Education + Resources

The Taiwan International Lighting Show will be held March 12-15, 2010, with more than 150 exhibitors presenting their products in 390 booths. The event will include market promotion activities including Procurement meetings, Lighting Industry Elite Award, New Products Display and other networking and marketing opportunities. The Forum will feature experts from Philips, GE LED Asia, [...]

Cooper Lighting has released the 2010 SOURCE calendar of educational classes for the lighting and design community. The SOURCE lighting education facility is located at Cooper Lighting’s headquarters in Peachtree City, Georgia, and offers a wide variety of seminars designed to broaden the understanding of lighting and its applications. The SOURCE has been servicing the [...]

The Advanced Energy Design Guide (AEDG) for Small Hospitals and Healthcare Facilities is designed to provide recommendations for achieving 30 percent energy savings over the minimum code requirements of ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1-1999. The Guide focuses on small healthcare facilities up to 90,000 sq.ft., including acute care facilities, outpatient surgery centers, critical access hospitals and inpatient [...]

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The Lighting Research Center has announced that it will hold a three-day hands-on seminar on May 4-6, 2010, where participants learn the basics of LED technology while building an understanding of LED system integration issues involving the electrical, optical, and thermal characteristics of LEDs. Participants learn how to measure and evaluate LEDs and LED systems, [...]

LED lighting offers tremendous promise for reducing energy use in buildings. On Wednesday, March 10, 2010, from 1:00–2:30 PM CENTRAL TIME (last half hour reserved for Q&A), the Energy Center of Wisconsin will host a webinar to help designers learn the latest strategies to use LED lighting effectively. Avraham Mendall Mor, IALD, LEED AP, IESNA [...]

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“Headlines from the Lighting World” is an informative roundup of what is going on in the fast changing world of lighting, to be held by the New York City Section of the IES. Marty Salzberg will report on upcoming changes to the lighting power density requirements in addendum “by” of the ASHRAE/IES 90.1 standard. Jack [...]

Lighting Control Pros, developed by two lighting control integrators at www.lightingcontrolpros.com, is a new blog dedicated to residential lighting controls. Integrators and other visitors can comment on products and reviews, and help out other professionals in the forum. The creators also began running a Youtube show called Lighting Control Pros TV which is filmed each [...]