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LD+A Research Matters: Revisiting Daylight Shafts

LD+A — The Net-Zero Energy (NZE) building vision, along with emerging knowledge about health and well-being effects of light, especially daylight, has increased interest in the expanded use of daylight into buildings’ core spaces.

Max Tech and Beyond: Maximizing Appliance and Equipment Efficiency by Design

This project examined energy end-uses in the residential, commercial, and in some cases the industrial sectors. The analysis attempts to consolidate, in one document, the energy savings potential and design characteristics of best-on-market products, best-engineered products, and emerging technologies in research & development.

UC Davis Leads the Way with New ‘Smart’ Lighting

The Davis Enterprise — When UC Davis students walk across campus at night this fall, the streetlights that illuminate their way won’t be quite as inanimate as they have been in the past. Over the past year, UCD has been installing “smart” lights throughout the university grounds that can talk to each other to help safely and efficiently guide those moving about campus to their destinations.

UC Davis Leads the Way with New ‘Smart’ Lighting

Philips Energy Advantage CDM lamps with AllStart

Philips Lighting has released a ceramic metal halide, direct-retrofit lamp that can be used with both probe- and pulse-start ballasts. The Philips Energy Advantage CDM lamp with AllStart Technology saves energy, improves efficacy and color rendering, maintains light levels, and is more affordable than traditional metal halide (MH) lamps. Philips says the lamps “provide true universal operation regardless of orientation without compromising light quality, and make installation and maintenance easier than ever.” 

NEAA Study: Technology & Market Assessment of Networked Outdoor Lighting Controls

Outdoor lighting applications, including roadway lighting and parking lot and garage lighting provide crucial services for human safety, productivity and comfort in the modern urban and suburban landscape. The installed base of roadway lighting in the United States uses an estimated 52.8 TWh of electric energy annually, while parking lot and garage lighting uses an estimated 51.1 TWh.