January 21, 2019 | Education Facility | David Malone, Associate Editor
Courtesy Urbahn Architects
The school is named in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s vision of the “Beloved Community.”
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August 01, 2018 | David Malone, Associate Editor
The new lights will save Willis Tower more than 70% in antenna-lighting energy costs.
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December 20, 2017 | David Malone, Associate Editor
Bjarke Ingels Group creates words and numbers using light.
November 06, 2017 | David Barista, Editorial Director
Design elements such as colored-glass room dividers and distinctive curvatures in the carpet, cei...
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September 01, 2017 | David Malone, Associate Editor
The SpectraLoc LED blue-spectrum high-bay fixture converts harmful blue light under 500 nanometer...
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June 13, 2017 |
Architect and materials guru Blaine Brownell reveals emerging trends and applications that are trans... read more
LED lighting in the catwalk shining down on the relit main arena floor during warm up prior an NBA game. Photo: Musco Sports Lighting
June 07, 2017 | Ian LaHiff, PE, LEED AP BD+C, and Wayne Allred, PE, CxA, LEED AP BD+C
Lighting retrofit of Orlando’s Amway Center slashes energy costs
As part of its two-year restoration and renovation, Duke University’s David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library deployed LED lighting in a variety of ways—as spots, for reading areas, and to illuminate larger spaces—to help optimize the building’s energy performance. ©Robert Benson Photography
April 10, 2017 | John Caulfield, Senior Editor
As LED lighting sources proliferate, AEC firms are more diligent about validating performance bef...
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December 08, 2016 | David Malone, Associate Editor
The light is fitted with just two LEDs and uses custome-engineered lenses to spread the glow.
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October 06, 2016 | John Beeck, Vanita Negandhi, CBRE Healthcare
There has been a rapid improvement and availability of LED products as primary light sources in m...
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August 26, 2016 | David Malone, Associate Editor
The technology measures light levels, humidity and temperature, motion, and sound.
Decorative OLED fixtures brighten the lobby of the Irondequoit (N.Y.) Public Library. Passero Associates was project manager and architect of record; Concord Electric, the lighting contractor. Photo: Donald Cochran Photography.
April 11, 2016 | John Caulfield, Senior Editor
LEDs still have room for improvement. That may explain why this technology has yet to be challeng...
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April 05, 2016 | Peter Fabris, Contributing Editor
The requirements would effectively eliminate incandescent and halogen bulbs.
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February 29, 2016 | Peter Fabris, Contributing Editor
Only LEDs meet this efficiency level today.
Blue LED lights above the High Trestle Trail Bridge in Madrid, Iowa. Photo: Phil Roeder/Creative Commons
September 11, 2015 | Peter Fabris, Contributing Editor
Twenty-three items open for public review through Oct. 4
Philips City Farm Research Center, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Photo courtesy Philips
July 07, 2015 | John Caulfield, Senior Editor
A research center in The Netherlands is testing the latest techniques in urban farming.
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June 17, 2015 | Michael Nowicki
While first generation LED lighting fixtures were basically your standard incandescent or fluores...
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"Real-time weather data [makes] the light move, and articulate the architecture of the building to give it a sense of elegance and presence,” lighting designer Bruce Ramus said. Rendering courtesy Lend Lease Group
April 06, 2015 | BD+C Staff
The tower will be illuminated by 164-foot-tall beams of LED light based on weather updates from t...
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October 16, 2014 | BD+C Staff
The project, named Lichtgrenze (or Border of Light), makes for a colossal art installation dividi...
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June 23, 2014 | Lilker Associates
New division rounds out building systems services offerings for the Manhattan-based consulting fi...
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May 23, 2014 | David Barista, Editor-in-Chief
Building Teams are employing a range of creative solutions—from evaporative cooling to novel hot/...
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May 02, 2014 | BD+C staff
Streetscape project includes monumental gateway portals, LED signage, and a new plaza, fire pit,...
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December 10, 2013 | BD+C Staff
From a crowd-funded smart shovel to a why-didn’t-someone-do-this-sooner scheme for managing traff...
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November 08, 2013 | David Barista, Editor-in-Chief
Real estate services giant Jones Lang LaSalle set out to answer these questions when it partner...
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August 21, 2013 | Leviton
Leviton has received tED Magazine’s “Best of the Best Award,” winning Best Product Launch by a Ma...
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May 28, 2013 | Craig Dilouie, LC, Contributing Editor
LED lighting technology provides unique advantages, but it’s also important to understand its lim...
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April 30, 2013 | BD+C Staff
Designed specifically for hospitals, nursing homes, child care centers, and other healthcare faci...
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April 19, 2013 | C.C. Sullivan and Barbara Horwitz-Bennett
Lighting experts debate the benefits, drawbacks, and issues related to specifying LED fixtures....