The National Lighting Bureau recently announced the winners in the 2025 Lighting Transformation Awards, co-sponsored by the National Association of Lighting Maintenance Companies (NALMCO). These projects recognize outstanding achievements in lighting retrofit projects that feature innovative solutions with minimal alteration to the existing building structure. This is the first year that a project is also being recognized with a Special Citation for Exemplary Design and Implementation of Lighting Controls, sponsored by the Lighting Controls Association. The winning project receiving the Special Citation is Washington State School for the Blind in Vancouver, WA, which also won an Award of Excellence.

In this educational video, produced by the Lighting Controls Association at the 2025 LEDucation event in New York City, Eric Miller, CEO of Avi-on Labs, provides the building industry a brief booth tour of the company’s line of Bluetooth Lighting Controls.

Avi-on’s Relay Panel Retrofit Assembly fully replaces all control logic functions of relay panels without requiring the replacement of the actual relays or high voltage wiring. The Avi-on RCI controllers provide relay control, 0-10V dimming, and all operational functions, effectively upgrading the panel to a state-of-the-art control system.

NYControlled: Avi-On’s Joe McGrath Talks Lockdown Mode

At NYControlled, the EdisonReport’s Randy Reid interviewed Joe McGrath, Sales Director East Coast for Avi-On, about the company’s new feature called Lockdown Mode.

The Lighting Controls Podcast: Gary Meshberg and Harold Jepsen Talk New CIN/SOO Tool

In this episode of The Lighting Controls Podcast sponsored by MaxLite, hosts C. Webster Marsh and Ron Kuzmar interview Gary Meshberg, Chair of the Lighting Controls Academy, and Legrand’s Harold Jepsen, Vice Chair of the NEMA Lighting Controls Technical Section about the evolving world of lighting controls and a groundbreaking new Control Intent Narrative/Sequence of Operations Tool offered by the Lighting Controls Academy.

LCA TV: EmerLite™ by LiteTrace

This educational video, produced by the Lighting Controls Association at the 2025 LEDucation event in New York City, introduces LiteTrace’s EmerLite™, a wireless platform revolutionizing emergency lighting compliance for commercial facilities.

LCA TV: Athena Lighting Control System by Lutron Electronics

This educational video, produced by the Lighting Controls Association at the 2025 LEDucation event in New York City, introduces Lutron’s Athena lighting control system.

LCA TV: Wattstopper i3 Platform by Legrand

This educational video, produced by the Lighting Controls Association at the 2025 LEDucation event in New York City, introduces Legrand’s Wattstopper i3 Platform, a next-generation lighting and building intelligence solution powered by KODE Labs.

LCA TV: Guardian G3 Wireless Reporting and Monitoring by Barron Lighting

This educational video, produced by the Lighting Controls Association at the 2025 LEDucation event in New York City, introduces Barron Lighting’s Guardian G3 Wireless Reporting and Monitoring Solution.

LCA TV: IR -TEC America’s Bluetooth Programming for Sensors

This educational video, produced by the Lighting Controls Association at the 2025 LEDucation event in New York City, introduces IR-TEC America’s Bluetooth programming capability for the company’s sensors.

LCA TV: Autonomy Lighting System by JDRF Electromag

In this educational video, produced by the Lighting Controls Association at the 2025 LEDucation event in New York City, Ray Dableh, CEO of JDRF Electromag, demonstrates the company’s Autonomy Lighting System, a self-configuring luminaire-level lighting control (LLLC) system.

LCA TV: NX Lighting Controls by Current

This educational video, produced by the Lighting Controls Association at the 2025 LEDucation event in New York City, introduces new products in Current’s NX Lighting Controls line–including NX Site Manager, an intuitive and easy-to-use GUI providing real-time programming and management.

LCA TV: LiteLogic Controls by Barron Lighting

This educational video, produced by the Lighting Controls Association at the 2025 LEDucation event in New York City, introduces Barron Lighting’s LiteLogic Lighting Controls.