Lighting Industry

At the 2017 Strategies in Light conference, Robert F. Karlicek, Jr. spoke about creative destruction in the lighting industry brought on by LED technology and the Internet of things (IoT). After catching his fascinating presentation, I interviewed him for a story for ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR. Click here for an excerpt and link where you can read the article.

Randy Burkett Lighting Design recently announced it is beginning its 30th year of professional practice.

Big changes at my alma mater, ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING. Editor Elizabeth Donoff recently announced that the magazine will move to a digital-only format starting in 2018. And today is Donoff’s last day with the magazine as editor in chief.

The NEMA Linear Fluorescent Lamp Index showed respective market share of 57.3% for T8, 8.6% for T5 and 12.4% for T12 in the first quarter of 2017. Remarkably, TLED lamps, which accounted for 15.3% of shipments in the first quarter, increased to 21.7% in the second quarter.

LD+A, the official publication of the Illuminating Engineering Society, recently earned four awards—-one for each submission-—in the 37th annual EXCEL Awards competition sponsored by Association Media & Publishing. Congratulations!

The Million Lamp Challenge has officially been launched by the University of California system in consultation with the California State Department of General Services. The groups have issued their purchasing standards to encourage the purchase and installation of high-quality LED lamps in their buildings: • UC System Purchasing Standard • DGS Purchasing Standard The purchasing [...]

Below is my contribution to the July issue of tED Magazine on the topic of change in the lighting industry. Reprinted with permission. At this year’s Strategies in Light conference in Anaheim, California, two notable speakers talked about how LED technology is disrupting the traditional lighting industry. tED caught up with them to ask how [...]

tED Magazine recently published two online articles about how electrical distributors can up their lighting game in a competitive marketplace. Namely, through partnerships, relationships and adding value throughout the procurement process, from “show don’t tell” product introductions to negotiating the best price to ensuring good service. Read part 1 here. Read part 2 here.

The first quarter of 2017 saw a 1.4% increase compared to 4Q 2016 but a 3.4% decline when compared to 1Q 2016. Emergency lighting, fixtures, and lighting controls posted quarter-over-quarter increases while the remaining components declined during the same period. The same components also posted year-over-year increases, but were offset by the decline in ballasts [...]