by Brianna Crandall — March 5, 2014—The winners for the 2013 Next Generation Luminaires (NGL) Solid-State Lighting (SSL) Design Competition in the outdoor lighting category were announced last week at the Strategies in Light conference in Santa Clara, California. The competition, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) of North America, and the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD), was launched in 2008 to promote excellence in the design of energy-efficient light-emitting diode (LED) commercial lighting fixtures, or “luminaires.”
The entries were evaluated on characteristics such as lighting quality, appearance, serviceability, efficacy and value by a panel of six judges, drawn from the architectural lighting community, in December at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute in Blacksburg, Virginia. The panel evaluated 68 entries from 41 manufacturers.
Facilities managers in charge of large corporate or educational campuses may be particularly interested in the six entries, covering six different outdoor lighting types, that were designated as “Best in Class”:
- Juno Lighting Group (Des Plaines, IL): PL2 series bollard
- LED Roadway Lighting (Halifax, Nova Scotia): NXT-S local residential roadway fixture
- Juno Lighting Group (Des Plaines, IL): Finia building perimeter wallpack
- Cooper Lighting by Eaton (Houston, TX): McGraw-Edison Top Tier parking and area luminaire
- Cree (Durham, NC): CPY250 canopy luminaire
- Louis Poulsen Lighting (Fort Lauderdale, FL): LP ICON LED pedestrian walkway fixture
An additional 20 entries were deemed by the judges to have met the stringent requirements of the competition. These “Recognized” winners represent a wide range of manufacturers and lighting applications: collector roadway lighting, local residential roadway lighting, major roadway lighting, parking and area lighting, façade accent lighting, decorative exterior lighting, bollard pathway lighting, pedestrian walkway lighting, canopy perimeter lighting, building perimeter lighting, and tunnel lighting.
DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) offers more information on a wide range of market introduction activities, including technology procurement and demonstrations, commercial product testing, buyer/user guidance, and standards development, on its Solid-State Lighting Web site.
