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Advanced Lighting Program Development
This report presents a long range plan for broad-based, coordinated research, development and market transformation program for reducing the lighting energy intensities in commercial and residential buildings in California without comprimising light.
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ASID Productive Solutions
This paper provides a brief analysis of interior design issues that impact office employee productivity and includes four elements that play a role in developing a productive office design, insights from other research efforts and project case studies ....
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Factor Boosts Productivity (NLB)
Metal Industries, Inc. (Elizabeth, PA) gained its reputation from manufacturing metal-framed windows and patio doors, among other products. Its 100,000-square-foot facility relied on outdated fluorescent fixtures that produced far less light than ....
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Home Office Lighting by Eric Strandberg
As more of us work as independent consultants or telecommute, home offices are used more. Many homes have an "office" in a room or part of a room where for an hour or two,a few times a month, bills are paid, letters are written or recipes are filed.
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Lamp Data - General by Bill Williams
This document provides technical data for many common lamps, used in stage, studio and architectural lighting applications. Lamps include: R, PAR, Stage/Studio and low voltage lamps.
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Lighting Strikes, NLB
All too often, business managers believe that lighting that consumes less energy, and therefore costs less to operate, is better lighting. This attitude actually costs businesses billions of dollars a year, according to John Bachner, communications director ....
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Making the Savings Last by James C. Piper
While nearly all lighting system upgrades produce large savings when they are new, some facility managers have found that the savings don't last. In these facilities, lighting energy use slowly increases over time.
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Prescription for Better Lighting by NLB
" We don't mind if you spend more money. It's fine with us." That’s not the kind of thing you are likely to hear anywhere in any type of US health facility today. Instead, the mantra of "Try to do it for less" is so pervasive, just about all personnel...
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The Party Was Almost Over by NLB
Turn out the lights! That, in a nutshell, was the federal government's guidance for lighting energy conservation during the "dark days" of the 1973-74 OPEC nations' petroleum embargo and the "energy crisis" that followed in its wake. While avoiding energy....
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The Quest for the Ideal Office Control System
Article in Lighting Futures, Lighting Research Center By Images of flickering fluorescent tubes humming loudly overhead have long been used by advertisers and Hollywood producers as symbols of inhospitable workplaces and uncaring management. The entertainment industry knows that these images imply that business owners are willing to subject workers to bad lighting in order to save money. Receptive audiences respond to these tales because they believe that bad lighting can cause migraines, eye strain, and fatigue.
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Using Portable Luminaires by Eric Strandberg
Portable luminaires are one of the most common and versatile types of lighting we use today. Table lamps, floor lamps, desk lamps and torchieres are used in residential, commercial and hospitality applications - anywhere that an inviting, relaxing feel ...
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