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The LED Driver Dilemma
In his December “Product Safety” column in LD+A, Jerry Plank discusses how LED driver substitution continues to be hampered by a lack of standards.
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Prepare for New Job Titles in the Lighting Industry
In his November column, LD+A contributor Don Peifer takes a look how the emergence of solid-state lighting may create a new lexicon of job titles in manufacturing companies—one of which…
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Maintenance Just As Important for LEDs
"Install it and forget it” is no way to maintain an LED system, writes Norma Frank in her October “Maintenance” column in LD+A.
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Will Hackers Cast Their Eye on Smart Lighting?
Lighting might be the platform for big data, but it may also become a tempting target for cyber criminals. By Jerry Plank
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How Designers Can Ease the Pain of Value Engineering
In this excerpt from his recent “Point of View” column in LD+A, lighting designer Stephen Hoppe offers five ideas that can soften the blow of value engineering (VE).
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Will Your Résumé Make the Cut?
In a recent LD+A column, Paul Pompeo offered ideas for making a résumé rise to the top of a recruiter’s pile.
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Quantifying Value is the Lighting Professional’s Extra Burden
In his May column in LD+A, the Lighting Research Center’s Daniel Frering makes the case that the knowledge and skills needed to specify equipment are not enough for today’s professional.…
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Product Testing Labs Must Follow the Same Rules
In his April “Product Safety” column in LD+A, Jerry Plank argues that trustworthy data on product performance starts with good lab procedures.
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Is a Lighting Career a Journey or a Destination?
In the “Emerging Professionals” column appearing in the March issue of LD+A, Kacie Stigliano writes about the career-path decisions younger lighting professionals face once they enter the industry.
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How Safe is the Light from LEDs?
In the February edition of LD+A, columnist James Brodrick discusses a Department of Energy report that aims to separate fact from fiction regarding the potential for damage caused by LEDs.
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Light and Health: What’s New in Research
The January issue of LD+A included a collection of research projects from around the globe that aim to show how lighting can impact health—for better or worse
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The Outlook for OLEDs
In his December column for LD+A, the DOE’s James Brodrick discussed the challenges and opportunities surrounding OLED adoption.
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Can We Quantify Lighting “Benefits”?
In a recent issue of LD+A, Peter R. Boyce, former head of human factors at the Lighting Research Center at RPI and technical editor of the journal Lighting Research and…
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Don’t Confuse Warranty with Quality
Sternberg Lighting’s Paul Mitchell tackled the thorny issue of LED luminaire warranties in the September issue of LD+A.
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A Metric for the Aesthetic
In the August issue of LD+A, Mark D. Fairchild, associate dean of research and graduate education for the College of Science at Rochester Institute of Technology, discusses color as a…