Craig DiLouie

The Department of Energy has announced that “Voices for SSL Efficiency 2010,” its fifth annual SSL Market Introduction Workshop, will be held July 20-22, 2010 in Philadelphia, PA. More information will be available soon. Until then, if you’re interested in attending, save the date.

Twenty-three winning projects representing projects from 12 countries comprise the winners of the 27th Annual International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) International Lighting Design Awards Winners, recognized at a presentation held 13 May at the Renaissance Las Vegas Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada USA. Of the 23 projects recognized, three entries earned Special Citations, 12 [...]

On May 12, at the LIGHTFAIR 2010 Innovation Awards ceremony, four companies were recognized as the lighting industry’s leaders in innovative product design and technology. The awards program encompassed nearly 200 products debuting on the 2010 LFI trade show floor. This year, roughly two out of three entrants were based on LED or other solid-state [...]

The 2009 GE Edison Award was presented to Andreas Schulz and Alexander Rotsch of Licht Kunst Licht AG (Bonn, Germany) for lighting EnBW City in Stuttgart, Germany. A personalized Steuben crystal award for the 27th annual lighting design competition was presented by GE Lighting on May 11, 2010 in Las Vegas. The GE Edison Award [...]

Those looking for signs that the U.S. economy is rebounding can find encouragement in the fourth annual Energy Efficiency Indicator released by Johnson Controls. A survey of more than 1,400 North American executives and managers responsible for making investments and managing energy in commercial buildings found that planned investment in energy efficiency is expected to [...]

Energy consumption in buildings is a complicated set of interactions among building components. When it comes to understanding energy efficiency opportunities, it’s useful to see how changing one component affects the whole. Energy engineers at the Energy Center of Wisconsin developed the Back-of-the-Envelope Calculator to provide greater initial insight into the energy usage and environmental [...]

Last month, LightNOW reported here that Reed Elsevier would be closing 23 magazines, including Building Design+Construction, Chain Leader, Construction Bulletin, Construction Equipment, Consulting-Specifying Engineer, Plant Engineering, Professional Builder, Professional Remodeler and Restaurants & Institutions. While at LIGHTFAIR, I learned that some of these publications have been bought by their publishers. Consulting-Specifying Engineer, Control Engineering and [...]

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) has issued a call for proposals for innovative energy efficiency retrofit programs and policies that can address specific barriers. Individual grants range from $100,000 to $350,000. Projects may be 12 to 24 months in duration. Applicants must be U.S. nonprofit organizations with approved IRS 501(c)(3) status. Pre-proposals are due [...]

Last Friday, the Plain Dealer reported here that attorneys for GE Lighting are contending that a proposed agreement between the City of Cleveland and Sunpu-Opto Semiconductor Ltd., is bad for the city and could even be unlawful. The proposed 10-year deal gives the Chinese manufacturer exclusive rights to sell millions of LED lights to the [...]