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Future of Shade

The Sunbrella® Future of Shade competition challenges architects, designers and landscape architects to create innovative fabric shade designs that inform the surrounding architecture, whether it’s an office building, shopping plaza, park or busy
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LED Lighting in a Performing Arts Building

At the University of Florida in Gainesville, the Department of Energy GATEWAY program evaluated LED architectural and theatrical lighting in four academic/performance-related spaces within the Nadine McGuire Theater + Dance Pavilion.
White Paper

Linear (T8) LED Lamps in Recessed Troffers

The U.S. Department of Energy's CALiPER program has released Report 21.2, which is part of a series of investigations on linear LED lamps.
White Paper

LED Directional Lamps

This document provides an overview of the current performance of LED PAR-, BR-, R- and AR-shaped lamps, which were all investigated by CALiPER in 2012.  
White Paper

Energy Efficiency of LEDs

The energy efficiency of LEDs has increased substantially since the first general illumination products came to market, with currently available lamps and luminaires having efficacies more than three times as high as the best products from 2005.
White Paper

Flicker and LED

This fact sheet discusses flicker metrics, contributing factors, and consequences in addition to comparing the flicker attributes of a sample of conventional and LED sources.  
White Paper

LED Lifetime and Reliability

A detailed discussion of failure, lifetime and reliability as they relate to LED-based products.  
White Paper

Upgrading Troffer Luminaires to LED

This fact sheet provides guidance on the various factors to consider when deciding on an LED upgrade for a fluorescent troffer system.
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LED Color Stability

This fact sheet ddresses key questions about color stability and color shift in LED lighting applications.
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Lighting for Health: LEDs in the New Age of Illumination

The U.S. Department of Energy has published a fact sheet that looks at what's known — and not known — about the effects of lighting on human health, with specific reference to LEDs.
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