Posts Tagged ‘Lightfaire’

During LightFair (North America’s annual largest trade show of architectural and commercial lighting ) 2008, most attendees were caught up in the waves of excitement and opportunity washing in and around the booths featuring LEDs and LED fixtures, reports JULIE MACSHANE.

More than 19,800 attendees flooded LightFair 2008, and it seemed like most spent their time pooling in the booths of LED exhibitors. Once there, architects, designers and specifiers jammed together in the small spaces and asked big questions about using LEDs in their products and applications: How bright? What colors? How much money can I save? Many visitors were looking at LEDs as the long-term lighting strategy to save energy and thus money, a more urgent quest with the price of oil rising ever higher.

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