To help end users in the education, healthcare, military, municipality and government markets, Hubbell Lighting has published two booklets intended to guide them as well as lighting specifiers through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). The books focus on ARRA stimulus plan lighting solutions and specifications. The specification guide identifies the full [...]

The November issue of Electrical Contractor published an article here that I wrote about the Department of Energy’s Commercial Lighting Solutions for Retail webtool residing here. I was pleased to contribute to the webtool with general language about lighting control recommendations. The DOE’s CLS for Office version is about to be released in a beta [...]

I’m happy to announce that LIGHTFAIR has invited me and my distinguished colleague Howard Wolfman to speak at 2010 LIGHTFAIR International on the topic of “What’s New in Lamps and Ballasts.” The 2009 event, sponsored by NAILD, was packed with more than 400 people. This year’s event should be even better. For one, we’re going [...]

The Designers Lighting Forum of New York (DLFNY), with support from the New York Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society (IESNYC), has announced that LEDucation IV will take place on Wednesday, March 3, 2010 in New York City. More than 1,000 lighting design community members are expected to attend seminars led by LED experts to [...]

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I recently purchased LightingInstitute.com, LightingConsulting.com and DigitalDimming.com. If you are interested in purchasing either of these domains, or would like to suggest some other productive use, including a charitable activity, please let me know here.

For all of my readers interested in LED, there’s a veritable goldmine of information available free right now at Architectural SSL Magazine’s blog SSL Interactive. This information consists of all of the papers from the magazine’s recent Arch LED conference. Check it out here.

On November 19, 2009, David Holmes, Principal of Capital Studio Architects, LLC and Joel Baker of Progressive Engineering, Inc. will provide a building tour of Goodwin College River Campus. They will discuss creating a signature building on the startup of a new college campus. Come and hear/see the unique architecture, lighting concepts and challenges during [...]

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