Home and Small Office Automation
Leviton’s Lumina solution is a great way to make your home or small business lighting and hvac costs more manageable.
Littman Brands Design Contest
Got a photo of project you did that used a Littman Brands fixture? Submit it before December 15th, and you could be $1000 richer for the holidays! Click on the image above to go to the Littman Brands Facebook page to enter.
Get in on the Act!
Crest Lighting is a proud sponsor of the 35th season of the St. Sebastian Players! Check out this local venue’s season line up and stop by Crest Lighting for your chance to win tickets to a show.
Artcraft Sale
Browse the Artcraft “Discovering the Love of Lighting Sale” brochure and fall in love with your next fixture!
Congratulations to Adorne
The Tru-Universal SofTap dimmer from Adorne wins the Lighting for Tomorrow top LED competition! With some of the most attractive and innovative lighting controls in the industry, it is no surprise that Legrand continues to win top prizes in the energy efficient design community. Lighting for Tomorrow is organized by the American Lighting Association (ALA), […]
3D Modeling puts contractors in their best light
When a contractor presents 3-D design images of how the selected lights and fixtures will look within a given environment to a potential customer, he can claim ownership of the design. This gives him value and differentiation against the competition, who likely don’t have 12 pages of 3-D renderings of how the lighting choices are […]
Watts Up? How to Convert Watts to Lumens
With the proliferation of LED lamps, how do you equate your existing incandescent 60W lamp to an appropriate LED screw-in replacement lamp? First look at the language to assist in getting to an “apples-to-apples” comparison. Watts measure the amount of energy required to light products or how much power a bulb uses, whereas lumens measure […]
LED Basics: Benefits and Options
With energy efficiency at the forefront today, we thought we would explain a bit about LEDs and the benefits of switching to them, along with some ideas of what you can do with them. Light-emitting diode, or LED, is a type of solid-state lighting that uses a semiconductor to convert electricity into light. This technology […]
Sustainable Chicago: Energy Efficiencies Support Mission
Chicago is striving to be the greenest city in America. Mayor Rahm Emanuel is quoted as saying “A sustainable Chicago is a city that spends less on energy use with each passing year, creates good-paying jobs in up-and-coming industries, responsibly maintains and upgrades its infrastructure, and ensures every Chicagoan has the opportunity to live a […]
Family Owned Businesses—Prosperity for the Sake of Posterity
When you own your own business you are in it for the long haul. There’s no such thing as working 9-5, you are automatically, by default, on the clock 24X7X365. The feeling of responsibility that comes with being the one to sign the paychecks for employees, knowing that many are sole breadwinners for their own […]