Industry News
Architecture Billings Index Reaches Highest Mark Since 2007
The last three months have shown steadily increasing demand for design services and the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) is now at its highest level since 2007. As a leading economic…
The Art of Landscape Lighting
My column in the July issue of ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR describes popular landscape lighting design techniques that can be used to transform exterior spaces through illumination. Catch it here.
How to Win a Lumen Award
The IESNYC has invited nine 2014 Lumen Award winning lighting designers to discuss what it takes to win a Lumen Award. In addition to discussing their award-winning projects, they will…
Product Monday: Skydome LED by Focal Point
Skydome LED by Focal Point is a family of classic illuminated circles offering a choice of 2-, 3- and 4-ft. diameters and recessed, surface and pendant mounting. The company’s Light…
Have LEDs Won?
Don Peifer posed this question in his recent column for LD+A: Does the hype surrounding LEDs match the reality? Or put another way: Is the battle over and have LEDs…
Nonresidential Building Activity Expected in Increase in 2015
First, the bad news. Due to the weather-related slow start in the nonresidential building market during the first part of the year, and the prolonged weakness in the institutional sector,…
DOE Publishes CALiPER Snapshot Report on Indoor LED Luminaires
The U.S. Department of Energy’s CALiPER program has released a Snapshot Report on indoor LED luminaires, which utilizes the LED Lighting Facts® program’s extensive product database to help industry stakeholders…
2014 Lumen Awards
The Illuminating Engineering Society New York City Section (IESNYC) recently announced the recipients of the 2014 Lumen Awards. Ten New York City-based design firms – AKF Lighting Design, Arup, Cline…
Product Monday: Knife and Rail LED Pendants by Litecontrol
Litecontrol’s newest customizable LED indirect/direct pendants—Knife and Rail—are available with the company’s very intriguing Variable Intensity (Vi) Technology. With Litecontrol’s Vi Technology, designers are no longer limited by standard luminaire…
LEDs May Help Astronauts Grow Food on Other Planets
Red leaf lettuce grown under different spectral conditions resulted in leaves with different colors and tastesHere’s an interesting application for LEDs: growing food on other planets. Researchers at the University…
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