Education + Resources

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 [...]

LIGHTFAIR has announced the debut of the Spotlight Lounge at the 2011 Philadelphia show. Staged directly on the trade show floor among the expansive offerings of the LFI exhibitors, the Lounge presents a forum to engage and inform attendees. Supporting this launch and taking center stage in the Spotlight Lounge is headlining show keynote speaker [...]

The 2011 Howard Brandston Student Lighting Design Grant, established to encourage and recognize full-time students who have demonstrated exceptional professional promise through the presentation of an original and ingenious solution to a supplied design problem, is now open for submissions. The deadline is May 1, 2011. The award comprises a plaque and a check in [...]

The Lighting Controls Association’s website has been relaunched in a Web 2.0 format (blog with Twitter, RSS, Facebook, YouTube) at www.lightingcontrolsassociation.org. This was a big project that required us to move a lot of content into the new format that is now easier to search, share, comment. If you have not yet checked out this [...]

A big milestone for me occurred this month. Ten years ago, I left the New York publishing world, where I was publisher of Architectural Lighting and group publisher of the Design Group, to start ZING Communications, Inc. Ten years later, I’m happy to say I’m still loving it!

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors is providing powerful new tools, downloads, and technical information for solution providers and engineers via its LEDlight website. The new online tools section provides access to a number of LED lighting tools for lighting engineers and designers. Public files include video slidecasts of recent reference designs, LED product highlights and SSL technical [...]

For the past two years, Howard Wolfman of LumiSpec Consulting have presented the “What’s New in Lamps and Ballasts” seminar at LIGHTFAIR to audiences as large as 500 show attendees. Howard had done the presentation for a number of years previous to my getting involved, and helped make it the must-see LIGHTFAIR event it is [...]

The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) has published ANSI C136.26-2010 American National Standard for Roadway and Area Lighting Equipment—Troubleshooting Guide for High-Intensity Discharge (HID) Luminaires. This standard, produced by the ANSI Committee 136 for Roadway and Area Lighting, was last revised in 2003. It offers step-by-step guidance for use in troubleshooting HID lighting fixtures by [...]