Craig DiLouie

At the 2019 LRC Summit, Robert White, M.D., Director of the Regional Newborn Program at Beacon Children’s Hospital and Chair of the Standards Committee for NICU Design will give a keynote titled, “Impact of the Physical Environment on the Wellbeing of Patients, Families, and Caregivers.”

In this week’s 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 to Adam Lilien, Lighting Business Development Manager for UL, provide a LIGHTFAIR recap.

The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) recently published ANSI C78.54-2019 American National Standard for Electric Lamps—Specification Sheet for Tubular Fluorescent Replacement and Retrofit LED Lamps, which standardizes the specification sheet, or data reporting format, as the means of communicating critical lamp characteristics. NEMA also published ANSI C136.42-2019 American National Standard for Roadway and Area Lighting Equipment—Solid State Lighting Retrofit Kits, which defines the mechanical and electrical requirements for transforming an installed HID roadway and area luminaire to a solid-state roadway and area luminaire.

Access Fixtures recently introduced three complete horse arena lighting packages intended for outdoor horse arenas of various sizes.

For a decade, the lighting industry focused on increasing LED source efficacy (lumens/W), resulting in today’s highly efficacious and compact luminaires. As efficacy reaches an economically practical limit, the conversation is changing to emphasize “quality lighting” and its value. While it’s a longstanding, venerable concept in lighting, the LED revolution provides new tools for its realization, though these tools add to lighting’s complexity and thereby require education for proper implementation.

I recently had the opportunity to interview Nishad Chikhliker, Segment and Commercialization Marketing Manager, Connected Buildings, Eaton’s Lighting Division, on the topic of quality lighting.

During a recent Industrial Control Systems Joint Working Group meeting representatives from the Department of Defense (DOD), International Society of Automation (ISA), and the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) outlined a new program to address the growing risk of unprotected and under-protected building control systems in the U.S. and abroad.

Several states are responding to the Trump Administration’s proposed revision to general-service lamp energy standards by enacting their own.

Juniper’s THIN offers a system of solid brass connectors and LED light segments configured as three-dimensional tetrahedron, cube, and diamond shapes.