Industry News
Philips’ Susanne Seitinger Talks Liberated Pixels
In a recent post at Edison Awards (not to be confused with the GE lighting awards), Philips Lighting’s Susanne Seitinger talks about illuminated drones used at the 2017 Superbowl Halftime…
tED Magazine Launches LightED Website
tED Magazine, the official publication of the NAED, recently launched lightEDmag.com, a website dedicated to lighting.
LightShow West Registration is Open
LightShow West recently announced the opening of online registration for the trade show and conference at Kentia Hall in the Los Angeles Convention Center, Oct. 11-12, 2017. The biennial event…
Product Monday: Linear Luminaires by Ketra
L3I Indirect Linear Pendant: This indirect pendant offers clean uplighting for commercial and hospitality applications, and it comes in several housing colors and customizable lengths. Changeable optics ensure fine control…
RPI Names Mariana Figueiro New Director of Lighting Research Center
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has named Professor Mariana G. Figueiro, Ph.D., as director of the Lighting Research Center (LRC), after serving as the center’s acting director over the past year. Figueiro…
Electroindustry Business Confidence Indexes Decline Sharply but Remain above 50
NEMA’s Electroindustry Business Confidence Index for current conditions slid by more than 20 points from the near-term high of 76.5 reached in March of this year. As recently as last…
Lighting’s Creative Destruction
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…
Bipartisan Legislation Introduced to Make 179D Tax Deduction Permanent
Bipartisan legislation has been introduced in Congress that would make permanent a key energy efficiency tax incentive for owners and designers of energy efficient buildings while expanding its benefits to…
Product Monday: Self-Testing Emergency LED Driver by IOTA
IOTA’s ILB-CP10-HE-SD is a UL-Listed self-testing emergency LED driver for field and factory installations. IOTA’s ILB-CP10-HE-SD Emergency LED Driver combines patented Constant Power illumination with automatic self-testing technology for optimal…
IES Announces 2017 Illumination Award of Merit Winners
The Illuminating Engineering Society recently published a list of the 2017 Illumination Awards of Merit and International Awards. See the list of Merit Awards here. See the list of International…
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