This month, we explore an advanced lighting controls installation at the WAV PlayPark at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada.
Hospital Observation Unit Receives 2020 Lighting Control Innovation Award of Merit
This month, we explore a circadian-friendly lighting controls design at an observation unit in a healthcare facility.
Flagship Medical Office Wins 2018 IES Lighting Control Innovation Award of Merit
This month, we will explore an innovative installation of lighting controls at Forward Medical SF, a healthcare facility in San Francisco.
Kaiser Permanente San Diego Medical Center Wins 2017 IES Lighting Control Innovation Award
The lighting design for this new hospital focused on the quality of the patient experience, using light as a means to help enhance the wellness and comfort of both patients and their families. Reinforcing the circadian rhythm of patients with daylight and electric light was a key aspect of enhancing the patient comfort and well-being.
ETC Unison Mosaic Brings Quiet to Recovering Newborns at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin NICU
Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin in Wauwatosa is consistently ranked as one of the best children’s hospitals in the U.S., and contains the first and largest Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in the state. “We provide state-of-the-art care for more than 700 infants each year,” says Ann Grippe, clinical nurse specialist at Children’s Hospital. […]
Cleveland Clinic Wins IES Lighting Control Innovation Award of Merit
The Lighting Control Innovation Award was created in 2011 as part of the Illuminating Engineering Society’s Illumination Awards program, which recognizes professionalism, ingenuity and originality in lighting design. LCA is proud to sponsor the Lighting Control Innovation Award, which recognizes projects that exemplify the effective application of lighting controls in nonresidential spaces. This month, we […]
CLTC Wins LEEP Award for Controls Project
The California Lighting Technology Center (CLTC) recently won an award for “Best Use of Lighting Controls in a Single Facility” from the Lighting Energy Efficiency in Parking (LEEP) Campaign for a state-of-the-art lighting system demonstration at NorthBay VacaValley Hospital in Vacaville, CA. Click here to learn more.
Leviton’s LevNet RF Product Line Reduces Energy Usage by at Least 30% in VA Hospital
Managers of a Veterans Affairs Hospital in Dayton, Ohio recently searched for a solution to provide increased comfort and satisfaction for patients. The objective was to provide veterans lighting controls that were easy-to-reach. In addition, the VA Hospital had very strict requirements for the devices installed in the hospital. The Challenge * RF Interference: The […]
GE Lighting Products Selected to Control Lighting for Innovative Research and Cancer Care Center
The new 11-story, 422,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art Mount Sinai Center for Science and Medicine located on Madison Avenue in New York City is being designed to unite clinicians, scientists, educators and their colleagues in an interactive space while expanding Mount Sinai’s research and treatment programs. With high aspirations for collaboration in this joint clinical research and ambulatory […]
Thomas Jefferson University and Hospital Cuts Lighting Energy Consumption by 51% with Encelium Technology’s Energy Control System
For both energy conservation and economic reasons, Thomas Jefferson University and Hospital, one of the largest healthcare groups in the Philadelphia region, set the goal of reducing its lighting energy consumption by at least 30% without sacrificing illumination quality. To accomplish that – and much more, Jefferson partnered with Encelium Technologies, the manufacturer of the Energy Control System™ (ECS). Encelium customized its innovative lighting control and energy management solution for Jefferson, which has more than 4 million square feet of clinical, research, teaching and housing property.