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Unless your house's topography permitted the Basement to be made as a walk-out area with large windows and a door or two, the amount might have access to small natural…
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What are LED bulbs? LED lights have been hailed as the future of house lighting, since they use very little electricity, claim to last a very long time and, unlike…
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Whether a busy office building or a five-star hotel lobby, when one enters a space, you are met with an array of visual elements that tease the senses at once.…
Environmental Lighting Guidelines Through the Layering and Control of Light
From ASHRAE and LEED® to ENERGY STAR®, the growing list of environmental lighting guidelines can be at times overwhelming for today’s design professional. When you add the need to meet…
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Meeting With Visual Elements And Specifying a Lasting Impression with Lighting
Walk into any space – your corporate office, a retail store, doctor’s office – and you are immediately met with an array of visual elements that not only impart a…
The Long-Term Care Environments with LED lighting
Though important, aesthetics can no longer be the driving force behind finishing products specified for the long-term care environment. With the evolution of evidence-based design theories, product specification goes beyond…
LED Lighting Brightens Hallways… and Spirits In The Commercial Building
References to energy savings and “green” processes have become ubiquitous in our society; sometimes, people do not realize that achieving such savings could be as easy as changing a light…
USAI Lighting was one of the first lighting manufacturers
Pushing LED brightness, color quality, and consistency to new levels in 2011, market leader Cree, Inc. introduced what was then the next step in eradicating energy-wasting halogen light sources. Cree's…
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For most of us, our daily lives are centered between two worlds – work and home. In fact, the average American spends 90 percent of his/her time inside. We can…
The Light is Getting in the Way of Your Work Day
Feeling the winter “blahs”? You’re not alone. According to the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), an estimated six percent of the U.S. population suffers from severe season affective disorder…
The USAI Lighting LED Triangle Provide Specifiers An Entirely New And Powerful Way To Use Light
Compromise-Free LED Technology, Designed to Lead the Market From the time light emitting diodes (LEDs) first started making waves in the industry, USAI Lighting has been innovating and engineering proprietary…
Five New Developments in White LEDs
Ten years ago, when white LEDs began entering the architecture marketplace in force, early adoption came with misgivings. The new light source would drastically cut electricity consumption over many more hours…