The illumination of Tilikum Crossing in Portland, OR, is a metaphor for a conversation between a river and a bridge. Controls provide the translation. By Bridget Mintz Testa

In his September “Product Safety” column in LD+A, Jerry Plank discusses what can go wrong when manufacturers set about selecting a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL).

With August’s current conditions reading at 58.3, NEMA’s Electroindustry Business Conditions Index (EBCI) has been at or above 50 for six consecutive months.

Students from The New School’s Parsons School of Design worked with residents of Gran Sous, Haiti, and Roots of Development (ROD), a Washington, D.C.-based community development group, to bring quality…

The U.S. Department of Energy's CALiPER program has released a new Snapshot report on linear LED lamps, commonly known as TLEDs.

NEMA’s Lighting Systems Shipments Index, a measure of demand for lighting equipment, decreased 0.8 percent quarter-to-quarter while posting a 0.6 percent increase year-over-year during 2016 Q1.

In his August “LED Watch” column in LD+A, James Brodrick discusses how accurate product comparisons for color tunable LED luminaires can a challenge for specifiers.

In the absence of formal standards, Ethan Biery of Lutron offers some guidance in the July issue for dealing with flicker.

Lighting groups including the IES and the Lighting Research Center at RPI were quick to respond in late June to the American Medical Association (AMA)’s recommendations for minimizing potential harmful…

Mark Rea, director of the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will take an academic sabbatical for the upcoming fiscal year, effective July 1, 2016.

Despite the surge in LED usage, the US Department of Energy Solid-State Lighting (SSL) R&D Program estimates that today LED installations are only about 6 percent of all lighting use.

The Clean Energy Ministerial’s Super-efficient Equipment and Appliance Deployment (SEAD) Initiative announces its sixth international competition to recognize the world’s most energy-efficient industrial and outdoor lighting products.

In his June “Forces of Change” column for LD+A, Mark Lien examines how a business book that never mentions lighting speaks directly to the challenges that our industry is facing.

In London, “The Illuminated River International Design Competition” was launched earlier this month in an effort to “transform London’s relationship with the Thames after dark.”

The U.S. Department of Energy has released a report on the first Gateway demonstration involving OLED lighting.