Craig DiLouie

GE Lighting has announced that its plant in Bucyrus, OH is expanding manufacture of T8 lamps, partly thanks to Federal stimulus funding and incentives from the state of Ohio. “Expanding our plant in Ohio to add more volume to our production allows us to maintain our current 160 jobs in today’s tough economic environment, plus [...]

Alera Lighting, a manufacturer of architectural and specialty fluorescent luminaires for offices, schools, and institutional buildings, recently updated and expanded their express program including T5 standard lamp products, OSRAM 0.88 and 0.71 fixed-output programmed-start rapid-start ballasts, and dust covers for T8 or T5 standard products where applicable. Alera Lighting also provides “for record” drawings in [...]

Sea Gull Lighting has announced that with the June Dallas Market, the company will be welcoming customers and industry friends to a new location on the fourth floor of the Dallas Trade Mart building: showroom 4400. For the June 2010 Dallas Market, features will include new and emerging technology in the Ambiance Lighting System line, [...]

Architect Magazine has reported that the Supreme Court, citing two independent security studies, is no longer accessible to the public through its iconic front entrance. Visitors will now have to enter the building through its side doors. Get the complete story here.

Tivoli, LLC, founded in 1967, has moved to a modern freestanding 15,000-sq.ft. one-story masonry plant and office building at 15602 Mosher Avenue, between Route 55 and Redhill Avenue in the city of Tustin, CA, near John Wayne Orange County Airport. Tivoli’s new building provides a high-profile, professional environment for clients and customers, including a product [...]

IESNYC has announced that the Lumen Awards Ceremony and Gala will be held at Chelsea Pier 60 on Wednesday, June 9, 2010 starting at 6:00 PM. IESNYC will be celebrating the 2010 Lumen Awards recipients. Cocktail hour starts at 6:00 PM and the dinner ceremony commences at 7:30 PM. Sponsorship tables are now available for [...]

The economic environment facing electrical equipment manufacturers continued to show strong improvement in April, according to respondents to NEMA’s latest business confidence survey. While the Electroindustry Business Confidence Index (EBCI) for current North American conditions was unchanged in April at 71.7, it matched its highest monthly level since May 2004. Readings above 50 are typically [...]

Architectural Area Lighting (AAL) has re-launched its website at aal.net with a new look and additional features such as: – New LED Micro Site – Features information about the new Designer SSL Series as well as other LED products AAL offers. – 3D Product Models – BIM 3D and SketchUp models available for the most [...]

Authors of papers regarding the art, science and practice of illumination are invited to submit their papers for possible presentation at the 2010 IES Annual Conference scheduled to be held in Toronto, Canada from November 7-9, 2010. Paper presentations provide a valuable vehicle for educating the membership about important technical advances in lighting. The Papers [...]