This feature article for ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING, written by Craig DiLouie, LC, lighting journalist and acting education director for the Lighting Controls Association, explores the trend toward integration between lighting controls and luminaires. The article begins: “Lighting controls have always been an essential component of a lighting system, as they enable basic functionality: turning lights on […]
Defining Lighting Quality Based On User Satisfaction
Lighting quality is a critical consideration in effective lighting design, and often should take priority over energy savings and the economies of cost. But what is lighting quality? It goes beyond energy and cost and light levels to include brightness, light distribution, color, aesthetics, daylight, ease of use for controls, and other issues. While many […]
TED Magazine Publishes Article on Selling the Benefits of Dimming
TED Magazine, the official publication of the National Association of Electrical Distributors (NAED), recently published an article by Michael Smith, vice president, residential sales, Lutron Electronics, on the benefits of selling dimming as part of every residential and commercial project. He writes: “To upsell your customers to dimming, help them understand what they’re missing when […]
What’s New in HID Lamps and Ballasts
Similar trends as fluorescent are driving innovation in high-intensity lighting, which is dominated by HID lighting. Within this segment, there has been a major technology shift from mercury vapor to metal halide over the past 10 years, and the market is trending in favor of white light. Innovation has focused on energy efficiency, longer life […]
CONSULTING-SPECIFYING ENGINEER Publishes Article on Lighting Control System Commissioning
“Don’t question commissioning when it comes to lighting controls,” is the message of this article written by Lindsey Fimek, PE, LEED AP BD+C, Primera Engineers Ltd., Chicago, and published in a recent issue of CONSULTING-SPECIFYING ENGINEER. “Lighting controls are one of the last pieces installed in any building and the last to get programmed and […]
ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR Publishes Webinar on Dimmer Compatibility with Energy-Efficient Lamps
On Wednesday, April 11, 2012, at 2 p.m. EDT, ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR Magazine hosted a webinar, in partnership with Leviton, on the three main causes for compatibility issues when pairing energy-efficient lamps with dimmers designed for incandescent technology. On hand to speak about the issue was Craig DiLouie, ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR’s lighting columnist and acting education director […]
Controlling LEDs
Lithonia Lighting’s Dave Ranieri penned an excellent short article on the potential of matching state-of-the-art lighting control with LED technology. He writes: “When paired with well-designed and integrated digital components, LED lighting systems are fully capable of executing common lighting control strategies, such as manual dimming, scheduling, occupancy sensing, and daylight harvesting. Moreover, the solid-state […]
LBNL Estimates Average Energy Savings for Popular Lighting Control Strategies
Lighting accounts for about a third of electrical energy consumption in commercial buildings. As advanced energy-saving lighting controls still have a minority penetration in the existing building stock, building owners have a major opportunity to reduce energy costs with lighting control. Adoption of advanced lighting controls faces the usual hurdles affecting all energy-efficient lighting, including […]
Lighting Control Rebates Triple Since 2009
Utility and regional energy efficiency organization rebates and incentives have been a major driver in demand for energy-efficient lighting and controls since the early 1990s. Today, more than $6 billion in commercial lighting rebates and other incentives are offered by utilities and energy efficiency organizations covering some 80% of the United States. Currently, rebates and […]
IECC 2012 Decoded
The International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) is a model residential and commercial building energy code produced by the International Code Council. First published in 1998, the IECC was updated in 2000, 2003, 2006, 2009 and, earlier this year, 2012. The IECC is actually not a code, but instead a template for legal jurisdictions to use […]
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