Craig DiLouie

Current by GE’s Lumination luminaires use the company’s patented TriGain technology to enhance both CRI and R9, a saturated red critical to color accuracy.

Ukrainian dance crew Light Balance on America’s Got Talent in 2017. The crew combined dance with stunning lighting effects to wow the audience. Check out the video.

The European Union is considering draft regulations extending its Ecodesign laws that would effectively eliminate tungsten halogen and compact fluorescent lamps.

Episode #22 of the Get a Grip on Lighting podcast provides a thought-provoking interview with Dan Ryan, Co-Founder & CEO of VergeSense. In this podcast, Ryan talks about the IoT, intelligent lighting, Li-Fi, indoor positioning, and the Matrix.

The New York City Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society (IESNYC) awarded its annual Thesis Prizes to Jessica Collier, Master of Fine Arts in Lighting Design, Parsons School of Design at the New School, to Chonlatorn (Tan) Pornpraphan, Master of Professional Studies in Lighting Design – New York School of Interior Design (NYSID), and to Olivia Privitera, Master of Science in Lighting, Lighting Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) School of Architecture.

Focal Point’s Skydome® has long offered a timeless, classic shape. Recently, the company updated the luminaire with the Skydome Edge. The new design retains elements of the original while adopting edge-lighting technology to deliver lens uniformity and a shallow knife-edge profile.

The 2015 Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS), produced by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), was recently updated to include additional energy end uses to include lighting and other equipment commonly found in homes.

Check out EC&M editor Mike Eby’s LIGHTFAIR 2018 product picks.

Writing for LD+A, Jim Benya argues that lighting energy codes have reached a mission accomplished stage in terms of energy conservation. Energy codes, he says, did what they intended to do, stating that by 2013, LPD had dropped 80% compared to 1973, while operating hours were reduced by two-thirds. Moving forward, lighting energy codes should focus on increasing compliance.