2014-06-24

Southampton to Install LED Floodlighting at St Mary Stadium Ahead of 2015 Season

The new lighting system will be in place for the coming campaign with the club moving in line with Premier League requirements for a higher level of light output. 
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2014-06-23

LakePoint Sporting Community in Georgia Receives LED Lighting System Upgrade

LakePoint Sporting Community, the world’s largest sports vacation destination, has partnered with the leading innovator of sports lighting solutions, Musco Lighting, to provide a LED lighting system for enhanced playability and energy efficiency. LakePoint is the first multi-field sports complex to use Musco’s cutting-edge lighting solution harnessing LED technology to direct more light onto the playing surface.
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2014-06-23

Solar Powered LEDtronics LED Area Lights Offer Security to Mesa Residential Community

When residents of the Park Centre Casitas residential community in Mesa, Arizona, got together and hired a security company to survey the property and suggest ways to keep it safe, the security company suggested adding perimeter lighting.
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2014-06-20

Cree and Musco Team Up to Transform Lighting of San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) recently completed its LED lighting overhaul to the East Span of the iconic San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge. After three years of testing and designing custom fixtures, Musco Lighting provided an energy-efficient LED lighting solution featuring Cree® (Nasdaq: CREE) XLamp® XM-L LEDs to illuminate the picturesque suspension tower and bridge deck.
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2014-06-19

Al Jassimiya Tower in Doha Radiates Colorful Hues after LED Upgrade

Al Jassimiya Tower is transformed into a colorful architecture after receiving LED upgrade from Lumasense designers using Philips Color Kinetics products. 
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2014-06-18

Churches Modernize with LED Switch

The following post was written by Maureen Quinlan from Philips Color Kinetics. The arches, the domes, the organs, the altars, and the stained glass windows of a church of any faith seem to glow with a little help from the heavens. These days that effect is not only from natural light, it is enhanced by LED lighting solutions. With white and colored LED lighting solutions, Philips Color Kinetics has helped many churches create an entirely new atmosphere within the walls of worship. Recent trends have suggested that it is many churches’ goal to emerge from the shad...
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2014-06-16

New Pedestrian Tunnel with Integrated Art-wall to Open at King’s Cross

A new 90m long pedestrian tunnel with LED integrated art-wall will open at King’s Cross at the end of June. The tunnel has been designed by Allies & Morrison and will link St Pancras International and King’s Cross St Pancras Underground stations to King’s Cross’ public spaces, restaurants, offices and homes, via One Pancras Square. 
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2014-06-13

Maracanã Stadium Lit Up by GE during 2014 Brazil World Cup

When soccer teams from Brazil and Croatia run out on the pitch in São Paulo on Thursday afternoon, they will kick off one of the biggest sporting events in history, according to a latest GE blog entry. The cumulative television audience for the world’s largest soccer tournament is estimated to top 3 billion. The final at Rio de Janeiro’s Estádio do Maracanã on July 13 could be one of the most watched TV broadcasts in history.
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2014-06-12

Power Integrations Introduces Driver Reference Designs for CREE LED Bulbs

Power Integrations (Nasdaq: POWI), the leader in high-efficiency, high-reliability LED-driver ICs, today announced four reference designs describing drivers for dimmable PAR 30 and PAR 38 LED light bulbs. Jointly developed by Power Integrations and CREE, the designs showcase the combination of Power Integrations’ LYTSwitch™-4 driver ICs and CREE MT-G2 EasyWhite LEDs. DER-364 and DER-365 detail low- and high-line PAR 30 LED bulb drivers, respectively, while DER-350 and DER-396 address low- and high-line PAR 38 bulbs. These and other reference designs are hosted at www.powerint.com/ledrivers/cree.
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2014-06-12

SL Green to Expand LED Lighting Retrofit at Nine Office Properties

Revolution Lighting Technologies announced that SL Green Realty Corp. SLG +0.25%, New York City’s largest commercial property owner, has selected its Seesmart brand LED tube lamps for an LED retrofit at nine commercial office properties to save US $370,000 annually in operating expenses.
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2014-06-11

Gallery at Boston Historic Museum of Natural History Majestically Lit Up with LEDs

