Education + Resources

The Lighting Controls Association recently published a whitepaper I wrote about a new California Lighting Technology Center (CLTC) study on bilevel occupancy sensors. CLTC studied control strategies in eight private offices and found that combining occupancy sensing and bilevel switching produced the highest energy savings—about 50% more than using an occupancy sensor alone. These are [...]

The Venture Lighting Institute is offering a a webinar training series for free starting June 11 through the end of 2009. This online series covers lighting concepts to Venture products. The curriculum is designed towards key audiences such as electrical distributors and lighting designers. The series is offered once a month for a half hour [...]

The new 2009 NightSeeing Map, presented by the Illuminating Engineering Society, NYC Section, in association with the Designers Lighting Forum of New York, is now available to the general public. Here’s how IESNY describes it: Unlike ordinary maps and guide books that simply provide visitors with the names of landmark buildings, notable construction facts and [...]

The Lighting Institute seminar series from Philips Day-Brite continues with a seminar on sustainability at its LEED-CI Certified facility on June 11 and 12. This seminar is designed for owners, facility or energy managers, architects, engineers, lighting designers, end-users and others in the lighting industry that are currently supporting energy initiatives that lead to more [...]

Lighting.com was founded in the 1990s and has since endeavored to serve as a portal for the lighting community. I buy advertising in their newsletter for one of my clients. But all the email addresses for my contacts are no longer working, emails to their general box go unanswered, the phone’s disconnected, they didn’t exhibit [...]

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Lighting designer Jim Benya of Benya Lighting Design has published a great presentation on his website talking about opportunities in the retrofit and relighting market, available free here as a PDF file.

E ~ The Environmental Magazine, publisher of the nationally-syndicated EarthTalk column, which runs in America’s newspapers, magazines and websites, has compiled the “best of” its popular column all in one place: EarthTalk: Expert Answers to Everyday Questions About the Environment (A Plume original / ISBN 978-0-452-29012-9 / $15.00). EarthTalk consists of real questions from real [...]

Over the past two years, I had the pleasure of working with an extraordinary group of lighting professionals–Carol Jones, Naomi Miller, Leslie North, Peter Ngai, Dawn DeGrazio, Veda Clark and Yukiko Yoshida–on the development of Light + Design: A Guide to Designing Quality Lighting for People and Buildings. This 192-page document is a practical guide [...]