Industry News
Product Monday: Continuous LED Cove by Williams
Designed for seamless illumination and adjustable to the inch, Williams’ CX LED cove lighting system offers a choice of distributions and colors for customized accent lighting. Multiple dimming options and…
What’s New in Residential Lighting
Below is my contribution to the September issue of tED Magazine, on the topic of residential lighting trends. Reprinted with permission. In 2016, residential put-in-place construction spending increased to about…
DOE Publishes GATEWAY Report on OLEDs in an Office Space
The Department of Energy’s GATEWAY program recently published a new report on a project prominently featuring OLED lighting at the Rochester, NY offices of DeJoy, Knauf & Blood, LLP, an…
Architecture Billings Index Growth Moderates
For the sixth consecutive month, architecture firms reported increasing demand for design services as reflected in the July Architecture Billings Index (ABI). As a leading economic indicator of construction activity,…
The University of California and its Partners Plan to Buy 1 Million LED Lamps
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…
Product Monday: Color Changing Shallow Housing Downlight by WAC
Designed to fit shallow plenums above ceilings in residential and light commercial settings, WAC Lighting’s Lighting for Tomorrow Award-winning Aether IC Rated family from WAC Lighting is engineered with a…
LRC Calls for Revised LED Lifetime Testing Procedures
In a recent issue of LEDs Magazine, Dr. Nadarajah Narendran, Director of Research at the Lighting Research Center, discussed LRC research focused on LED system reliability that revealed that some…
Getting Ahead of the Curve on Dimming Curves
My contribution to the July issue of ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR talks about dimming curves and why they’re important. As dimming becomes more important, electrical contractors may benefit by becoming familiar with…
NLB Panel Discusses Power Over Ethernet
Lisa L. Isaacson (NuLEDs) and Michael S. O’Boyle (Philips Lighting) discussed power over Ethernet (PoE) systems at the National Lighting Bureau’s Annual Lighting Forum during a session called “Illuminating the…
Norma Frank on Maintaining Streetlighting
Norma Frank, CLMC recently contributed a maintenance column to LD+A that talks about LED streetlighting maintenance. Traditionally, HID luminaires are cleaned when they are relamped, limiting light loss imposed by…
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