The U.S. Department of Energy recently announced $12.5 million in R&D funding for projects in the LED and solid-state lighting (SSL) sectors as part of the Building Energy Efficiency Frontiers & Innovation Technologies (BENEFIT) program. Here’s everything you need to know. Read More
Frank has over 30 years of product management and marketing experience with lighting manufacturers including decades in general lighting and specialty lighting with traditional and LED sources. He currently serves as on the Fanlight / NaturaLED® marketing management team and resides in the Chicago area.
IES files are extremely important to lighting designers—they are essentially a core tool of the profession, especially in modern projects. Every lobby, street, warehouse, and office room is designed to meet specific targets for light levels, uniformity, and glare limit where decisions were made on a computer long before any fixture ships. Those calculations are […]
When we talk about LED lighting, we often describe light using familiar terms such as color temperature (2700K, 3000K, 4000K, 5000K etc.) and CRI (80 CRI, 90 CRI). These specifications are important, but they don’t tell the entire story of what color a light source will actually produce. At the center of that story is […]
