Craig DiLouie

Tech Lighting’s Zur outdoor collection of wall sconces, bollards, and path lights offer lighting needed for wayfinding, architectural accents or landscape illumination. Available in a Black, Charcoal or Bronze Marine-Grade Powder finish, Zur blends with contemporary architecture and landscapes while providing precise illumination.

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) reported earlier this week that architecture firm billings rose for the seventh consecutive month in April, with the pace of growth increasing modestly from March.

My contribution to the May issue of ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR talks about a complex but suitable application for circadian lighting–hospitals.

LIGHTFAIR kicked off with the LFI Innovation Awards, which honors innovative new lighting products introduced over the previous 12 months. The Most Innovative Product of the Year award went to the NU Vector Series downlight Alphabet Lighting, a division of LEDRAbrands. This downlight offers dynamic beam shaping, full tilting, and full wireless control via an app or wall control.

The International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) recently announced the winners of the 35th Annual International Lighting Design Awards, which recognized 17 diverse projects of exceptional quality. Accepting the Radiance Award for Excellence in Lighting Design, the highest level award, were Stephanie Grosse-Brockhoff and Andreas Schulz, IALD, part of the project team from Licht Kunst Licht for the German Ivory Museum in Erbach, Germany.

Soraa recently expanded its Soraa Arc portfolio with Soraa Arc downlights, which feature adjustability, modular design, and exceptional color quality.

Preciosa Lighting’s design concept, “Breathing New Life Into Light,” displayed at 2018 Salone del Mobile in Milan, allowed visitors to interact with the lighting installation, which was shaped like a cloud of luminous bubbles. The bubbles brighten or dim as users walk around them. They can also blow into custom orbs at the edges of the installation, allowing users to affect the pattern of light and ambient music.

In this third episode of the Get a Grip on Lighting podcast, Greg Ehrich and Michael Colligan talk about the Light + Building show, the future of lighting manufacturing, light as a service, LiFi, and what to do with data lighting systems can generate.

To get an idea of how connected lighting is impacting the industry and where it’s going, I talked to six thought leaders in the lighting industry. Here’s what they said.