Craig DiLouie

As a former magazine guy (editor and later publisher of Architectural Lighting Magazine from 1995-2001), this is really depressing … In July 2009, Reed Elsevier announced that the RBI-US controlled circulation magazines and certain other print titles, representing approximately 45% of the revenues of RBI-US, were to be divested. Since then, a number of titles [...]

Effective June 1, 2010, NYSERDA Existing Facilities Program will only accept SSL products listed by either ENERGY STAR or DesignLights Consortium’s Qualified Products List (DLC QPL). The list of qualified SSL products will be accessible through NYSERDA’s The Right Light website (available soon).

GE Lighting has announced five finalists for the 27th annual international GE Edison Award competition. This year, lighting design firms involved with the five finalist projects hail from three countries: Germany, Mexico and the United States. The GE Edison Award competition is open internationally to lighting professionals who creatively employ significant use of GE light [...]

Do you have a song in your heart–about lighting? If so, you could win up to $2,500 in Capitol Lighting’s online “Jingle Contest.” There is no entry fee although the entry must communicate the nature of Capitol’s Unique Selling Propositions (USPs). In other words, it should convey why someone should shop for lighting at Capitol, [...]

Following a scathing report by the GAO on ENERGY STAR earlier this month here, the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy have announced changes to the ENERGY STAR product certification process to ensure that only products meeting the ENERGY STAR requirements can receive an ENERGY STAR label. Effective immediately, manufacturers wishing to qualify their [...]

Edge Lighting has announced that its Monorail products were installed in a project featured in Construction Intervention, a Discovery Channel program about business owners in dire need of renovation but without the money to get it done themselves. They have just days to finish, and rely on donations from various companies to help them complete [...]

Fallon Luminous Products Corp., a manufacturer of lighted signs, has announced that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington D.C. has overturned an earlier decision of the District Court in Cookeville, TN, and ruled in favor of Fallon in its appeal of a patent infringement suit brought against Fallon by iLight [...]

The FTO Series is “stripped of its cosmetic clutter,” according to its creator Lighting Services Inc. The product mounts to LSI track and creates fill light from its 54W T5HO lamping. Optional accessories include reflector, acrylic lenses (clear or frosted) and emergency backup ballast, which provides up to 90 minutes of illumination time at 390 [...]

The challenge: Create as sustainable and energy efficient environment as possible that still met the requirements of a space that would show a significant amount of artwork. The solution: The designers of Síol opted for natural lighting complemented with dimmable, ENERGY STAR-qualified white LED downlights that illuminate the entire space with the same energy consumed [...]