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Architects play a key role in better lighting design that results in significant reductions in operating costs, electrical consumption, and greenhouse-gas emissions, along with increased occupant comfort and productivity. Better, more efficient lighting can have a positive impact on organizations, their employees, and their clients.
The largest energy consumers in the United States are office, retail, and service buildings. The average age of commercial buildings in the United States is 30.5 years, and many of these buildings have inefficient lighting and lack smart controls.
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AIA Announces the 2009 COTE Top 10 Green Projects
The 2009 COTE Top 10 Green Projects showcase excellence in sustainable design and reduced energy consumption, and celebrate projects that are the result of a thoroughly integrated approach to architecture, natural systems, and technology.
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The 2009 COTE Top 10 Green Projects showcase excellence in sustainable design and reduced energy consumption, and celebrate projects that are the result of a thoroughly integrated approach to architecture, natural systems, and technology.
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New Home for USC’s School of Cinematic Arts
A client’s vision for highly efficient, durable, and useable buildings turns into reality.
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A client’s vision for highly efficient, durable, and useable buildings turns into reality.
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CSI and BICSI Sign Agreement to Promote Growth of Telecommunications Industries
The Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) and Building Industry Consulting Services Intl. (BISCI) signed an agreement to work together on several activities to promote growth and development in the telecommunications industry.Read more »
EnOcean Technology Sets a New Standard for Lighting
Imagine planning and designing a building that has walls without wires, or selecting wireless occupancy sensors that don’t use batteries. EnOcean – the originator of the patented, self-powered wireless technology – enables this.Read more »
Where Wireless Lighting is Headed
While wireless lighting products have been on the residential market for several years, the technology for commercial buildings is relatively new. Until recently, retrofitting with wireless controls was considered complicated and cost prohibitive. Today, however, wireless systems are cost efficient enough for commercial buildings.
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While wireless lighting products have been on the residential market for several years, the technology for commercial buildings is relatively new. Until recently, retrofitting with wireless controls was considered complicated and cost prohibitive. Today, however, wireless systems are cost efficient enough for commercial buildings.
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Temple of Light
BAPS is a global sociospiritual organization that represents the Hindu religion in its purest form. It embarked on a new 30,000-square-foot mandir in Lilburn, GA – a building marrying ancient design and construction with cutting-edge lighting technology.Read more »
BetaLED offers a new design series within THE EDGE family of products – the round LED post-top spider-mount general illumination and pathway fixtures.
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These outdoor units represent the next generation of CITY MULTI® VRFZ technology.
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This glass has solar heat gain coefficient (SHGC) of 0.23 – the lowest level available in a high-performance product on a clear substrate.
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A Notable Façade Restoration
Multimedia AV Brings the '60s to Life
Designing Telepresence Spaces
The Future is Integrated Project Delivery
EnOcean Technology Sets a New Standard for Lighting
19th-Century Jail Becomes 21st-Century Hotel
Passive Ventilation for Aggressive Energy Savings
Biomimicry: Nature's Lessons
Selecting a Wireless Security System
| April 22, 2009 |
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