Acuity: The Impact of Lighting on Healthcare Staff’s Well-Being
Acuity: The Impact of Lighting on Healthcare Staff’s Well-Being. Warden: Lights can have a myriad of effects on staff, with some lighting making them tired…
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Rebelle Lighting: New Encore ENC0 Wall Mount Up/Down
Rebelle Lighting: The Encore family features a compact yet scalable design that allows for resolved configurations in wall, pendant and ceiling mounted options. The design aesthetic is at home in feature applications yet quiet enough for use in discreet installations. This luminaire is available in an LED source with multiple lumen packages, distributions and color temperatures. The Encore Wall Mount is listed for use in wet locations to UL and CSA Standards.
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NDR Lighting: Pinnacle 260 Series
February 3, 2025 NDR Lighting: Pinnacle 260 Series NDR Pinnacle 260 Series LED Tape Light offers industry specification grade technology at an affordable price. It features a continuous COB design that eliminates any visible hot spots. With its silicon extrusion, the 260 series can be installed indoors or outdoors with its IP67 wet location rating….
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Leviton Expands Award-Winning Lever Edge Portfolio
January 30, 2025 Leviton Expands Award-Winning Lever Edge Portfolio Leviton announced on January 14, 2025, the launch of four new Lever Edge (formerly Decora Edge) devices – a 15A Tamper-Resistant GFCI, a 15A Weather/Tamper-Resistant GFCI, a Dimmer and a 20A Tamper-Resistant Duplex Outlet. The new GFCIs, Dimmer and 20A Outlet more than double the current…
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Tridonic Is the First Manufacturer to Receive ENEC Certification for Emergency Lighting Batteries
January 29, 2025 Tridonic: New Certification for Emergency Lighting Tridonic, a provider of emergency lighting solutions, is the first manufacturer to receive ENEC certification for its lithium iron phosphate batteries. The new certification scheme was developed by the responsible organization ETICS (European Testing, Inspection and Certification System) and implemented by DEKRA. This new certification scheme…
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Acuity Brands: New nLight Networked Embedded Lighting Controls for Luminaire Level Lighting Controls (LLLC)
January 23, 2025 It’s Quick, Easy, and Smart to Choose nLight Get 3 Products in 1 Luminaires with networked embedded controls by nLight are designed, manufactured, tested, and shipped with occupancy, daylight sensors and control devices factory-installed. This simplifies design layouts and eliminates field installation of control devices, while addressing code requirements. Achieve up to…
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Eureka Introduces Cirra Luminaire
January 21, 2025 Eureka: Minimalist, Thermoformed Family Offers Powerful Yet Low-Glare Illumination Eureka announced on January 9, 2025, the release of its Cirra luminaire. The scalable family features a sleek design and sound-absorbing material for a variety of spaces. Cirra luminaire is square, with soft, rounded edges, creating a unique shape that adds a welcoming…
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Magic Lite Goes Off Grid on The Magnetawan River
June 20, 2024 by Anantkumar Desai Imagine waking up every day to the tranquil beauty of nature, knowing your home doesn’t just sit on the earth—it partners with it. That’s the dream Barry and Lorraine Burton made real on the banks of the Magnetawan River, Off Grid. With over 25 years in the lighting industry, Barry’s…
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Simplifying Lighting Controls for Everyday Use
June 3, 2024 By Robert Lanteigne Architectural lighting control is a fundamental aspect of modern building design, influencing both the aesthetic appeal and functional efficiency of spaces. Proper control over lighting enhances the architectural features, creates desired atmospheres, and can significantly impact energy consumption. In this detailed article, we will explore various aspects of architectural…
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Modernize Your Lighting: The Best LED Solutions from DLC’s Qualified Products Lists
May 30, 2024 Selecting energy-efficient commercial lighting is made simple with the DesignLights Consortium’s (DLC) Qualified Products Lists (QPLs). Facility managers aiming to save energy, qualify for rebates, and ensure occupant comfort can trust the DLC’s extensive, verified lists of high-quality lighting products. The DLC’s Solid-State Lighting (LED) QPL, the largest in the world, includes…
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What if We Don’t Care About Keeping LEDs Cool?
By Jeffrey Dross Cost cutting and the loss of LED Performance The Cleveland Museum of Art holds, what most experts believe to be one of the best collections of Asian Art in the world. The post WWII Curator-Director, Sherman E. Lee made important connections throughout the continent while serving there in the military during and…
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Marrying Deep Dim with Colour Tuning
By Deborah Perkins How Superior Dimming Offers New Scope to Create Atmospheric and Emotional EffectsMarrying deep dimming with colour tuning gives lighting designers greater freedom and control If the higher purpose of lighting, beyond mere illumination, is to create mood and atmosphere, then dimming is an important tool for achieving these effects. While basic dimming…
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Introduction to Lighting Colours and Their Impact
May 2, 2024 By Robert Lanteigne Lighting colour plays a pivotal role in shaping our environments, influencing mood, productivity, and even our health. Recent trends in human-centric lighting consider how light affects the human body biologically, emotionally, and cognitively. Cold, warm, and dynamic lighting settings can be controlled to optimize comfort and efficiency in homes,…
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How Many Studies Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb? – Part 2 – We (hopefully) Look Where We’re Going
April 15, 2024 By Noah Sabatier The role of eye movement and gaze control in visual field detection while driving at night In the previous article we discussed how the retina adapts to different levels of light, and what this means for optimizing outdoor dusk-to-dawn lighting. We will now move on to the mechanisms that…
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Part 1: How Many Studies Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb?
March 18, 2024 By Noah Sabatier How studies in vision inform lighting standards at Night Changing a light bulb in our home is perhaps the most simple task in which we can still credit ourselves for performing household maintenance. The amount of thought such an operation receives rarely extends beyond looking for the most efficient…
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5 Simple Steps Towards Sustainable Lighting
February 20, 2024 Here are five practical actions you can take –today! – to move towards designing more sustainably. Sustainability in lighting – a broad, sometimes confusing topic, that can be looked at in many ways. Circular lighting economy, material ingredient reporting (MIRs), environmental product declarations (EPDs), life cycle analyses (LCAs), factory working conditions, carbon…
This project is funded [in part] by the Government of Canada.
Ce projet est financé [en partie] par le gouvernement du Canada.
