LightLouver LLC staff attends LightFair International and AIA Conventions
July 16 2010
Michael Holtz, Don Frey, Zack Rogers and Mike Plann attended the LightFair International convention May 12th through the 14th in Las Vegas, Nevada. Zack participated in the Daylight Forum and IES Daylighting Committee meetings, and assisted Michael, Don and Mike man the LightLouver Daylighting System booth on the exhibition floor. Zack and Mike accepted the Judge’s Citation Award for Innovation. ( See story above ). Several conference presentations mentioned the LightLouver Daylighting System, and together with the Judge’s Citation Award, drove many of the over 20,000 convention attendees to visit the LightLouver Booth to learn more about this innovative daylighting system.
Michael and Don attended the AIA Convention June 12th through the 14th in Miami Beach, Florida. Michael was busy attending sessions, and assisting Don and Sue and Barb man the LightLouver Daylighting System booth on the exhibition floor. While overall attendance was down from previous years, the architects attending the convention were exposed to the events, trends and technologies that will influence the profession for years to come. Many architects stopped by the LightLouver Booth to learn about how this innovative daylighting system can help them achieve low or zero energy buildings.
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AIA COTE Top 10 Project Incorporates the LightLouver Daylighting System
July 15 2010
The American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment ( COTE ) has selected ten projects throughout the U.S. to receive its Top 10 award for exemplary sustainable design. Manassas Park Elementary School + Pre-K, located in Manassas Park, Virginia, received a Top 10 Award for the new 140,000 square foot facility which incorporates numerous energy efficiency and sustainable design strategies.
A key energy efficiency, sustainable design and educational strategy was daylighting. The design team wanted to closely tie the interior of the school with the outdoors. The LightLouver Daylighting System was chosen as the primary daylighting strategy for the south facing classrooms. When combined with exterior horizontal shading above the view glazing, and a sloping ceiling from the perimeter to the interior, high quality, glare-free daylighting is provided to the classrooms.
See http://www.aiatopten.org/hpb/#2010 for more information on the project.
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LightLouver Daylighting System Receives Innovation Award at International Lighting Convention
July 14 2010
LightLouver LLC of Louisville, Colorado was one of four companies receiving a 2010 Innovation Award at the LightFair International convention in Las Vegas in May 2010. The awards recognize those companies who are lighting industry leaders in innovative product design and technology.
The LightFair International Award judges, an independent panel of renowned lighting professionals, gave the Judge’s Citation Award for Innovation to the LightLouver Daylighting System saying it represented a “better mousetrap” for providing daylighting in schools, offices, and other commercial buildings. LightLouver LLC was selected from nearly 200 submissions in 14 lighting product categories. Only four companies received the 2010 Innovation Award.
“We are very excited and proud to receive this prestigious award from the lighting industry”, said Michael Holtz, Co-Founder and Principal of LightLouver LLC. “It is recognition of the innovative design we have developed for daylighting commercial buildings while controlling glare and direct sunlight penetration. With electric lighting costs representing 30 to 40 percent of a typical office building’s annual energy costs, daylighting is an essential part of an overall strategy to achieve low and zero energy commercial buildings, and the LightLouver Daylighting System can reduce these costs by more than half.”
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