In about three-fourths of the United States, utilities or energy-efficiency organizations offer a commercial lighting rebate program, according to rebate fulfillment firm BriteSwitch, which recently compiled its 2022 North...
Lighting control devices and systems enable the right amount and color of light to be produced where and when it is needed, while potentially producing useful operating data. Combinations of inputs (manual, time, occupancy...
The essence of lighting design is layering, or introducing general, task and accent lighting to a space. In a conference room, we might have downlights for general, a pendant over the table for task, wall washers and the...
While yesterday’s bridge lights illuminated road surfaces for safe traffic, today they can be color-changing, dynamic and even synchronized. As federal infrastructure funding makes more bridge lighting projects likely in the...
Commercial buildings in the United States are getting larger and increasingly include energy-saving features such as LED lighting, according to the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2018 Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption...
Humans may be spending more time indoors, but our bodies’ response to natural lighting cycles remains the same. A report by market research firm Guidehouse Insights projects rapid growth in the human-centric lighting (HCL)...
In March 2021, the Illuminating Engineering Society published, “Beyond 2030: What Do You See?” https://bit.ly/3zrHZkg. In it, industry experts imagine the state of the lighting industry in 2030 and beyond, challenges it faces...
Many states use the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) as the basis for their commercial building energy code, which regulates the energy-efficient design of new construction and renovations. Regarding lighting...
The outlook in 2021 for commercial lighting rebates is strong, with three-fourths of the United States covered by a rebate program incentivizing energy-efficient lighting and controls. In review, rebates are offered by...
17% of the U.S. population is age 65 or older, a figure projected to reach 22% by 2050. In addition, seniors age 80 and older represent the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population—one that’s expected to be more than 19...
Lighting control systems are increasingly tasked to share information and integrate functionality with other building systems. Potential benefits of such integration include maximizing energy savings, sharing data for...
Like so many other technology industries, lighting has undergone a dramatic transformation in recent years. Perhaps no other form of lighting has had a more profound effect on the industry than LEDs. While cost continues to...
Commercial lighting rebates remain a popular, enduring incentive for nonresidential upgrades. The majority of rebates are prescriptive, offering a cash rebate per installed product from a utility or energy-efficiency...
In new construction, creating a smart building can be straightforward if planned correctly and collaboratively. But the path to make an older building smart isn’t always straight. Electrical contractors can succeed by reading...
Electrical contractors (ECs) know their clients have an increasing desire for buildings that are more energy efficient. For ECs looking to get into energy efficiency, there are several good places to begin. 1. Install copper...
Emergency lighting is lighting that stays on or automatically turns on to facilitate a building’s safe evacuation when it suffers a power outage. There is a trend of using luminaires as both general and emergency lighting...
In May 2018, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released “Advanced Lighting Control System Performance: A Field Evaluation of Five Systems.” This report evaluated field installations of five advanced lighting control systems...
Join Tom Cunningham of Legrand for a quick examination of the IoT and how its increasing demand is affecting the electrical industry. Dive into trends and buzzwords, while exploring the impact of popular voice assistants like...
A 2017 DesignLights Consortium report analyzing performance data from more than 100 installations found that networked lighting controls produced an average 47 percent lighting energy savings. The biggest value in connected...
Most electrical contractors are no strangers to LED installations, and the industry-wide transition to efficient LEDs is a revenue source for many installers. Becoming experts in such deployments and their controls, however...
