LightShow West will be held October 11-12, 2017 in Kentia Hall at the Los Angeles Convention Center. LightShow West has issued a call for speakers to present at the conference in one of these education tracks: * Architectural lighting * Health and lighting * Lighting 101 * Lighting design * Lighting technology * Title 24 [...]

LIGHTFAIR International (LFI) 2017 offers an all-new Conference curriculum spanning the spectrum of contemporary theory and practice. The Conference program includes 77 courses totaling more than 190 education hours at Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania Convention Center May 7 – 11 (Pre-Conference LIGHTFAIR Institute: May 7 – 8; Trade Show & Conference: May 9 – 11). Highlighting the [...]

Below is my contribution to the December issue of tED Magazine, the official publication of the NAED. Reprinted with permission. The lighting industry is undergoing a dramatic transformation driven by adoption of LED lighting and lighting controls. This demand in turn is feeding emerging trends including connectivity, spectral tuning, circadian lighting and the Industrial Internet [...]

The Lighting Controls Association (LCA) has published a new course to enhance its Education Express program: EE203: Lighting and Commercial Energy Codes, Part 2: ASHRAE/IES 90.1-2013 and IECC 2015. Complying with a Department of Energy mandate, a growing number of states are adopting commercial building energy codes at least as stringent as ASHRAE/IES 90.1-2013 and [...]

The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has recently expanded its M.S. in Lighting degree program to include a paid career externship at a leading lighting manufacturer, design firm, or government organization. Upon graduation, students now have the opportunity to participate in a paid externship for three months or more with one of [...]

The Lighting Controls Association (LCA) has published a new course to enhance its popular Education Express program: EE303: Tunable-White Lighting. As acting education director of LCA, I was happy to have the opportunity to author this content. LED lighting technology promises many benefits, one of which is practical color output tuning. Popular approaches include full-range, [...]

Nearly three quarters of U.S. architects say the health impacts of buildings are influencing their design decisions. That finding parallels a strong market demand by building owners, with a solid two-thirds surveyed also reporting that health considerations affect how they design and construct buildings. These findings and others were recently released in a new report, [...]

Republication of Postings from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solid-State Lighting Program by Jim Brodrick, SSL Program Manager, U.S. Department of Energy Among the many possibilities enabled by the advent of SSL is the use of light to trigger or suppress certain physiological responses of living things — from humans, to animals, to plants. [...]

The Lighting Controls Association (LCA) has published a new course to enhance its popular Education Express program: EE203: Lighting and Commercial Energy Codes, Part 2: ASHRAE/IES 90.1-2013 and IECC 2015. I was happy to have the opportunity to produce this content for LCA. Complying with a Department of Energy mandate, a growing number of states [...]