12.09.18 NALMCO® Announces Release of December Issue of LM&M Magazine
Ankeny, IA | December 6, 2018 The interNational Association of Lighting Management Companies® (NALMCO) is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the December Issue of Lighting Management and Maintenance (LM&M) Magazine. LM&M, [...]
Annual Report, November 30, 2018
REPORT OF THE CHAIR Annual Report of National Lighting Bureau Chair Cary S. Mendelsohn, CLMC to the National Lighting Bureau Board of Directors Assembled at the Bureau’s Annual Meeting, [...]
12.03.18 Ray Kasmark Elected Chair of the National Lighting Bureau
Shepherdstown, WV December 3, 2018: Raymond E. “Ray” Kasmark, Jr. has been elected chair of the National Lighting Bureau (NLB), the independent, not-for-profit, lighting-education foundation sponsored by professional societies, trade associations, manufacturers, utilities, [...]
11.30.18 Protocols for Wired and Wireless Control Systems Discussed at National Lighting Bureau’s 7th Annual Lighting Forum
Shepherdstown, WV, November 26, 2018 – “Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about wired and wireless control protocols for residential and nonresidential lighting” might just as well be the title of a fascinating, [...]
11.27.18 Electroindustry Awards Commemorate Medical Imaging, Engineering, and Business Innovation
ROSSLYN, Va., November 27, 2018—The National Electrical Manufacturers Association(NEMA) announced the winners of its annual awards November 15, 2018, during its Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas. The awards recognize individuals or companies for [...]
“Protocols for Wired and Wireless Systems” Video
View the “Protocols for Wired and Wireless Systems” – NLB’s 7th Annual Lighting Forum Video.
11.08.18 More than 5,500 Lighting-Designer Listings Make Up National Lighting Bureau’s “Lighting-Designer Directory”; New Expansion into Canada
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 or more within a year, according to NLB [...]
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 or more within a year, according to NLB [...]
08.31.18 NALMCO Announces Release of August Issue of LM&M Magazine
Ankeny, IA | August 31, 2018 The interNational Association of Lighting Management Companies (NALMCO) is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the August Issue of Lighting Management and Maintenance (LM&M) Magazine. LM&M, [...]
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 outdoor activities such as recreation, provide for the [...]
Outdoor Lighting and Human/Animal Factors: An Industry Evaluation
Outdoor Lighting and Human/Animal Factors: An Industry Evaluation examines issues that can result in compromised outdoor-lighting quality when color issues are misunderstood and, therefore, misapplied. Prepared by the Lighting Systems Division of [...]
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 professionals, interior designers, facility and property managers, constructors, [...]
06.05.18 The Passing of a Legend: Bill Hanley
William “Bill” Hanley, 75, of Wyckoff, New Jersey, passed away peacefully on Monday, June 4th, 2018. Bill was born in Staten Island and lived in New York City before moving to Wyckoff 46 [...]
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 by both the United States Green Building Council [...]
05.21.18 NLB Well Building Standard
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4.19.18 Standard for Single-Ended Metal Halide Lamps Includes New Ignitor Requirements and Data Sheets
ROSSLYN, Va., April 19, 2018—The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) published ANSI C78.43-2017 American National Standard for Electric Lamps—Single-Ended Metal Halide Lamps. Developed by the ANSI Committee for Electric Lamps, this revision provides [...]
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 incorporate “high-tech” design and components, the personnel needed [...]
04.09.18 NLB 2017 Not Your Father’s Lighting Maintenance
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03.28.18 NEMA Publishes New Performance Requirements for Electric Lamps
ROSSLYN, Va., March 27, 2018—The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) published ANSI C78.5-2017 American National Standard for Electric Lamps—Specifications for Performance of Self-Ballasted Compact Fluorescent Lamps. Developed by the ANSI Committee for Electric [...]
03.09.18 NEMA White Paper Explains the Fluorescent Ballast Rule
ROSSLYN, Va., March 9, 2018—Today, the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) published a white paper that explains the Fluorescent Ballast Rule and the associated measurement methods, NEMA LSD 66-2017 Understanding the Fluorescent Ballast [...]
Annual Report: December 1, 2017
REPORT OF THE CHAIR Annual Report of National Lighting Bureau Chair Cary S. Mendelsohn, CLMC to the National Lighting Bureau Board of Directors Assembled at the Bureau’s Annual Meeting, [...]
03.06.18 NLB 2017 Workforce Development
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03.01.18 NEMA Publishes Comprehensive Catalog of Electrical Standards
ROSSLYN, Va., March 1, 2018—Today, the National Electrical Manufacturers Association published the 2018 edition of Electrical Standards & Products Guide, a comprehensive listing of NEMA electrical standards and technical documents. The Guide covers [...]
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 was created to advocate for “High-Benefit Lighting®”; i.e., [...]
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, trade associations, manufacturers, utilities, and agencies of the [...]