The Lighting Quotient, in conjunction with the Illuminating Engineers Society (IES), launched the Sylvan Shemitz Memorial Scholarship to help foster the education of students entering the lighting field and encourage thinking around energy efficiency. Each year, the scholarship grants $2,500 to one student who demonstrates creativity, vision and knowledge in the field of architectural lighting. [...]

Architectural Lighting: Designing with Light and Space by Herve Descottes and Cecilia E. RamosISBN 9781568989389 Publication date 5/1/2011 7 x 8.5 inches (17.8 x 21.6 cm), Paperback 144 pages, 177 color illustrations Light is something like water—often taken for granted, and only noticed when it’s on short supply. But this shouldn’t be the case. Light [...]

The Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey, produced by the Energy Information Administration at the Department of Energy (DOE), provides incredibly valuable information about how commercial buildings use energy and energy-using systems such as lighting and HVAC. If you wanted to know things like, “How many office buildings are in the Northeast?” or “What is the [...]

Lightsearch.com has added a new page to its Lighting Resource Center which lists Mobile Apps for iPad, iPhone and Android mobile devices. The list is comprised of a wide range of tools that could be useful to lighting professionals which includes: calculators, light meters, wireless lighting and DMX controllers, manufacturers product catalogs, and even a [...]

The Department of Energy has published the summary report from the 2011 DOE Solid-State Lighting (SSL) R&D Workshop, held February 1–3 in San Diego, California. A PDF copy of the report may be downloaded here. Three hundred and fifty participants joined DOE to share perspectives on “Transformations in Lighting,” including representatives from industry, academia, research [...]

The Illuminating Engineering Society has announced a Call for Papers for its 2011 annual conference to be held October 30-November 1, 2011 at the Hilton Austin Hotel in Austin, TX. Authors of papers regarding the art, science and practice of illumination are invited to submit their papers for possible presentation for the conference, the theme [...]

American Lighting has launched the American Lighting Blog at www.americanlightingblog.com. Through the new American Lighting Blogsite resellers, architects, designers, builders, electricians and customers can learn more about LED lighting, see where it’s being used, learn best practices for installation, and view the beautiful, energy-efficient and money-saving results.

The U.S. chapter of the International Commission on Illumination (Commission International de l’Eclarage) – CIE/USA is hosting a series of seminars on solid-state lighting. The seminars begin at 7:00AM, May 19, 2011 at the Philadelphia Airport Courtyard Hotel (Philadelphia, PA), the last day of LIGHTFAIR, which is being held in the same city May 17-19. [...]

I’m pleased to announce that I have finally completed the long awaited (by my publisher) update to The Lighting Management Handbook, which came out in 1994, with this 300-page book about redesigning existing lighting systems: Lighting Redesign for Existing Buildings. Because light is used to see but cannot be seen, it is often overlooked by [...]