National Lighting Bureau
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NLB News
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 [...]
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 [...]
Sponsor News
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 [...]
06.05.17 Lighting Controls Association Partners with California Community College System to Offer Controls Curriculum
The Lighting Controls Association (LCA), a council of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA), has [...]
04.27.17 NEMA Calls on Secretary of Energy to Complete Rulemaking for General Service Lamps
Electroindustry proposes robust national standard for LED lamps exceeding 45 lumens per watt The National [...]
