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Editor’s Note: Making the Grade
Since 1998, the American Society of Civil Engineers has gotten a lot of attention in the mainstream press for its “Report Card for America’s Infrastructure". Every four years, ASCE scores…
Destination Maintenance
Function informs aesthetics at a light-rail facility in Seattle When the award-winning collaborative team from Stantec and Hensel Phelps Construction came together for a second time, their task was to…
Daylight Award Call for Nominations
The 2024 Daylight Award is open for nominations. Given every second year, the two-category award program seeks to encourage scientific knowledge and practical application of daylight to one or more…
2023 Fred Foster Student Mentees Announced
ETC’s Fred Foster Mentorship program has announced the 12 last-year undergrad and graduate student mentees selected to be paired with industry mentors and participate in a series of virtual networking…
IALD Launches Southern Europe Chapter
The International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) has established a dedicated chapter for Croatia, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain. Joining over 35 other chapters in the association’s network, IALD Southern Europe…
Adaptive Lighting: Centralized and Connected
Wireless streetlight systems offer benefits not only to utilities and cities, but to the citizens who use the roads every day Municipal smart street lighting is revolutionizing the way public…
Last Look: Magic Moment
The Grand Magic Hotel at Disneyland Paris reimagines what it means to “be transported.” To immerse guests in imaginary worlds, Moment Factory fused lighting, soundscapes, technology and digital content in…
The Long Journey Home
More than 10 years in the making, the First Americans Museum celebrates the culture of Oklahoma’s Native ancestors “It took over a decade to make it real, but it was…
Tunable White Lights Provide Myriad Benefits
The pandemic has completely revolutionized the way we think about offices, remote working and employees’ workplace needs. While many employees have enjoyed the benefits of working from home for the…
Project in Pictures: Rural Retreat
Back to nature and back to opulence are the twin selling points at the Emser Thermenhotel in the German town of Bad Ems. The team of 4a Architekten and lighting…
Born Again
In San Francisco, a Romanesque church welcomes a new congregation Even in a city like San Francisco, where creativity defines the culture and unexpected forms of art can be found…
Tools of the Trade: Taking the Labor Out of Lighting
Can an expensive light fixture save your project money and keep your design intact? Definitely! The key is to trim the cost of labor on the job site, which has…
Editor’s Note: Up and At ‘Em
I don’t like Daylight Saving Time. There, I said it. I spent the past winter in Southwest Florida. For the first two months, this literally meant “rise and shine,” as…
Museum on the Go
Luminaires are in constant motion at the National Museum in Oslo The definition of “flexible lighting” is typically pretty flexible. Track-mounted fixtures that can be re-aimed, tunable CCT and “future-proof”…
Roundtable: A New Kind of Story Telling
Media immersion, flexible controls and more make waves in museums As a former museum employee who witnessed the start of the pandemic from behind the front desk of a major…