Craig DiLouie

Imagine walking into a conference room where there are no light switches or lighting control panels. Rather the light is “aware.” It automatically responds to where you are in the room, where others are and the tasks they are performing while smoothly adjusting illuminance to the precise lighting needed to optimize comfort, productivity and circadian function.

The 2021 IES Illumination Awards were presented on August 9, 2021 at the Illuminating Engineering Society’s 2021 Virtual Annual Conference. Projects in Boston, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, New York City, Ukraine, Canada, and China were recognized. These awards recognize professionalism, ingenuity, and originality in lighting design.

Luminii HŌM is an extensive portfolio of specification-grade residential lighting providing end-to-end interior and exterior options for bedrooms and closets, kitchens and pantries, ensuite baths, living rooms and studies, home theater, outdoor spaces, home fitness spaces, and more.

Beautiful Light: An Insider’s Guide to LED Lighting for Homes and Gardens, written by lighting designer Randall Whitehead and industry educator Clifton Stanley Lemon, has been published by Routledge Taylor & Francis. This book connects LED lighting technology with the tents of good residential lighting design.

Working with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), a team led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Brattle Group has developed A National Roadmap for Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings. The Roadmap outlines DOE’s national goal to triple the energy efficiency and demand flexibility of the buildings sector by 2030, relative to 2020 levels.

I recently had the opportunity to interview Devis Mulunda, Product Manager – Vive Wireless, Lutron Electronics about plug load control for an article I’m writing for the October issue of tED Magazine, the official publication of the NAED. Transcript follows.

Construction officials outlined a series of steps public officials and the construction industry should take to address the impacts of the built environment on climate change. The new initiative from the Associated General Contractors of America is designed to lessen the carbon footprint of the built environment while also making the process of building projects even more efficient.

The IOTA IIS 750 is a 750W emergency lighting inverter that combines popular IOTA inverter design features with unique 3-zone emergency performance capability.

I recently had the opportunity to interview Erik Milz, VP, Product Management, Cree Lighting on the topic of outdoor lighting for an article I’m writing for the December issue of tED Magazine, the official publication of the NAED. Transcript follows.