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Future-Ready Campuses: From Classroom Wellbeing to Climate Resilience

William Attardi on December 9, 2025

A field guide to classrooms and campuses that perform: sound control, visual comfort, resilience and compliance, rapid retrofit tactics, and products ready for education projects. From acoustics that improve comprehension to fast-track LED lighting retrofits that cut costs without disruption, today’s education projects demand solutions that elevate student outcomes and campus resilience. This cross-brand eHandbook curates our best recent coverage from Architectural Products, BUILDINGS, and interiors+sources to help architects, interior designers, and facilities professionals plan, spec, and operate smarter learning spaces across K-12 and higher education. Round out your due diligence with real-world case studies and a curated product guide spanning acoustical ceilings and lighting, writable surfaces, modular tables, power and data, security, flooring, and more—everything needed to turn design intent into measurable performance. Future-Ready Campuses: From Classroom Wellbeing to Climate Resilience | Buildings

NEMRA Lighting and IES Partner to Launch Lighting Educational Curriculum

William Attardi on August 21, 2025

NEMRA Lighting and IES say this new virtual learning pathway bridges the lighting knowledge gap. To meet the growing demand for comprehensive lighting education and skills development, the platform builds on lighting and controls expertise while preparing participants for broader industry certifications.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

  • The curriculum features four progressive levels, from basic lighting fundamentals to advanced system design and integration.
  • Courses one and two are free for NEMRA Lighting members, with higher levels requiring additional memberships and offering CEUs and industry recognition.
  • Partnership with IES ensures high-quality, accredited content that supports professional growth and industry credibility.
  • Participants gain  certificates, CEUs and LinkedIn verifications, enhancing their professional profiles.

For more information, visit NEMRA Lighting Division

NEMRA Lighting and IES Partner to Launch Lighting Educational Curriculum | Electrical Wholesaling

Welcome to the NEMRA Lighting Division

William Attardi on July 19, 2025

NEMRA Lighting Division is dedicated to empowering independent lighting representatives and their manufacturing partners. Membership in NEMRA Lighting Division connects you to a powerful network of professionals, programs, and resources powered by three core pillars: Advocacy, Education, and Networking. NEMRA Lighting champions the voice of independent lighting agencies and manufacturers, empowers members by building capabilities, and fosters connections for strong partnerships. Through Advocacy, Education, and Networking, your NEMRA Lighting Division membership equips you with professional development, relationships, and business strategies to give you a competitive advantage. NEMRA Lighting Division

 

DALI Alliance and IES Collaborate for Lighting Standardization and Education

William Attardi on May 10, 2025

The DALI Alliance and the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) are pleased to announce a strategic collaboration aimed at advancing the development, adoption, and harmonization of educational initiatives around global lighting standards. Through this collaboration, the DALI Alliance and IES will coordinate on activities such as education and training programs, and outreach to designers, engineers, and specifiers. The goal is to create greater alignment across lighting technologies and accelerate the deployment of intelligent and sustainable lighting solutions worldwide. DALI Alliance and IES Collaborate for Lighting Standardization and Education – tEDmag

NEMA Academy to Reshape Industry Education by Craig DiLouie

William Attardi on April 12, 2025

For 25 years, the Lighting Controls Association, a council of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA), has educated the building industry about lighting control technology and application, notably through its Education Express courses. The organization is proud to announce that starting May 1, 2025, the Education Express curriculum will be incorporated into a new learning management system, NEMA Academy. The new platform will feature an improved website, a comprehensive learning platform, and access to a broad and growing curriculum covering lighting controls in addition to other topics, from lighting to safety to emergency preparedness. NEMA Academy to Reshape Industry Education

 

Education Express to Become NEMA Academy

William Attardi on March 14, 2025

Big news! The Lighting Controls Association’s Education Express is moving to NEMA’s new learning platform: NEMA Academy. This transition will provide an improved user experience and new opportunities for professional development, with the same Education Express courses combined with a growing curriculum of courses in lighting and other electrical fields. If you are one of our tens of thousands of Education Express students, your account will automatically transition to the new NEMA Academy platform, which will officially launch on May 1, 2025. Education Express to Become NEMA Academy

Telling Time – 12-hour time is a very ancient system that traces back to the Mesopotamian empires. They had a cultural fixation with the number 12, used a base-12 numerical system, and divided up most things into 12ths whenever possible – including day and night. The 12 hours of day and 12 hours of night system spread throughout Europe and the Middle East and has defied multiple attempts to change it over the centuries. Also, for anyone curious as to why there was such a love of the number 12, it was because that was how they counted on their hand. Look at your hand. Notice how each of your fingers minus your thumb has three easily identifiable parts to it. They used to count by using their thumb to count each part of the finger, much in the same way we count to 10 using our fingers today. So, 12 was the max you could count on one hand.