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Resources

Fundamentals of Architectural Lighting Design

Successful architectural lighting design requires professionals that have artistic vision along with solid technical aptitude.

News

LRC Releases Free, Open Access Horticulture Luminaire Calculator

The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has developed a free, easy-to-use online tool that will assist growers to evaluate the performance, efficiency, and economics of a wide variety of horticultural luminaires, typically used in greenhouses and other controlled agricultural environments.

News

The Updated 2021 International Energy Conservation Code is Available: Includes Model Codes for Lighting

The International Code Council (ICC) recently updated the 2021 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC), which includes model codes for lighting.

Trends

The Lighting Sales Question – “Are You My Customer?”

Lighting is an important product category for most electrical distributors. Depending upon the distributor’s focus, it can be 25-30%, or higher, of sales!

Industrial

Why Does Industrial LED Lighting Require Robust Components?

Industrial environments from warehouses to manufacturing plants are more harsh than typical work environments such as commercial office space.

Trends

6 Trends in Solar Area Lighting

Distributors, contractors, and specifiers have to keep up with many changes in lighting technology. One of the growing outdoor lighting categories is solar area lights.

Commercial

Decontaminating Your Equipment and Workspace With UV-C Light

UV-C light is a key component to sterilizing workspaces and equipment. UV-C light kills viruses and bacteria, and has been proven to kill coronaviruses like SARS and MERS. As of June 2020, it is being used all around the globe for this very purpose.

Commercial

DC Lighting Systems Evaluation

The majority of building power distribution systems use alternating current (AC) sourced from a power grid. This significantly influences the design of direct current (DC) appliances including LED light sources and digital controls.

Trends

Q3 — An Improving Lighting Market

Distributor, manufacturer, manufacturer rep and lighting agent feedback in our 2020 Q3 Pulse of Lighting report show an improving lighting market.

Rebates

DLC: A Performance Test to Help Ensure Incentives

If you intend to sell your lighting products in North America, please note that many U.S. utilities rely on the DesignLights Consortium (DLC) Qualified Product List (QPL) to provide utility rebates to end customers of professional applications.

Trends

2021 Q1 Pulse of Lighting Findings

The first quarter of 2021 was an “interesting” challenge for those selling lighting and, at the end of the quarter, industry performance was projected to meet industry predictions made during the fourth quarter of 2020.

IOT Connected Lighting

Avoiding Networked Lighting Control System Deployment Pitfalls

My blog post from April 1, 2020, entitled Lessons Learned from Living Lab describes a research project about retrofitting existing spaces with networked lighting control systems (NLCs).

Office

Luminaire Level Lighting Controls and the Future of Healthy Buildings

It could be argued that we have planned cities and constructed buildings to support human health for millennia.

Commercial

A Look at DC Microgrids

Direct current (DC) is emerging as a competitive or complementary power distribution option at the grid, community, and building level.

Trends

Lighting Has Strong Pulse in Q2

The pulse of the lighting industry is strong.

Case Studies

Chicago’s Merchandise Mart

Turning Chicago’s Merchandise Mart (the Mart) into the most extensive permanent projection system in the world was a significant feat, and the opening attracted over 30,000 people and garnered national media attention.

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