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Lighting and controls is a huge, constantly changing, dynamic market. The ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR lighting editorial listed below keeps current on technological innovations from LEDs, controls, and design to innovations in efficiency by traditional lighting formats. 

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Sylvania Socket Survey Shows Greater Understanding and Awareness
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Staff  
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April 2013

The fifth annual Sylvania Socket Survey from Osram Sylvania finds that consumers are adjusting to new legislation and energy-efficient lighting options, with about half saying that they plan to switch to new lighting technologies.

Energy Efficiency, Legislation, Industry Watch, Industry Trends
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21st Century Lighting
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Rae Hamilton
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April 2013

By most accounts, the light-emitting diode (LED) revolution is well underway, even though LEDs still remain a small fraction of today’s total lighting market.

LEDs
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Light It And Forget About It?

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Craig Dilouie

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April 2013

In any lighting system, lamps and auxiliary electrical devices fail and must be replaced. Dirt and dust accumulates on fixture surfaces and should be cleaned. System problems must be corrected, and lighting controls should be adjusted as space conditions change.


Lighting, LEDs
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Putting SSL Sales Under The Light
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John Paul Quinn
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April 2013

It’s hard to imagine anyone in the electrical industry seriously questioning the fact that light-emitting diode (LED) technology and solid-state lighting (SSL) are becoming the light source choice of the future.

LEDs, Solid-state Lighting, Sales, Business Development, Contractor Business Operations

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GE Announces Winners of 25th Annual GE Edison Awards
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GE Consumer & industrial presented the 2007 GE Edison Award to Enrique Peiniger and Jean Sundin of Office for Visual Interac-tion Inc. (OVI), based in New York, for lighting the U.S. Air Force Memorial in Arlington, Va. Lighting the memorial was a highly technical challenge.

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The Age of Enlightenment
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Ed Lawrence
| July 2008
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Terry McGowan has an interesting way of presenting a historical perspective to current advancements in the lighting world. In his view, we are beginning another age of light.

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Can Lighting Deliver?
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Craig DiLouie
| July 2008
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Electrical contractors don't like to brag, but they are enjoying a -significant and growing influence in lighting decisions.

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Lighting Lessons
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Edward Brown
| June 2008
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I was planning to continue writing my IBS columns on how to integrate the various building technologies, but my visit to this year’s LightCongress in New York exposed me to so many good ideas that I just have to talk about them. I’ll get back to my plan next month.

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Standing by for Standards
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Craig DiLouie
| June 2008
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ASHRAE STANDARD 90.1 Energy-Efficient Design of New Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings establishes minimum standards for designing energy-efficient buildings.

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Harvest Time
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Pat Woods
| June 2008
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The green movement has gone mainstream, and facility owners expect green and energy-efficiency initiatives to be applied to new construction.

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Is the Bulb Being Banned
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Craig DiLouie
| May 2008
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The Energy Independence And Security Act of 2007 created higher efficiency standards targeting today’s 40–100W incandescent and halogen general-service lamps.

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