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Message From The Editor
When everything is possible
I often talked about how lighting is this special hub where technology and art are meeting. Please meet Richard Assaly, CEO of LightForm, who shows us works of art that work and explains his journey from a small warehouse in Edmonton to a company offering high-performing products in four showrooms and six offices across Canada. Also, read about how to coordinate the design/construction process with a control narrative. Good reading!
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Interview – Profile
Richard Assaly, LightForm – Works of Art that Work
By Lighting Design & Specification Editorial Team
As LightForm approaches its twenty-fifth year serving architects, designers, and lighting enthusiasts across Canada, founder and owner Richard Assaly has a lot to be proud of. Since he first established LightForm in a 1200 square-foot space in Edmonton, Alberta--the first company in the city to make international lighting designs available to the architecture and design community--Assaly has cultivated its growth and expansion with care. Today, four showrooms and six offices across Canada and a newly launched website allow LightForm to work directly with lighting engineers and designers in Canada and the United States--giving them the ability to specify high-performing products from across the lighting spectrum.
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Best Practices – Lighting
Building a Control Narrative
By Matthew Payette
A lighting programming and control narrative is a document that is essential to coordinate the design/construction process with a fully realized final architectural product. It defines how lighting will integrate into the space and ultimately how humans will interact with that same space. Sometimes there is a gap between the initial visions of the designers and the final product. Other times, the final product and operation of the lighting systems is achieved but after much project management distress toward the end of the project. This can be remedied by defining and using a programming and control narrative...
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Cybersecurity
A Comprehensive Look at Privacy and Cybersecurity in the Connected Home
Cybersecurity and privacy concerns in the smart home have the potential to worsen with device ownership and demand for gadgets growing. In building their solutions, industry participants should therefore treat cybersecurity protections as the norm. Looking past functionality and user experience, privacy also needs to be factored into the process…
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Viscor OnCurve
Stay Ahead of the Curve in Your Next Design
Visioneering’s new OnCurve fully luminous troffers feature soft curved lenses that deliver dynamic styling and low glare illumination. The concave and convex contemporary lens design options offer configurability and versatility to any T-Bar and hard ceiling space. Complement the decor by adding a splash of color to the center spine of the Concave. OnCuvre architectural luminaires are not only appealing but deliver best-in-class performance (up to 134 lm/W).
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Partnerships – Mergers – Acquisitions
- Panasonic Lighting Americas and Inter-Lite Sales Join Forces to Offer Comprehensive, Connected Lighting Solutions in British Columbia
Panasonic Lighting Americas, Inc. recently announced a strategic partnership with Inter-Lite Sales (ILS). Based in Coquitlam, British Columbia, the agency will support both Universal Lighting Technologies (ULT) and Douglas Lighting Controls (DLC) distributor networks across the British Columbia region.
- Delos Canada Established to Accelerate Health and Well-Being in Canada's Indoor Environments
Delos, a wellness real estate and technology company, has announced the formation of Delos Canada . For nearly a decade, Delos has been working to elevate health and well-being as central values in the spaces where we live, work, sleep and play. Recognizing a profound opportunity to integrate health and well-being solutions into our built environments, Delos has fostered research collaborations with leading medical institutions, architects, scientists and wellness thought leaders to introduce standards, programs and solutions into the built environment.
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Awards and e-learning
- Fluxwerx Wins Two Back-to-Back International Design Awards
The Fluxwerx Portal family of luminaires has been selected as the winner of iF PRODUCT DESIGN and Red Dot Product Design 2021 annual awards, two of the world’s most sought-after quality marks for good design. Extensively tested and assessed by juries of international designers from all over the globe, the Portal luminaire family was selected as a winner in the Lighting category for outstanding aesthetics as well as top-class quality of use in the respective competitions.
- Webinar: UV-C Germicidal Products – Regulatory Requirements in Canada
In the face of a global pandemic, germicidal UV luminaires utilizing a UV-C technology offers a layer of disinfection against bacteria, viruses, and fungal spores. Air and surface disinfection can play an important role in a broad range of applications, such as schools, offices, industry, (food) retail and museums.
