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Controls Friday: Electrical Contractor Publishes Column on Estimating for Controls
Fellow Electrical Contractor Magazine columnist Stan Shook contributed a column on estimating titled, “Controlling Light,” which begins: Today’s lighting control systems (LCS) are more elaborate and high-tech than ever. The…
Registration for Greenbuild 2010 Now Live
Registration is now available for Greenbuild 2010. Greenbuild is returning to Chicago November 17-19. Registration is now available; register by September 7, 2010 to take advantage of the early bird…
Lightology Announces Design with Light Contest
Lightology is issuing a challenge to design professionals, students, artists and design lovers: submit an original design concept ranging from pure art to architectural, for a chance to win a…
Cleveland Mayor Tries Again to Commit City to 10-Year Contract for LED Lighting
On May 18, LightNOW reported that Cleveland was considering a 10-year deal giving Sunpu-Opto Semiconductor Ltd. exclusive rights to sell millions of LED lights to the city in exchange for…
IES Announces 2010 IIDA Award Winners
The Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES) has announced the recipients of the IES Illumination Awards for 2010. The IES granted one Award of Distinction, seven Awards for Excellence,…
April 2010 Construction Increases to $869.1 Billion Annual Rate
Construction spending during April 2010 was estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $869.1 billion, 2.7%% above the revised March 2010 estimate of $845.9 billion and 10.5% below the…
Product Monday: Sky Factory’s eScape
Sky Factory eScape™ is a digital cinema virtual window that brings the dynamic beauty of nature—image, motion and sound—to interior environments. A high-tech illusion, eScape features a wall-mounted industrial-grade HD…
May Issues of LightNOW Published
Check out the month’s stories here and here. The May 30 issue in particular had a lot of great stories—LIGHTFAIR Innovation Awards, GE Edison Design Awards, IALD Design Awards and…
Potential Energy Savings in Existing Buildings
Office buildings: According to the 2009 Buildings Energy Data Book published by DOE, the average large office building (>25,000 square feet) has a lighting power density (LPD) of 1.3-1.8 watts/sq.ft.…
Zipf’s Law: One of the Great Curiosities in Urban Research
From The New York Times: The law claims that the number of people in a city is inversely proportional to the city’s rank among all cities. In other words, the…
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