March 23, 2012 - Acuity Brands has expanded the Lithonia Lighting VTLED indoor lighting series with new 100+ lumens per watt (LPW) luminaire. The 100+ LPW luminaire is a new standard offering for VTLED 2’ x 4’ and 1’ x 4’ configurations. New optional features, including 2.5 McAdams ellipses and L80 performance for up to 50,000 hours, are also available for the VTLED and RTLED product lines.

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March 20, 2012 - Acuity Brands has added the WSD NGX (neutral/ground exchangeable) wall switch sensor to its Sensor Switch line of occupancy sensors. The WSD NGX sensor can use either the neutral conductor required by NEC 2011 for new construction projects, or the ground connection for retrofit applications. The WSD NGX is available in both Passive Infrared (PIR) and Dual Technology (PDT) versions.

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February 16, 2012 - LUMEnergi, a provider of network-controlled lighting energy management solutions, announced new executive appointments, several of which come straight from Acuity Brands. Barry Weinbaum, previously vice-president of strategic marketing at Acuity Brands, officially assumed the role of president and CEO of LUMEnergi two days ago. Yesterday, Weinbaum announced a couple other new senior management team members... both from Acuity Brands:

January 17, 2012 - Acuity Brands has expanded its LED indoor lighting portfolio with the Z Series LED striplight by Lithonia Lighting. The company describes the luminaire as compact, low-profile solid-state strips that deliver long maintenance-free performance in a wide range of retrofit and new construction applications. The striplight is available in both T5 and T8 lengths, and may be surface-mounted or suspended with chain, aircraft cable or stem. It also comes in white, galvanized, matte black or smoke grey finishes.

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December 19, 2011 - Acuity Brands Inc. has expanded its LED indoor ambient lighting portfolio with its new Lithonia Lighting STLED luminaire. The STLED product features improved efficacy over previous generation surface mounted products, it says, adding that it delivers a high level of performance, design and user simplicity. Comes standard with full-range (0-10V) dimming.

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November 23, 2011 - Acuity Brands’ Holophane has launched its Night Time Demo –a unique demonstration program that enables customers to walk through a series of outdoor lighting environments and experience first-hand different outdoor lighting technologies in real world settings. The demo allows visitors to walk among 2000K, 3000K, 4000K, 5000K and 6000K colour temperature sources and evaluate the lighting quality of LED, high pressure sodium and various types of metal halide sources. According to the company, every luminaire in the demo is outfitted with a ROAM node, allowing them to be turned on/off and dimmed with the use of a tablet computer wirelessly connected to the Internet and the ROAM network operations center.

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