The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) recently announced The Lighting Library is available for purchase. The new Library updates, expands, and replaces the 2010 Lighting Handbook and previous versions of the Society’s standards.

Join the U.S. Department of Energy and the Illuminating Engineering Society at the 18th annual Lighting R&D Workshop, February 1–4, 2021, where top lighting scientists and industry thought leaders will gather to share progress, challenges, ideas, and solutions to shape the future of lighting. The 2021 workshop will be virtual and free to attend.

Kim Lighting has launched the latest addition to its extensive outdoor architectural lighting portfolio, the new Intent RGBW linear floodlight.

White-light color tuning is one of the most exciting advantages of LED lighting, providing the ability to adjust luminaire color output across the white light spectrum. As the timed spectral emission of light plays a part in circadian lighting—the application of light to promote circadian health—this developing trend offers the potential to take tunable white more mainstream.

As long as the threat and reality of pandemic-level super viruses continue to wreak havoc, the topic of germicidal lighting for indoor disinfection is bound to come up. Before blasting surfaces with ultraviolet (UV) light, however, there are some important things to consider and a few facts.

Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis, 2020 Annual Update of Global LED Lighting Market, finds that the increasing demand for energy-efficient lighting, the rising number of smart city projects and overall infrastructure development are driving the LED lighting market across the globe.

Zweig Group has updated the Impacts of COVID-19 on the AEC Industry Survey for the second half of 2020, adding new questions about personal protective equipment (PPP) funding, outlook and budget forecasting, and more.

Signify’s new commercial UV-C disinfection luminaires offer building owners a potential tool for disinfecting air, surfaces, and objects.

The Illuminating Engineering Society recently announced the 2020 IES Progress Report, which recognizes significant advances in the art and science of lighting. Published in LD+A Magazine, the Report recognizes 82 products from 171 submittals, selected via an impartial judging process.