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ILE to unveil new identity at conference
12 July 2010 15.00 BST
(UK) - The Institution of Lighting Engineers (ILE) will officially launch their new name, the Institution of Lighting Professionals (ILP), at their annual conference taking place in Warwickshire, England on 22nd - 24th September.
Martin Lupton resigns as PLDA president
12 July 2010 11.30 BST
(UK) - Martin Lupton has cut short his term as PLDA (Professional Lighting Designers Association) president. Sharon Stammers, the UK coordinator for the PLDA and business partner of Lupton at newly established consultancy Light Collective, has also resigned.
Frans van Houten to be next Philips President and CEO
9 July 2010 15.30 BST
(The Netherlands) - Philips has announced that it will nominate Frans van Houten as its next President and Chief Executive Officer, effective April 1, 2011, as successor to Gerard Kleisterlee who will retire from Philips on the same date.
Philips and Cree sign cross-license agreement
8 July 2010 14.30 BST
(The Netherlands) - Philips and Cree have signed a comprehensive, worldwide patent cross-license agreement designed to further accelerate the growth of the LED lighting market.
Artistic Licence integrate installation company
5 July 2010 13.30 BST
(UK) - Artistic Licence Engineering Ltd and Artistic Licence Integration Ltd are born.
UK Government announces £4.3m investment in PLED technology
1 July 2010 12.00 BST
(UK) - The largest UK pure research project in the area of printed lighting panels is to expand with the help of £4.3m of new funding and three new partners.
International design award for GKD
1 July 2010 10.15 BST
(USA) - Indemann Observation Tower wins the Merit Award of the Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD) at ceremony in Washington, D.C.
Toshiba LEDs to light up the Louvre Museum
30 June 2010 13.00 BST
(France) - Toshiba has entered into a partnership agreement with the Louvre Museum, Paris, to support lighting renovations in some of the museum’s most visited public spaces by providing state-of-the-art LED lighting and renovation costs.
Inverse's Sound wins again
28 June 2010 11.00 BST
(UK) - Inverse Lighting Design wins Best Lighting Scheme for Sound Club in Phuket, Thailand in the Restaurant & Bar Design Awards.
Peerless donate lighting scholarships
25 June 2010 12.00 BST
(USA) - Peerless Lighting has recently donated scholarships to outstanding architecture and lighting design students from Penn State and the University of California, Berkeley.
The Pavilion @ Regents Place, London, UK
Issue 55 June / July 2010 : Architecture : Pavilion
Rob Honeywill, Director of Maurice Brill Lighting Design, explains the process of designing an integrated scheme for this urban space.
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Concord
Stadium EVO LED track luminaire
Winner of the UK Lighting Design Awards’ Interior Luminaires category and a Red Dot Award, Concord’s Stadium EVO LED track luminaire gets the once over by David Morgan.
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White Light
HyLight
HyLight, a unique new portable lighting and power supply that offers the ability to run lighting in locations away from the electrical grid silently and without the emissions of traditional noisy, polluting diesel generators.
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Fred Oberkircher
Issue 55 Jun / Jul 2010
Fred Oberkircher, the 2009-2010 president of the Illuminating Engineering Society, has led a career-spanning crusade for the advancement of the lighting and lighting education. He described to Vilma Barr how IES and other lighting organisations are cooperating to form a partnership to promote lighting within total building integration.
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OLED Lighting Design Summit on track for over 120 delegates
14 June 2010 15.00 BST
Organisers of the OLED Lighting Design Summit predict that numbers for next week’s event will exceed 120 delegate. Lighting designers and manufacturers from around the world are already signed up for the summit which takes place in London on June 21-22.
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