Lighting Systems

• WattStopper contributes freezer case occupancy sensor to DOE study

  Jeffrey Yoders, December 22, 2009
  WattStopper has participated in a ground-breaking demonstration of solid-state lighting (SSL) technology combined with occupancy sensors in grocery store freezer cases. The project was supported under the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solid-State Lighting GATEWAY Technology Demonstration Program. WattStopper contributed FS-705 Wide Angle PIR occupancy sensors to the project.  More

• New data shows low construction prices may soon be coming to an end

  Jeffrey Yoders, December 21, 2009
  New federal data released recently shows sharp increases in the prices of key construction materials like diesel, copper and brass mill shapes likely foreshadow future increases in construction costs, the Associated General Contractors of America said. The new November producer price index (PPI) report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics provide the strongest indication yet that construction prices are heading up, the association noted.  More

• Building controls help green Louisville campus

  December 1, 2009
  The University of Louisville is moving to achieve a more sustainable future for its Belknap Campus with the help of a $21.7 million energy and resource efficiency improvement project delivered by the Building Technologies Division of Siemens. Siemens specified a package of HVAC system upgrades, building automation and lighting control retrofits, and water conservation strategies.  More

• 650 Wal-Mart stores to be retrofitted with LEDs

  December 1, 2009
  Wal-Mart plans to install Cree LRP-38 LED light bulbs in 650 stores during 2010. Designed to last 50,000 hours, the LRP-38s consume 82% less energy than the 70-watt ceramic metal halide bulbs they are replacing and can last more than five years in a 24/7 operating environment. The design of the LRP-38 also reduces glare for customers, focusing attention on the merchandise and not the lighting.  More

• Piano's 'Flying Carpet'

  By Jeff Yoders, Senior Associate Editor, December 1, 2009
  Italian architect Renzo Piano refers to his $294 million, 264,000-sf Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago as a “temple of light.” That's all well and good, but how did Piano and the engineers from London-based Arup create an almost entirely naturally lit interior while still protecting the priceless works of art in the Institute's third-floor galleries from dangerous ultravio...  More

• Greenbuild video: Lighting controls at Green Patient Lab exhibit

  November 24, 2009
  Lutron's Michael Linck demonstrates lighting controls and other patient-centered features in BD+C's Green Patient Lab exhibit at Greenbuild 2009 in Phoenix, Ariz. The experimental patient room was on display from Nov. 10-12, 2009.  More

• Let There Be Daylight

  By Jeff Yoders, Senior Associate Editor, September 1, 2009
  The new public library in Champaign, Ill., is drawing 2,100 patrons a day, up from 1,600 in 2007. The 122,600-sf facility, which opened in January 2008, certainly benefits from amenities that the old 40,000-sf library didn't have—electronic check-in and check-out, new computers, an onsite coffeehouse.  More

• Gold Award: Eisenhower Theater, Washington, D.C.

  September 1, 2009
  The Eisenhower Theater in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., opened in 1971. By the turn of the century, after three-plus decades of heavy use, the 1,142-seat box-within-a-box playhouse on the Potomac was starting to show its age. Poor lighting and tired, worn finishes created a gloomy atmosphere.  More

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