Aron Lighting has designed some unique integration into acoustical tile ceilings. Aron lighting makes high-performance edge-lit, nearly glare-free luminaires expressly designed to make installation painless and fast while ensuring great performance. In this session I’ll be sitting with the team from Aron as they walk us through their Duo and Quad fixtures, and who knows, maybe sneak a look at some other fixtures.

Medley has always been an industry-leading line of light product for exterior applications. The wide variety of optics available in white light, discrete high power color chips, and quad mixing chips make the Medley a solid choice for nearly any exterior application. Wayne Chaikin will be joining me to talk about the updates to the Medley series which make it even more versatile, including smaller profiles, remote drivers, and enhanced color options.

Once specifiers start using Feelux, it becomes a go-to spec for everything from under-cabinet lighting to coves with a wide variety of always dot-free form factors. Join me for a conversation with Wendy Kaplan of Feelux to go through Feelux’s offering.

Rubber is a flexible line of light with a wide array of applications. You’ve seen this kind of product before, but nothing with this level of sophistication. Join me for a live demo of Rubber from the Shed. I’ll have Sean McClosky of Inter-Lux with me as we walk through.

Light can do so much to improve health and well being and no manufacturer as done more to embrace lighting beyond the simply delivering lumens (see what I did there?) so join me for a discussion with Cory Tysoe about ALW’s Wellness collection

Often the hardest part of adding complex shapes to a project is getting through the shop drawing and approval process. The Coronet Joint system is designed to help designers create amazing shapes that can also change elevation quickly and easily. Join me for a live presentation with Shakil from Coronet as they take us inside the showroom and show us how Joint works.

As always every live attendee means a $10 donation to Feeding America.

Join me and Cynthia Turner for a live demonstration of the new BeveLED mini adjustable cylinder. This addition to the USAI cylinder family gives designers an accent light that meets USAI standards of quality in a form factor I know we’ve been wanting for a long time.

Join us live on Zoom to ask questions and we’ll dive into the product! Every Live attendee means a $10 donation to Feeding America.

Modern Forms continues to innovate. If we were in the days of paper catalogs I’d be able to drop one the size of a phone book (remember those) on your desk. For this presentation, we’re focused on two form factors we think will be important for multi-family residential projects.

Join Anthony Interlandi and me to meet Pi and Dink. For every live attendee, we’re donating $10 to Feeding America

When you think of Beta-Calco, you might only think about their amazing interior products. Before I got to know them, I didn’t realize they had such a robust exterior offering.

It’s time you got to know these products too.

In this session, we’ll go through Beta-Calco’s exterior offering and review some of their most impressive products including Arko, Wrap, Razer and Massio.

Magneto is a versatile track system that can be suspended, surface mounted or recessed. By mixing and matching modules, Magneto can provide accent spot lights, lines of light, or louvered glare free downlighting. Shakil Ahmad will join me to show the latest addition to the Magneto family.

Steam Rooms and Saunas remain a challenge, it’s an environment that needs a robust fixture, but also a delicacy of light quality that makes the space relaxing. Designplan has a new series of Steam Room and Sauna fixtures that are ready to meet this challenge.

Join us live on Zoom or YouTube at 1 pm. When you attend live we donate $10 to Feeding America

Join Alexis Nollet and I for a discussion on the latest from Structura.

I’ve written about Lightglass recently on my Instagram (scroll down) and I remain really inspired both by the product and the mission of the company. Lightglass recently announced its version 2, which makes several big improvements to the original product. Join me live from the shed to review a Lightglass sample as well as talk about what’s new in version 2.

For every registered attendee I’ll be making a $10 donation to Feeding America

When Beta-Calco joined SDA, we got to do extensive product training, including a virtual factory tour. I’ve written about Beta-Calco a little bit already on the blog, already.

But with the new year, it’s time to really get to know Beta-Calco. Ivan and I have set aside four dates to introduce Beta-Calco to you. Two of them will focus on interior products and the other two on exterior.

For this interior session we’ll introduce Beta-Calco as a company and then go over some of their most recent innovations, including Le Louvre, Matrex, Triple and Warp.

Day-O-Lite is an American manufacturer based up in Rhode Island. They’ve been a long time partner of SDA. One of the things I love about DOL is that because they’re a small company they can work directly with specifiers to achieve exactly what’s needed on a project. Ken Mackenzie is going to join me for a live session to talk about some of their latest products and innovations. We’ll be showing the LEDucation booth, talking acoustic solutions, and discussing DOL’s custom and modification capabilities.

For every registered attendee Day-O-Lite will be donating $10 to Feeding America.

Join me for a fast and fun session with Bill Kressler of Leviton Lighting to discuss two new innovations from Intense. We’ll be talking about upgrades to the MX Naked family and introduce the LD4, a low-cost downlight for general applications.

For each registered attendee, Leviton will donate $10 to Feeding America.

When you think of Beta-Calco, you might only think about their amazing interior products. Before I got to know them, I didn’t realize they had such a robust exterior offering.

It’s time you got to know these products too.

In this session, we’ll go through Beta-Calco’s exterior offering and review some of their most impressive products including Arko, Wrap, Razer and Massio.

