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This reports discusses how the intensity of light and UV-A & UV-B radiation from daylight and electric light can cause macular degeneration, which is vision loss, typically in older people, and cataracts, which is clouding in the crystalline lens in the eye. “It’s important to remember that different antioxidants prevent ocular disease in different ways,” […]Read More

If designed properly, a healthcare interior environment can foster healing, efficient task-performance and productivity, effective actions, and safe behavior. Written by an expert practitioner, Rosalyn Cama, FASID, this is the key book for interior designers and architects to learn the methodology for evidence-based design for healthcare facilities. Endorsed by the American Society of Interior Designers, […]Read More

As a foreward-thinking company with a precise vision of the future, Siteco has re-defined lighting technology.Read More

The Technology of TeleLumen® More than just LEDs, TeleLumen technology elegantly combines communication, control, and color intensity management to match what is found in nature. It literally unleashes 10 orders of magnitude more points of fidelity than conventional RGB systems.  Read More

Next Generation Luminaires congratulates the winners of the 2012 Indoor Competition! The judging panel selected the luminaires on the basis of color, appropriate illuminance, light distribution, glare control, appearance, serviceability, value, and energy efficiency. Dimming was considered separately as a “bonus” item since not all entries were intended to dim. [button link=”http://www.ngldc.org/pdfs/NGL12_IndoorCatalog_Final_WEB.pdf” color=”black” text=”light”]NGL Showcase Link[/button]   […]Read More

Traxon Technologies, together with its control brand, e:cue, is a global leader in solid state lighting and control systems providing complete, sustainable and intelligent lighting solutions.  Working with our extensive partner network, Traxon & e:cue transforms creative visions into unforgettable lighting experiences, elevating architectural, entertainment, hospitality, and retail environments around the world.  Read More

Once an LED product reaches the target market, it has a very short lifespan.  The speed of SSL advancement requires the market ready product to be sold within 1 to 2 years…anything older than 2 years becomes obsolete as the next generation products takes over the project market.  Therefore, PLANLED’s R&D service prepares the market […]Read More

Imagine the first time a light bulb ever went on:  How it pierced the dark where before there had only been a flame. Over a hundred years later,  the industry is still in the dark, but about to receive a wake up call. And we say not a moment too soon. Rather than a company that has […]Read More

This is a great video on why people buy or accept some things. It is because they believe in the same things that the providers believe. So if you believe in Human Centric Lighting, which is unconventional thinking, and that belief is apparent, others may be very open to Human Centric Lighting.Read More

Our committee’s Mike Lambert is the senior lighting designer for this innovative project.  Mike mentions that this has become a common practice in Europe, but it is just being introduced to our nation. Read Article  Read More

By Steven Lockley, Ph.D. We live in an increasingly 24/7 society, with work, family, and social pressures all chipping away at our sleep. Couple this with long work hours, shift-work, chronic caffeine use and exposure to the glow of computer screens late into the night, and it may be much more than sleep that suffers. […]Read More

Researchers cast a little light on the subject of sleep   “We now know that just having light in the room can be therapeutically effective,” says Lockley. “It doesn’t need to be in your face.” A recent study from the Netherlands illustrates Lockley’s point. Researchers there showed that placing brighter lights in the common areas […]Read More

David C. Holzman David C. Holzman writes on science, medicine, energy, economics, and cars from Lexington and Wellfleet, Massachusetts. His work has appeared in Smithsonian, The Atlantic Monthly, and the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The irony of blue as an environmental agent is that before the industrial age, it was merely a color. The unnatural lighting […]Read More

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Steven W. Lockley, Ph.D. Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts Watch VideoRead More

Humans have traditionally improved the places in which we live and work to increase our comfort and productivity. These improvements have been based upon technological advancements that improved the health and welfare of building occupants, but have paid little attention to more subtle physiological needs. Recent advancement in our understanding of natural systems, coupled with a growing understanding of the […]Read More

The effects of lighting on the human circadian system are well-established. The recent discovery of ‘non-visual’ retinal receptors has confirmed an anatomical basis for the non-image forming, biological effects of light and has stimulated interest in the use of light to enhance wellbeing in the corporate setting.  Read MoreRead More