LED Archives - AWA Lighting Designers

Abhay Wadhwa Speaks Today at the NOMA 2019 Conference in Brooklyn, 10/17/19

Join Us at NOMA 2019! Abhay Wadhwa, Design Principal & CEO at AWA Lighting Designers will be speaking today, October 17, 2019, during the opening day of the 47th Annual National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) Conference and Exposition in Brooklyn, New York. He will..

LED Light Engine (Part 2.3 of an 11 Part Series)

Welcome back to our Infrastructural Lighting series! Today, we discuss LED Light Engines. Allows for more free and compact luminaire designs because of the compilation of many components within the package. Line voltage linear LED engines: Fully integrated with drive..

Physiological Need for Light – Parts 2.3 & 2.4 of a 7 Part Series

Welcome to parts 2.3 & 2.4 of the 7-part Lighting for Health series! Today, we cover the the relationship between lighting and breast cancer, as well as the effect of color in our built environments. Light and Breast Cancer Light is primary regulator of circadian functions in hum..

Lighting Technologies (Part 1 of an 8 Part Series)

Welcome to our Lighting Technologies series, where we explore upcoming advances, new materials and more! Today, we begin by understanding where we were, where we are and where we're going. 2020 PARADIGM SHIFT • Is there a Paradigm Shift Coming? • Changing technologies • New materials • New..

Components and Types – LED (Part 2.1 of a 7 Part Series)

Welcome to part 2.1 of the Infrastructural Lighting series, where we explore the types of lighting applications used in the infrastructure all around us! Today, we discuss LED components. LED CHIPS Converts electrical energy into UV light Semiconductor chip with a positive and negati..

Infrastructural Lighting (Part 1 of an 11 Part Series)

Introduction to Infrastructural Lighting - where we were, where we are and where we're going. Past 1960s LEDs: Low-Intensity Red Lights, Indicator Lights PRESENT LEDs: available in all visible, Ultraviolet and Infrared Wavelengths LED technology has been exponentially improving in eff..

The Culture of Lighting (Part 1.1 of 6)

Hypothesis Lighting balances universal ideas about light with local variations (1.2) A given culture’s position in the global economic development cycle is reflected in its use of lighting in urban, built and un-built, nighttime environments (1.3) Successful lighting design balances human instinc..

AWA Newsflash: Exhibition Opening at UN HQ

"Triumphs and Struggles for Freedom and Equality" AWA Lighting Designers is humbled to be included in an accomplished group of architects & designers being honored as "Distinguished Members for NYCOBA l NOMA" at today's opening reception of the 'Remembering Slavery - SAY IT LOUD' Exhibition ..

LIGHTING INDIA FEATURES GODREJ BKC

Lighting India recently featured AWA's project Godrej BKC. The article shares key points on how we harnessed the strengths of the architecture and enhanced the function of the environment through lighting design. Read the full article HERE. ..

Healthy Lighting Application Areas – Light Therapy

Light Therapy Light therapy is described as the exposure to daylight or electric light of specific wavelength using lasers, LED, fluorescent lamps or very bright, full spectrum light. Bright light therapy is most often used to treat patients with seasonal affective disorder using a light box (10,000..