Hubbell Lighting Innovations Shine In Architectural Record Magazine's Prestigious Product Competition

Hubbell Lighting, a world leader in lighting innovation, announced today that two of its LED lighting products have been recognized as 2014 Record Products by Architectural Record magazine. Both the Architectural Area Lighting KicK™ and Beacon Products Ceileo were selected for their outstanding innovation, usefulness and aesthetics. The company has now received 38 awards this year and over 100 awards over the last three years.

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• Beacon Products Ceileo

Hubbell Lighting is one of the largest lighting fixture manufacturers in North America. The company provides a full range of indoor and outdoor lighting products serving the commercial, industrial, institutional, and residential markets. Hubbell Lighting brands include Alera Lighting, Architectural Area Lighting, Beacon Products, Columbia Lighting, Compass Products, Devine Lighting, Dual-Lite, HomeStyle Lighting, Hubbell Building Automation, Hubbell Industrial Lighting, Hubbell Outdoor Lighting, Kim Lighting, Kurt Versen, Prescolite, Progress Lighting, Security Lighting, Spaulding Lighting, Sportsliter Solutions, Sterner Lighting Systems, Thomasville Lighting, and Whiteway. Hubbell Lighting: one name, distinctive brands, limitless lighting possibilities. For additional information, please visit www.hubbelllighting.com and follow Hubbell Lighting on Twitter and Facebook.

“At Hubbell Lighting, we’re committed to introducing truly innovative lighting solutions—Architectural Area Lighting KicK™ and Beacon Products Ceileo are shining examples of that commitment,” said Kevin Poyck, Vice President and General Manager of Commercial and Industrial at Hubbell Lighting. “Architectural Record magazine has an outstanding track record of selecting some of the industry’s best building products and we are honored by their recognition.”

Every year, Architectural Record magazine’s editors ask manufacturers to send the best new building products and invite a jury of architects, designers, and product specialists to review new innovations. Jurors were asked to rate the entries on the criteria of innovation, usefulness, and, where applicable, aesthetics. A jury of six professionals selected the best new products from among 500 entries submitted for this year’s competition.The following are the 2014 Record Products from Hubbell Lighting’s brands:For additional information on Hubbell Lighting’s products, please visit www.hubbelllighting.com. For more information on the Architectural Record magazine’s 2014 Record Products, you can visit: http://archrecord.construction.com.

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GE Evolves LED Outdoor Area Lighting with 3 New Matching Fixtures

Property owners who want to upgrade their outdoor  lighting now have an inside track to more energy-efficient lighting technology with the GE Evolve™ LED N Series fixtures. The new LED area lights, flood lights and wall packs make it easier to optimize space for visibility, security and operational savings while creating a consistent and contemporary look.Traditional outdoor area lights such as high-pressure sodium (HPS) fixtures tend to stress function over form and are largely inefficient at putting light only where it is needed compared to new LED lighting options. In addition, the orange color of HPS light can give an appearance of dirty site aesthetics. While this practical approach to outside illumination has sufficed for many years, LED lighting offers a better—and better looking—solution. The clean white light of the new Evolve LED outdoor lighting fixtures can fully and uniformly light a property while providing energy efficiency. Read More...

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LED Guinness World Record Christmas Light Display

1,194,380 LED lights that give the illusion of three wrapped gifts are on display at Canberra’s CBD, a shopping area in the Australia’s capital city. David Richards has set the Guinness World Record for the largest image made of LED lights. Richards is using the display to raise money for the SIDS and Kids ACT charities after he lost a baby boy to sudden infant death syndrome in 2002.

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Gross Sales Ltd. Featured Project

Mammoet, Guelph Ontario 

Engineer: Rombald Engineering Architect: Robertson Simmons Architects Inc.  Product: Warehouse - Columbia LLHP LED Offices - Metalumen Stail LED Boardroom - GE EP14 LED Parking Lot - Kim Warp9 LED

          Gross Sales Ltd. worked together with Rombald Engineering to identify the most functional lighting system with a low operating energy cost. The lighting system is the product of clean, functional lighting to meet the LEED certified equivalent and ASHRAE 90.1 requirements through the use of low profile LED fixtures. 

         The facilities at Mammoet needed to be designed and operated as a building that meets LEED certification. In order to adhere to the client's requirements, the maintenance shop area utilized high performance LED linear high bay light fixtures from Columbia Lighting, the LLHP model, complete with multiple local zones. This high performance light fixture enabled greater spacing between the light fixtures, while still maintaining required light levels needed in a maintenance shop and still reducing energy consumption and cost. The other area that required further consideration was the two floor-level office areas with a sunroom terrace. Within the enclosed and open offices, a Stail RMEP6 LED low profile light fixture from Metalumen was selected to obtain a 40 foot candle average level at 2.5 feet above the finished floor with an average of 30 foot candles on the vertical work surfaces. This fixture needed to have a direct and indirect component to enhance the office feel, with minimum glare component through the use of micro prismatic lens down optic. The attractive aspect of the space wouldn't be complete without the use of LED downlighting for illuminating and accenting hallways and open office perimeters by utilizing Eureka and Prescolite LED light fixtures. The state of the art second-floor main boardroom showcases decorative LED Bass square downlights from Eureka and LED suspended Lumination EP14 from GE, all easily controlled from local occupancy sensors and LED dimmers.

          Outdoor LED lighting was utilized to provide parking lot and yard illumination to meet city standards with outstanding uniformity. General illumination and vertical glazing around the exterior of the maintenance shop area was accomplished through LED wall packs and LED downlights. The LED fixtures have an expected life span of 50,000 hours, allowing for Mammoet to benefit from the reduced maintenance costs of these light fixtures with the exception of an occasional dusting. The project utilized LED fixtures for multiple indoor and outdoor applications, which has led to an increase in energy efficiency and improved the overall design of the building. 

LED Lights Transforming the Globe

Written by Meghan Little

 from www.columbialighting.com/blog/?p=3877

A solar-powered LED light allows a woman in Senegal to charge her cellphone through a port in the lamp. Last month three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics for their discoveries in household LED lighting. This discovery was monumental for not only developed towns, cities and countries across the globe but for more than a billion people who live in communities on the verge of development. Communities that do not have a reliable source of electricity such as this woman in Senegal are able to use LED lights along with solar panels to create a source of electricity. Be sure to check out NPR News for more information.