This majestic, historic building now houses Restoration Hardware’s Flagship Store. After sitting empty for years, façades and roofs were restored and a vibrant, new use of the building’s interior was realized. Now a retail establishment, treatment as a monument, true color and daytime concealment were critical requirements. All façade lighting fixtures are completely concealed, evoking the desired “light from nowhere” look. Though 95 percent of this lighting is LED, multiple high-CRI source types are employed to accommodate the building and owner’s varied finishes, colors and proportions. 
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2014-06-09

Kinetic Facade Receives Elegant New LED Lighting Design

The new ‘t Walletje business complex in Knokke-Heist, Belgium now stands out with an innovative and dynamic lighting design by Magic Monkey. Featuring a unique kinetic panel façade which follows the sun’s daytime movements, the scheme utilises 132 specially customised Pulsar ChromaStrip X3 linear LED fixtures to illuminate each panel and meet the stringent technical requirements of the project tender.
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2014-06-06

GE Delivers Complete LED Lighting and Controls Solution for Net Zero Energy Office

 When LPL Financial, the nation’s largest independent broker/dealer, an RIA custodian and an independent consultant to retirement plans, began envisioning a new zero net energy (ZNE) office building, it set four strategies to drive the project—energy efficiency, health and wellness of employees, connectivity and flexibility. Architects had a vision for a 13-floor, 415,000-square-foot office tower in San Diego, and designers had a desire for an efficient office lighting system that felt comfortable to occupants, allowed for added savings through dimming and daylight harvesting and could easily accommodate the changing needs of a growing business.
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2014-06-06

Philips Dazzles Moscow VEGAS Crocus City Shopping Center LED with LED Lights

Royal Philips unveiled the largest project ever realized using its Color Kinetics connected architectural lighting technology – a media façade and lighting design for the newly built VEGAS Crocus City shopping entertainment mall in Moscow. 
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2014-06-04

Grocer Finds GE’s New LED Fixture Is the Answer for Lighting That Lasts

Staying on the cutting edge of technology is one way Heinen’s Grocery Store creates an experience that keeps shoppers coming back, and lighting is essential to this equation—minus the time and cost of replacing lamps. When the Northeast Ohio grocer went looking for lighting that could last, it found an ally in GE—and an answer in LED—that together keep the ladders and lifts tucked away.
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2014-05-28

TDC Provides Core Visual Support for Lighting Festival Vivid Sydney

The Technical Direction Company is proud to be deploying the full range of its professional and technical expertise in providing core technology and services to Destination NSW for the sixth annual Vivid Sydney festival.
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2014-05-26

GE Improves Chinese Bridge Lighting with LED Streetlights

GE Lighting has built upon the cutting-edge technology of its R250 outdoor luminaire to create yet another innovative product – the Eco R250. The Eco R250 is developed to provide consistently high quality LED light while enjoying a long lifespan. It is designed for optimal application on major highways, roads, pedestrian sidewalks, as well as parking and retail areas.
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2014-05-22

Philips Lighting Honors Founders with Light Show

In 1891, Gerard Philips, later joined by his brother Anton, began a small lighting company in the Netherlands, using two connected buildings as a factory. Over one hundred years later, a crowd of people gathered in front of the buildings — named Gerard and Anton after the founders — to watch Philips Color Kinetics fixtures perform a light show in celebration of impressive architectural lighting.
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2014-05-20

GE Lighting Introduces LED T8 Lights to 7-Elevens Across Southern Thailand

GE Lighting has introduced its LED technology on a large scale in South Thailand with a major contract to supply lighting to 20 new 7-Eleven stores in the Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat Provinces. Operated by Yala Seven Co., Ltd, sub-area license company, the new stores are now well-lit with GE's LED T8 lights for optimal shopper experience and energy efficiency. 7-Eleven is an international chain of convenience stores that primarily operates as a franchise. It is the world's largest operator, franchisor, and licensor of convenience stores with more than 50,000 outlets in 16 countries. Thailand is one of its core markets with about 6,800 outlets.
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2014-05-20

Global Ad Agency Colorfully Transformed by LEDs

Located in Midtown Manhattan, the offices for advertising agency JWT New York also serve as the global headquarters for JWT Worldwide. As such, the creative office environment is designed to contribute to the agency’s philosophy and help its team create memorable work for its clients.
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2014-05-16

