Craig DiLouie

The Illuminating Engineering Society has issued a call for speakers for its 2019 Annual Conference, which will be held August 8-10, 2019 in Louisville, KY and has the theme of Light.Affect / Light.Effect. The deadline for proposals is February 15, 2019.

ConstructConnect recently published new projections of U.S. put-in-place (PIP) construction activity. Overall, the organization sees a robust future for construction activity over the next three years in both the residential and nonresidential building sectors.

Lutron Electronics recently alerted the media to three trends in the lighting industry for 2019.

Cree’s FLEX Series LED Troffer offers five customizable inner-optic choices, standard 1% 0-10V dimming with optional SmartCast® Technology for intelligent lighting control, significantly reduced flicker, and design flexibility with various options.

In this week’s featured episode of Get a Grip on Lighting podcast–this one produced exclusively for tED Magazine–hosts Greg Ehrich, LC, former President of NAILD and owner of Premier Lighting, and Michael Colligan, an entrepreneur and inventor–talk about how to turn audits into sales.

In 2017, the Rocky Mountain Institute published a report, Lumens as a Service, which proposes business models for adopting a light-as-a-service approach to market. Citing other industries such as solar photovoltaics and vehicles, RMI says the time is right for the lighting industry to innovate to offer commercial building owners immediate return on investment and improved lighting.

A new University of Exeter study found that attaching LED lights to gillnets used in commercial fishing can reduce the number of seabirds accidentally caught and killed by more than 85 percent.

Check out the winning projects in the 2018 AL Light & Architecture Design Awards, which recognized 10 projects from 118 submissions from across the globe.

FLOS’s Wirering is a simple, stripped-down luminaire that is midway between a wall and floor lamp. Highlighting parts often hidden by lighting designers, the luminaire uses custom belt-like electrical cable made of colored rubber and a ring of LEDs. The cable fixes to the wall through ABS joints in the same finish as the ring. [...]