Digest
Collingwood Lighting has fitted new LED luminaires in the Barwell stand at Northampton Saints as phase one of a refurbishment aimed at improving stadium hospitality lighting and reducing energy use.
The US House passed a bill to make daylight saving time permanent, pending Senate approval; if enacted, it would affect astronomical time settings and scheduling logic in networked exterior and circadian lighting controls.
DLC's Networked Lighting Controls V5.2 requirements take effect August 2026, tightening interoperability and reporting rules and extending NLC scope to integrated building systems such as HVAC, a change specifiers should track for future compliance.
The Trump administration will not renew USMCA in its current form, beginning a lengthy review process that could eventually affect component sourcing, tariffs and pricing for lighting manufacturers and specifiers in North America.
Pharos Architectural Controls has been installed to manage the floodlighting of the Sint-Petrusbasiliek in Oirschot, replacing an older system with a networked, energy-efficient control scheme suited to heritage facade lighting.
Foscarini's Asteria fixture, first shown at Euroluce 2025, reworks the multi-arm chandelier format with a pared-back, architectural profile suited to decorative specification.