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Message From The Editor
A Tribute to Our Leaders and to Our Industry
How many times did you hear or thought that you were seeing the light at the end of the tunnel these last six months? Probably every day! Some of us had really important challenges and I thought it would be interesting to listen to them again. Also, read about important projects in city lighting and how lighting could enhance safety and enrich beauty. In the Pentagon Memorial lighting project, we could see how lighting is also about respect. Good reading!
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Leaders in the industry
David Nathaniel: A Talent for Still Being There at the Right Time — Part 2.
By Line Goyette
Six years ago in February 2015, I interviewed David Nathaniel and called the profile I wrote “A Talent for Being There at the Right Time.” We met again this past February, this time virtually (without a cup of his wonderful expresso coffee). What follows is a summary of our conversation — “A Talent for Still Being There at the Right Time — Part 2.” My first question to David was, what has happened in those six years? “Everything,” he said, and he started to laugh. “Obviously, we faced a lot of disruption from LED technology. It has greatly impacted the lamp business. Most competitors from back then have exited the business today.
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Martin Stephenson – A Focus on Connectivity and Sustainable Innovation
By Author
As of February 2021, Martin Stephenson is the new President and CEO of Signify Canada. Given that he took office nearly a year into the pandemic and its related restrictions, it is easy to imagine him drawing on past experience to lead Signify’s response to this current health challenge and its consequences for Canadians and Canadian business. I first asked Martin, “How has your journey led you to the position you hold now? What were the most important moments?” If I were to sum up his answer in three words, I would say automation, connectivity and sustainable innovation. Here’s what Martin told me.
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Leaders in the industry
Richard Assaly, LightForm – Works of Art that Work
By LDS 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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Discussing Diffused LED Lighting with IIlumisoft CEO Brett Nicholds
By Blake Marchand
Illumisoft Lighting is an innovative company headquartered in Ottawa that focuses on suspended ceiling troffer LED fixtures that utilize optical film technology to achieve a high level of performance and efficiency. Their flagship product is the EcoWing, which is available for new construction and fixture in fixture retrofits. Their primary application target is office buildings, hospitals, and dealerships. Recent projects include the Department of National Defense building in Ottawa, AMPED Sports Lab, Queensway Carleton Hospital, and Surgenor Automotive Group.
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Projects
City of Vaughan, Ontario, Canada embarks on energy-saving smart street lighting initiative with Telensa
Telensa, the global market leader in connected street lighting and a Signify company that sells its systems under its own brand name, has been selected by the City of Vaughan. Located on Toronto’s northern border and one of Canada’s fastest growing cities, Vaughan will deploy Telensa’s PLANet intelligent streetlighting system. The LED streetlight retrofit program includes replacing Vaughan’s 23,000 streetlights with energy-efficient LEDs combined with Telensa wireless controls.
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Lighting Upgrade Enhances Safety and Enriches Beauty of 9/11 Pentagon Memorial
The National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial is dedicated to the tragic events of September 11, 2001. Adjacent to the Pentagon, the two-acre Memorial Park is a powerful tribute. Each of the lives lost on American Airlines Flight 77, and military and civilian personnel inside the Pentagon is represented with a bench. The benches seem to rise from individual rectangular pools under each one, and with trees interspersed amongst them throughout the park, it makes for a fittingly calming environment.
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Changing Scene
- Ideal Industries Partners with Resilient Sales Corp. in Northern Ontario:
Effective August 1st, 2021, Resilient Sales Corp, led by its Principal Sean Atkinson, will serve as Ideal Industries (Canada) Corp.’s agency partner for the Northern Ontario region. They will be servicing Ideal’s distributor partners within the region bordered by Bracebridge to the south, Algonquin Park/Quebec border to the east, Timmins to the north, and Lake Huron/Lake Superior to the west.
- Liteline Promotes Grant Copithorn to Outside Sales
Liteline Corporation is excited to announce that despite the challenges faced by the company during the pandemic they continue to aid in the development of their employees. "We are pleased to announce the promotion of Grant Copithorn to the Outside Sales Representative Team for the Greater Toronto Area.
