Craig DiLouie

The DesignLights Consortium recently announced it is accepting product submissions for its Horticultural Qualified Products List.

Decorative lighting manufacturer Eureka’s Verner pendant is a “deco-performance” luminaire comibining high light output with a geometric aesthetic to enhance interior spaces while providing useable light. With no visible hardware, the pendant is intended for use in high ceiling applications, open areas or spaces where diminished focus on the ceiling is the aim.

When you’re about to do a lighting upgrade, knowing the specifications of a luminaire is just the start. What are other things to consider when retrofitting?

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.