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CLUE Launches Third Competition
The competition has announced its third edition under the theme “One for Light, Light for All.
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Report Projects Five-Year Global Ballasts Market
A new study predicts that by 2020, the global lighting ballasts market will exceed 872 million units.
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DOE Surveys Nurses on Patient Room Lighting
As part of its effort to support the development of next-generation healthcare lighting, the U.S. Department of Energy developed an online nurse survey that was administered by a nonprofit healthcare…
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LED to Dominate Each Lighting Niche by 2035 Says DOE Forecast
The U.S. Department of Energy has just published the latest edition of its biannual report, Energy Savings Forecast of Solid-State Lighting in General Illumination Applications, which models the adoption of…
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The Sea Will Tell
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
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Tips for Choosing a Product Testing Lab
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).
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NEMA Survey Points to Industry Expansion
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.
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Parsons Students Bring Solar-Powered Light to Haitian Community
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…
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DOE Publishes Snapshot on Linear LED Lamps
The U.S. Department of Energy's CALiPER program has released a new Snapshot report on linear LED lamps, commonly known as TLEDs.
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Lighting Systems Index Decreased in First Quarter; Mixed Results for Components
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.
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Color-Tunable Caveats
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.
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Flicker Frustration: Measuring What You Can’t See
In the absence of formal standards, Ethan Biery of Lutron offers some guidance in the July issue for dealing with flicker.
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Lighting Groups Respond to AMA’s Street Lighting Recommendations
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…
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LRC’s Rea to Take Academic Sabbatical, Figueiro Named Acting Director
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.
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DOE SSL R&D Program Seeks Data for U.S. Lighting Market Characterization
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.