GE Lighting and USG partner to integrate ceiling system with recessed lighting

Oct. 18, 2012
Lighting designers and architects can now specify an integrated ceiling and lighting system that combines USG's Logix ceiling products with GE's LED Linear Recessed Luminaires.

Targeting office, retail, hotel, and restaurant applications, GE Lighting and USG Corp announced a partnership intended to deliver an "uninterrupted ceiling and lighting system." Designers and architects can combine the USG Logix Integrated Ceiling System with GE Lighting's Lumination LED Linear Recessed Luminaires to deliver a uniform finish and high-quality lighting.

Logix and Lumination in an office setting

"It has long been a problem to piece together a custom look without the custom price, but now specifying, estimating, ordering and constructing the ceiling your customer always wanted is simple," said Chris Griffin, USG executive vice president of operations. "The continuous look of Logix panels and Lumination LED lighting is ideal for environments where a clean, uncluttered ceiling is as much a fashionable as functional solution."

GE offers the Lumination luminaires in 4- and 5-ft lengths and in 4- or 6-in widths to fit Logix layouts. The Logix system allows for what the company calls bands that measure 4 or 6 in, that run the length of a ceiling. The luminaires can be installed end to end to achieve the continuous look.

USG also supports other needed elements of a ceiling system such as air diffusers, air returns, and sprinklers that are a requisite in many of the target applications. Indeed, products such as air diffusers can be installed in the band between consecutive luminaires.

The GE Lumination recessed fixture

GE offers the recessed Lumination luminaires in a choice of three color temperatures (3000K, 3500K, and 4000K) and with three lumen-output levels (450, 525, or 750 lm/ft). The products integrate a driver, deliver 87 lm/W in efficacy, and a minimum CRI of 80.

For dimming, you can utilize either 0-10V or DALI controls. The projected life to 85% of initial lumen output (L85) is 50,000 hours, and GE offers a five year warranty.

"This collaboration was about giving the architectural community what it wanted, an uninterrupted ceiling and lighting system in one package that makes designer projects much easier," said Jaime Irick, general manager for GE Lighting North America Professional Solutions. "When two innovation leaders like USG and GE come together as our teams have done, the results can start to reshape an industry."