News and Announcements
Date	Description	Type
05.07.13	Lighting-System Designers on NLB Website “Those who own and use lighting systems benefit tremendously when they rely on qualified lighting-system consultants to design a new system or an upgrade to an existing system.” So says John Bachner, executive director...	News
03.18.13	National Lighting Bureau Launches 34th High-Benefit Lighting Awards Program The National Lighting Bureau’s has announced its 34th annual High-Benefit Lighting Awards Program. The unique program is open to owners, designers, facility and property managers, contractors, manufacturer’s representatives...	News
03.13.13	NLB Optimism Justified by Fourth-Quarter NEMA Lighting Systems Index Results Fourth-quarter 2012 NEMA Lighting Systems Index (LSI) performance has justified the optimism expressed three months ago by National Lighting Bureau (NLB) Executive Director John Bachner after receiving news of dispiriting...	News
01.11.13	Lewis Re-Elected to Fourth Term as Chair of National Lighting Bureau Howard P. Lewis, the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America’s (IES’) representative to the National Lighting Bureau, has been elected to an unprecedented fourth consecutive term as Bureau chair. The National Lighting...	News
01.02.13	National Lighting Bureau Chair Sounds Strongly Optimistic Note in Annual Report National Lighting Bureau (NLB) Chair Howard P. Lewis sounded a strongly optimistic note in his December 7 annual- report address to the Bureau’s board of directors. “I think we are on the cusp of a major resurgence for the lighting...	News
12.19.12	NEMA Lighting Systems Index Fell In Third Quarter of 2012, NLB Reports The National Lighting Bureau (NLB) has reported disappointing news about lighting-equipment sales during the third quarter of 2012, given the NEMA Lighting Systems Index’ (LSI’s) 3.3% decline from second-quarter 2012 levels...	News
12.14.12	Televised Panel Discusses the Future of Electric Illumination “What will the world of lighting look like 25 years from now? How do we get there from here? What milestones will we reach along the way?” Those are the overarching questions members of the National Lighting Bureau board of directors...	News
09.07.12	NEMA Lighting Systems Index Jumps Again, NLB Reports The National Lighting Bureau (NLB) reports that second-quarter 2012 NEMA Lighting Systems Index (LSI) performance gained almost 3% over first-quarter 2012’s performance and 6.6% over second-quarter 2011’s. NLB Executive Director...	News
05.22.12	NEMA Lighting Systems Index Jumps 5.2% in First Quarter of 2012, NLB Reports The National Lighting Bureau (NLB) reports that first-quarter 2012 NEMA Lighting Systems Index (LSI) performance bested fourth-quarter 2011’s by 5.2%, a gain that NLB Executive Director John Bachner characterized as "cause for optimism...	News
05.01.12	DOE Grants Two-Year Reprieve to 700-Series T-8 Fluorescents Made By GE, OSRAM SYLVANIA, and... Responding to three individually filed exception requests, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has postponed by two years – to July 14, 2014 – the “phase-out” date for 700-series T-8 general-service fluorescent lamps (GSFLs) manufactured...	News
04.04.12	National Lighting Bureau Urges America’s Lighting Community To “Set The Record Straight” People are not being given good information about lighting.” So says National Lighting Bureau Executive Director John P. Bachner, who decries what he called “the particularly poor reporting about the ongoing elimination of 100-, 75-,...	News
03.22.12	Consumer Guide – NEMA’s Lighting Options for Your Home – Available Free from National Lighting... What are homeowners to do now that the United States has begun to wean itself from low-efficiency, high-cost incandescent light bulbs? The biggest problem may be figuring out which of the many high-efficiency, low-cost alternatives to use...	News
03.05.12	Residential Lighting Design Guide Available Free from National Lighting Bureau The comprehensive Residential Lighting Design Guide is now available free from the National Lighting Bureau. Developed by the UC Davis California Lighting Technology Center (CLTC), the Guide is a resource of best practices and...	News
01.18.12	“What a Year” for the National Lighting Bureau “What a year!” That’s how National Lighting Bureau Chair Howard P. Lewis sums up 2011 and the Bureau’s accomplishments that year. “Our focus has been the existing lighting market,” he said, “trying to encourage and provide guidance...	News
12.16.11	Lewis Re-Elected Chair of National Lighting Bureau Howard P. Lewis, representing the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES), has again been elected to his third consecutive term as chair of the National Lighting Bureau. The Bureau is an independent, not-for-profit...	News
10.03.11	$16 Million San Diego Lighting Upgrade Uses Broad-Spectrum Induction Technology, National... The city of San Diego, California, has launched a $16 million street-lighting upgrade. The city will replace 35,311 conventional high-pressure sodium (HPS) units with more efficient, longer-lasting broad-spectrum induction units. The...	News
09.26.11	Lighting Focus at World Energy Engineering Congress, NLB Says Lighting will be an important topic of discussion and education at the World Energy Engineering Congress (WEEC), in Chicago, October 12-14, 2011, at the Navy Pier Convention Center, the National Lighting Bureau reports. Topics include...	News
09.08.11	Free Webcast; Reducing Energy Consumption with Lighting Controls The National Lighting Bureau is encouraging building owners and managers; architects; interior designers; electrical engineers and contractors; property, facility, and asset managers; and others responsible for building design, construction...	News
09.06.11	Good-bye T12. Hello Opportunity. John Philip Bachner has written a 600-word article providing some basic guidance on selecting a lighting system to replace an existing T12 fluorescent lighting system.	News
08.01.11	Higher Prices for Fluorescent Lamps. Rare-Earth Shortages to Blame, National Lighting Bureau Says. Terbium. Erbium. Yttrium. They're hardly household names, but they and 14 other rare-earth elements (REEs) are essential to the operation of a variety of household products (flat-panel displays and color TVs), as well as medical devices, the...	News
07.20.11	Most-Commonly Used T12 Fluorescent Lamps to Start Disappearing in Less Than One Year. "Don't Wait," The most-commonly used four-foot, eight-foot, and two-foot (U-shaped) T12 fluorescent lamps will begin disappearing from distributors' and retailers' shelves in less than one year. The targeted lamps - long-time commercial-lighting staples...	News
04.26.11	National Lighting Bureau Calls for Elimination of “Artificial Lighting” The National Lighting Bureau – an independent, not-for-profit lighting-information service – has called for the end of “artificial lighting.” “This is not the first time we’ve attempted to eliminate ‘artificial lighting,’” said Bureau Executive Director..	News
03.16.11	National Lighting Bureau Introduces New Sponsorship Category The National Lighting Bureau (NLB) has established a new sponsorship category for educational organizations. The sponsorship fee is $500 per year. "Before this change, the minimum fee was $1,000...	News
02.23.11	CIE/USA Sponsoring Seminars on Solid-State Lighting Photometry, Colorimetry, and Application The National Lighting Bureau is supporting a series of solid-state lighting seminars sponsored by the U.S. chapter of the International Commission on Illumination (Commission International de l’Eclarage) – CIE/USA. The seminars begin at 7:00AM...	News
02.10.11	National Lighting Bureau Makes "Unbelievable Progress" in 2010 "Heroes of the lighting community" is how the National Lighting Bureau describes its sponsors "whose volunteered efforts and funding made 2010 the most remarkable year in Bureau history." According to Howard P. Lewis...	News