Awards

IESNYC has announced that the Lumen Awards Ceremony and Gala will be held at Chelsea Pier 60 on Wednesday, June 9, 2010 starting at 6:00 PM. IESNYC will be celebrating the 2010 Lumen Awards recipients. Cocktail hour starts at 6:00 PM and the dinner ceremony commences at 7:30 PM. Sponsorship tables are now available for [...]

GE Lighting has announced five finalists for the 27th annual international GE Edison Award competition. This year, lighting design firms involved with the five finalist projects hail from three countries: Germany, Mexico and the United States. The GE Edison Award competition is open internationally to lighting professionals who creatively employ significant use of GE light [...]

Do you have a song in your heart–about lighting? If so, you could win up to $2,500 in Capitol Lighting’s online “Jingle Contest.” There is no entry fee although the entry must communicate the nature of Capitol’s Unique Selling Propositions (USPs). In other words, it should convey why someone should shop for lighting at Capitol, [...]

Lara Cordell, LC, LEED-AP is director of technology for national lighting distributor Wiedenbach-Brown Co., Inc., for which I produce an annual lighting magazine for large corporate end-users called ENLIGHTEN. I had the pleasure of interviewing Lara, who is a lighting designer by training and one of the most knowledgeable people you’ll meet, for an article [...]

This week, I helped lighting industry and LIGHTFAIR Innovation Awards veteran Mark Roush edit the manufacturer entries. I can’t say how many there were, but trust me when I say it was a lot. By the end of the process, my head was spinning. Manufacturers should take note, however, that while we’re happy to do [...]

Lighting for Tomorrow is launching its 2010 competition—with a focus on lighting control devices and SSL luminaires and replacement lamps. For the first time, Lighting for Tomorrow will be looking at lighting control products including stand-alone, system-based, and whole house devices. The lighting controls competition is building on the 2009 fluorescent dimming competition by seeking [...]

For the first time, GE Appliances & Lighting will announce finalists in its prestigious and long-running annual GE Edison Award global lighting design competition. GE will reveal the list of finalists as part of its participation in Light+Building 2010, one of the world’s leading trade fairs for architecture and technology, held April 11-16, 2010, in [...]

The New York City Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society (IESNYC) is preparing to announce the long-awaited results for the 10th Annual NYC Student Lighting Competition at the Exhibition Opening and Reception on March 2, 2010. What: “Liminal Luminosity,” 2010 NYC Student Lighting Competition When: Tuesday March 2, 2010 – Exhibition Opening and Reception: 6-7 [...]

Winners of the second annual Next Generation Luminaires awards were announced at the Strategies in Light Conference in Santa Clara, CA. Sponsored by the Department of Energy, the Illuminating Engineering Society and the International Association of Lighting Designers, the competition was launched in 2008 to promote excellence in the design of energy-efficient LED luminaires for [...]