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• PBA Gets New Lighting Designer

  Peter Basso Associates (PBA), Troy, MI, has recently hired Tracey Guzman as a lighting designer in its corporate/governmental group.

• Schuler Shook Promotes, Adds New Staff

  Schuler Shook has promoted Robert McVay in the firm's Dallas office to project consultant from his previous position as theater consultant. Also Leigh Gice has joined the Minneapolis office as a lighting designer, and Lee Potter-Murray has joined the firm's Chicago office as a theater consultant.

• HLB Hires Principal

  Hayden N. McKay, an architect with more than 30 years of lighting design experience, is the newest principal at the New York office of Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design. She will oversee the firm's expanded Daylight & Sustainable Design Studio and will establish internal and external education...

• Claude Engle Gives Feltman Lecture at Cooper Union

  Claude Engle, a celebrated lighting designer of more than 40 years, and David Nelson, director of design at London-based architecture firm Foster + Partners, presented their collaborative work in a lecture titled "Drawing Light from Shadow" as part of the Feltman Lecture series on Thursday, Feb. 14...

• Help for K-12 Design

  Design of energy-efficient K-12 schools is an important segment of the building industry at present, and organizations around the country are taking a variety of actions to assist architects, lighting designers, and specifiers in the task.Recently, the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and...

• Building a SIPs Roof

  Complex roofs with hips and dormers can be assembled quickly using these energy-efficient panels.

• Coloring a Room With Light

  Light and color are very closely related: we wouldn't see color without light, and yet light is composed of color. Breaking down the visible spectrum reveals the colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. Colored light is found naturally when sunlight passes...

• Q-Tran Marks 15th Anniversary

  Bridgeport, Conn.-based Q-Tran, designer and manufacturer of power supply systems, transformers, and low-voltage lighting components, is celebrating its 15th anniversary in 2008. The company was established by current chief executive officer John Tremaine, a lighting designer and entrepreneur.

• Cooper Announces Acquisition

  Cooper Industries will acquire U.K.-based Clarity Lighting, a designer and manufacturer of light-emitting diode architectural lighting and control solutions. Clarity's product line ranges from lamps, drivers, and controllers to a variety of interior and exterior luminaires, downlights, spots...

• Foscarini Hosts Design Workshops

  Italian lighting manufacturer Foscarini has launched Foscarini Lab, a series of design workshops it will host to draw on the talents of fresh industrial design graduates to generate design concepts.