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Intercultural Intelligence: Finding a Cultural Bridge to Mitigate Lighting Practices in Countries with no Regulation

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…

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Architectural lighting brings industrial building to life as part of City of Montreal rejuvenation project

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…

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Acuity’s Steve Roe Talks Value of Embedded Controls

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…

Cycles Gervais Rioux Uses Verozza Lighting Products to Enhance the Customer Experience!
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Cycles Gervais Rioux Uses Verozza Lighting Products to Enhance the Customer Experience!

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…

Giovane Caffè: A Redesign Project with Lightform
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Giovane Caffè: A Redesign Project with Lightform

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…

CSC LED Announces the Appointment of Geoff MacMillan as National Sales Manager
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CSC LED Announces the Appointment of Geoff MacMillan as National Sales Manager

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…

LightFair Innovation Awards 2023 Winners
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LightFair Innovation Awards 2023 Winners

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…

Focus On/ Architecture presented by CDM2 Lightworks
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Focus On/ Architecture Presented by CDM2 Lightworks

March 27, 2023 Designing with light in mind – Connecting people to places and experiences. FOCUS ON/ Architecture offers attendees opportunities to learn and explore how architecture connects people to places and experiences that impact our daily lives. Understand how lighting design is informed by the architecture and contributes to how architecture is experienced.  Participate in any…

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Q1 Lighting Insights … Pulse of Lighting Survey

Doesn’t time fly. This weekend we turned the clocks forward which means spring is right around the corner and Q1 is almost done! With the quarter almost up, and seemingly much of the conference season, it’s time for our first Pulse of Lighting survey of 2023. The lighting season has already seen a few lighting conferences – Lightapalooza and LEDucation….

ROLAN ILAD
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10 Ways to Empower Users with the ROLAN Manifesto for Lighting Professionals

February 24, 2023 The Responsible Outdoor Lighting At Night (ROLAN) Manifesto sets out ten core principles for external illumination and a plan of action to implement positive change in the lighting community to lead to a more sustainable, healthier, and safer future for all. Because the UN Sustainable Development Goals (above) do not explicitly refer to external…

Light Fair 2023
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Help Shape the Future of Lighting at Lightfair 2023

February 24, 2023 Join the best and the brightest in architectural and commercial lighting at LightFair. Discover the latest lighting products, solutions, and technologies at the industry’s most inclusive and immersive lighting trade show and conference. This experience offers self-paced exploration, curated tours, networking events, educational sessions and inspiration-packed programming designed by the IES and…

LMPG aquiresALW architectural
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LMPG Continues its Growth and Deepens its Offerings in the Architectural Lighting Market

February 21, 2023 LMPG Inc. announced that it has acquired one hundred percent of Architectural Lighting Works (ALW), a privately-owned, innovative interior and exterior architectural LED lighting solutions provider, from Prairie Capital. Founded in 2005, ALW is renowned for their diverse selection of linear, architectural decorative, cylinder and acoustic lighting products, their unparalleled performance, and…