Awards

Lighting for Tomorrow has launched its fourteenth consecutive annual competition recognizing high-quality energy-efficient residential lighting products on the market. Winners are heavily promoted by Lighting for Tomorrow for a full calendar year. Award recipients will also be eligible to be promoted by energy efficiency programs across the US and Canada. Lighting for Tomorrow is sponsored [...]

Architectural SSL magazine recently announced the sixth annual Product Innovation Awards competition, which recognizes outstanding products and product developments relating to solid-state lighting. Products—both luminaires and components—and products as applied in projects, will be reviewed by the editorial staff and an expert panel of judges. The award winners will ultimately represent a peer-recognized selection of [...]

The Illuminating Engineering Society New York City Section (IESNYC) recently announced the 2016 Lumen Awards are open for submissions now through February 8, 2015. A signature program of the IESNYC, the Lumen Awards celebrate excellence in lighting design. Note that starting this year, the IESNYC Lumen Awards and the IES Illumination Awards are now two [...]

The 2016 Next Generation Luminaires™ Outdoor Competition has officially launched. Online Intents to Submit are due on January 18, 2016, and the judging event will take place in March. The 2016 Outdoor Competition application categories include: Luminaires for Pedestrian Scale Focused Evaluation • Pole-mounted Pedestrian Scale (12′) • Pole-mounted Decorative Streetscape (20′) • Bollards • [...]

The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) honored the finalists of the 2015 IES Illumination Awards and presented IES Society Awards for Technical and Service Achievement at the IES Annual Conference in Indianapolis, IN November 8 – 10. The IES Illumination Awards included five Awards of Distinction, ten Awards of Excellence, and four Special Citations. The Awards [...]

Eaton has announced that it’s now accepting entries for the 39th Annual SOURCE Awards national lighting design competition. Professional and student entries can be submitted at The Lighting reSOURCE, Eaton’s new online informational hub. The competition deadline is January 20, 2016. The SOURCE Awards competition is open to all lighting designers, architects, engineers, professional designers [...]

You have a client opening a wine bar and restaurant in a major west coast city, and they want you to design a signature pendant to mount over the bar plus a complementary surface-mounted luminaire for the lounge area. What do you do? That was the challenge to students for the 2015 Robert Bruce Thompson [...]

The Community Lighting for the Urban Environment (CLUE) competition, aimed at students and emerging professionals and sponsored by Philips Lighting, is now welcoming submissions of projects and innovative ideas. Winners receive one of three grants totaling $8,500 and secure an expense-paid trip to LIGHTFAIR. Click here to learn more.

The 2016 Next Generation Luminaires Indoor Competition has officially launched. Online Intents to Submit are due on November 30, 2015, and the judging event will take place February 10–12, 2016. What’s new for 2016–the Indoor competition will be divided into two separate evaluations: * Application Focused Luminaire Evaluations will focus on a more limited range [...]