Craig DiLouie

The International Commission on Illumination (CIE) has issued a new position statement that puts into context the use of the term “blue light hazard” in line with the CIE’s current position on this term. It provides reassurance that people are normally not at risk of exceeding the internationally agreed blue light hazard exposure limits from white light sources used for illumination.

The IES Progress Committee is now accepting submissions for this year’s Progress Report. Early bird (with reduced rate) deadline is May 17, 2019; final deadline is May 31.

H.E. Williams, Inc. has announced the acquisition of Platformatics, Inc., a provider of network-based systems for the smart building Internet of Things (IoT) industry.

Cree Lighting’s innovative Cadiant™ dynamic skylight is a standalone system that creates the sensation of natural light and a sunlit sky via a virtual skylight experience.

LUX recently published an article about how dairy farmers in the UK are using LED lighting regimes to optimize dairy cow hormones and thereby increase milk production.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently released the latest in a series of reports about OLED lighting technology. The new report – Round 2 Update of Stress Testing Results for Organic Light-Emitting Diode Panels and Luminaires – builds on earlier DOE studies of OLED technology by updating information about previously benchmarked OLED products in accelerated stress tests. The results indicate OLED panel performance continues to improve.

I recently had the opportunity to interview Richard Rattray, Commercial Engineer, LEDVANCE, for an article about midstream lighting rebates I developed for tED Magazine’s August issue. This is the transcript.

Forty-year-veteran lighting designer Kevan Shaw of Kevan Shaw Lighting Design recently received the first LIT Lifetime Achievement Award.

WAC Lighting’s ESSENCE is a new series of architectural LED Pendants aimed at commercial, office, and hospitality applications such as lobbies and meeting spaces.