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Product Monday: Compact LED Downlights by Lucifer Lighting
Lucifer Lighting’s ATOMOS is a series of compact downlights with 1” and 2” apertures available in round and square, in trimless and flanged profiles for plaster and wood ceilings, and…
GE Current Announces Plan to Acquire Hubbell Commercial and Industrial Lighting Business
GE Current, a Daintree company (Current) has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Hubbell Incorporated to acquire Hubbell’s commercial and industrial (C&I) lighting business. Based in…
Grow Your Own Lighting
Image courtesy of MIT After yesterday’s post about rechargeable light-emitting plants, I was reminded of this fun crystal ball piece I wrote for a 2004 issue of Rexel’s POWER OUTLET.…
MIT Engineers Use Nanoparticles to Create Rechargeable Light-Emitting Plants
Using specialized nanoparticles embedded in plant leaves, MIT engineers have created a light-emitting plant that can be charged by an LED. After 10 seconds of charging, plants glow brightly for…
AIA: Demand for Design Services Continues to Increase in September
Architecture firms continue to report increasing demand for design services in September, according to The American Institute of Architects (AIA). The Architecture Billings Index (ABI) score for September was 56.6,…
NLB Program Identifies Trustworthy Warranties
My most recent contribution to ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR talks about the Trusted Warranty Evaluation Program, a program recently introduced by the National Lighting Bureau to provide greater confidence and transparency with…
Product Monday: Lay-In Luminaire with Far-UVC Disinfection
Acuity Brands’ BLT Series with Care222 technology from Lithonia Lighting incorporates UV disinfection technology into the company’s most specified lay-in luminaire. When installed and used in accordance with safety guidelines,…
DOE Releases Initial 2018 Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey Results
Newly released data tables from the Energy Information Administration’s 2018 Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS) provide building characteristics information for the estimated 5.9 million U.S. commercial buildings in 2018.…
Here Comes LightFair
The LightFair Conference and Trade Show returns as a live event October 25 – 29 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City. LightFair’s five-day educational conference…
DOE Passes on New Energy Standards for Metal Halide Luminaires
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a pre-publication Federal Register notice of a final determination pertaining to energy conservation standards for metal halide lamp fixtures (MHLFs). The Energy…
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