Craig DiLouie

The Lighting Controls Association has announced that EE110: Commissioning Lighting Controls, a new course I authored for the organization, has been added to its Education Express series of online distance education courses. Residing at the Association’s website, Education Express provides in-depth education about lighting control and controllable ballast technology, application, system design and commissioning, as [...]

UL Environment, Inc. has begun a collaborative effort to develop sustainability standards for indoor and outdoor lighting. These standards will assist consumers, designers, architects and building operators in identifying more sustainable options for interior and exterior light fixtures, LED modules and related lighting components. The standards will address entire luminaires, including reflector, aperture, outer shell [...]

In FMI’s Construction Outlook: First Quarter 2010 Report, the outlook for put-in-place construction for 2010 remains bleak. Total construction in 2010 will be down after declining in 2009, according to FMI construction economist Heather Jones. Residential construction is expected to begin recovering in 2010, while nonresidential construction will continue to decline in 2010. Nonbuilding construction [...]

At Light + Building, Philips introduced a 60W-equivalent LED replacement lamp. To be launched commercially towards the end of 2010 as part of the company’s Master LED line, the dimmable 12W lamp will deliver 806 lumens of warm white light and feature a rated life of 25,000 hours.

OSRAM SYLVANIA is making it easier for drivers to find the correct replacement headlights, signal bulbs and almost all other auto bulbs for their car, truck, van or SUV with a new iPhone application that virtually replicates the company’s automotive lamp replacement guide. The multi-layer database application does not require cell phone reception as it [...]

The 2011 LIGHTFAIR International will be staged in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Convention Center instead of New York’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. The reason: The Jacob K. Javits Convention Center is scheduled for renovation commencing 2010. The 2011 event will be held May 15-19, 2011, including the LFI Daylighting Institute and LIGHTFAIR Institute: Sunday, [...]

The National Electrical Manufacturers Association has published LSD 55-2010 Outdoor Lighting and Human/Animal Factors: An Industry Opinion. This new white paper, developed by the NEMA Lighting Systems Division, outlines industry concerns and opinions regarding the subject of light at night and outdoor electric lighting as related to humans, animals, energy conservation and the environment. In [...]

The business environment has improved markedly since December 2009, according to electrical equipment manufacturers polled in NEMA’s most recent business confidence survey. The Electroindustry Business Confidence Index (EBCI) for current North American conditions rose sharply in March 2010 for a third straight month, increasing 7.2 points to 71.7–its highest level since May 2004. Nonetheless, though [...]

The International Dark-Sky Association has issued a Specifier Bulletin for Dark Sky Applications titled, “Achievements in High Brightness White LED Devices.” The first Specifier Bulletin of 2010 recognizes manufacturers of high brightness white LEDs that achieve high efficacy while considering quality of light. IDA states: “The method of manufacturing high brightness white LEDs by coating [...]