January 29, 2024 Restaurant chain lighting retrofit improvements made with the help of Cooper Lighting’s Light ARchitect App Background Jim ‘N Nick’s is a successful restaurant chain known for its slow-cooked BBQ and cheese biscuits. Since the first Jim ‘N Nick’s opened in Birmingham, AL in 1985, they’ve expanded to over 40 locations across the…
January 29, 2024 Whether A for Architecture Day or Z for ZVEI Technology Forum – the range of events, specialist presentations and guided tours at Light + Building in Frankfurt am Main is huge. At the world’s leading trade fair for lighting and building-services technology from March 3 to 8, 2024, the abundance of events…
January 26, 2024 Over the decades spent teaching people about networked lighting controls (NLCs) , I have seen what works in getting newcomers up to speed in understanding and deploying these systems. I think we have an “elephant in the room” in the lighting controls industry. Many people like to minimize the complexity of these…
January 26, 2024 Signify continues to make strides in commercial indoor lighting – now, with the introduction of the Ledalite BloomBox. The company has applied transformative concepts from its U.S. Department of Energy L-Prize-winning luminaire prototype to develop this best-in-class recessed LED lighting solution. “The Ledalite BloomBox optimizes both efficiency and quality of light while…
January 25, 2024 Summary “At Legrand, we understand that our customers’ needs are unique to the business, industry, and market, which is why we design our products with professionals who specify, sell, install, and use our products. Evolving energy codes, transformative lighting technology and high-performance buildings require powerful, flexible solutions. Our products integrate with each…
January 25, 2024 The winners of the DALI Lighting Awards 2023, organised by the DALI Alliance – the global industry organisation for DALI lighting control – have been announced. Each of the eight categories recognises the best use of DALI lighting control in projects from around the world, with the winners chosen by a renowned…
For more than 14 years, O’Blaney Rinker Associates has provided exemplary service and ingenuity as an independent lighting manufacturer representative agency in the New York City area. The 2024 rebrand not only streamlines the company’s name to ORA, the fresh logo and resource-rich new website are helping shape the future of the sales channel. The…
January 24, 2024 Organised by The LIA and Recolight held at 15Hatfields Conference Centre, London, Thursday 2nd May 2024. The LIA and Recolight are delighted to be collaborating on the Net Zero Lighting Conference 2024, taking place on 2nd May in London. The agenda highlights net zero focused manufacturing practices within the lighting industry which covers:…
It has been 200+ years since Benedictine monks emigrated from Switzerland and built the St. Joseph Catholic Church in Jasper, Indiana, and it was time to bring modern lighting technology to this historic site to make the sacred space more flexible to the needs of its parishioners. The richly decorated interior and exterior of the…
Creative lighting design and careful urban planning has helped transform what was an ordinary city block into a gorgeous public park in Salisbury, North Carolina. Renowned for its historic preservation efforts with sites dating back to the Civil War, Salisbury counts 10 National Register historic districts as well as homes and commercial buildings on the…
VADER – an all-in-one adjustable flood light projector that encompasses the flexibility of an entire range of exterior projector fixtures in a single product – has received several distinguished industry design awards: • Architectural Products Product Innovation Award Winner – Exterior Lighting • Light Middle East Awards 2024 Finalists – Outdoor Lighting Product of the…
While media headlines focus on the short supply of homes for sale and continued strong demand, there can be a false assumption that the housing market is robust — but it’s not that simple. Home prices remain at historic highs, and even though interest rates have inched downward, homeowners with low mortgage rates aren’t eager…
January 18, 2024 Full-TimeSalariedGreenville SC US Current has completed the acquisition of Hubbell® Incorporated’s commercial and industrial (C&I) lighting business, creating a premier end-to-end lighting solutions business. This brought together two iconic businesses with deep innovation heritage, strong brands and application expertise and allows Current to be strategically positioned to now focus all investments into lighting…
California-based Access Lighting has announced a new warehouse located in Greenville, SC, which will serve as its primary warehouse as of next month. “This new location illustrates our commitment to continuous improvement. We saw the opportunity to increase our efficiency with this new facility. This will translate to ease of doing business with Access Lighting…
In celebrating its 35th anniversary, Nora Lighting has unveiled the transformation of two state-of-the-art showrooms. The newly renovated showrooms stand as a testament to Nora Lighting’s commitment to offering an unparalleled experience for its valued representatives. Located at the company’s headquarters in Los Angeles, as well as its permanent showroom in the Dallas Market Center,…
Optique Lighting has launched the Armadio illuminated closet rod collection. These custom architectural Nano Linear closet rod luminaires are engineered and designed to be one of the industry’s strongest closet rods and are offered in custom lengths to a designer’s exact specification in 1/8-inch increments up to 8 feet. With a diameter of only 1.34…