Industry News
Product Monday: ElumTools 2013 by Lighting Analysts
Lighting Analysts, Inc. has announced the availability of ElumTools 2013, an enhanced and updated software add-in to Autodesk Revit 2013 MEP or Architecture. ElumTools 2013 contains several user-driven enhancements such…
Brownlee Lighting Expands With New Building Addition
Brownlee Lighting recently announced the completion of a 16,000-sq.ft. building expansion. The new addition, located at 4600 Dardanelle Drive, has doubled inventory storage capacity and is home to an additional…
Demand for Halogen A-Lamps Accelerated in First Quarter of 2012
NEMA’s shipment index for halogen A-line lamps showed a continued acceleration in growth during Q1 2012, improving by 110% on a year-over year basis. Halogen A-line lamps garnered a share…
2012 IES Street and Area Lighting Conference to be Held September 9-12
The 31st annual Illuminating Engineering Society Street and Area Lighting Conference will be held in Miami September 9-12, 2012. This event was created for industry professionals to openly exchange information…
GE Lighting Announces New Professional Solutions Organization
GE Lighting recently announced it is aligning its Lighting Solutions sales and applications solutions teams with its North America professional sales teams under a single structure and single leader. Jaime…
Product Monday: Mino LED by Peerless
Peerless Lighting’s Mino is a suite of three direct ambient 2×2 LED luminaires–Recessed, Surface and Pendant–that deliver quality illumination, modern design and energy efficiency. Designed to be kind to the…
IES Launches IESLightLogic.org Website
The Illuminating Engineering Society has launched a new blog-format website designed to educate the public about good lighting. The site, produced by IES and written by myself and industry writer…
LED Rebate Programs Proliferate
Originally published in TED Magazine, April 2012. More than $5 billion in commercial lighting rebates are offered in nearly eighty percent of the United States, according to Leendert Jan Enthoven,…
Department of Energy Approves Exemption for Halco 700 Series T8 Lamps
The Department of Energy Office of Hearings and Appeals has granted Halco Lighting Technologies a two-year exemption relief for certain T8 fluorescent lamps from the efficiency regulations that went into…
FMI Publishes Construction Outlook Second Quarter 2012 Report
From FMI: “Economic forecasting is a tricky business even in normal times, and the current national and global economy is anything but normal. Nonetheless, FMI’s forecast calls for more slow…
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