Industry News
IES Issues Call for Speakers for 2019 Conference
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…
ConstructConnect Publishes Construction Forecast
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…
Lutron Electronics Identifies Three Key Lighting Trends
Lutron recently alerted the media to three predictions for lighting industry trends in 2019: 1. Human Centric Lighting (HCL): The technology for HCL will continue to advance in all aspects…
Product Monday: FLEX LED Specification Troffer by Cree
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…
Get a Grip on Lighting Podcast: Audits Versus Sales
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…
RMI’s Lumens as a Service Report
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…
LEDs Can Reduce Seabird Deaths Resulting from Fishing
A new University of Exeter study found that attaching LED lights to gillnets used in commercial fishing can reduce the number of seabirds accidentally caught and killed by more than…
2018 AL Light & Architecture Design Awards
Check out the winning projects in the 2018 AL Light & Architecture Design Awards, which recognized 10 projects from 118 submissions from across the globe. You can catch them here.…
Product Monday: Wirering by FLOS
FLOS’s Wirering is a simple, stripped-down luminaire that is midway between a wall and floor lamp. Highlighting parts often hidden by lighting designers, the luminaire uses custom belt-like electrical cable…
LED Reliability Test
Below is a news item I wrote for the October 2018 issue of tED Magazine. Reprinted with permission. In April 2018, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released its final…
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