The New Buildings Institute just released a new market guide, Controlling Comfort and Energy in Offices, which outlines the benefits and best practices to implement lighting and shading retrofits in today’s market.
Controls
Controls, Energy + Environment
Dennis Shelden and Robert Karlicek to Co-lead New Rensselaer-based Institute for Energy, the Built Environment, and Smart Systems
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute recently announced the launch of the new Rensselaer Institute for Energy, the Built Environment, and Smart Systems (EBESS).
Controls, Craig’s Lighting Articles
ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR: Lighting Integrators
My most recent contribution to ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR talks about the smart building and lighting market and the commensurate increasing opportunity for electrical contractors to provide integration services or work with integrators.
Controls, Craig’s Lighting Articles
ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR: Lighting and DC Building Microgrids
In my lighting column published in the February issue of ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR, I tackle the topic of DC building microgrids.
Awards, Controls, Products + Technology
Lighting & Homes for Tomorrow Announces 2021 Competition Winners
The 2021 Lighting & Homes for Tomorrow (LHFT) competition recognized nine connected home products and platforms.
Controls, Interviews + Opinion
PNNL’s Gabe Arnold Talks DC Building Microgrids
I recently had the opportunity to interview Gabe Arnold, PE, LC, Senior Engineer, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for an article about DC building microgrids for an upcoming issue of ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR, the official publication of NECA. Transcript follows.
Controls, Craig’s Lighting Articles
Tunable White Positions Itself as a Lighting Tool
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.
Controls, Education + Resources
Lighting Controls Association Offers Two Free Webinars and Publishes New Course
The Lighting Controls Association now offers two YouTube webinars on tunable-white lighting and automatic plug load control, plus a new course on integrating lighting control and building automation systems.
DLC’s Christina Halfpenny on Tapping the Peak Shaving Power of Lighting Controls
“The technology exists to not only greatly increase the efficacy of commercial lighting, but to capitalize on its largely untapped potential to reduce peak demand. It’s time for regulation and practice to catch up with technology.”
DOE Studies Accuracy of Energy Reporting
The U.S. Department of Energy has released the results of a study exploring the energy-reporting accuracy of market-available connected devices.
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