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April 2010 Construction Increases to $869.1 Billion Annual Rate
Construction spending during April 2010 was estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $869.1 billion, 2.7%% above the revised March 2010 estimate of $845.9 billion and 10.5% below the…
Product Monday: Sky Factory’s eScape
Sky Factory eScape™ is a digital cinema virtual window that brings the dynamic beauty of nature—image, motion and sound—to interior environments. A high-tech illusion, eScape features a wall-mounted industrial-grade HD…
May Issues of LightNOW Published
Check out the month’s stories here and here. The May 30 issue in particular had a lot of great stories—LIGHTFAIR Innovation Awards, GE Edison Design Awards, IALD Design Awards and…
Potential Energy Savings in Existing Buildings
Office buildings: According to the 2009 Buildings Energy Data Book published by DOE, the average large office building (>25,000 square feet) has a lighting power density (LPD) of 1.3-1.8 watts/sq.ft.…
Zipf’s Law: One of the Great Curiosities in Urban Research
From The New York Times: The law claims that the number of people in a city is inversely proportional to the city’s rank among all cities. In other words, the…
Controls Friday: California Lighting Technology Center Completes More Than 100 Demonstrations of Energy-Efficient Lighting
The California Lighting Technology Center (CLTC), a research, development, and demonstration facility at the University of California, Davis, recently announced that it has installed more than 100 demonstrations of energy-efficient…
Jim Brodrick on LIGHTFAIR’s LED Wave
Guest Post by Jim Brodrick, Department of Energy One thing that struck me at LIGHTFAIR … was how quickly solid-state lighting has progressed from being little more than a “sideshow”…
NEMA’s T8 Fluorescent Lamp Index Recoups Losses From 2009
NEMA’s T8 lamp shipments index increased 7.2% during the first quarter of 2010 compared to the same period a year ago. Moreover, the 2010Q1 reading for index reading is nearly…
New York State Says Lighting Design Services Subject to State Sales Tax
From a recent email from the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD): Please be advised that the State of New York has determined that the lighting design services that our…
Cooper Lighting Announces SOURCE Awards Call For Entries
Cooper Lighting has announced a call for entries for its 34th Annual SOURCE Awards national lighting design competition. The competition, which focuses on furthering the understanding, knowledge and function of…
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