Long Reads Archives — Language of Light — The Intersection of Lighting, Efficiency and Architecture

Improving the Healthcare Experience with Lighting

By Alcon Lighting / March 31, 2021

Better healthcare lighting often means lower overall costs for hospitals, doctors or dental offices, medical facilities and assisted or senior living centers. Given the complications of today’s healthcare system, improved lighting at a lower cost can afford a serious and distinct advantage for patient and doctor alike. This post examines healthcare lighting in detail with specific guidelines, facts and context.

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Interview With Talieh Ghane: What is Healthy Lighting?

September 2, 2020 by Alcon Lighting

Talieh Ghane researches the interaction between light and health at the California Lighting Technology Center. We talked about the biological vs. visual system of light, how to synchronize your circadian clock for better health, how light is like a drug, and why you shouldn’t be on your phone right before bed (guilty).

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Mood Changers: Lighting Design 101 – Why Lighting is The Most Im...

April 10, 2018 by Katie Kailus

It’s widely known that lighting can affect one’s mood — hence the common term mood lighting. But the degree at which your mood is affected by lighting might surprise you. In 2014, the Journal of Consumer Psychology published a study that found the more intense the lighting, the more affected and the more intense the participants’ emotions were — both positive and negative.

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Considering LED Lighting for Classrooms: Brighter Lighting May Lead to...

February 20, 2018 by Alcon Lighting

The benefits of LEDs are well studied and documented. By now we know that it’s much healthier for humans to work, function, and operate in environments that are lit by LED lighting. Without a doubt, LED technology will continue to change how we light our environment and our world. So why then, are our students and teachers still spending a significant amount of their days in classrooms and schools under dull and dated fluorescent lights?

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Breaking Down Renewable Energy vs Zero-Carbon — and the Role of LED Lighting

November 8, 2017 by David P Hakimi

Often seen or touted as idealistic, zero-carbon cities are now seen as an obtainable goal by most local elected officials and becoming a goal of many cities across the world. Reaching net-zero emissions is considered a necessity for the future of the environment with many cities across the country currently working towards the goal of zero-carbon emissions, including Boston, Denver and Portland, Oregon, which all have committed to reducing energy use by 80% or more by 2050.

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The Top Five Human-Centric Principles of Light and Lighting Design

April 16, 2017 by Alcon Lighting

Humans are designed to function on a roughly 24-hour cycle of wakefulness and sleep. Light is one way that our bodies set the clock. Human-centric lighting design takes into account natural rhythms of light and dark, incorporating changes in lighting intensity and color temperature over the course of a 24 hour cycle.

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