Industry News
DOE Report Compares the Life-Cycle Environmental Impacts of an LED Lamp with Incumbent Technologies
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published a report that looks at the direct and indirect material and process inputs to fabricate, ship, operate, and dispose of LED lamps,…
Product Monday: TERRASCAPE Landscape Accent Lighting by Solid Sate Luminaires
Solid State Luminaires recently unveiled TERRASCAPE, a durable landscape accent light with sealed 15° spot, 25° narrow flood, 40° flood and 60° wide flood distribution and 3000K or 4000K color…
Cooper Lighting Announces SOURCE Awards Call For Entries
Cooper Lighting has announced a call for entries for its 36th Annual SOURCE Awards national lighting design competition. The competition, which focuses on furthering the understanding, knowledge and function of…
2012 Next Generation Luminaires Solid-State Lighting OUTDOOR Design Competition Launches
The Next Generation Luminaires Design Competition recognizes the highest-quality LED luminaires for commercial building applications. This year, the competition is broken into indoor and outdoor competitions. The indoor competition winners…
Philips Appoints Bruno Biasiotta as CEO and President of Philips Lighting North America
Philips has appointed Bruno Biasiotta to head the company’s North American lighting operations. In his new role, Biasiotta will be responsible for driving market share for Philips’ lighting businesses in…
Jim Brodrick on LIGHTFAIR 2012
by Jim Brodrick, U.S. Department of Energy The 2012 edition of LIGHTFAIR International was [recently held] in Las Vegas, and since the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SSL team was…
Sunoptics Opens New Renovated Facilities
Sunoptics recently opened its renovated Sacramento-based facility and new Daylighting University training center with an additional 12,000 square feet of offices and training facilities. The new 1,600-sq.ft. daylighting training facility,…
Product Monday: Electronic High-Bay Luminaire from Holophane
Holophane has introduced the new DualBay electronic high-bay luminaire to deliver high-quality lighting and energy savings to a wide range of high-bay applications. The new electronic high-bay luminaire uses dual-lamp…
Creating Artificial Daylight for a Stage Production
Lighting designer David Warfel describes how he produced bright afternoon daylight for a theatrical production set in an English country house. The main challenge was to produce light with the…
SSL Manufacturing Research and Development Workshop Presentations Posted
The Department of Energy recently hosted the fourth annual Solid-State Lighting Manufacturing R&D Workshop in San Jose, California. With 200 attendees and two days of formal and informal discussion, the…
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