Craig DiLouie

The Lighting & Homes for Tomorrow (LHFT) competition presents manufacturers the opportunity to distinguish their products and services from other connected home devices and platforms in the market.

In collaboration with the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) has launched guidelines for lighting manufacturers to help lighting designers more easily determine if their designs meet the WELL Building Standard criteria. The WELL v2™ pilot is the latest version of the WELL Building Standard, a rating system that focuses exclusively on the way that buildings and everything in them—including lighting—can improve our comfort and enhance our health and wellness.

Eureka’s Cliff luminaire is a minimalist, compact, exterior wall-mounted luminaire designed for illumination of exterior facades, entrances, yards, and terraces while adding a modern edge.

In December 2019, UL published Design Guide 24480, which provides guidance on how to design lighting systems that support circadian entrainment. To learn more, I talked to Adam Lilien, Global Business Development Manager, Lighting, UL, LLC. The resulting interview informed an article I wrote for the May issue of ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR.

In a recent issue of LD+A, Mark Lien talks about a potentially alarming disconnect between innovation in lighting occurring inside and outside the lighting industry.

In a research project funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), Dr. Mariana Figueiro, Professor and Director at the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is investigating whether a tailored lighting intervention can lessen the impact of these symptoms in older adults living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) and has published her latest findings in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine.

The Internet of Things offers electrical contractors powerful revenue-generating service opportunities and new challenges, according to a 2019 report published by ELECTRI International.

Coming in early 2020, Amerlux’s AERUS lighting solution offers comfortable indirect/direct (75/25) distribution, a distinct aesthetic, no visual power feed, closer ceiling mounts (12 inches below the ceiling), and wider spacing (up to 12 feet on center).

Dan O’Brien, an artist who does lighting for animated movies, had a hard time describing exactly what he did for a living. Then he Tweeted before and after shots.