10.25.18 National Lighting Bureau Launches NLB-TV
Shepherdstown, WV: The National Lighting Bureau (NLB) has launched NLB-TV with more than 200 videos comprising a collection that is likely to grow to 500 [...]
07.17.18 NEMA Study Examining Outdoor Lighting and Human/Animal Factors Now Available from NLB’s Free Lighting Bookstore
Shepherdstown, WV: “Outdoor lighting at night provides many obvious and accepted benefits to society, including the ability to safely travel on roadways, facilitate commerce, enable [...]
06.26.18 National Lighting Bureau Launches 39th High-Benefit Lighting® Awards Program
Shepherdstown, WV—The National Lighting Bureau’s announced its 39th annual High-Benefit Lighting Awards Program, a unique program open to owners, developers, architects, engineers, lighting designers, landscape-lighting [...]
05.21.18 Lighting Is Focus at World’s First Space Double Platinum-Certified by LEED, WELL
Shepherdstown, WV – The Washington, DC, headquarters office of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) was the first project in the world certified platinum [...]
04.09.18 It’s Not Your Father’s Lighting Maintenance Anymore…but Who’s Going to Do It?
Shepherdstown, WV – It used to be that lighting maintenance consisted principally of regularly scheduled cleaning and relamping. No more. As continually more lighting systems [...]
02.13.18 If LEDs Can Reduce Lighting-Energy Consumption to Almost As Low As Possible, What’s Next? Where’s the Value Going Forward? Do LEDs Offer Non-Energy Benefits?
Shepherdstown, WV — The non-energy benefits of lighting have long been the focus of the National Lighting Bureau. Established in 1976, the not-for-profit lighting-information service [...]
01.17.18 Cary Mendelsohn Elected National Lighting Bureau Chair
Shepherdstown, WV: Cary S. Mendelsohn, CLMC, has been elected chair of the National Lighting Bureau (NLB), the independent, not-for-profit, lighting-education foundation sponsored by professional societies, [...]
01.08.18 National Lighting Bureau Panel Discusses New Way to Specify Lighting-Color Impacts: Panel-Discussion Video Available Free
Shepherdstown, WV—The incandescent light bulb is no longer the symbol of ideas. Surprisingly, perhaps, the new symbol may be – of all things – a street-/highway-lighting [...]
11.28.17 National Lighting Bureau Panel Discusses New Way to Specify Lighting-Color Impacts: Panel-Discussion Video Available Free
Shepherdstown, WV—The way in which lighting designers specify the color-rendering properties of white light – and white light’s ability to alter humans’ perception of color [...]
10.16.17 National Lighting Bureau Launches 38th High-Benefit Lighting Awards Program
Shepherdstown, WV—The 38th annual High-Benefit Lighting Awards Program is now underway. Sponsored by the National Lighting Bureau, this unique program is open to owners, architects, [...]
08.14.17 National Lighting Bureau Panelists Agree: A Lighting Revolution Is Coming, via the Internet of Things
Shepherdstown, WV – Lighting and the Internet of Things (IoT) was the subject of a particularly eye-opening panel discussion – “Illuminating the Future, Part 2” [...]
07.12.17 DC Current Making a Major Comeback, National Lighting Bureau Experts Say
Daylighting can have such a powerful effect on office workers’ comfort, well-being, and productivity, the buildings they occupy are now being oriented and designed to [...]
07.12.17 The Desire for Daylighting Is Having a Significant Impact on Office-Building Design, Experts Say at National Lighting Bureau’s Annual Lighting Forum
Daylighting can have such a powerful effect on office workers’ comfort, well-being, and productivity, the buildings they occupy are now being oriented and designed to [...]
05.31.17 Designing With Tunable White Light is Focus at the National Lighting Bureau’s Annual Lighting Forum
Relying on tunable white light “is the best, most-affordable way to ‘future-proof’ your work and designs and ensure very high performance.” So said Terry Clark, [...]
05.16.17 Metamerism and Tunable White Light
Metamerism. The word refers to the way that colors change when viewed under different light sources. And, according to the National Lighting Bureau, it’s a [...]
04.05.17 AMA Lighting Recommendations Based on Wrong Metric, Say Speakers at National Lighting Bureau Forum. Not All Blue Light Is the Same.
The American Medical Association's (AMA's) warnings about too much "blue light" at night are seriously flawed: The AMA developed them using a measuring tool that [...]
02.10.17 Lighting Industry’s New Normal Seems To Be In Effect, NLB Says. Lighting-Systems Index Continues Decline.
Lighting-equipment demand fell 4.7% between the second and third quarters of 2016, according to data developed by the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) for its Lighting-Systems [...]
12.15.16 David Errigo Elected National Lighting Bureau Chair
David R. Errigo, vice president of sales for luminaire manufacturer LumenOptix, has been elected chair of the National Lighting Bureau (NLB), the independent, not-for-profit, lighting-education [...]
06.22.16 National Lighting Bureau Launches 37th High-Benefit Lighting Awards Program
The 37th annual High-Benefit Lighting Awards Program is now underway. Sponsored by the National Lighting Bureau, this unique program is open to owners, architects, engineers, [...]
05.18.16 Digital-Addressable Lighting Is the Focus of NLB Lighting Forum Expert Panel
Digital-addressable lighting is the topic of the fourth and final panel discussion of the National Lighting Bureau’s most recent annual lighting forum. Moderated by EdisonReport [...]
05.04.16 Errigo Elected National Lighting Bureau Vice Chair
David R. Errigo, vice president of sales for luminaire manufacturer LumenOptix, has been elected vice chair of the National Lighting Bureau board of directors. He [...]
03.09.16 IES TM-30-15 Is Generating Serious Debate, National Lighting Bureau Panelists Reveal
The Color-Rendering Index (CRI) is a well-established tool used to indicate how accurately a given light source renders color when compared to a “reference” light [...]
02.05.16 Lighting Revolution around the Corner, National Lighting Bureau Panelists Reveal
Lighting is on the cusp of change so profound that nothing – not even the most vivid sci-fi imagination – has come close to depicting [...]
01.18.16 IBEW Is Newest National Lighting Bureau Sponsor
The 750,000-member International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) has become the newest sponsor of the National Lighting Bureau. An independent, not-for-profit foundation established in 1976, [...]
12.31.15 Yorgey Re-Elected National Lighting Bureau Chair
James M. “Jim” Yorgey, P.E., LC, CTS, Lutron Electronics Company’s technical-applications manager, has been re-elected chair of the National Lighting Bureau, the independent, not-for-profit, lighting-education [...]
12.30.15 National Lighting Bureau Moves Its Offices
The National Lighting Bureau has moved to Shepherdstown, WV after four decades in Silver Spring, MD. Its new address is: 180 Reachcliff Drive Shepherdstown, WV [...]