Industry News
USGBC Reaffirms Commitment to Developing Green Building Code
The U.S. Green Building Council recently reaffirmed its commitment to the development of Standard 189.1P, which will be America’s first National Standard developed to be used as a green building…
Annual Rate of Construction Valued at $1.08 Trillion in November
The U.S. Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce recently announced that construction spending during November 2008 was estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1,078.4 billion, 0.6% (±1.6%)…
Study Captures Daylighting’s HVAC and Lighting Energy Savings Impacts
Daylighting is recognized as best practice in energy codes and industry standards due to its documented positive effects on worker satisfaction and performance and potential to generate substantial energy savings.…
GE Debuts Incandescent-Shaped CFL
Miniaturized electronics developed by GE Consumer & Industrial engineers and scientists are the enabling technology of a new covered GE Energy Smart CFL featuring the GE Spiral® CFL inside the…
DOE Releases LED Streetlight Demonstration Project Report
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has released the Phase III report from the solid-state lighting (SSL) demonstration of LED streetlights in Oakland, CA, according to an email I recently…
Lighting and ASHRAE 90.1-2007
In March 2008, TED Magazine, the NAED publication for electrical distributors, published my column summarizing the lighting changes of the ASHRAE 90.1-2007 energy standard. ASHRAE 90.1-2007 did not make power…
Why Recycle Fluorescent Lamps?
Facilitymanagement.com has published an article about recycling fluorescent lamps here. Learn more about recycling at NEMA’s website, www.lamprecycle.org.
U.S. Architects Report Increased Adoption of Green Building
Autodesk, Inc. and the American Institute of Architects (AIA) have announced the results of the 2008 Autodesk/AIA Green Index, an annual survey that measures how AIA members are practicing sustainable…
Free PIER Technical Briefs Available for Download
Interested in new lighting technologies? PIER has published three briefs about emerging technologies that are available for free download. Note: All files download as PDF files. Savings Persist with Monitoring-Based…
GE Suspends Work on the HEI Lamp
The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 regulates the efficiency of general-service 40-100W incandescent and halogen screw-in lamps starting in 2012. With only a few exceptions among energy-saving screw-in…
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