"Imagining the Lowline," a free exhibition in Manhattan's Lower East Side showcased Arup's research into a proposal for the world's first underground park. The exhibit, September 15-24, demonstrated how the team's daylighting system for collecting sunlight and channeling it belowground could create an attractive public space and enable plant ...
The California Energy Commission recently updated its Title 24 Energy Efficiency Standards, improving what “up to code” means by 25 percent for residential buildings and 30 percent for commercial buildings. The new standards, which take effect January 1, 2014, introduce requirements for photosensors, occupancy sensors and multi-level lighting ...
Acuity Brands, Inc. opened a new 60,000-square-foot facility for Acuity Brands Canada, combining the company’s lighting and controls offices. Located in Toronto, the new facility includes offices, a warehouse distribution center and a state-of-the art showroom. Twelve offices incorporate a variety of Acuity Brands products to showcase "Smart + ...
Researchers at the Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have proposed a new metric to help architects and builders more easily take advantage of the benefits of daylighting, from significant energy savings to the positive impact of light on health, when designing the built environment. This new metric—the daylighting ...
Zumtobel Lighting, a leading international manufacturer of integral lighting solutions for a wide variety of applications, has moved its British headquarters to upmarket Chalfont St. Peter in the county of Buckinghamshire. There Zumtobel has purpose-design and constructed of one of its most modern and inspirational LightCentres, covering an area ...
Daylight acts on our body clock and stimulates the brain. Researchers at Fraunhofer, Europe’s largest application-oriented research organization, have worked with industry partners to develop a coating for panes of glass that lets through more light. Above all, it promotes the passage through the glass of those wavelengths of light that govern ...
The Annual Awards of the Society of Light and Lighting (SLL) were presented in May at the London Zoo, with the Society also welcoming the SLL’s new President, Iain Macrae, who is head of global lighting applications management at Thorn. Delivering his inaugural address to members and echoing the sentiments of CIBSE’s President David Fisk, ...
As part of its initiative to promote and deliver high-performance school lighting, Acuity Brands, Inc continues its support of the Green Schoolhouse Series, which has broken ground on its second project in Phoenix. The self-described “studio-themed” addition to the Orangewood School is a state-of-the-art schoolhouse, designed to achieve ...
A little over a year ago, a picture of a robot was scribbled on a piece of brown craft paper. He was named “Bobo”and in September 2011 he made his debut exploring the science behind light and delighting children and adults around the globe. In June at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple recognized the Bobo Explores Light App for ...
UCLA researchers have developed a new transparent solar cell that is an advance toward giving windows in homes and other buildings the ability to generate electricity while still allowing people to see outside. Their study appears in the journal ACS Nano. The UCLA team describes a new kind of polymer solar cell (PSC) that produces energy by ...