Craig DiLouie

Construction spending during February 2010 was estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $846.2 billion, 1.3% lower than the revised January 2010 estimate of $857.8 billion and 12.8% below the February 2009 estimate of $970.4 billion, according to new Commerce Department figures. (Note these are estimates and subject to change over the next several [...]

In January, 2010, the city of Bradenton Beach, Florida, along the central Gulf Coast adjacent Sarasota and Bradenton, completed an installation that everyone can appreciate. They replaced 100W high-pressure sodium street lights and ballasts along the city’s main thoroughfare, fronting on Gulf of Mexico beach land, with 17W LED lights. Bradenton Beach found a way [...]

Yum! Brands, parent of KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Long John Silver’s and other brands, is the world’s largest restaurant company with more than 36,000 restaurants in over 110 countries. As part of its efforts to demonstrate social responsibility, Yum! unveiled its first LEED Gold-certified restaurant, a KFC/Taco Bell in Northampton, Mass., in 2008. The [...]

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Cree has announced that it is introducing a series of LED modules designed to accelerate the adoption of LED lighting by traditional luminaire manufacturers and speed time-to-market for their new LED-based products. The first product in the new line is the Cree LED Module LMR4, created to overcome common design issues manufacturers have faced when [...]

GE Lighting has announced that it is previewing potential OLED lighting application ideas during two industry trade shows this year, Light + Building 2010 in Frankfurt, Germany and LightFair 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The company will show OLEDs in a number of configurations at both shows, including fixture prototypes that help to demonstrate [...]

Guest post by Jim Brodrick, DOE [Recently], DOE published the latest round of test results for the Commercially Available LED Product Evaluation and Reporting (CALiPER) program, which provides an ongoing series of “snapshots” of solid-state lighting (SSL) technology progress and trends. The Round 9 Summary Report includes test results for recessed downlights, 2’x2’ troffers and [...]

PC World has reported that Toshiba has ended production of mass-market incandescent light bulbs after 120 years of making them. The company will focus on energy-efficient products such as LED. Get the story here.

A new program to inform building owners and operators, tenants and prospective buyers on the energy use of buildings, similar to a nutrition label on food or miles per gallon ratings on cars, has recently been launched to encourage the building industry to find ways to cut energy use and costs. The Building Energy Quotient [...]