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The California Lighting Technology Center recently announced a new, targeted collaborative with the Lighting Research and Innovation Center at King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) to co-develop circadian lighting design specifications for patient healthcare and assisted living applications.

On October 3, 2019, the International Commission on Illumination issued the second edition of its position statement on non-visual effects of light, focusing on recommending the proper light at the proper time.

The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute welcomes Roger N. Beachy, Ph.D., as one of the keynote speakers for the 2019 Summit, October 15-17 in Troy, New York.

Based on research suggesting a correlation between building design and human health and wellness, in 2013 Delos created the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), which launched the WELL Building Standard. As of March 2019, more than 1,500 projects encompassing 315 million sq.ft. in 48 countries have been designed to WELL certification.

Installed throughout a building and equipped with sensors designed to collect a variety of data, networked lighting controls are well-positioned to provide the infrastructure that helps buildings respond to the real-time needs of occupants and facility managers alike, writes Christina Halfpenny, Executive Director, the DesignLights Consortium.

The University of Oregon recently published a new white paper, “The Impact of Lighting and Views in the Workplace of the Future.” The paper concludes that daylighted spaces with controlled lighting and views can improve occupant well-being, workplace productivity, and satisfaction by positively influencing various physiological and psychological processes. Lighting and views also impact property value and employee recruitment and retention.

There are two important, sometimes competing, metrics regarding Humancentric Lighting: the Equivalent Melanopic Lux (EML) and Circadian Stimulus (CS). These metrics were discussed by a panel of experts convened at the National Lighting Bureau’s most recent Annual Lighting Forum.

The New York City Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society (IESNYC) recently announced the recipients of the 2019 Lumen Awards at the 51st annual Lumen Gala in New York City.

AlconLighting.com recently published an interview with the California Lighting Technology Center’s Talieh Ghane about the interaction between light and human health.