Fail-Safe’s SGI Series of 2×2 and 2×4 general luminaires satisfies the demands of healthcare facilities design by providing a completely sealed luminaire with an architectural styling. Designed to meet IP standards, the shallow, enclosed housing and sealed door protect against infiltration by airborne bacteria. Check it out here.

In this presentation, Jean-Louis Scartezzini and Mirjam Münch, from the Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory at EPFL, present their experiences with daylighting research and technology. Their work illustrates possible integration steps toward optimized “Day and Night” lighting environments with respect to energy consumption and human health. Marilyne Andersen, associate professor in the Building Technology [...]

Here’s a job announcement I recently received from ERCO Lighting, which I am now passing on to you! As a global market leader in the field of Architectural Lighting, ERCO offers a comprehensive range of high quality products. Forward thinking, product development and application make ERCO the number one choice for leading architects and designers. [...]

The Alliance for Solid-State Illumination and Technologies (ASSIST) recently published a technical paper that quantitatively evaluates the impact that outdoor lighting has on the human circadian system. A growing interest in the role that light plays on human health, combined with the increasing use of white outdoor lighting with high correlated color temperatures and a [...]

Surfaces and objects in a space may be considered an extension of the lighting system. If light is not absorbed, it is reflected and transmitted with reduced intensity to other surfaces and objects, where it is absorbed, reflected and transmitted. All surfaces and objects in a space that reflect or transmit light can be considered [...]

Norwegian researchers have found that good design and lighting can significantly reduce anxiety among travelers driving through tunnels, as reported by EarthSky.org here. The article states: The main point is to obtain a good distribution of light, in conjunction with the use of artistic lighting, which turns out to give drivers a feeling of space [...]

The Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES) has announced the 29th Annual Street and Area Lighting Conference to be held September 26-29, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Hotel in Huntington Beach, California. The Conference provides industry professionals with a forum for an open exchange of information on a wide range of outdoor [...]

Below is a transcript of a press conference given by Rudy Provoost, CEO of Philips Lighting, at Light + Building 2010 in Frankfurt, Germany, Monday, April 12, 2010. Stating a prediction that LEDs will achieve 50% market penetration by as early as 2015 and 75% by 2020, he announced a number of interesting new LED [...]

LED company Lunera Lighting has announced a partnership with One Million Lights (OML), an organization that distributes solar-powered LED lights to families around the world–with a goal to distribute 1 million LED lights–to replace environmentally toxic kerosene lamps and enable children to study at night. An estimated 1.6-billion people, live a life without electric lighting. [...]