Lighting Design

In a recent newsletter, the Northwest Lighting Network published a table suggesting good, better, best approaches to common lighting retrofits: 4-lamp troffer, 4-lamp strip, and HID luminaire.

To help the lighting industry develop and implement new color-rendering methods and metrics that address the shortcomings of the commonly used CRI metric, the U.S. Department of Energy conducts research to enhance understanding of color rendition. An article based on this research, “Chroma Shift and Gamut Shape: Going Beyond Average Color Fidelity and Gamut Area,” was recently published in the journal LEUKOS.

In this video presentation created as part of the Illuminating Engineering Society’s Indispensable Lighting Series, a group of industry leaders discussed the lighting design process, how best to improve the process, how best to interact with the other trades, and other pertinent lighting industry topics. Click to check out the archived presentation.

This article describes considerations and techniques for designing book stack lighting, based on the Illuminating Engineering Society’s (IES) RP-4-13, Recommended Practice for Library Lighting.

In “How to Light a Place of Worship,” Bruce Kirk, Light Perceptions talks about about how to balance modern technique and tradition in the lighting of a house of worship.

In “How to Light a Bridge,” Paul Boken, Mulvey & Banani Lighting discusses the various choices made when lighting a bridge, an ideal canvas for light.

In “Light and Media in Architecture,” Rune Nielsen, Kollision explores the idea of a language of light, a dialogue between dynamic and interactive lighting systems and users.

Randy Burkett Lighting Design recently announced it is beginning its 30th year of professional practice.

In 2016, education put-in-place construction spending reached $88.7 billion, making it the largest building market. This exciting lighting market is changing as teaching methods evolve toward greater interaction, flexibility, and technological integration. In this article, I talked to manufacturers about how school lighting is changing.