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Guest post by Jim Brodrick, reprinted with permission from Postings: from the desk of Jim Brodrick If you’ve ever shopped for white paint, you know there’s not just one universal white, but hundreds of different shades. White paint can be bold and bright, have hints of yellow or blue, or have subtleties that are hard [...]

Electrical and lighting contractors are important players in the specifying and recommendation of LED lighting products for building projects, according to a survey conducted by Energy Smart Marketers. According to the survey respondents, contractors are involved in recommending LED lighting more than 70% of the time, while a majority of respondents say they would be [...]

Lighting designer Jim Benya, a regular contributor to Architectural Lighting Magazine (my alma mater) and a thought leader in the lighting community, wrote an excellent article about residential lighting controls for the magazine’s April/May issue, which was released at Lightfair. Calling residential a leader in lighting control, he identifies three ways to approach control: * [...]