Craig DiLouie

Philips Lighting has expanded its series of 60W and 140W CosmoPolis white light HID lamp/ballast systems with a new 90W model, providing higher efficiency and performance than traditional HID systems. The lamps are up to 65% smaller than competitive HID lamps and the ballasts are up to half the size.

WAC Lighting President Shelley Wang received Residential Lighting Magazine’s Industry Leadership Award on September 14 during the 2009 American Lighting Association Annual Conference held in Palos Verdes, CA. In other news, WAC Lighting Co-Founder Tai Wang was honored with the “Asian American Visionary” Award from the International Leadership Foundation at its annual gala in Washington [...]

IceTray by Peerless is a family of direct indirect/direct and perimeter luminaires providing high-performance lighting in a retro style with three baffle styles—rectangular, angular and curved. With a choice of seven distributions ranging from 80/20 to 5/95, three lamp choices and one to four lamps per cross section, IceTray is a versatile product suitable for [...]

Construction spending during July 2009 was estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $958 billion, 0.2% below the revised June estimate of $959.5 billion and 10.5% below the July 2009 estimate of $1,070.2 billion. During the first seven months of 2009, construction spending reached $543.8 billion, 11.4% below the $613.5 billion for the same [...]

The Department of Energy has awarded the ENERGY STAR qualification to Renaissance Lighting Inc. on 11 of its newest all-white solid-state LED downlight fixtures. The ENERGY STAR qualification helps consumers identify the most energy efficient products on the market. ENERGY STAR qualification currently requires an LED recessed downlight fixture to deliver an efficacy of at [...]

Lightfair has announced that trade show floorspace is more than 92% sold for the 2010 show in Las Vegas. Net year, the show floor will be supported by four pavilions—two of which will be familiar to Lightfair attendees, and two that will debut: the Building Integration Pavilion and the Global Light + Design Pavilion—known since [...]

NEMA’s Electroindustry Business Confidence Index (EBCI) for current North American conditions jumped nearly 12 points to 53.3 in August, an indication that the business environment facing electrical equipment manufacturers improved during the month. This is the highest rating for the EBCI since April 2007. Meanwhile, the North American future conditions EBCI also climbed in August, [...]

Another stall in the recovery for the construction industry as the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) dropped to its lowest level since June. As a leading economic indicator of construction activity, the ABI reflects the approximate nine- to 12-month lag time between architecture billings and construction spending. The American Institute of Architects (AIA) reported the August [...]

LED company iLight Technologies, Inc. has announced that Federal Court rulings confirmed its victory in a patent infringement litigation case against sign company Fallon Luminous Products Corporation. The Court awarded to iLight $5 million in damages plus attorney fees, according to iLight.