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Lighting Design Profession Wins: Texas HB2649 to be Amended (updated)

May 28, 2009

Good news! It’s confirmed: The “lighting designer” language in Texas House Bill 2649 will be withdrawn and replaced with language requesting a study by the Texas Department of Licensing &…

Legislation + Regulation, Lighting Design

Keep Up The Pressure on Texas HB2649 (updated)

May 28, 2009

Your voice has been heard. There have been hundreds of phone calls, letters and emails over the past 48 hours about this potentially disastrous bill. Now here’s an update for…

Legislation + Regulation, Lighting Design

JoAnne Lindsley’s Letter to Texas Representative Wayne Smith

May 28, 2009

I was copied on this letter that JoAnne Lindsley, a leading lighting designer, past president of IALD and principal of Lindsley Consultants Inc., wrote to Texas Representative Wayne Smith about…

Lighting Industry

Veolia Launches Recycle a Bulb Network

May 28, 2009

At Lightfair, I had the pleasure of being introduced to Barry Jordan, National Sales Manager for recycling firm Veolia Environmental Services. He told me about his company’s new website, www.recycleabulb.com,…

Lighting Design, Lighting Industry

Grenald Waldron Associates Celebrates 40

May 28, 2009

Grenald Waldron Associates, a lighting design firm based in Philadelphia, has turned 40. Happy birthday!

Legislation + Regulation, Lighting Design

IALD Urges Lighting Community to Respond to Texas Bill

May 27, 2009

IALD is hoping the Texas Senate Business & Commerce Committee will remove language restrictive to the profession as a “technical adjustment” when the bill is prepared for the Governor’s signature,…

Legislation + Regulation, Lighting Design

Texas Passes Bill Requiring Licensing to Do Lighting Design (updated)

May 27, 2009

Wow. This is terrible. Yesterday, I received an email from IALD about Texas HB2649/SB2414 (the House and Senate versions are identical), “An Act Relating to the Regulation and Practice of…

Codes + Standards, Products + Technology

Photoluminescent Lighting

May 27, 2009

Lynn Proctor Windle, a contributing editor to Building Operating Management Magazine, wrote an excellent piece on photoluminescent technology as a means of providing emergency lighting in buildings, specially safety signs…

Lighting Industry, Products + Technology

CFL Sales Holding at About One in Every Four Household Lamps Sold

May 26, 2009

NEMA’s incandescent and compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) indices for Q109 declined 2.4% and 4.6% respectively compared to the previous quarter. The incandescent lamp shipments index showed a decline of 16.9%…

LED + SSL

Presentation Materials from SSL Manufacturing Workshop Available for Free Download

May 26, 2009

The Department of Energy hosts conferences and other events to exchange information and facilitate development of solid-state lighting (SSL). On April 21-22, DOE hosted an SSL Manufacturing Workshop in Fairfax,…

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