When Beta-Calco joined SDA, we got to do extensive product training, including a virtual factory tour. I’ve written about Beta-Calco a little bit already on the blog, already.

But with the new year, it’s time to really get to know Beta-Calco. Ivan and I have set aside four dates to introduce Beta-Calco to you. Two of them will focus on interior products and the other two on exterior.

For this interior session we’ll introduce Beta-Calco as a company and then go over some of their most recent innovations, including Le Louvre, Matrex, Triple and Warp.

Ask someone what Technilum makes and the shorthand answer will be something like "fancy lighting poles." But it's so much more than that. Technilum makes forms ranging from stunning lighting poles, bollards, lamp posts, illuminated columns and luminaires themselves.

Where Technilum excels is in helping designers create complete exterior environments. Bringing form together with function to make amazing places. As such their products can be found everywhere from the Vessel at Hudson Yards to Canada Place in Vancouver and all over Europe.

I'll be sitting with Thomas Verriere of Technium to talk about their latest innovations.

Register below and when you attend receive a special thanks!

Ask someone what Technilum makes and the shorthand answer will be something like "fancy lighting poles." But it's so much more than that. Technilum makes forms ranging from stunning lighting poles, bollards, lamp posts, illuminated columns and luminaires themselves.

Where Technilum excels is in helping designers create complete exterior environments. Bringing form together with function to make amazing places. As such their products can be found everywhere from the Vessel at Hudson Yards to Canada Place in Vancouver and all over Europe.

I'll be sitting with Thomas Verriere of Technium to talk about their latest innovations.

Register below and when you attend receive a special thanks!

Last month, Ecosense introduced a new member of the Trov family - Trov Flex. This flexible 9mm tall linear strip is ready to fill in the critical gap where optics are needed, but the size of the L50 Trov is prohibitive. 

Key Specs

• IP67 Rated for wet location/outdoor applications

• Full Silicone casing

• 2-step binning

• 2700K, 3000K, 3500K, 4000K

• Field Cuttable in 6" increments

• Three Optics

  • 10x10 Graze

  • 15x40 Elliptical Wash

  • Asymmetric 

Smartengine is a digital platform for controlling LED lighting fixtures. It most closely resembles a PoE system, but with some critical differences. First, smartengine does not rely on third-party PoE switches to deliver power to the lighting gear. The smartengine itself sits at the core of the system, delivering a constant voltage power supply, removing the need for drivers at the fixture. Second, rather than using another vendor’s sensors, smartsensors are the eyes and ears of the system, and provide granular data for property management, enabling a true “Smart Building” experience.

Then, of course, the smartengine software is what ties all of this together with other intelligent building systems to create a total “smart building” system.

We’re in a time of transition when it comes to building control systems. I strongly encourage everyone that touches lighting to take this remote-work time to learn as much as you can about the evolution of lighting controls. I don’t think we’re going to be returning to the old “business as usual.”

Use the button below to register for our introduction to smartengine, and we can discuss the power of the system and how you can implement it on your next project.

Luminii quietly introduced a new series of High Efficacy tape lights that bring significant performance upgrades in terms of brightness and efficacy. That technology has made its way into the K45 and Kilo. Luminii has also updated the Express line of by-the-reel tape and extrusion for those projects that need to move quickly.

Join Shelley Haniff and I to talk about the new Luminii updates and answer any questions you have about the new Luminii.

When you sign up, you’ll get a $15 credit with Uber Eats!

JLC-Tech has long been the innovator in the space of integrated lighting for Armstrong Ceilings. They were doing it before it was popular! JLC-Tech is launching some new form factors and integrations that continue to push how beautiful the integration between lighting and pre-built ceilings can be.

Join Ted McDermott and I for a discussion of the latest integrations from JLC-Tech.

When you sign up, you’ll have your choice of a $15 Grubhub Card or a donation to Feeding America.

You know Insight lighting for their performance exterior fixtures. Well, the Prospot 9 and Prospot 17 have gotten major performance upgrades this year that should make them your first choice on exterior projects. 

Insight has also grown their interior offering with the new Space fixture - a linear pendant that's been designed to bring punch to any project.

On August 11th, join us for a discussion on all these product updates and a live demo of Space.

When you register, you'll have your choice of a $15 Grubhub gift card or a donation to Feeding America.

Join me on August 6th for a project walk through of The Wharf, in Washington DC. This amazing installation features iLight’s vertical rings in a catenary mount. It’s a great way to understand how iLight collaborates with designers and engineers. They are a deep project partner and they love to take on challenges like the ones the Wharf presented.

PoE has continued to be a trend this year. Long before we were all talking about PoE, HE Williams was investing heavily in this technology. That focus lead to Williams releasing more that 50 different PoE ready fixture types over the last few years. But Williams didn’t stop there. Last year, HEW announced the acquisition of Platformatics, a PoE system with deep roots in the space.

In this 30 minute session, we’ll talk about the Platformatics approach to PoE, both from a technology perspective and from a project design perspective. We’ll go over the basic system architecture and the services SDA+Platformatics can provide to make your next PoE project smooth and simple.

Remember, when you register for the session, you’ll receive a $15 Grubhub gift card!