Nearly three quarters of U.S. architects say the health impacts of buildings are influencing their design decisions. That finding parallels a strong market demand by building owners, with a solid two-thirds surveyed also reporting that ...
Acuity Brands, Inc., a market leader in providing indoor and outdoor lighting and energy management solutions, announced a new LightFlex™ CCT concept system from Sunoptics® that allows the patented daylighting system to achieve ...
LIGHTFAIR® International (LFI®), the world’s largest annual architectural and commercial lighting trade show and conference, returns to Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania Convention Center in 2017 for its 28th-annual staging ...
Tags: LEDs, OLEDs, luminaires
Paul Mercier is heavily involved in the lighting industry. As the principal and founder of Lighting Design Innovations, with offices in Calgary, Alberta and Batavia, New York, recent textbook author, various industry association memberships ...
Tags: LED lighting design, Science of Illumination, lighting industry
Power management company Eaton today announced the launch of its Metalux™ SWLED Surface and Wall light-emitting diode (LED) luminaire, providing a versatile, high-performing and energy-efficient lighting solution for a broad range of ...
Tags: LED luminaire, LED
Light, technology and design will converge to reveal new solutions, new knowledge and new discoveries at LIGHTFAIR® International (LFI®) 2016. The world’s largest annual architectural and commercial lighting trade show and ...
Power management company Eaton announced the introduction of the Metalux™ Cruze™ light-emitting diode (LED) Luminaire, providing a high-performing, energy-efficient and affordable ambient solution to commercial offices, schools, ...
Tags: eletronics, LED, LED lighting
Therapeutic lighting can be a prescription for better health, especially for seniors with dementia in long-term care facilities. Now, more and more-effective products are needed to implement the highly positive research results achieved to ...
Tags: therapeutic lighting, Lights
PPG Industries and Pleotint, LLC, have renewed their agreement to jointly market a commercial window glass system that combines self-tinting SUNTUITIVE glass by Pleotint with SOLARBAN low-emissivity (low-e) glass by PPG to increase occupant ...
Tags: Solarban Glasses, energy costs, Construction
During the last decade I undertook a European research project designed to disseminate information regarding the energy consumption and environmental performance of low-energy, non-domestic buildings in the UK, Germany, France, Italy and ...
Tags: Low-Energy, Lighting
PPG Industries has launched an online tool that enables architects and specifiers to model energy costs for a statistically representative 12-story building constructed with selected PPG architectural glazings to optimize daylighting, heat ...
Tags: PPG, Energy Modeling
According to the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), 3 billion square feet of green construction space has earned LEED certification around the globe. "This milestone is the result of leaders across our industry making the business and ...
Tags: Certification, Construction, LEED
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced that 3 billion square feet of green construction space has earned LEED® certification around the globe. "This milestone is the result of leaders across our industry making the business ...
Tags: certification, Construction, Decoration, Green Building
This year marks the 10th Annual Luminaire Design Competition for students enrolled in Designing with Light (DES 136 B) at the University of California, Davis. The competition gives students the opportunity to work with state-of-the-art ...
Tags: LED module, LEDs
The movement for healthier, high-performing buildings has reached a new milestone, as the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) issued the 20,000th LEED certification for a commercial project. In December 2013, USGBC's Green Building ...
Tags: U.S.Green Building Council, 20, 000th LEED certification