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Base Zero Lighting Design: Start from darkness

by Mark Loeffler on July 26, 2011

This month, our lighting design team received the jumbo copy of The Lighting Handbook, 10th Edition by the Illuminating Engineering Society. It is almost four inches thick and weighs about 10 pounds. It is the accumulated knowledge of the organization dubs itself “The Lighting Authority.” It is impressively massive and cumbersome, ironically not a “handbook” [...]

Tagged as: architecture, Building, Design, dMASS, Green, Interior Design, Light, Lighting, Resource Performance

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Getting the Right Light Under Control: New developments in lighting mean less equipment, lower costs

by Mark Loeffler on May 17, 2011

Lighting has some basic qualities: direction, color, diffusion, and intensity.  The first three are typically static in buildings, depending on the location of the light, the source, and luminaire characteristics.  But intensity should be variable.  If a sound system needs volume control and an HVAC system needs a thermostat, then a lighting system needs dimming [...]

Tagged as: dMASS, equipment, Light, Lighting, lower costs

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The Right Light for the Right Application, Right Now

by Mark Loeffler on April 7, 2011

Last month, I disparaged LED “light bulbs” as nostalgia – a public reluctance to give up medium screw sockets and the familiar form of Mr. Edison’s incandescent lamp.  However, they actually serve as a gateway lamp, introducing this technology and opening up general acceptance for an entirely new way to deliver light.  The color rendering [...]

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