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PIXI Lighting Begins Selling its Lighting Products Through Grainger
PIXI Lighting recently announced it will begin selling its products through Grainger. Effective June 1, 2014, Grainger will be the only supplier to offer PIXI products, including FlatLight Luminaires, the…
Shook, Mahr, Curtis and Corbett-Oates of Schuler Shook Win 2013 GE Edison Award
The 2013 GE Edison Award was presented to Robert Shook, Maureen Mahr, Jennifer Curtis and Kimberley Corbett-Oates of Schuler Shook (Chicago, Illinois, USA) for lighting City Performance Hall in Dallas,…
Acuity Brands Connects Smart Lighting with Smartphones
Acuity Brands, Inc. is demonstrating lighting technology that empowers retailers to enhance customers’ experiences through their mobile devices and increase in-store sales. With more than 60% of mobile shoppers using…
Lighting Research Center Launches Lighting Energy Alliance
The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has launched a new collaborative initiative, the Lighting Energy Alliance, to increase the benefits of lighting while reducing its environmental and…
Product Monday: High-Ceiling LED Downlight by Focal Point
Focal Point’s ID LED High Ceiling is a new member of the company’s LED downlight family designed especially for high ceiling applications. A choice of 6” or 8” apertures, multiple…
LED Replacement Lamps Come of Age
Here’s an article I wrote about LED replacement lamps for the April issue of The Electrical Distributor (TED) Magazine, which you might find interesting: Demand for LED replacement lamps continues…
Architecture Billings Index Mired in Slowdown
Following a modest two-month recovery in the level of demand for design services, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) again turned negative last month. As a leading economic indicator of construction…
Autodesk Whitepaper on 3D Printing of LED Optics
Autodesk has published a whitepaper on 3D printing of LED optics. The whitepaper describes the role Autodesk played in a project for manufacturer LUXeXcel that demonstrates the direction in which…
Jim Brodrick on Early Lessons Learned in Bringing SSL to Market
Republication of Postings from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solid-State Lighting Program by Jim Brodrick, U.S. Department of Energy Although solid-state lighting has come a long way in the…
Product Monday: Hue Luminaires by Philips
Philips Lighting’s Hue Entity and Tempest table and pendant luminaires, co-created with design teams WertelOberfell and Strand+Hvass, feature color-changing Hue lamps and are manufactured using 3D printing, which provides more…
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