On April 14, 2010, from 9AM to 4PM, the Raleigh Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society will present a seminar on LED outdoor lighting for electric utility personnel and other interested people. The event will occur at Progress Energy W. Raleigh Operations Center, 7001 Pinecrest Road, Raleigh, NC 27613, in the second-floor conference room. A [...]

Cooper Lighting has released the 2010 SOURCE calendar of educational classes for the lighting and design community. The SOURCE lighting education facility is located at Cooper Lighting’s headquarters in Peachtree City, Georgia, and offers a wide variety of seminars designed to broaden the understanding of lighting and its applications. The SOURCE has been servicing the [...]

The Advanced Energy Design Guide (AEDG) for Small Hospitals and Healthcare Facilities is designed to provide recommendations for achieving 30 percent energy savings over the minimum code requirements of ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1-1999. The Guide focuses on small healthcare facilities up to 90,000 sq.ft., including acute care facilities, outpatient surgery centers, critical access hospitals and inpatient [...]

The Philips Day-Brite Lighting Institute offers a Sustainable Lighting Design Seminar on January 28 and 29, 2010. Located in Tupelo, MS, the Lighting Institute is designed to educate visitors about the importance of lighting and highlight of energy conservation. The Sustainable Lighting Design seminar is designed for owners, facility or energy managers, architects, engineers, lighting [...]

Peerless has announced the start of AIA-approved Continuing Education Courses offered online at ArchitectCES.com. “Lighting for Learning,” which I was pleased to work with Peerless to produce, is the first on many courses to come that were designed by Peerless to help architects and lighting professionals learn best practices for lighting and controls. This sustainable [...]

NEMA’s Lighting Systems Index (LSI) increased 3.3% on a quarter-to-quarter basis during the third quarter of 2009. This marks the LSI’s first increase in nine quarters. Nonetheless, the index is only one quarter removed from its lowest reading on record and declined 19.3% on a year-over-year basis. After adjusting for seasonal influences and inflation, emergency [...]

To help end users in the education, healthcare, military, municipality and government markets, Hubbell Lighting has published two booklets intended to guide them as well as lighting specifiers through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). The books focus on ARRA stimulus plan lighting solutions and specifications. The specification guide identifies the full [...]

More than 400 lighting professionals met November 15-17 in Seattle, WA for the 2009 Annual Conference of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES). The theme of the three day event was “Realizing the Future—Research to Applications.” Presenters focused on both recent developments and some of the big ideas that will affect the future [...]

At the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, held back in June, the AMA adopted the following resolution, which can be found here (PDF, page 40). 516. ADVOCATING AND SUPPORT FOR LIGHT POLLUTION CONTROL EFFORTS AND GLARE REDUCTION FOR BOTH PUBLIC SAFETY AND ENERGY SAVINGS Introduced by Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode [...]