Industry News
January 2010 Construction at $884.1 Billion Annual Rate
Construction spending during January 2010 was estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $884.1 billion, 0.6% lower than the revised December 2009 estimate of $889.6 billion and 9.3% below…
GE to Announce Edison Award Finalists at Light+Building
For the first time, GE Appliances & Lighting will announce finalists in its prestigious and long-running annual GE Edison Award global lighting design competition. GE will reveal the list of…
American Electric Lighting Announces Recall of Outdoor Luminaires
American Electric Lighting, a division of Acuity Brands, in cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, has announced a voluntary recall of its model AVL outdoor luminaires intended for…
AIA Reports Decline in January’s Architectural Billings Index
Beginning its third year of negative conditions, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) had a drop of almost three points in January. As a leading economic indicator of construction activity, the…
Product Monday: Omega Lighting’s Revelation LED Downlight
Omega Lighting has combined MesoOptics optical technology from Ledalite with the power of a high-performance LED light engine and Omega Lighting’s optics to produce the 25W Revelation LED Downlight. Check…
Smart Windows: Energy Efficiency with a View
NREL research scientist Dane Gillaspie holds a sample of an electrochromic, or color-changing, window inside an accelerated weathering chamber at the Field Test Laboratory Building. Prototype windows are subjected to…
Controls Friday: EnOcean Alliance and BACnet International to Develop Interoperability Specification for Integrating Wireless/Wired Building Systems
BACnet International and the EnOcean Alliance, an international consortium of 130 companies from the building sector, today announced its cooperation with BACnet’s Wireless Networking-Working Group (WN-WG) to develop a vendor…
Builders Name Halo Lighting Brand Leader for Eleventh Straight Year
Cooper Lighting recently announced that its Halo brand of recessed and track lighting has once again been named by Builder Magazine as the Brand Leader in lighting. Sweeping all four…
ASHRAE 189.1 the First Green Construction Standard to Enter National Code Stage
A new standard for the design of high-performance green buildings is set to revolutionize the building industry. Published by ASHRAE in conjunction with IES and the U.S. Green Building Council,…
Technique: Light and Shadow
This video shows three examples of how light and shadow can be used to create works of art. These include Kinetic Sculptures, Chinese Shadow Art Show and a compilation of…
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