Craig DiLouie

The DesignLights Consortium has responded to the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic by adjusting portions of its Technical Requirements v5.0, effective immediately.

Messe Frankfurt has canceled Light + Building 2020 after previously postponing it. The next Light + Building event will occur as normally scheduled March 13-18, 2022 in Frankfurt am Main.

In this article published in a recent issue of LD+A, Northwestern Energy’s Steven Schmitt describes lessons learned from a four-year project to convert more than 40,000 street and area luminaires from HID to LED.

The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) recently released the results of a U.S. Department of Energy-funded study, Measuring Light Exposure and its Effects on Sleep and Behavior in Care Center Residents.

Columbia Lighting has introduced three new flat panel solutions for the commercial indoor marketplace. These products provide customers with a full range of product options when a flat lens panel is needed, multiple price levels depending on product features and options of product availability with Stock, QS and MTO lead-times.

I recently had the opportunity to interview Felipe Leon, Integrated Lighting Campaign Lead, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, for an article I’m developing about the Integrated Lighting Campaign (which will replace the Interior Lighting Campaign) for the Lighting Controls Association, now a sponsor of the U.S. Department of Energy program.

My contribution to the March 2020 issue of ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR covered what we know about the blue light hazard.

In the time of COVID-19, the Illuminating Engineering Society is stepping up its virtual content offering. The most recent is a compilation on “visualizing light.”

LumenFocus’s ECLN is an efficient narrow LED strip suitable for many applications, including retail spaces and offices.