GE Lighting Honors Lighting Design Achievement
CLEVELAND — GE Lighting, headquartered in Cleveland, recently honored a team of architects for their lighting design at Square Inc., a mobile payments startup company that is based in San Francisco.
May 20, 2015
Acoustics: The Sounds of Sustainable Design
As the field of sustainable design grows and matures, more practitioners are turning away from a field that is based only on clear-cut metrics and realizing that the fuzzier areas of human comfort and productivity are very important as well. Consequently, space acoustics are garnering growing attention in sustainable projects.
Experts Examine Future of Energy Performance
VANCOUVER, Wash. — Determining a building’s energy efficiency based solely on using predictive energy models and specifying certain design and construction attributes may be a thing of the past by the time the next generation of architects and engineers join the workforce, according to the New Buildings Institute (NBI), headquartered in Vancouver.
Connecticut Plans Energy Efficiency Measures
HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced May 12 that new energy efficiency measures planned for Connecticut Valley Hospital (CVH) in Middletown and several Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) offices throughout the state will reduce energy costs at those locations by more than $3.3 million per year.
The measures are being implemented under the state’s “Lead by Example” initiative, which was designed to reduce energy use in state and local government buildings.
Joanne Fox-Przeworski
Green Seal, an environmental certification organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., announced that Joanne Fox-Przeworski, Ph.D., has been elected chair of its board of directors.
LED Lamp
Lunera Lighting introduced the Lucy Lamp, the latest addition to its commercial BallastLED Lamp line. The Lucy Lamp is designed as an energy efficient, plug-and-play LED replacement to easily replace indoor or outdoor High-Pressure Sodium (HPS) lamps. Facility operators will appreciate the immediate improvement in the near daylight color rendering of the Lucy Lamp. The instant-on lamp will significantly cut energy outputs by up to 70 percent compared to conventional HPS lamps and virtually eliminates ongoing maintenance costs.