Applying the Art to Architectural Outdoor Lighting
For an architect, a building is a work of art. But while that art looks great during the day, how do you enhance it to make it look great at night, so it’s not just a dark canvas?
Kugler Ning Lighting Wins Two 2021 IESNYC Lumen Awards: A Lumen Award of Excellence and a Lumen Award of Merit by the IESNYC on June 17th, 2021
Located on a prominent corner of the Flatiron District, this 1894 Renaissance Revival church house is the new home for Fotografiska, a progressive museum of photography. The goal was to illuminate the architectural details and bring attention to this historically landmarked building.
IES Award of Merit: Samuel De Champlain Bridge
Spanning more than 3 km across the St. Lawrence River, this dramatic bridge has become a modern symbol of the thriving city of Montreal. As part of the design-build team, HLB spent more than 5 years developing a dynamic lighting design utilizing 7000+ luminaires in more than 45 universes of DMX control.
Discussing Diffused LED Lighting with IIlumisoft CEO Brett Nicholds
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.
From Past to Present: The Evolution of Emergency Lighting
A conversation with Jeff Beare, Executive VP of Marketing at Stanpro, on the evolution of emergency lighting.
Richard Assaly, LightForm – Works of Art that Work
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…
Building a Control Narrative
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.
2021 Q1 Pulse of Lighting Findings
The first quarter of 2021 was an “interesting” challenge for those selling lighting and, at the end of the quarter, industry performance was projected to meet industry predictions made during the fourth quarter of 2020.
Martin Stephenson – A Focus on Connectivity and Sustainable Innovation
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.
David Nathaniel: A Talent for Still Being There at the Right Time — Part 2.
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.”
George Filtsos on What Led Him to EcoGrid Technologies
As an advanced networked lighting controls company serving the industrial and large commercial sectors, EcoGrid Technologies has demonstrated a commitment to innovation and the progression of the industry by utilizing open-source technology.
Bentall Centre Case study
A leading urban trend is the creation of signature dynamic lighting designs for iconic downtown core high-rises.
SMS Engineering’s Bryan Smith on his Career and How Work Ethic Leads to Opportunity
Bryan Smith started his now 20-year career at the ground floor, so to speak, as a draftsperson working his way to a senior position at SMS Engineering, one of the largest independently owned consulting engineering firms between Calgary and Toronto.
Discussing AEA’s First Virtual Electrical Learning Expo with Tara Ternes
“It was amazing,” Alberta Electrical Alliance CEO Tara Ternes said of their first Virtual Electrical Learning Expo. “It was a built from scratch platform, based on our 26-years of experience doing the Expo,” so it certainly didn’t go without its challenges. “Going forward it will be much easier,” she said, adding that they learned a lot in the process of putting together and putting on the event virtually with Ivy Design, a marketing firm based out of Calgary, Alberta.
Jason Prevost — New Challenges — Six Priorities
“Never forget to look at the big picture.” These words of advice are from the father of Jason Prevost, his first mentor, who worked as a marketing specialist. Jason has repeated them often over the past two years during what might have been the hardest personal crisis of his life.
Meet your Lighting Specialist: Sharon Fahey – Market Channel Manager for Showrooms & National Accounts at Stanpro
Having been in the lighting industry for 25 years (6 at Stanpro) and being a part of the future of lighting from the manufacturing side has been a great experience.
