2021 Nonresidential Construction Forecast: Decline but Rebound Next Year

The COVID-19 pandemic produced enormous strain on the global economy and is impacting nonresidential construction activity. This article looks at major construction economic indicators for 2021 and forecasts for 2022. In a nutshell, nonresidential construction is projected for a downturn in 2021 and a rebound next year.

Click here to read this article by Lighting Controls Association education director Craig DiLouie, LC, CLCP.

Lighting Controls Association Offers Free Course on Integrating Lighting Control and Building Systems

The Lighting Controls Association (LCA) now offers EE115: Lighting Controls and Building Automation Integration as a new course in its popular Education Express program

With increasing frequency, lighting control systems are tasked to interoperate with other building systems such as building automation systems (BAS) to share information and automate building functionality. Ensuring communication and smooth interoperability is called integration, a potentially challenging undertaking during a project.

Authored by C. Webster Marsh, HLB Lighting Design, the course defines today’s integration, how building automation systems are designed, and considerations for specifying integration between a lighting control and a building automation system.

Lighting Controls Association Posts Free Webinar on Tunable-White Lighting

Presented by Craig DiLouie, LC, CLCP, education director for the Lighting Controls Association, this 30-minute webinar provides a deep overview of tunable-white lighting, a relatively new dimension of LED lighting control that is pioneering new capabilities and applications. Topics include benefits and applications, advantages and disadvantages, color basics, the different types of color-tunable lighting, hardware and protocols, specification issues, and more.

Click here to check it out at YouTube.

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The leading source of lighting controls education for nearly 20 years, the Lighting Controls Association is a council of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association with the mission of educating the professional lighting community about lighting control and controllable ballast technology and application. Members include Acuity Brands, Audacy Wireless, Cooper Lighting Solutions, Cree, Eaton, EiKO, Hubbell Building Automation, GE Current, Intermatic, Leviton, Lutron Electronics, McWong International, OSRAM Encelium, PLC, RAB Lighting, Synapse Wireless, Toggled IQ, Universal Lighting Technologies and Wattstopper (Legrand).

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