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Echoflex is pleased to announce two awards received recently. Brian Aikens, co-founder of Echoflex received the Applied Science Technicians and Technologists of BC award for “Tops in Technology”. Also Echoflex was awarded the distributor of the year for EnOcean for 2008 and Echoflex is the 2009 Business of the Year - Squamish Chamber of Commerce

CV LIGHTING, a design focused manufacturer based in California has a strong history of brilliant lighting products that, with other architectural examples, grace well known showplaces around the world such as the Caesar's Palace Lobby in Las Vegas.

CV's motto is "When you think of Cove Lighting think CV Lighting"
In 2004 when the CV Lighting brand was created by Targetti North America, Inc. the cove lighting products and linear architectural fixtures that had been part of the Tivoli brand were separated out from Tivoli and used to create the new CV Lighting brand. CV's range of fixtures offers the lumen output, color rendering and energy efficiency necessary for unique applications and impressive architectural effects. CV product lines can be found in BC Schools' theatre departments. An example is the CV LiteBar for makeup mirrors.
Fluorescent flex cove has been used in several BC hospital applications and the LED based luminaires continue to grow in popularity. 

PDF on Mini-Stick by CV
PDF on Mini-Cove LED by CV

UPCOMING LIGHTING EVENTS
Guillevin Internationals 17^th Bi-annual Castlegar Trade Show at the Castlegar Rec Complex. Sept 17/09 from 12pm to 6pm.
LDI 2009 Florida Nov.19/22
BUILDEX Vancouver 2010 April 21,22
LIGHTFAIR International 2010
Las Vegas May 12-14

LED LIGHTING - A TREND THAT'S ALREADY ARRIVED
It is not an exaggeration to say that LED technology and its application is growing with leaps and bounds. OSRAM and Philips have concluded LED cross-license agreement for LED technologies in luminaires. A lever for faster growth in the LED market. LED luminaire manufacturers can now use key components from OSRAM without having to pay license fees to Philips because OSRAM has acquired special rights from Philips. Luminaire manufacturers are therefore released from the costs resulting from the LED luminaire license program recently published by Philips. The special rights relate not only to patents held by Philips but also to patents held by Color Kinetics and TIR Systems which were acquired by Philips last year. The compensatory payment – which both parties have agreed not to divulge – will be partially offset by OSRAM by selling rights to its own patents. This agreement will give the market for LED-based lighting a further boost.

What can LED's offer us?:

• Bring appealing dynamic lighting effects – such as colour mixing and changing for scene setting - to outdoor applications
• Enable designers to fill or underline, graze or pinpoint, mark or blend
• Show new design possibilities: they can be sealed for life and fully integrated into the architecture or design
• Are more energy-efficient than many existing light sources, especially if we take into account their optical efficiency

Check out our line of LED and other source instruments from CV Lighting and Tivoli Lighting

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LIGHTING FOR VIDEO

Find out how lighting for video is approached and requires a different set of tools and techniques. Bernard & Associates has experts on staff that have decades of experience working with video, television and film. Bernard & Associates are currently working on lighting a new video conference theatre at the UBC Kelowna Regional Hospital.

If you wish to have access to more information that we make available to clients on lighting your facility for video please phone us at 604-540-2686.