Craig DiLouie

The Illuminating Engineering Society’s Annual Conference August 8-10, 2019 in Louisville, KY will provide a range of educational programming, including workshops, seminars, immersive experiences, tours, networking, and paper and poster presentations on the art, design, science, and research of lighting.

LEDtronics’ LED Rope Light offers an energy-efficient replacement for neon sign lights, promising freedom from flicker, frequent burnouts, and broken glass that can occur with neon.

There are two important, sometimes competing, metrics regarding Humancentric Lighting: the Equivalent Melanopic Lux (EML) and Circadian Stimulus (CS). These metrics were discussed by a panel of experts convened at the National Lighting Bureau’s most recent Annual Lighting Forum.

It sounds obvious, but it isn’t. The fact is daylighting designs often assume a uniform “white canvas” of exterior daylight to work with, when numerous factors affect daylight availability. This is the subject of an insightful short article by HLB daylighting experts Matthew Tanteri and Amaia Puras-Ustarroz.

This year’s Strategies in Light featured a lively debate between noted experts in the field, tackling subjects ranging from controls to color tuning.

Gavin Free and Daniel Gruchy of the Slow Mo Guys, a British science and technology entertainment web series dedicated to filming things in extreme slow motion, captured the transmission of light at 10 trillion frames per second.

Cyclone’s Trika family offers post-top, side-mount, bollard, and wall-mount luminaires for outdoor spaces.

Harald Haas coined the phrase “LiFi” in 2011, and now he’s telling us it’s ready to enter version 2.0. He recently joined the Get a Grip on Lighting Podcast from the floor of the second Global LiFi Congress to catch us up on the history and development of light-based data transmission and its current applications in the fields of autonomous automobiles, privacy and security, and defense.

Driven by mega projects, the value of U.S. new construction will rise to $1.45 trillion by 2021, according to a new forecast by ConstructConnect.