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2024 Aviation Lighting Committee Fall Conference

The Fall Meeting is a fantastic opportunity to network with more than 300 of the aviation lighting industry’s best electricians, engineers, and manufacturers. With presentations, panels, and discussions across a diverse cross-section of industry topics, the Fall Meeting is a valuable time for industry collaboration. We dedicate a few hours every year as a day…

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What’s in the Luminaire YOU are Specifying? Why LED Drivers Matter for Your Lighting and Controls Project

LED drivers matter. Their quality, capability and intelligence drive the results of your lighting design and empower lighting controls on your project. This course will provide an in-depth review of the driver performance specifications to deliver quality of light, dimming, flicker-safe capabilities and lighting controls including luminaire-level lighting controls.  

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Daylight Metrics Update: New Provisions in LM-83-23 Spatial Daylight Autonomy (sDA) and Annual Sunlight Exposure (ASE)

IES Lighting Measurements (LM) 83-23, Approved Method: IES Spatial Daylight Autonomy (sDA) and Annual Sunlight Exposure (ASE) recently underwent significant revisions and ANSI certification. LM-83-23 describes the IES approved method for computing annualized climate-based metrics for daylight sufficiency (sDA) and for excessive sunlight exposure in buildings (ASE). It provides a common reference standard for daylighting…

International Day of Light Research Webinar: Focus on Daylighting

The authors of three papers recently published in Leukos will present their work on various aspects of daylight and daylighting.  The projects being showcased include: Sunlight Autonomy for Buildings: A New Methodology for Evaluating Sunlight Performance in Urban and Architectural Design, Heliotropic Shading: Daylighting a Rare Books Reading Room with Electrochromic Glass and Parametric Analysis, and Trees in Daylight…
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Rethinking the Glass Box

Today, in the modern architectural landscape, it is understood that daylight is well suited to serve as a primary source of daytime interior illumination, providing perfect color rendition and meaningful variation of spectral content and intensity that nurture building occupants and uplifts the human spirit. As such, abundant application of daylight coupled with meaningful views…
Keeping It In-house | Industry office spaces need interesting design, too

Keeping It In-house

“We were excited at the prospect of playing the designer for once,” said Stephanie Ragusa, director of operations and design studio at Lighting Dynamics, Inc. “Our typical role is to comply with...

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Controls: Integration Roadmap

Today, lighting control systems communicate and work side-by-side with building systems. For example, a lighting and HVAC system may use the same occupancy sensors in various spaces to reduce the overall number...

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A Geyser of Light

In Ohio, Fountain Square has been a prominent gathering spot for Cincinnatians for well over a century. With the famous Tyler Davidson Fountain residing in the center of the city’s shopping and...

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Jet-Setters: Designers Discuss the Adventure of International Projects

Lighting design is an international art and science, so it’s only natural that many lighting designers become travelers by profession.
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Message: We Care

Effective wayfinding, heavy use of color and human-centric lighting helped create a soothing environment at a Montreal-area school dedicated exclusively to special-needs
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Healthy Choices: A Medical Center Leverages Lighting to Let Kids be Kids

Children’s Hospital & Medical Center, the only dedicated children’s hospital in Nebraska, had outgrown its facility in Omaha and was on...
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A Geyser of Light

In Ohio, Fountain Square has been a prominent gathering spot for Cincinnatians for well over a century. With the famous Tyler Davidson Fountain residing in the center of the city’s shopping and entertainment hub, the area welcomes more than 7 million people each year to enjoy its various restaurants, shops and seasonal events. But when…
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LD+A April 2024 | A Third-Place Finish | Starbucks Reserve leans on Wuhan’s local vibe

A Third-Place Finish

With more than 38,000 stores in more than 80 countries, you might believe that if you visited one Starbucks, you have seen them all. Well, grab a “cup of Joe” and sit yourself down for a Trenta-sized lesson on how the company is advancing the “third place” concept through its innovative store designs.
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How They Did It: Tiffany Window | IES Illumination Award of Merit
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How They Did It: Tiffany Window

To illuminate Light in Heaven and Earth with electric lights for The Art Institute of Chicago, designers from Schuler Shook worked closely with museum curators, conservators and exhibit designers to navigate the complexity of the 25-ft high by 16-ft wide stained glass landscape. 1. The team aimed to make the electric lighting appear as if…
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