Endeavor Business Media recently announced the launch of LightSPEC West, a new West Coast lighting education and solutions event for buyers and specifiers of commercial, architectural,
and high-end decorative lighting products, controls, and technologies.

Architectural SSL Magazine recently announced the 11th annual Product Innovation Awards competition, recognizing outstanding products and product developments relating to solid-state lighting. Products—both luminaires and components—and products as applied in projects, will be reviewed by the editorial staff and an expert panel of judges.

Joe Knisley breaks down germicidal ultraviolet lamps in this article appearing in ELECTRICAL WHOLESALING.

The DesignLights Consortium recently introduced the first draft of Light Usage for Night Applications (LUNA), which establishes performance thresholds for specific categories of outdoor lighting in order to minimize light pollution and energy consumption, provide appropriate visibility for people, and limit negative impacts to the environment.

Axis Lighting’s Elle is a sleek, concave luminaire with a non-invasive curved profile, designed to blend into architecture. It is suited to continuous runs throughout a space.

In March 2021, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) logged its second positive mark since the beginning of the pandemic, according to The American Institute of Architects (AIA).

Endeavor Business Media and the Strategies in Light event team recently announced that the 2021 in-person event will not take place due to the unavailability of the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA and continuing restrictions on international travel. The event will be shifted to an online format to be held August 24-25, 2021.

Due to the uncertainty of restrictions regarding mass gatherings in August, as well as restrictions impeding international travel, the LEDucation committee has canceled the in-person trade show in New York City scheduled for August 17-18, 2021. However, the committee announced LEDucation will offer a series of accredited virtual conference sessions in August 2021.

The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) Board of Directors recently announced that its 2021 IES Annual Conference, originally scheduled for August 5-7 in New Orleans, will not take place in-person, and instead will be hosted in a virtual setting.