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TM-30 Users Guide Now Available

I'm delighted to announce that ANSI/IES LP-30 Lighting Practice: A Comprehensive Guide to Specifying Color Rendition — Concepts, Criteria, and Implementation is now available in the IES Online Lighting Library and the IES Store. For more than three years, a half dozen IES Color Committee members worked to create a clear, concise, easy to understand document. LP-30 provides the industry with a guide to specifying color rendition with TM-30 by expanding on the framework of TM-30 Annex E....

TM-30 Users Guide Now Available I’m delighted to announce that ANSI/IES LP-30 Lighting Practice: A Comprehensive Guide to Specifying Color Rendition — Concepts, Criteria, and Implementation is now available in the IES Onlin…

I recently received a set of lighting submittals. In them, one manufacturer had included TM-30 Full Reports. At first I was delighted, thinking, "Finally, a manufacturer who's made TM-30 a default part of their documentation!" Here's the report. My excitement was followed, a few seconds later, by a sinking feeling as I realized that the report was falsified and was a composite of at least two SPDs. ...

False TM-30 Reports I recently received a set of lighting submittals. In them, one manufacturer had included TM-30 Full Reports. At first I was delighted, thinking, “Finally, a manufacturer who’s made TM…

I'm delighted to announce that my second book, Fundamentals of Energy Efficient Lighting and Controls, is now available for pre-order, and will begin shipping on April 3rd. The book grew out of a conversation with the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) about their Certified Lighting Energy Professional (CLEP) credential. Early conversations included an interesting observation: there are several good books aimed at educating future lighting designers (including my own Designing with Light) and several good books aimed at educating energy efficiency professionals, but none that address energy efficiency in lighting with an eye toward maintaining quality lighting design....

Fundamentals of Energy Efficient Lighting and Controls I’m delighted to announce that my second book, Fundamentals of Energy Efficient Lighting and Controls, is now available for pre-order, and will begin shipping on April 3rd. The book grew out…