Craig DiLouie

Registration is now available for Greenbuild 2010. Greenbuild is returning to Chicago November 17-19. Registration is now available; register by September 7, 2010 to take advantage of the early bird discount. The Greenbuild 2010 Expo Hall is expected to fill the entire exhibition floor at McCormick Place West. Click here to register. Click here for [...]

Lightology is issuing a challenge to design professionals, students, artists and design lovers: submit an original design concept ranging from pure art to architectural, for a chance to win a $2,000 Lightology gift card, a feature in i4 Design Magazine, and recognition from the design community at an exclusive Lightology event. As part of the [...]

On May 18, LightNOW reported that Cleveland was considering a 10-year deal giving Sunpu-Opto Semiconductor Ltd. exclusive rights to sell millions of LED lights to the city in exchange for the company making Cleveland its North American headquarters, creating an estimated 350 jobs. The proposed deal naturally irritated GE Lighting, which is based in Cleveland. [...]

The Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES) has announced the recipients of the IES Illumination Awards for 2010. The IES granted one Award of Distinction, seven Awards for Excellence, and two Special Citations. The Awards program recognizes individuals for professionalism, ingenuity and originality in lighting design based on the individual merit of each entry. [...]

Construction spending during April 2010 was estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $869.1 billion, 2.7%% above the revised March 2010 estimate of $845.9 billion and 10.5% below the April 2009 estimate of $971.4 billion, according to new Commerce Department figures. (Note these are estimates and subject to change over the next several months.) [...]

Sky Factory eScape™ is a digital cinema virtual window that brings the dynamic beauty of nature—image, motion and sound—to interior environments. A high-tech illusion, eScape features a wall-mounted industrial-grade HD LCD monitor embedded in a full-size casement window. eScape utilizes an advanced RED digital cinema technology to capture terabytes of Sky Factory’s proprietary HD nature [...]

Check out the month’s stories here and here. The May 30 issue in particular had a lot of great stories—LIGHTFAIR Innovation Awards, GE Edison Design Awards, IALD Design Awards and more! Click here to join the more than 13,600 lighting professionals who receive LightNOW in their in-box every month. Subscription is free, takes moments, and [...]

Office buildings: According to the 2009 Buildings Energy Data Book published by DOE, the average large office building (>25,000 square feet) has a lighting power density (LPD) of 1.3-1.8 watts/sq.ft. (based on 2006 data), while the average small office building has a lighting power density of 1.7-2.2W/sq.ft. If these buildings were relighted to simply comply [...]

From The New York Times: The law claims that the number of people in a city is inversely proportional to the city’s rank among all cities. In other words, the biggest city is about twice the size of the second biggest city, three times the size of the third biggest city, and so forth … [...]