice new labeling on packaging designed to help them choose among the different types of bulbs on the market – traditional incandescent lamps, CFLs and LED lamps. The new labels will enable consumers to save money by selecting the [...]

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Cree, Inc. has announced a new high-output 6-inch LED downlight featuring Cree TrueWhite Technology. The LR6-DR1000 delivers 70% more light than the original LR6 and features an aesthetically-pleasing, 20-degree shield angle for lighting designs that require greater brightness control. Using only 12.5W to deliver 1,000 lumens, the LR6-DR1000 has a high luminaire efficacy of up [...]

We are in an era of regulated efficiency. EC&M Magazine has published a nice summary of lighting regulations for their April issue here. I was pleased to be interviewed for this article about the role lighting controls can play in upgrades in existing buildings.