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C. Webster Marsh Talks Owner Project Requirements

01/25/2023 by Lighting Controls Association Leave a Comment

“Maybe you are on a rushed project with barely enough time to finalize the drawings. Perhaps you’re being onboarded years after the project began. Maybe you just have a client who won’t respond to your requests for more information. No matter the reason, a project without an Owner Project Requirements (OPR) can present one of the most common and difficult challenges modern designers face today.”

Filed Under: Articles, Commissioning, Content, Design, Topics

Automatic Receptacle Controls: What They Are and Why They Should be Commonplace in Building Energy Codes

01/02/2023 by Lighting Controls Association Leave a Comment

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has published a short guide to plug load control and why it should be a common feature of commercial building energy codes.

Filed Under: Articles, Content, Integration

Lighting Controls Association: Year in Review

12/22/2022 by Lighting Controls Association Leave a Comment

The Lighting Controls Association was founded as a council of NEMA back in 2001 to promote adoption of lighting controls through education. Today, the association continues to make a demonstrable difference in supporting public expertise in selecting, designing, installing, and operating lighting control systems. This article outlines the LCA’s accomplishments in 2022 and offers a preview of what’s to come in 2023.

Filed Under: Articles, Content, LCA News

Lutron’s Chris Udall Talks Selling Networked Lighting Controls

12/16/2022 by Lighting Controls Association Leave a Comment

Craig DiLouie, LC, CLCP recently had the opportunity to interview Chris Udall, Senior Project Manager, Lutron Electronics about how electrical distributors can position themselves to sell networked lighting controls.

Filed Under: Articles, Connected/Networked/Digital Control, Content, Lutron Electronics Co., Members, Topics

D4i: Standardizing Luminaire-Level Control

11/22/2022 by Craig DiLouie 2 Comments

The DALI Alliance recently extended DALI-2, which standardizes interoperability and control of LED drivers and sensors, with a version that more finely addresses the needs of the Internet of Things, which calls for individual device addressability, connectivity, and two-way data exchange.

Filed Under: Articles, Connected/Networked/Digital Control, Content, Topics

Cooper’s Martin Mercier Talks Selling Networked Lighting Controls

11/16/2022 by Lighting Controls Association Leave a Comment

Craig DiLouie, LC, CLCP recently had the opportunity to interview Martin Mercier, Marketing Manager, IOT/Connected Systems, Cooper Lighting Solutions. The topic: how electrical distributors can position and sell networked lighting controls.

Filed Under: Articles, Connected/Networked/Digital Control, Content, Cooper Lighting Solutions, Members, Topics

Lighting Control: What’s in the New Title 24?

10/26/2022 by Craig DiLouie Leave a Comment

On January 1, 2023, the 2022 version of California’s energy code—Title 24, Part 6 of the Building Standards Code—takes effect, superseding the previous 2019 version. In terms of lighting controls, the numerous changes include various clarifications and tuning along with two major provisions requiring occupant-sensing in offices larger than 250 sq.ft. and demand-responsive lighting controls. Designers and specifiers need to understand these changes before they begin working on code-covered new construction and alteration projects that will go out for permit in California in 2023.

Filed Under: Articles, Content, Demand Response, Energy Codes, Occupancy Sensors, Topics

SeaChange Receives 2021 Lighting Control Innovation Award of Merit

10/24/2022 by Lighting Controls Association 1 Comment

This month, we explore a lighting control solution installed as part of a light art installation in a vehicle underpass in Lonsdale Quay, North Vancouver, BC.

Filed Under: Articles, Award Winning Projects, Content, Eaton, Members, Projects, Public Spaces

Commercial Buildings Tax Deduction Expands

09/30/2022 by Craig DiLouie Leave a Comment

The new incarnation of the Commercial Buildings Tax Deduction offers a strong incentive to stretching energy efficiency in new buildings and modernizing existing buildings. In new buildings, it incentivizes more detailed design and the most advanced control options. In existing buildings, it incentivizes a wide range of lighting and advanced control options that, when coupled with available utility rebates, can substantially reduce initial cost that remains the largest inhibitor to investment in reducing operating costs via energy efficiency.

Filed Under: Articles, Content, Rules and Regulations, Topics

C. Webster Marsh: How Do BAS Protocols Fit into The Lighting Controls Equation?

09/28/2022 by Lighting Controls Association Leave a Comment

Here’s the scenario: you are a lighting controls designer working on a project with a BAS that uses BACnet…

Filed Under: Articles, Connected/Networked/Digital Control, Content, Integration, Topics

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