On the Cutting Edge with the Highlights of the Light + Building Autumn Edition
The top themes at Light + Building describe the focus for the industries: “Green Deal & Sustainability”, “Electrification & Digitalisation” and “Light & Design”.
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Smart City: More Safety Through Connected Lighting Technology
Representatives from cities and municipalities, architects, landscape and urban planners: all those who make decisions regarding modern lighting concepts will find valuable, up-to-date specialist information and competent partners for this complex task at the leading international trade fair for lighting and building services technology.
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DesignLights Consortium Announces First Products Qualified Under its New LUNA Technical Requirements
The DesignLights Consortium (DLC) today announced the first products added to its LUNA Qualified Products List (QPL) after being tested and determined to meet the new LUNA Version 1.0 Technical Requirements for outdoor LED luminaires.
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DLC’s New Tech Requirements Came into Effect June 30, Delisting Many Existing Products
The DesignLights Consortium (DLC) deadline is thisclose. On February 14, 2020 the DLC® released Technical Requirements V5.1, with a notice that April 15, 2022 would be the deadline to update V5.0 listed products to V5.1.
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Market Update: Acuity Outperforms Lighting Market in Q2
Last Thursday Acuity released their Q3 earnings report and exceeded industry performance when comparing their Independent Sales Network to our Q2 2022 Pulse of Lighting report (average industry results.)
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2022 Q2 Pulse of Lighting … Fair Given Time
Last month we solicited input from electrical / lighting distributors, lighting manufacturers, independent manufacturer reps and lighting agents on their forecast for their Q2 lighting business. Over 225 shared their insights.
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The Changing Face of LightFair
The lighting industry has undergone a lot of change over the past 25 years, and LightFair has served as a bellwether of its future direction.
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DLC Summit 2022 Recap
The DLC Summit gathered LED lighting stakeholders, including utility and energy efficiency program staff, manufacturers, distributors, researchers, and other professionals to discuss the next frontier in efficient lighting.
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Light + Building Trends 22+23
Ambitious climate targets, sustainable raw materials, advancing digitalisation – what moves society is also reflected in trends. In a constantly changing world, values such as authenticity, longevity and responsibility are essential drivers.
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The Illuminating Engineering Society Releases Four New ANSI Standards
The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) recently introduced four new standards documents addressing current challenges that face the lighting industry – navigating near-field photometry, standardizing iterations of lighting controls intent, the importance of UV lighting, and promoting a balanced outdoor environment.
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Canadian Green Retrofit Economy Study
Over $3.6 billion has been committed to finance energy efficiency and low carbon upgrades to large buildings across Canada to meet GHG emission reduction targets through building retrofits.
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DALI Products Win Alighting Awards
Several DALI products were successful in the 10th Alighting Awards, which is organized by the China-based publication Alighting.cn.
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RPRA’s 2022 RRCEA Program Fee Reduction is a “Win” for Lighting Producers in Ontario
This year, Lighting producers must report and pay fees to Resource Productivity & Recovery Authority (RPRA) to ensure compliance with Ontario Regulation 522-20. RPRA operates on a cost-recovery basis and sets fees required to support the compliance and oversight of its legislative mandate.
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LightFair Preview with Show Director Dan Darby
The last LightFair show was held in October 2021 after being postponed due to COVID complications, this year’s instalment marks its return to the west coast taking place in Las Vegas from June 19-23. We spoke with Executive Director, Dan Darby to gain more insight into the upcoming event.
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DALI-2 Certification Supports Interoperability and Sustainable Lighting
The DALI Alliance, the global industry organization for DALI lighting control, is strengthening its focus on the DALI-2 product certification program, including D4i, after ending registration of DALI version-1 control gear.
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2022 IES Progress Report Open for Submissions
The IES is looking for significant new advancements in lighting products, research, publications, and design tools from the past year. Submit your entries now for consideration in the 2022 IES Progress Report.
This project is funded [in part] by the Government of Canada.
Ce projet est financé [en partie] par le gouvernement du Canada.
