Awards

The 2021 IES Illumination Awards were presented on August 9, 2021 at the Illuminating Engineering Society’s 2021 Virtual Annual Conference. Projects in Boston, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, New York City, Ukraine, Canada, and China were recognized. These awards recognize professionalism, ingenuity, and originality in lighting design.

The New York City Section of the IES (IESNYC) has announced the 14 winners of the 53rd Annual Lumen Awards. Three projects received a Lumen Award of Excellence, seven received Awards of Merit, and four received Citations.

The Illuminating Engineering Society’s New York City (IESNYC) section recently announced the winners of the 2021 Student Lighting Competition (SLC).

The U.S. Department of Energy recently launched a new Lighting Prize (L-Prize) designed to spur innovation, domestic manufacturing, and the benefits of an inclusive clean energy economy for next-generation lighting solutions in commercial buildings.

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.

The Illuminating Engineering Society is looking for significant new advancements in lighting products, research, publications, and design tools from the past year for its next annual Progress Report.

Clarion Events, owner of Revo, the organizer of LuxLive, the Lux Awards, and Lighting Design Awards, has announced that all its events are postponed indefinitely.

Isamu Akasaki, Shuji Nakamura, Nick Holonyak Jr, M. George Craford and Russell Dupuis were awarded one of the world’s most prestigious engineering accolades.

The LIT Design Awards invites all lighting designers and lighting product designers to share their work. The Awards were created to recognize the efforts of talented international lighting product designers and lighting implementers.