Craig DiLouie

In this week’s featured episode of 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 Louvers International about lenses/diffusers and their role in an effective luminaire design.

The Lighting Controls Association has published an article summarizing key construction economic indicators and presenting the AIA Consensus Construction Forecast for 2019, which predicts solid growth in an atmosphere of “cautious positivity.”

On behalf of DOE’s SSL Program, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is planning to conduct a study examining dirt depreciation and other optical changes occurring in LED street or area lights over long-term periods of performance, potentially approaching their full life cycles. For the study, PNNL seeks LED street or area lights that, ideally, are nearing the end of their anticipated life; however, any luminaire with more than 10,000 cumulative hours of operation will be considered.

For this roundtable, ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR talked to six leading manufacturers and experts to measure the pulse of lighting technological change and what this change has in store for electrical contractors.

Decorative lighting manufacturer Eureka’s Scout family of architectural luminaires offer a choice of nearly 20,000 combinations of color, size, functionality and geometry.

The Illuminating Engineering Society’s Los Angeles section (IESLA) recently announced a new venue and event enhancements for its 24th Annual IESLA Wally Whitney Memorial Product Fair, which will be held February 21, 2019.

The DesignLights Consortium (DLC) recently unveiled the first draft of a new policy that puts new and significant emphasis on quality of light as a bar products must clear for inclusion on the DLC’s Qualified Products List (QPL).

Today, the Department of Energy (DOE) proposed a revision of definitions of certain types of lamps covered by general-service lamp energy efficiency standards.

Submissions for the 2019 Howard Brandston Student Lighting Design Education Grant is now open. This grant was established to encourage and recognize students who have demonstrated exceptional professional promise through the presentation of an original and ingenious solution to a supplied design problem.