Our Mission

The National Lighting Bureau (NLB) exists to create demand for High-Benefit Lighting®— efficient lighting designed to optimize human performance, health, safety, and commerce — by educating those who make and influence decisions about lighting.

Articles and News Releases

NLB staff develops original articles and news releases for magazines and journals with targeted readerships (e.g., building owners and managers, plant engineers, health-care facility administrators, retail executives, office managers, school-board members, college and university personnel, law-enforcement officials, and the general public). The articles provide guidance for achieving High-Benefit Lighting and other important information people need to know to put lighting to work for them.

Resources

The NLB’s Free Bookstore offers guidebooks and other materials to help nontechnical, lighting decision-makers understand lighting and the lighting issues and choices facing them. Also available free of charge are videos from the Bureau’s Annual Lighting Forum, case histories, feature articles, and more.

Publications

The NLB has produced guidebooks to help nontechnical, lighting decision-makers understand lighting and the lighting issues and choices facing them.

High-Benefit Lighting Awards Program

The NLB sponsors the annual High-Benefit Lighting Awards Program. The NLB created the Program to identify and recognize lighting installations that demonstrate the value derived from High-Benefit Lighting. Entrants are asked to provide data relative to the dollar value of improved productivity, reduced vandalism, increased sales, and other benefits derived from new or modified lighting systems. Entrants whose submissions are developed into magazine articles are asked to serve as bylined authors.

Lighting-Designer Directory

The NLB offers a searchable directory of lighting designers who can help you complete your next High-Benefit Lighting project.

Information Desk

Get your lighting questions answered by a Sponsor representative or a Bureau staff member.

Board of Directors

Chair
Raymond E. Kasmark, Jr.
Director, Business Development
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW)
900 Seventh Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20001
Vice Chair
Raymond E. Kasmark, Jr.
Illuminating Engineering Society (IES)
Specification Sales
Spectro Lume, LLC
341 Kings Croft
Secretary/Treasurer
Secretary/Treasurer
James M. Yorgey, P.E., LC
Technical Applications Manager
Lutron Electronics Company, Inc.
7200 Suter Road
Coopersburg, PA 18036

Directors-at-Large

Cary S. Mendelsohn, CLMC
interNational Association of Lighting
Management Companies (NALMCO)
Chief Executive Officer
Imperial Lighting Maintenance Company
4555 N. Elston Avenue
Chicago, IL 60630
Sean T. Tegart | President / CEO
Biological Innovations and Optimization Systems (BIOS)
2796 Loker Ave W / Suite 201
Carlsbad, CA 92010
Shelli Sedlak, LC, LEED AP®
Current, Powered by GE
Manager, The Institute
Nela Park
1975 Noble Road / #315C
Cleveland, OH 44112
Terry K. McGowan, LC, FIES
International Dark-Sky Association
3559 Birch Tree
Cleveland Heights, OH 44121
Michael M. Erbesfeld
Executive Director
Lighting Controls Association
c/o National Electrical Manufacturers Association
1300 North 17th Street / Suite 900
Rosslyn, VA 22209
Gabrielle Santulli
Vice President Marketing
LumenOptix, LLC
203 Progress Drive
Montgomeryville, PA 18936
Mir M. Mustafa
Executive Director, Market Development
National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA)
3 Bethesda Metro Center, Suite 1100
Bethesda, MD 20814-4372
Karen Willis
Industry Director
National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA)
1300 North 17th Street / Suite 900
Rosslyn, VA 22209
Guido Zucconi
Manager of Government Affairs
OSRAM SYLVANIA
200 Ballardvale Street
Wilmington, MA 01887
TBA
U.S. General Services Administration
Office of the Chief Architect
1800 F Street, NW
Room 3332-PND
Washington, DC 20405
Jon Perper
ZLED Lighting
Chief Executive Officer
1536 North Kings Highway
Cherry Hill, NJ 08034

Staff

NLB’s Office is located in Nashville, TN. Contact staff by telephone (615/379-7707) or e-mail (info@nlb.org ). NLB Executive Director Randy Reid oversees Bureau operations.