Industry News
Architecture Billings Index Shows Continuing Strength in August
On the heels of recording its strongest pace of growth since 2007, there continues to be an increasing level of demand for design services signaled in the latest Architecture Billings…
Nuckolls Fund Awarded $30,000 in 2014
The Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education presented a total of $30,000 for lighting education grants and awards in 2014. Founded in 1989 in honor of the late lighting designer and…
New York Festival of Light Coming November 6-8, 2014
The New York Festival of Light (NYFOL) announces New York City’s first annual New York Festival of Light, a three-night event – Thursday through Saturday, November 6 -8, 2014 –…
Lighting Systems Index Flat During Second Quarter on Mixed Component Results
Demand for lighting equipment, as measured by NEMA’s Lighting Systems Shipments Index, was essentially flat during the second quarter, increasing 0.1% over 2014Q1. In contrast, year-over-year performance for the topline…
Product Monday: Alba by Stack
The next generation of light bulbs features embedded intelligence, with many new products becoming available, as the editor of LEDs Magazine recently pointed out. An interesting new product that’s been…
DOE Updates National Reference Standard for Commercial Buildings to 90.1-2013
Following preliminary analysis that ASHRAE/IES’s 2013 energy efficiency standard contains energy savings over the 2010 standard – 8.5% source energy savings and 7.6% energy savings – the U.S. Department of…
DOE Announces Solid-State Indoor Lighting 2014 Award Winners
The Next Generation Luminaires (NGL) Design Competition recently recognized 57 commercial LED indoor lighting products as part of its sixth annual awards program. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy,…
2014 Nobel Prize in Physics Goes to Inventors of Blue LEDs
Dr. Shuji Nakamura, one of the founders of Soraa, Inc.The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2014 to Isamu Akasaki, Meijo…
Upgrading Fluorescent Luminaires to LED: What Happens to the UL Listing?
When a fluorescent luminaire is upgraded to LED, what happens to its electrical safety certification? It depends on whether the new lighting is an LED luminaire, LED retrofit kit or…
Product Monday: Adjustable Field Angle Optics by Lighting Services Inc
The new M20 and M40 Optic from Lighting Services Inc is a proprietary design to control the field angle while maintaining centerbeam candlepower. The new optics are now standard on…
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