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Message From The Editor
Opportunities for disruption
Our friend Craig DiLouie reports on a white paper which concludes that daylighted spaces with lighting controls and views can improve occupant well-being, workplace productivity and much more. Explore more on that subject in this issue. Also, we've met a lighting designer who welcomes the age of disruption as an age of opportunities. Smart cities need smart buildings to become alive. More on that subject in this issue. Follow us live during the 21st Hong Kong International Lighting Fair and the 4th Hong Kong International Outdoor and Tech Light Expo from October 27 to 30. Good reading!
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Changing Scene
- Signify to Purchase Cooper Lighting from Eaton
Eaton has entered into an agreement to sell its recently named Lighting business, Cooper Lighting, to Signify for a cash purchase price of $1.4 billion. The decision to sell the Lighting business comes after completing a comprehensive review of various potential transaction alternatives to maximize shareholder value…
- AMS Still Pursuing Take-Over bid After Failed Attempt
Shares in sensors specialist AMS and lighting group Osram fell on Monday on concerns AMS might revisit its $4.9 billion takeover bid which fell through this month. Best known for supplying sensors for Apple's latest iPhones, AMS had fought a fierce battle versus private equity groups in its pursuit of the larger Osram, a leader in automotive lighting…
- Comprehensive Professional Lighting Search Engine, LightAZ.com Goes Live
A team of lighting professionals have developed LightAZ.com; an advanced online platform, that represents a new FREE, user-friendly, and time saving experience for specifiers and agents, and a new productivity tool for manufacturers…
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- Standard Stanpro Announces New National Director of Inside Sales and Quotes: Natacha Piccirilli
Standard Stanpro has nominated Natacha Piccirilli as National Director of Inside Sales and Quotes. In this role, Natacha will be responsible for building strategies with respect to inside sales, quotations and energy savings, in collaboration with Valérie Lefebvre, Inside Sales Manager and Jean-Philippe Teillet, Quotes, Energy saving and layout Manager…
- MaxLite Announces Partnership with SnapCount for Integration into SnapSource
SnapCount, the widely used retrofit software from StreamLinx, has announced a partnership with MaxLite to feature MaxLite's lighting products in an exclusive solution repository within SnapCount, called SnapSource. As a manufacturer partner within the SnapSource Product Hub, MaxLite will receive enhanced product visibility within the SnapCount platform during the user's solution selection process…
- Acuity Brands Initiates Sponsorship to Support IES Education
The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) and Acuity Brands are initiating a qualified sponsorship program in support of IES Education. The program will help enable IES's continued improvements and investments in the creation of new educational programs, systems for disseminating content, and new services to increase the value members receive from the Society…
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- Connected Lighting Technology Event Planned for Toronto November 12, 2019
Plan to attend Eaton Lighting's Connected Lighting Technology Event to help prepare you and your business to take advantage of emerging technologies. Today's commercial and industrial facilities expect solutions that add value beyond lighting, and we want you to be ready to meet the challenge. The event is taking place November 12 at Amsterdam Brewery in Toronto…
- Light + Building: Connectivity Brings Artificial Intelligence into Buildings
As part of Light + Building, Intersec Building brings together the products offered by international market leaders from the field of safety and security technology, such as Siemens, DOM Sicherheitstechnik, Grothe, WANZL, PCS Systemtechnik and Schneider Intercom. Within this framework, the Intersec Forum conference functions as an information interface at which around 80 experts will discuss their experiences…
- IALD Honors Stephen Lees, FIALD with Lifetime Achievement Award
The International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award to Stephen Lees, FIALD, founding principal at Horton Lees Brogden (HLB) Lighting Design, at the annual Enlighten Americas conference in Albuquerque, NM USA. In IALD's 50-year history, this marks the seventh time an IALD member has received the Lifetime Achievement Award…
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White paper - Smart Buildings
Smart Buildings are the Cornerstone of Smart Cities
Smart cities are projected to be the future of urban living and development. There is the anticipation that smart cities will improve the quality of life for citizens with a clean, secure, accessible, responsible, and sustainable environment.It's an ambitious aim and we are seeing the supporting infrastructure that will support these goals unfold. Connected devices are spreading all over the urban landscape.Sensors and wireless connectivity are being built into roads, transport networks, commercial buildings, energy-monitoring platforms, and waste-management systems. Sensors gathering data across a network create endless possibilities to reduce traffic congestion, streamline trash collection, automate parking, reduce energy consumption, and improve personal safety...
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Peers and Profiles
Gold in, Gold Out: Mike Morneau of Dynamic Energy Services Discusses his Career as a Lighting Designer
By Blake Marchand
Mike Morneau began his professional career in graphic arts after earning a Bachelor of Technology from Ryerson University. Working for several years in that industry he made the career change into lighting, taking a Fundamentals of Lighting course through his local IES (Illuminating Engineering Society) chapter in 2009. "That got me hooked," Morneau noted, he went back to Ryerson to do their continuing education program in Lighting Design and would go on from there to write his NCQLP LC (National Council on Qualifications for the Lighting Professions - Lighting Certified) exam. "It's a bit of a family business, now," said Morneau of his career shift into lighting, adding he didn't initially plan on getting into the industry. Mike's father, Tom Morneau, started Dynamic Energy Services in 1996, "he always worked hard and kept the business scaled around his resources," explained Morneau.
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Research and LED Technology
University of Oregon Evaluates Impact of Daylight, Views, and Controllable Lighting
By Craig DiLouie
In August 2019, the University of Oregon published a whitepaper, The Impact of Lighting and Views in the Workplace of the Future. The paper concludes that daylighted spaces with controlled lighting and views can improve occupant well-being, workplace productivity, and satisfaction by positively influencing various physiological and psychological processes. Lighting and views also impact property value and employee recruitment and retention, the researchers said. "If current trends hold, the demand for daylight, views, and personal controls will only increase," the paper's authors write, "and design solutions that integrate natural elements with intuitive control and automation technology will be highly favored." The authors include Paul Ward, Jeff Kline, and Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg of the university's Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory and Siobhan Rockcastle of the Baker Lighting Laboratory...
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New Products and Solutions
Lithonia Lighting's Radean Series Designed for Pedestrian-Friendly Spaces and Urban Environments
Sculpture by day - beacon of comfort by night, the RADEAN family brings an elegant sense of style to any outdoor pedestrian space. The patented transition zone provides an intermediary luminous surface between the brighter waveguide and the dark night sky which drastically reduces the perception of glare and provides a softer appearance to the light source…
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Lightheaded Lighting Squeezes More Lumens Out of Their Contortionist
Lightheaded Lighting's top-selling series of adjustable's, Contortionist, are now available in High-Lumen Packages up to 2300 lumens. These dual axis marvels of flexibility can tilt 40° and rotate 360° with zero light cutoff, which means that you can aim even more light precisely where you need it…
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EcoGEN LED Flexible Strip Lighting
EcoGen's Flexible Neon Series is suitable for both exterior and interior applications on residential or commercial buildings. The use of LED supposed to lights is quickly rising in terms of building design on a global level. These simple lights are more efficient, greater and are easy to install…
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ERCO Compar Surface-Mounted Luminaires for Modern Working Environments
Now even more choice in the Compar range from ERCO: the new linear surface-mounted luminaires combine the versatility of the innovative Compar lighting technology within a slender, elegant housing that can be efficiently mounted directly onto all types of ceilings. Ideal for illuminating new or existing administrative buildings…
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