Lighting Design and Specification

2 months ago | lightingdesignandspecification.ca | Blake Marchand

March 28, 2025By Blake Marchand “For us, a prosumer is an active homeowner or building owner who manages and distributes their electrical load to optimize energy use in their home or business,” explains Schneider Electric’s David O’Reilly, Vice President of the Home & Commercial Solutions Division. The prosumer is a practical example of what electrification transition looks like on a localized level.

2 months ago | lightingdesignandspecification.ca | Blake Marchand

February 23, 2025by Elle BremmerIn the quest for efficient and sustainable lighting solutions, LED technology has changed the game, revolutionizing the way we light our environment. Guillevin International has been at the forefront of providing premium LED lighting solutions to customers across Canada.

2 months ago | lightingdesignandspecification.ca | Blake Marchand

March 21, 2025By Krystie JohnstonSchneider Electric is on a mission to be the trusted partner in sustainability and efficiency. Frederick Morency, Vice President of Sustainability, Strategic Initiatives & Innovation at Schneider Electric Canada, has experienced this joie de vivre for the last 28 years. In this article we discuss what his work involves, what sustainability and efficiency mean to him, and why it is at the heart of what Schneider Electric does as a company.

2 months ago | lightingdesignandspecification.ca | Blake Marchand

March 15, 2025By Blake MarchandLate last year Trilliant announced partnerships with Oshawa Power and Milton Hydro to enable suite metering and advanced metering technology using their Smart Building Platform. Those partnerships were the jumping off point for my conversation with Steven Lupo, Managing Director, North America at Trilliant, a company with four decades of innovation in Canada with offices in Toronto, Ontario, Canadian manufacturing in Quebec, and a global footprint.

2 months ago | lightingdesignandspecification.ca | Blake Marchand

March 6, 2025We asked local Ontario electrician, Katie Downer to put the M211 Portable Bluetooth Label Printer to the test in her day-to-day activities on the job. With 15 years of experience in the trade, Downer is primarily working in residential on service calls, renovations, and custom homes. She does a lot of renovation work, which emphasizes the need for clear and concise labels. One of the projects she used the M211 was to relabel an entire panel on a renovation job.