Electrical contractors are an important influence in the lighting market, according to a new survey published by ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR. The survey of more than 700 readers, conducted by Renaissance Research & Consulting, found that contractors make decisions about lighting during both the design and construction project phases. Highlights: * 97% said they work with indoor [...]

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published the final report from an evaluation of three LED products designed to directly replace linear fluorescent lamps in commercial ambient lighting. These three products were among the “best in class” of products designed for this application at the time of the study, as identified by DOE’s CALiPER [...]

The high-brightness (HB) LED lighting market (packaged chips) continues to grow and is forecasted to reach $4.3 billion by 2014, according to LED Luminaire Market Review and Forecast 2011, a new report by Strategies Unlimited. With this explosive growth, the HB LED fixture market will follow in the same fashion–growing to more than $8 billion [...]

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 [...]

The National Lighting Product Information Program (NLPIP) at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Lighting Research Center (LRC) released its latest publication, Specifier Reports: Streetlights for Local Roads, designed to provide objective performance information on streetlights for local roads in residential areas. Municipalities across the United States have applied for funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment [...]

Residential architects are reporting that business conditions are stabilizing and there is a healthy demand for remodeling and renovation projects. These findings are from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Home Design Trends Survey for the fourth quarter of 2010, which focused specifically on kitchens and bathrooms. The AIA Home Design Trend Survey is conducted [...]

Design firm Clanton & Associates has announced the results of a six-month study analyzing the value and energy savings of a variety of lighting control systems and technologies in typical commercial office lighting control retrofit projects. The overall findings show that wireless lighting control systems offer high energy and cost savings potential compared to conventional [...]

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 [...]

In September, the National Lighting Product Information Program (NLPIP) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Lighting Research Center (LRC) released a publication called Specifier Reports: Streetlights for Collector Roads, which provides objective performance information on street lighting technologies including HPS, induction, LED, and pulse start metal halide (PSMH). The streetlights selected for evaluation were recommended in 2009 [...]