February 19, 2024 Leading lighting design consultancy, Lighting Design International (LDI) has been raising awareness of the need for greater sustainability across the built environment. LDI’s Associate, Arianna Ghezzi, shared these principles as part of a panel discussion at the recent and most successful Surface Design Show. The talk focused on Circularity in Lighting, and…
February 5, 2024 By Robert Lanteigne In the vast world of lighting, where brightness and ambiance play crucial roles, there exists a fascinating phenomenon known as directional lighting. Unlike its counterpart, diffused lighting, which disperses light in various directions, directional lighting focuses its luminance in one specific direction, akin to a laser beam cutting through…
By Robert Lanteigne January 4, 2024 In the world of architectural lighting, directional lighting stands out for its ability to focus and shape the ambiance of a space. Unlike diffused lighting, which spreads light evenly across an area, directional lighting points and shines light in a specific direction, creating dynamic and dramatic effects. This article…
By Robert Lanteigne December 6, 2023 The past, present, and future of general diffuse lighting in the industry Light is everywhere, filling up our world in its purest natural form! From the Sun’s ginormous beams to the tiny glow of a lightning bug, general lighting flourishes all around us through space. It starts as raw,…
November 6, 2023 by Robert Lanteigne Over my first decade in the lighting industry, I witnessed tremendous technological advancements, from halogen to LEDs and beyond. While embracing each evolution, I made it my mission to push innovation further through product development, education, and applications. My journey has shown me that no matter how far technology…
November, 2, 2023 All the World’s a Stage: Lightemotion’s Personification of Inanimate Objects Infuses Life Into an Urban Public Square Lightemotion, a global lighting design consultancy creating pathways to enhance human experiences, proudly presents its enlightenment of Square Viger, a neglected public space bridging Montreal’s contemporary downtown core with the preserved history of Old…
November 1, 2023 Goal: Upgrade the outdated fluorescent T12 and T8 lighting technology in the Eskasoni First Nation’s two school buildings and ice hockey arena/community centre with high-performing, energy-efficient, long-lasting, and low-maintenance LED fixtures from LEDVANCE Products Installed: 1,676 35-Watt and 40-Watt Lay-In LED Panels, 54 LED Strip Lights, 29 165-Watt Linear LED High Bays,…
Fanny Soulard, Senior Lighting Designer, IALD member* September 19, 2023 Fanny Soulard, Senior Lighting Designer is part of the keynote speakers session during the ArchLIGHT Summit event . She shared with us how she thinks lighting designers can perform better within their projects, using their cultural differences as a key added value! Vietnam’s construction market…
September 11, 2023 Valeco Energie Québec Inc. is a renewable energy development company found on the edge of Frédérick-Back park in Montreal. Valeco acts as the operators of the Biomont Energy cogeneration plant in the Saint-Michel environmental complex, which recovers biogas from the former landfill site and transforms it into green energy. “The park used…
September, 10, 2023 Commercial lighting specifiers have a tough job. The task of delivering light that satisfies users has become ever more demanding, particularly as energy codes increasingly require controls to maximize energy savings. In substantial ways, this hard work is to the benefit of buildings and their owners and users. By ensuring light is…
June 29, 2023 Cycles Gervais Rioux has been in business for 33 years. The current location on Avenue du Parc in Montreal, QC Canada has been open for five years offering high-end bicycles, cycling accessories, and providing maintenance services. Gervais recognized that there were some problems. For example, he noticed that the products were not…
June 27, 2023 Check out Giovane Caffè in Vancouver, a project by WAO Waissbluth Architecture, founded by award-winning architect, Nicholas Waissbluth. Working with the cafe’s concept of offering a combination of classic Italian drinks and modern iterations that will “tempt even the strictest of espresso purists,” the resulting space is a clean-lined contemporary environment, filled…
June 22, 2023 CSC LED is happy to announce that Geoff MacMillan has joined their growing team as National Sales Manager. Geoff brings to CSC LED an extensive engineering background; expertise in market analysis and development; strong and effective business planning skills; and proven experience in achieving corporate objectives. Mr. Macmillan will be focused…
June 19, 2023 By Line Goyette Charlie Harte was appointed president and CEO of LEDVANCE Canada in February 2020.“We all know what happened on March 19 of 2020! That day, I walked out of the office, there was a half of my team I had never met yet, I was unfamiliar with my customer base…
June 15, 2023 LEDucation is currently accepting speaker proposals for the March 2024 educational program through September 1, 2023. The 2024 Trade Show and Conference is set for March 19–20 at the New York Hilton Midtown in New York City. Virtual sessions will be offered the prior week, Thursday, March 14th and Friday, March 15th….
May 1, 2023 The LightFair Innovation Awards (LIAs) highlight the industry’s top innovations introduced since the last LightFair. They celebrate the ingenuity, creativity, and resourcefulness of our industry’s manufacturers, researchers, developers, scientists, and designers. Congratulations to the winners of the LightFair Innovation Awards 2023. An independent panel of judges from the IES and IALD reviewed each…
This project is funded [in part] by the Government of Canada.
Ce projet est financé [en partie] par le gouvernement du Canada.
