National Lighting Bureau
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NLB News
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 [...]
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 [...]
05.16.17 Metamerism and Tunable White Light
Metamerism. The word refers to the way that colors change when viewed under different light [...]
Sponsor News
06.26.17 HID Lamp Indexes Decline First Quarter 2017 in Year-Over-Year Comparison
NEMA’s shipment index for high intensity discharge (HID) lamps post a decline in shipments in [...]
06.26.17 Linear Fluorescent Lamp Indexes Decrease in the First Quarter of 2017
The linear florescent lamp index continues a downward trend, T5, T8, and T12 lamps all [...]
06.05.17 New Lighting Standard Outlines How to Designate LED Direct Replacement Lamps
After technical review, ANSI Accredited Standards Committee C78, Electric Lamps, published ANSI C78.52-2017 American National [...]
