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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,…

Lighting Industry

Happy Memorial Day

May 25, 2009

I hope you and your family enjoy a great Memorial Day.

LED + SSL, Light + Art

Making Graffiti with Light

May 22, 2009

Check out how the Graffiti Research Lab uses light to create graffiti on buildings using LED throwies and digital light projection systems. See how a digital projection system is used…

Daylighting

Daylight Factor Explained

May 22, 2009

Daylight factor, a metric used to express the availability of daylight in a space, is explained clearly here.

Lighting Industry

National Sales Manager Job Available at Enertainment Lighting Company

May 21, 2009

I just heard about a Permanent National Sales Manager job for an entertainment lighting company based in Florida via LinkedIn, and thought I’d pass it along: “We are seeking a…

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