Should I Turn Off Fluorescent Light When Leaving A Room? Short Answer: Turn them off if you will be gone for more than about 15 minutes. But… There are a few misconceptions about fluorescent lighting that keep too many people from turning lights off to save energy. The first misconception is that it … Read more
Topic: Energy Efficiency
Strategies, tools, and training for reducing energy consumption across commercial and residential buildings.
From their website: DSIRE is the most comprehensive source of information on incentives and policies that support renewable energy and energy efficiency in the United States. Established in 1995, DSIRE is operated by the N.C. Clean Energy Technology Center at N.C. State University. Follow the navigation above to read about the history of DSIRE, the partners on the project, … Read more
Lighting quality in a specific space is always the result of the blending of the architecture, light source(s), relation to the visual task, and the preferences and needs of the users. This makes it very hard to develop a single formula that will always create magnificent lighting in every space. The debate over creating a … Read more
There is not anything fundamentally different about lighting big spaces, but some of the qualities of big rooms make designing the lighting trickier than usual. Big spaces are often thought of as industrial or warehouses, but increasingly they include big box retail, and multi-purpose rooms and gymnasiums in schools. Traditionally, these ‘industrial’ spaces have gotten … Read more
Color Rendering Color rendering, expressed as a rating from 0 to 100 on the Color Rendering Index (CRI), describes how a light source makes the color of an object appear to human eyes and how well subtle variations in color shades are revealed. The higher the CRI rating is, the better its color rendering ability. … Read more
