When Carlos Alonso-Niemeyer, principal at Reflex Lighting in Boston, opened an email sent earlier that day, he could not help but smile and forward the memo to friends and colleagues. The email was from Myoungkeun Kim, director at Fish Lab Design, a city architectural design-build firm specializing in residential, commercial and institutional projects. And the […]

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in Power Systems Design magazine. See the original post here. The “lighting revolution” is old news now. Building automation is the new bedrock-shifting event unfolding within the building world now, and it too is being spurred by advancements in LED technology and controls. The premise that lighting should be independent of other […]

Peace-of-Mind ActiveClean™ Kills Viruses, Bacteria on Surfaces OAKLAND, N.J. – May 26, 2021 – Amerlux, an award-winning design-and-manufacture lighting company, launched today an innovative, UV-free lighting solution that kills viruses, bacteria and other microbes on surfaces while providing crisp, white, comfortable illumination and meeting international standards for continual and [...]

When a large corporate office installed a groundbreaking, germ-zapping LED technology called antimicrobial lighting inside their always-busy breakroom, researchers, of course, anticipated seeing some reductions in surface contamination. But they were astonished when they saw a 92.4% reduction on five of the room’s most germ-infested surfaces—toaster, refrigerator, sink, water cooler and trash [...]

How do you effectively transition from being in front of your clients 60% of the time to prospecting and closing all your sales 100% virtually? That’s the question Sara Bishop, Amerlux’s longtime executive director of sales for its Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions, asked herself when the COVID pandemic arrived, and its social distancing restrictions abruptly […]

Your hotel is your guests’ home away from home, their remote oasis—as long as it is perceived as being clean and sanitized. Even before Covid-19 upended the hospitality industry, research shows that hotel guests are willing to pay more per stay for a clean hotel environment. About 86% of surveyed consumers say sanitation and cleanliness are the top things […]

In California, the historic Beverly Hilton Hotel found itself in the national spotlight once more, courtesy of new cleaning personnel they hired on the spot: a three-foot-tall robot named Kennedy. His job? Shine UV light in spaces cleaned by human colleagues and ensure a new defense line against lurking, invisible infectious threats. The Greater Boston Food Bank […]

Light is more than just something you see. With the right strategy and proper set of fixtures and controls, it tells a story, a timeline, a series of what-ifs. It’s the centerpiece of the perfect wedding day, gives a village character, reduces light pollution, and makes the office, an overnight hotel stay and a layover […]

When Samaritan Hospital, part of St. Peter’s Health Partners in Troy, NY, tested antimicrobial lighting effectiveness at reducing surface contamination in an active trauma room in its emergency department, they reported an exponential decrease. So, too, did Bayfront Health St. Petersburgh, a hospital in Florida. Researchers there reported that a similar set of LED disinfecting lights [...]

Compact Solace Downlights Offer Flexibility for Inflexible Spaces OAKLAND, N.J. – February 18, 2021 – Amerlux, an award-winning design-and-manufacture lighting company, announced today that it has released a new set of architectural-grade, ultra-shallow downlights that solves a design and installation pain point: super-tight plenum space. Solace is an extremely shallow, spec-grade plenum [...]

Continuous-use, non-UV light reduces bacteria and other microbes OAKLAND, N.J. – Amerlux, an award-winning design-and-manufacture lighting company, announced today a partnership with Vyv, a health tech company whose signature continuous-use, non-UV antimicrobial light technology will be added into Amerlux’s lighting fixtures. The partnership represents a groundbreaking venture for [...]

Dark Sky-Friendly Decorative Post Top Reduces Light Pollution   OAKLAND, N.J. – February 10, 2021 – Amerlux, an award-winning design-and-manufacture lighting company, announced today that it has released the newest addition to its dark sky-friendly family of LED luminaries, providing developers and municipalities with stylish solutions for effectively curtailing rampant lighting pollution and [...]

The Digital Addressable Lighting Interface (DALI) has been around for decades, dating back to the mid- 1990s. The world was amid a digital revolution then, and global lighting manufacturers wanted lighting to join the transformation. With the creation of DALI, a common set of international standards for lighting control systems, several European lighting manufacturers working […]

By simply adding 150 linear feet of Fino—an Amerlux lighting solution—a sterile, outdated lobby exuding mid-century vibes transformed into a posh space that is both welcoming and relaxing. When renovating an old lobby, the designing team encountered a problem—how to retrofit a soffit with a cove when the design did not call for new coves. […]

Commercial buildings can be mammoth-sized energy and expense wasters. Per Energy Star, a program run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of Energy that promotes energy efficiency, about 30% of the energy consumed by a commercial building is wasted. When this much energy is wasted, it leads to the loss of jaw-droppingly […]