Craig DiLouie

Focal Point has expanded its family of ID+ downlights, wall washers, and adjustable accents with new features and capabilities added to its popular 3.5-inch aperture luminaire. These include higher lumen outputs, up to a 15% increase in efficacy, new beam spreads, a CRI of 97, and warm-dim technology.

Six environmental and consumer groups have warned the U.S. Department of Energy that they will sue the agency if it does not meet its legal responsibility to review and update overdue energy efficiency standards for 26 consumer and commercial products—including some of the largest energy users, such as air conditioners, water heaters, refrigerators, and clothes dryers—within 60 days.

Researchers at University College London have found that exposure to red light (670 nm) can improve vision among those aged 40+.

Once the lighting industry’s leading trade publication, in recent years ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING discontinued its print edition to become an online and newsletter information source. On July 28, 2020, the last ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING newsletter was distributed. According to AL, all subscribers are being automatically transitioned to sister publication ARCHITECT Newswire, which is distributed three times per week, and where lighting content will continue to be published.

LIGHTFAIR invites lighting thought leaders to apply to present at its 2021 Conference, May 16-20, 2021 in New York. The application is open now and closes on September 14, 2020.

Solais’s Lucie family of track and surface-mount luminaires feature a contemporary, ventless design.

The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) has announced the relaunch of its online Career Center to facilitate connections between employers and great talent.

LIGHTFAIR recently announced new safety protocols and specific mitigation measures for its 2021 staging, set for May 18 – 20, 2021 (Conference May 16 – 20) at the newly renovated Jacob K. Javits Center in New York during the citywide NYCxDesign Week. “Safer Floor, Safer Show” is LightFair’s strategic health and safety program that promotes the safety and wellbeing of all participants on the trade show floor and beyond.

Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), in collaboration with Ava Robotics and the Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB), designed a new robotic system that disinfects surfaces and neutralizes aerosol forms of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.