Craig DiLouie

The Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES) has announced the 29th Annual Street and Area Lighting Conference to be held September 26-29, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Hotel in Huntington Beach, California. The Conference provides industry professionals with a forum for an open exchange of information on a wide range of outdoor [...]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently reached a milestone for the ENERGY STAR program by passing the 1 millionth ENERGY STAR-qualified home mark. Since the program began labeling new homes in 1995, Americans have saved $1.2 billion on their energy bills, and reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 22 billion pounds, according to EPA. To earn [...]

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 [...]