Tuning the Light in Senior Care

Evaluating a trial LED lighting system at the ACC Care Center in Sacramento, CA, this report summarizes the results of a trial installation of light-emitting diode (LED) lighting systems in several spaces [...]

Pedestrian-Friendly Outdoor Lighting

DOE undertook the project to establish success criteria for pedestrian lighting and learn how designers can satisfy those criteria by applying solid-state-lighting solutions. The report presents findings and recommendations developed by closely [...]

Residential Lighting Design Guide

Developed by the UC Davis California Lighting Technology Center (CLTC), the Guide is a resource of best practices and lighting designs applicable nationwide. It provides a technology overview of high-efficacy luminaires, switching [...]

Lighting Options for Your Home

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 [...]

Performing a Lighting System Audit

Should you conduct a lighting system audit? This comprehensive NLB guide can help you answer that question (it begins with a simple quiz). More important, the guide provides the information needed to [...]

Getting the Most from Your Lighting Dollar

The third edition of NLB's most popular lighting guide, with real-life examples from documented case studies and illustrated pages of important basic information about lighting and steps to save energy without sacrificing [...]

Lighting for Safety and Security

Everybody understands the value of safety and security lighting. Or do they? Did you know that the same lighting can also provide attraction, identification, beautification, environmental integration, and more? This Bureau guide [...]

The NLB Guide to Industrial Lighting

This is the Bureau's most current industrial lighting "how-to" guide for non-technical readers. Coverage includes the many benefits of good industrial lighting such as better productivity, fewer rejects, enhanced safety, and less [...]

Lighting and Human Performance: A Review

Researched and written by some of the world's leading independent lighting authorities, Lighting and Human Performance: A Review comprises the most comprehensive critical analysis of the relationship between lighting and human performance [...]