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SEAD Announces International Competition to Recognize Industrial & Outdoor Lighting
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.
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Six Bold Steps for SSL
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.
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Design Competition Will Transform the Thames
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.”
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Gateway Report on OLEDs in Office Setting
The U.S. Department of Energy has released a report on the first Gateway demonstration involving OLED lighting.
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LED A-Line Lamp Shipments Surge; CFLs, Incandescents Lag
LED A-line lamps posted another strong showing to start 2016, surging 375.9 percent during the first quarter of 2016 on a year-over-year basis.
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Tips to Keep Industrial LED Fixtures from Overheating
In a column in the May issue of LD+A, Kellie Koedel of Holophane offers five suggestions for making sure LED luminaires can withstand the heat often associated with industrial environments.
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Denver to Join the Ranks of Smart Cities
At LIGHTFAIR 2016, Panasonic Enterprise Solutions, a division of Panasonic Corporation of North America, and Sensity Systems Inc. announced an alliance related to Panasonic’s CityNow initiative.
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Texas Rangers’ Ballpark the Latest to Go LED
The Texas Rangers have installed an LED system from Eaton at Globe Life Park in Arlington, TX.
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Legrand Acquires Pinnacle Architectural Lighting
Legrand North America announced in April the acquisition of U.S. manufacturer Pinnacle Architectural Lighting, a company specializing in commercial, education and healthcare applications.
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Downsizing the Lumen
In the April edition of LD+A, contributor Don Peifer argues that the most-used metric in lighting industry—the lumen is hopelessly flawed.
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Dark-Sky Advocates Seek to Quantify Light Pollution
One man’s light pollution is another man’s feeling of security.
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GE Lighting’s Bulb/App Combination Aims to Improve Sleep Cycles
As Daylight Savings Time took effect last month, GE Lighting unveiled its C by GE line, its first connected LED light bulbs that can be controlled directly from a smartphone…
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Lumenpulse Acquires Fluxwerx Illumination
Lumenpulse Inc., announced that it has acquired Fluxwerx Illumination Inc., a privately owned, specification-grade LED lighting solutions provider based in British Columbia, Canada.
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The Hoverboard Fiasco is A Cautionary Tale for Lighting
In his “Product Safety” column in March LD+A, Jerry Plank reaches beyond the lighting industry to discuss the ramifications of the hoverboard fires that have dominated the news.
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Parsons Students to Install Public Lighting in Haiti
Graduate students from Parsons School of Design will travel to Haiti in late May 2016 to install solar lighting on the island of La Gonave.