- AMS OSRAM reports Second Quarter Group Results
ams OSRAM reports second quarter and first half group financial results.“We are very pleased with our performance in the second quarter, with our metrics coming in well above the midpoint of our guidance, and again delivering strong operational cash flow. Demand for our automotive solutions continued to be strong, and we saw good results in our consumer business,” said Alexander Everke, CEO of ams OSRAM, commenting on the second quarter.
- Signify Reports Q2 Sales of €1.6 Billion, Operational Profitability of 10.9%
“In the second quarter we saw an acceleration of the pace of recovery in comparison to the first three months of the year,” says CEO Eric Rondolat. “We successfully executed our strategy as demand for our connected lighting offers and our growth platforms remained strong.” The consumer segment held its momentum and demand for conventional products proved resilient. The professional lighting segment showed sequential improvements, while still impacted by both extended lockdowns and supply constraints.
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Education
- Draft DLC Surveillance Testing Policy Update Released for Comment:
The DLC is pleased to release the following draft update to the Surveillance Testing Policy as Version SSL 5.1. This draft will replace the current Surveillance Testing Policy and is being referred to as ‘SSL V5.1’ to indicate its alignment with the V5.1 SSL Technical Requirements. This proposed update only addresses recent changes to the SSL Technical Requirements, with a proposed effective date of October 1, 2021. Please submit all comments using the V5.1 Surveillance Comment Form to comments@designlights.org by Friday, August 27, 2021.
- 3D Printing for Lighting Online Course
This live, interactive course is designed for professionals from the lighting, 3D printing, additive manufacturing, and related industries to understand the possibilities of 3D printing for lighting and to learn more about each industry’s needs and capabilities.
- Lighting Controls Association Adds Summary Sheets to Education Express
The Lighting Controls Association’s Education Express, the online platform for free, instant, 24/7 education about lighting controls, now offers for a majority of courses downloadable one-page summary sheets students can download, print, and use as a quick reference.
- GE Current Introduces New Daintree Controls Software for Better Building Management
GE Current’s all-new Daintree Controls software platform allows users to manage building portfolios big and small from a single, easy-to-use interface. Daintree Wireless Area Controller (WAC60) is certified by the ioXt Alliance, which is widely recognized as a global industry leader in IoT cybersecurity. This web-based application empowers users to monitor, troubleshoot and report on the energy performance of indoor, outdoor and industrial spaces from a single application.
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New Products and Solutions
Luminis Launches Scena Family of Exterior Luminaires
Luminis has released its Scena family of exterior luminaires. The elegant surface mount fixtures and bollards are designed to withstand the rigors of urban exteriors and public spaces. The Scena family gives specifiers the ability to mix and match a variety of models to satisfy their requirements. Round or square, designers can select a bollard best suited to its surroundings, then carry the aesthetic with complementary surface mount fixtures to nearby buildings. The luminaires are ideally suited for commercial applications, schools, office buildings, or outdoor public spaces.
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Flos Flauta Indoor Family
Flauta's cylindrical body comes in three different heights, two surface textures with the nine available finishes to give more personalization possibilities. This collection's spotlights stand out thanks to a small circular reflector that captures and reverberates the light emitted.
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AND Light Vine Series
The Vine series introduces exaggerated form with propensity for repetition resulting in a bold impact. Composed of a poised chrome arc flanked by two glowing glass globes—in the case of the pendant the possible multiplication of the module enables the fixture to grow, exponentially overstating the fixture’s overall silhouette.
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Presenting Pivot by Lumenwerx
Lumenwerx announces Pivot, a next-level architectural 48V Magnetic Track System with integral drivers. Modular, compact at 1.55 inches in width, and expandable, it is composed of 10+ modules that can be mixed and matched to answer a wide variety of lighting applications. Pivot is offered in pendant and recessed options with direct or direct/indirect distributions and with infinite length possibilities. With our proprietary connectors, Pivot Linx, you can create any pattern or shape horizontally and vertically.
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