Zhongshan Bridge in Taipei Upgrades Lighting to LED Systems

Zhongshan Bridge, across the Keelung River, is to connect Taipei, Xinzhuang, and Sanchong District while the traffic rush hour traffic is heavy, and the bridge was renovated in 2007 after opening to traffic.
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2014-05-13

Making Kitchen Lighting Ecofriendly

Smart kitchen lighting goes beyond replacing your old bulbs with more efficient models. Reducing energy consumed by lighting can be easy with a kitchen that's designed for flexibility and makes use of the most energy-efficient lighting of all: natural daylight.
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2014-05-08

Oakland Retrofits 30,000 Street Lights with GE’s Evolve LED Roadway Fixtures

Oakland, Calif., is committed to energy efficiency and has been named one of America’s greenest cities. Its decision was natural to upgrade more than 30,000 street lights to GE’s Evolve™ LED Roadway Scalable Cobrahead fixtures—a move that will save this West Coast port city more than $1.4 million in annual energy and maintenance costs.
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2014-05-06

LED Lights Brighten Up Niendorf Beach in Germany

Future Lighting Solutions is pleased to announce the completion of a successful project with Studio DL and Leipziger Leuchten, in developing unique new LED lighting that provides energy-efficient ambiance to the grassy beach area along the Baltic Sea in Niendorf, with customized modules enabling adjustable brightness.
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2014-05-05

GE: Cleveland Turns on World’s Largest LED Chandelier

Cleveland’s historic Playhouse Square will turn on the world’s largest permanent outdoor chandelier on Friday at 9:30 pm ET. The 20-foot tall stainless steel light piece will shimmer with 4,200 crystal pendants and LEDs fixtures drawing just 1,700 watts (the equivalent of 17 standard 100-watt light bulbs.)
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2014-04-30

Interactive LED Chandelier Brightens Silicon Valley Hotel

Silicon Valley is an interesting place. It is the land of technological innovation. A small town with big ideas, built on dreams and mounds of coffee. It is also the land of futuristic chandeliers that pulse with light and move to visualize network traffic around them. 
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2014-04-29

Martin Professional and Tyréns light up Friends Arena in Arenastaden, Stockholm

Arenastaden is a new, trendy part of stockholm containing residential areas, shopping, offices and the centerpiece the Friends Arena. Friends Arena is Scandinavia’s biggest indoor Arena and holds up to 65,000 people. Tyréns, one of Sweden’s leading urban planning consultancies, won the assignment of planning lighting around the arena, in surrounding streets, bus terminals, ramps, roundabouts, squares, lifts and stairs. 
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2014-04-28

Philips Color Kinetics Lights up Historic 8 Northumberland Avenue

8 Northumberland Avenue's history is as colorful as the LED fixtures that now illuminate it. Built in 1887, the building operated as a 500-room first-class hotel until 1940, when it was requisitioned by the War Office. The building remained occupied by the Crown and inaccessible to the public until 2007, when it underwent a year-long, full-fledged restoration. It finally reopened its doors for general use in 2010, armed with brand new Philips Color Kinetics color-changing LED fixtures in the Old Billiard Room and Ballroom.
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2014-04-28

Campus’ Mood Shines Through new Interactive Philips Color Kinetics Light Installation

Students at Northeastern can display their feelings though a three-dimensional LED matrix set up on the side of Ryder Hall through a voting system. Students can select red for anxious, purple for exhausted, or blue for relieved.
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2014-04-25

Regensburg-based Artist Illuminates Glass Sculptures with OSRAM MultiLED

MultiLEDs can deliver bright light in all colors, as they contain red, green and blue chips. Therefore they give lighting designers a free hand when selecting colors, for example for automotive interior lighting. Now Peter Nowotny, an artist based in Regensburg, Germany, is using the tiny RGB light sources in several of his artworks and achieving impressive effects.
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For most of history, humans used flames to generate light. Eventually, they discovered that a super-heated metal element in a light bulb could produce useful illumination, only for this technology to be superseded by the LED. One common featur... READ MORE