AHEAD, the Awards for Hospitality Experience and Design, has revealed its winners from the inaugural AHEAD America awards which was held on June 28, 2017 at the Perez Art Museum in Miami.AHEAD celebrates the very best of hospitality design in all its forms and the guest experience it creates across the region.

In an interview with LEDs Magazine, Acuity VP Greg Carter discusses the wide-ranging uses for Internet-connected lighting, and the myriad technologies that will enable lights to track assets, provide navigation, and such. It's a wide playing field.

The US National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) has issued its second report on LED- and OLED-based lighting entitled “Assessment of Solid-State Lighting, Phase Two.” The report projects that adoption of solid-state lighting (SSL) can deliver a 40% reduction in the amount of energy used for lighting by 2030.

The Lithuanian design studio AKTA, which clear-lined and contemporary style we are familiar with from previous articles, had accomplished yet another stylish and modern house project in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Musco, working with ME Engineers, has installed LED lighting in the retractable roof that covers Wimbledon Centre Court at the All England Lawn Tennis Club.

Nearly everyone has seen commercials for Amazon’s Echo. And most will admit they’re impressive. With the use of a simple “wake word”—“Alexa”—the voice-activated digital assistant can order pizza, turn on your lights, and play music, and many other conveniences.

A small, but cozy 37 sq.m. studio apartment was recently designed in Vilnius Old Town. Interior architect Simona Vilute wanted a fresh look with a pop brightly colored.

Sculptors and builders, through the centuries, have prized marble for its luminosity and durability. GranitiFiandre’s Marble Lab series celebrates the stone by interpreting specific varieties in the more approachable medium of porcelain.

Sheraton Hotels & Resorts today announced the reopening of the iconic Sheraton Cairo Hotel & Casino, a city landmark for more than four decades. The hotel emerges after extensive renovation to reveal a distinct and vibrant aesthetic with modern interiors, refreshed public spaces and innovative and revitalized dining concepts.

LED tunable lighting is beneficial to client health and allows architects and lighting designers to design more freely.

At Common House, a social club in Charlottesville, Virginia, by Wolf Ackerman Design, the café boasts rattan pendant fixtures and an acrylic mural by Ryan Trott. Photography by Andrea Hubbell.

Privately-held investment group Waramaug Hospitality III LLC and Sidra Real Estate, Inc. unveiled the reimagined traveler experience following an extensive $7 million renovation of the Marriott Southwest at Burr Ridge, in Burr Ridge, Illinois.

Officials with Trust Hospitality said they’re not beholden to hotel industry “myth” in their efforts to grow their business.

Sustainability in hotel design has become much more than LED lighting; it’s incorporated into elements from the development process to the interior-design stage.

LAS VEGAS—The Green Building Initiative (GBI) announced that MGM Resorts International has earned Four Green Globes certifications for 26 retrofit building projects at various MGM Resorts’ Las Vegas properties.

The project was created and implemented in 2016 by MARTINarchitects. Two-level apartment are located in LCD “White Chocolate” and represent an open space of 65 sq.m.

The Osram Oslux S2.1 multi-chip packaged LED mixes color temperature to match ambient lighting and optimize photos and video, while new Lumileds COB LEDs extend flux output to 30,000 lm for street-light and high-bay lighting.

Feilo Sylvania is upping its smart lighting game, launching a technology integration program designed to mix and match different luminaires, sensors, chipsets, and other components from information technology partners, from smart lighting startups, and from its own lighting portfolio, LEDs Magazine has learned.

G6 Hospitality has been rooted in the economy segment for 55 years, but the company’s tech-focused strategy looks toward the future.

County Materials Corp. donated 14 tons of concrete masonry units to this year’s masonry diploma course through the Milwaukee Area Technical College.