Craig DiLouie

The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute welcomes Roger N. Beachy, Ph.D., as one of the keynote speakers for the 2019 Summit, October 15-17 in Troy, New York.

I recently interviewed Jay Sachetti, Director, Eaton Lighting on the topic of what’s new in LED outdoor area lighting for an article I developed for the February 2020 issue of tED Magazine.

Free to download and compatible with any Android or iOS smart phone or tablet, the Illuminating Engineering Society’s Ready Reference App provides core lighting knowledge, general knowledge, lighting/energy/economics calculator, and a search feature providing easy access to a wealth of information. It is now available in English, Spanish, and French.

Venture Lighting has expanded the choices of wattage, color temperature and factory-installed options with its improved, energy-efficient line of linear strip light luminaires.

In this featured episode of the Get a Grip on Lighting podcast, hosts Greg Ehrich, LC, former President of NAILD and owner of Premier Lighting, and Michael Colligan, an entrepreneur and inventor, talk about a project they were involved with where they were asked to do an audit–only the customer was completely unprepared for it. It made them ask the question: When should you charge for audits?

LED A-line lamps account for 70.5 percent of the consumer lamp market, followed by halogen A-line lamps which account for 24.9 percent. CFLs comprised the remaining 4.6 percent of the A-line consumer market.

Based on research suggesting a correlation between building design and human health and wellness, in 2013 Delos created the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), which launched the WELL Building Standard. As of March 2019, more than 1,500 projects encompassing 315 million sq.ft. in 48 countries have been designed to WELL certification.

Installed throughout a building and equipped with sensors designed to collect a variety of data, networked lighting controls are well-positioned to provide the infrastructure that helps buildings respond to the real-time needs of occupants and facility managers alike, writes Christina Halfpenny, Executive Director, the DesignLights Consortium.

v2 Lighting Group’s INDI offers soft indirect lighting in a simple, single-point suspension and classic cylinder pendant design.