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National Lighting Bureau Introduces New Sponsorship Category
The National Lighting Bureau has established a new sponsorship category targeted at for-profit organizations with annual receipts of less than $10 million. The sponsorship fee is $500 per year. Prior…
Consulting-Specifying Engineer, Building Design + Construction, Plant Engineering, Other Magazines to Close
As a former magazine guy (editor and later publisher of Architectural Lighting Magazine from 1995-2001), this is really depressing … In July 2009, Reed Elsevier announced that the RBI-US controlled…
NYSERDA Announces New Existing Facilities Program Solid-State Lighting Policy
Effective June 1, 2010, NYSERDA Existing Facilities Program will only accept SSL products listed by either ENERGY STAR or DesignLights Consortium’s Qualified Products List (DLC QPL). The list of qualified…
Finalists from Three Countries Compete for GE Edison Award
Emil Schumacher Museum, Photography: Lukas RothGE Lighting has announced five finalists for the 27th annual international GE Edison Award competition. This year, lighting design firms involved with the five finalist…
Capitol Lighting Announces $2,500 Online Jingle Contest
Do you have a song in your heart–about lighting? If so, you could win up to $2,500 in Capitol Lighting’s online “Jingle Contest.” There is no entry fee although the…
ENERGY STAR to Overhaul Its Product Approval Process
Following a scathing report by the GAO on ENERGY STAR earlier this month here, the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy have announced changes to the ENERGY STAR product…
Edge Lighting Products to Appear on Discovery’s Construction Intervention
Edge Lighting has announced that its Monorail products were installed in a project featured in Construction Intervention, a Discovery Channel program about business owners in dire need of renovation but…
Fallon Wins Appeal in Patent Infringement Case
Fallon Luminous Products Corp., a manufacturer of lighted signs, has announced that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington D.C. has overturned an earlier decision of…
Product Monday: FTO Series by Lighting Services Inc
The FTO Series is “stripped of its cosmetic clutter,” according to its creator Lighting Services Inc. The product mounts to LSI track and creates fill light from its 54W T5HO…
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