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With the growing trend toward more human-centric designs in the commercial marketplace, Focal Point is providing the architecture and design community a tool to better understand how technology allows the quality of light to be tailored to human preference.

The DesignLights Consortium (DLC) recently unveiled the first draft of a new policy that puts new and significant emphasis on quality of light as a bar products must clear for inclusion on the DLC’s Qualified Products List (QPL).

Today, the Department of Energy (DOE) proposed a revision of definitions of certain types of lamps covered by general-service lamp energy efficiency standards.

Morgan Pattison, principal of SSLS, Inc., senior technical advisor to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solid-State Lighting Program, and lead author of DOE’s Solid State Lighting R&D Plan, recently contributed an article to LD+A Magazine stating the majority of lighting/health research has been in laboratory conditions. For real progress to be made in developing best practices, more field research is needed.

Valuing the residential smart lighting market at $1.5 billion in 2017, market research firm IHS Markit predicted growth to over $4.5 billion in 2021, making it one of the fastest-growing areas of smart lighting. This article, which I wrote for the January 2019 issue of tED Magazine, describes trends in residential smart lighting.

I recently had the opportunity to interview Colleen Costello, Co-Founder and CEO, Vital Vio, Inc., on the topic of visible light disinfection for an article I wrote for the February 2019 issue of tED Magazine, the official publication of the NAED.

The Rocky Mountain Lighting Academy (RMLA) recently announced its 2019 lighting courses, which will be held concurrently June 6-9, 2019.

Provided for full- and part-time faculty, the Illuminating Engineering Society’s Teachers of Lighting Workshop will be held June 2-7, 2019 at the Hubbell Lighting Solutions Center in Greenville, SC. This workshop provides instruction in the design, science, and technology of lighting. The deadline to apply is February 15.

I recently had the opportunity to interview Cliff Yahnke, PhD, Kenall Manufacturing’s Director of Clinical Affairs for Indigo-Clean. The topic? Using LED luminaires to disinfect spaces using a germ-sensitive portion of the visible light spectrum.