We recently had the pleasure of hosting a webcast with Cisco’s Luis Suau, technical leader of the Industries Product Group, who schooled us on smart buildings and how lighting and controls instill intelligence as a central point for such systems.

Element® Hotels, part of Marriott International, announces support of National Secondhand Wardrobe Day on August 25, 2017.

Over the course of mid-summer into the fall of 2016, Lumileds rolled out numerous members of what the company has called the Stylist portfolio of chip-on-board (COB) LEDs with SPDs tuned to a new level of specialization for applications.

Philips Lighting today launched a wireless lighting-as-a-service initiative for commercial offices, hoping to convince building managers to implement smart Internet-connected lighting schemes that Philips has addressed to date with more expensive wired offerings based on Power over Ethernet (PoE) that appeals to a narrower audience.

EnvironmentalLights.com, a leader in LED lighting solutions, announced the promotion of Keith Zeber to Vice President of Sales.

Power up those warp drives and get ready! After months of revisions and updates, the plans for Alien Fresh Jerky’s fully immersive UFO hotel designed by Luis Ramallo were approved on August 2, 2017 by the San Bernardino County Building Department.

Osram has announced the acquisition of Boston-based Digital Lumens — a company started in 2008 focused on connected solid-state lighting (SSL) systems and the use of autonomous and programmatic controls to further energy efficiency beyond the baseline savings attributable to efficient LED sources.

Zumtobel has announced a retrofit to LED-based lighting at Wartburg Castle in Germany — the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) World Heritage Site that reflects almost 1000 years of German history.

The Port of Moerdijk in southern Holland is installing smart street lighting controls across 2600 hectares of land in a bid to slash energy consumption and maintenance costs.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has published another in its series of Gateway reports that evaluate the performance of real-world solid-state lighting (SSL) projects in general illumination applications.

Officials of PM Hotel Group, a leading, national hotel management company, and The Buccini/Pollin Group, a privately-held, full-service real estate acquisition, development and management company (BPG), completed the topping off of the 153-room Canopy by Hilton Portland Pearl District.

In 2016 the LED component market saw a slight stabilization of the price erosion that swept the market in 2015.

HyLite LED Lighting, a division of ARVA, LLC, announced the expansion of its retrofit lamp product lines with new 347V & 480V options.

MaxLite, a global manufacturing and marketing leader of energy-efficient lighting solutions, announces the appointment of Jim Poynton as Director of Utility Program Implementation.

Providing superior light quality and performance, MaxLite introduces flicker-free LED T8 Lamps as a long-lasting, energy-efficient replacement for fluorescent tubes in offices, classrooms and other commercial and educational applications.

I’d be comfortable saying lighting flicker is an irritating phenomenon that has been experienced by 99.999% of the population with access to electric lighting.

It's official: European consumers struggle to tell apart different bulb types, easily confusing LEDs with incandescents, CFLs, metal halides, and others.

Wimbledon, among the most famed sports venues around the globe, installed LED lighting in the retractable roof that can cover Centre Court during periods or rain or darkness.

Feilo Sylvania is upping its smart lighting game, launching a technology integration program designed to mix and match different luminaires.

We held our first US Lighting for Health and Wellbeing conference two weeks back, and we felt that it was a great success.