- IES Progress Report Accepting Submissions
The IES is looking for significant new advancements in lighting products, research, publications, and design tools from the past year. The mission of the Progress Committee is to keep in touch with developments in the art and science of lighting throughout the world and prepare a yearly report of achievements for the Society. Acceptance is based on an impartial judging process used by the committee to evaluate each submission on its uniqueness, innovation and significance to the lighting industry.
- Lighting Controls Association Publishes New Networked Lighting Control Course
The Lighting Controls Association (LCA) has published EE302., Part 3: A Year with a Networked Lighting Control System, a new learning module in its popular Education Express online education program. Authored by C. Webster Marsh of HLB Lighting Design, this learning module was designed to help building owners/managers and electrical industry consultants visualize networked lighting controls as tools that can be used to improve operations while also saving energy.
- Light and Health Research Center Launches Website
All living things depend upon light for survival. The Mount Sinai Light and Health Research Center was created in 2021 to apply the science of light to improve health outcomes. Among the many projects underway, we are looking at how robust patterns of light and dark improve sleep for people from many walks of life, from submariners to premature infants to senior citizens and, indeed, to all who work in offices, schools, and factories.
- New DLC Draft Policy: LUNA Technical Requirements V1.0
The DLC is pleased to introduce the first draft of the LUNA (Light Usage for Night Applications) requirements: a new policy that establishes performance thresholds for specific categories of outdoor lighting in order to minimize light pollution, provide appropriate visibility for people, and limit negative impacts to the environment. Please submit all comments using the V1.0 Comment Form to comments@designlights.org by Friday, May 21, 2021.
- The Lighting Library – Take Your Knowledge With You
The IES knows you want to take your knowledge with you. In this special webinar, IES staff will guide you through The Lighting Library® – a giant step forward in how we create and deliver standards. This new online subscription-based platform allows access to our full set of standards from anywhere with an internet connection, updates automatically, and allows for more regular revisions of the standards to keep up with the times.
- Lightfair Announces Hybrid Conference Program
It's no secret that world-class lighting education is the standard at LightFair. This year, it gets even better with two ways to attend the conference. Attend in person at the Javits Center, New York. Or, attend virtually from anywhere in the world. LightFair Hybrid Conference Highlights...
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New Products and Solutions
EarthTronics Introduces New Emergency Drivers for LED Backup Lighting
EarthTronics LED Backup Drivers to regulate the power supplied to the LED fixture to ensure that lighting is promptly, automatically provided when power fails for people to evacuate safely in a suitable time in the event of an emergency. The backup drivers regulate the power supplied insuring that the fixture can provide egress lighting to meet local codes. When the power goes out, the emergency driver detects the AC power outage and automatically switches to the working emergency mode for 90 minutes. When AC power is present, the LED load from the LED driver is at a normal power supply.
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LITEISTRY 6" Round Adjustable
The LITEISTRY™ family offers a broad palette of architectural downlighting solutions with consistent aperture appearance, quiet ceiling design, and optical performance.
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NH Chandelier Suspension
The nh family continues to grow with a new floor version and even more suspension options. The new fixtures keep the lantern form of the original nh1217, and give new ways to design light with the beautiful glass diffuser. The nh suspensions are available in even more configurations and sizes to meet a wide range of design needs, even as a modern update to a chandelier. The nh family continues the study on the dynamic interaction of expertise, details, materials, form, and light that Neri&Hu are developing with Artemide.
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EiKO Athena: 2ft LED Linear w/Xi-Fi
Athena Series LED Stairwell is specifically designed for use in stairwells where the space is often unoccupied for long periods of time. It reduces energy usage by up to 85% by providing full on light levels only when the space is occupied and returning to power saving dim levels when the space is unoccupied. Xi-Fi wireless lighting control system links multiple fixtures and, together with a built-in occupancy sensor, automatically tracks occupancy so that the lights are at full brightness at the floors above, below and directly at the occupied location, irrespective of the occupant’s direction of travel. These fixtures function equally well in hallways, bathrooms, or any area that is frequently occupied. Available with an optional battery back-up system if required.
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