The Title 24 Residential Lighting Design Guide is now available to help builders comply with California’s 2008 Title 24 Building Energy Efficiency Standards. The Residential Lighting Design Guide provides a practical approach to lighting code compliance and design, including a broad array of example designs as well as technical and compliance information organized in a [...]

Cooper Lighting has released the 2011 SOURCE calendar of educational classes for the lighting and design community. The SOURCE education facility is located at Cooper Lighting’s headquarters in Peachtree City, Georgia, and offers a wide variety of seminars designed to broaden the understanding of lighting and its applications. The SOURCE has been servicing the lighting [...]

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One of the hats I wear in the industry is editor at large for Illuminate, the quarterly lighting supplement to Architectural Products Magazine read by 32,000 architects and lighting designers. I am currently developing the lighting product section for the April/May LIGHTFAIR 2011 issue and looking for great products to include. If you work for [...]

The Structure of Light, published by Yale Press, includes contributions from six historians, architects and lighting designers who explore Richard Kelly’s influence on modern architecture and his lighting designs. Check it out here.

“DOE Commercial Lighting Solutions: Overview,” design guidance for deep energy savings, will be presented by Carol Jones, LC, associate IALD of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, on Tuesday, January 25, 2011 from 2:00 to 3:00 PM Eastern Time. The Commercial Lighting Solutions webtool provides a free design resource enabling practitioners to exceed energy codes while [...]

IES magazine LD+A has been honored with two awards from the Association TRENDS’ 2010 All-Media Contest, which recognizes outstanding communications materials from associations. The magazine received a Gold Award in the “Monthly Professional Society Magazine” category for the October 2010 issue and a Bronze Award for its 2011 Media Kit. LD+A was one of more [...]

LIGHTFAIR International (LFI) will again cover a broad range of today’s most relevant topics, presented by the industry’s leading experts. Set to take place at the Las Vegas Convention Center, the 2012 LFI Conference program will align with topics addressed on the show floor as well as within the industry as a whole. The LIGHTFAIR [...]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released guidance recommending that schools take steps to reduce potential exposures to PCBs from older fluorescent lighting fixtures. Click here to learn more. There should not be a single school in the country using these ballasts. They should be replaced immediately with higher-efficiency lighting systems.