Luminis has improved upon and expanded its award-winning Maya family of exterior luminaires. Improvements in design aesthetic across the family and new pendant and post-top versions give specifiers a wider range of Maya luminaires to work with.

LightingEurope endorsed the recent UV-C safety guidelines published by the Global Lighting Association (GLA) and called on European Union Member States to ensure UV-C products can continue to be placed on the EU market.

The Illuminating Engineering Society and the International Ultraviolet Association are partnering to develop American National Standards for the measurement and characterization of UV-C device performance.

The International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) recently announced 21 winners of the 37th Annual IALD International Lighting Design Awards, presented by Cooper Lighting Solutions. Top honors goes to Arup UK for The University of Sheffield Concourse in Sheffield, England UK, which received the IALD Radiance Award for Excellence in Lighting Design award.

The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) Board of Directors recently announced that the 2020 IES Annual Conference, originally scheduled for August 6-8 in New Orleans, has been canceled and will be moved to a virtual setting.

WAC Lighting’s InvisiLED CCT Color Temperature Adjustable Tape Light System offers a choice of five CCTs: 2700K, 3000K, 3500K, 4000K, and 5000K at 95 CRI. InvisiLED CCT mounts on ceilings, floors, undercabinet, and walls in a variety of orientations for numerous accent, ambient, and task lighting applications.

British artist Liz West’s 2016 art installation, “Our Colour” transformed an architectural space with spectrum.

CEA-Leti recently announced its researchers have broken the throughput world record of 5.1 Gbps in visible light communications (VLC) using a single GaN blue micro- light-emitting diode (LED). Their data transmission rate of 7.7 Gbps achieved with a 10 µm microLED marks another step toward commercialization and widespread use of LiFi communication.

On its website, the International Ultraviolet Association makes a case that UV disinfection can play a role in a multibarrier approach to reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19. This may lead to increased applications for GUV in buildings, but there are risks. My latest contribution to ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR spells it out.