Attendees of the International Astronomical Union Congress this summer previewed a full-dome video on light pollution called Losing the Dark. The 5-1/2 minute public service announcement shown at the Beijing Planetarium is a joint collaboration between the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) and Loch Ness Productions, a US-based full-dome ...
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 ...
Built on 6 acres of an 8-acre site in the southwest side of the Dallas Central Business District, magnificent new Omni Hotel has a very appealing and sophisticated persona. A contemporary reflective-glass exterior and rich native textures inside warmly welcome visitors and guests to an incomparable convention hotel. Hubbell Lighting, a market ...
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 ...
A.C. Special Projects Ltd. (ACSP) have supplied a quantity of customized Anolis ArcPad Xtreme LED fixtures and Pharos architectural control, to illuminate the roof structure of the magnificent new Western Concourse at London’s King’s Cross railway station. The spectacular lighting scheme was designed by Simon King of Arup, who is the Lead ...
19-22 September 2012 Jyvaskyla, Finland Lighting Urban Community International presents the LUCI City under Microscope events to enable participants to discover the lighting strategy of a member city over a 2-day period. They include field visits and technical conferences on permanent and temporary lighting projects. The second City under ...
Watch out, because the interactive Evoluzione Light kit can be addictive. The Evoluzione Light invites its owner to spend the evenings creating and refining the table light, challenge friends to create the best table light design or vary the light form to suit a mood or changing décor desires. The Evoluzione Light is a collaboration between ...
Flos, the renowned Italian lighting design company, will participate for the first time in the New York International Gift Fair this August with their newly introduced 2012 Gift Collection: small, portable table and task lighting available in a range of affordable price points. The collection features items from Flos’ carefully curated group of ...
As an aid to companies looking for opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve energy efficiency using LED lighting, Honeywell Electrical Devices & Systems (ED&S) has launched a free global consulting service. The service offers consultations, site surveys, lighting schemes designs, detailed energy and cost saving ...
Lighting Analysts, Inc., a world leader in lighting design and calculation software announced the availability of ElumTools 2013, an enhanced and updated software add-in to Autodesk Revit 2013 MEP or Architecture. ElumTools 2013 contains several user-driven enhancements that enrich the lighting calculation experience within Revit, such as a ...