Lutron Electronics Announces 2018 Excellence Award Winners; Inducts Two Companies into Lutron Hall of Fame

Coopersburg, PA (September 12, 2018) – Lighting and shading control leader Lutron Electronics has announced the winners of its annual Excellence Award competition as well as the newest Lutron Hall of Fame inductees. The announcements were made Thursday, Sept. 6^th, in San Diego, Calif.

Established in 2003, the Lutron Excellence Awards competition recognizes the world’s best projects that use Lutron light, shade, and temperature controls, Lutron Ivalo fixtures, plus third-party equipment, voice control, and more. More than 100 of Lutron’s residential system providers have won a total of 160 Excellence Awards since the competition’s beginnings.

The 2018 Excellence Award winners are:

1. Best Integration of a Lutron System with Third-Party Equipment – Service Tech
2. Best Use of Lutron Lighting and Shading Controls in a Specialty Room- OneButton
3. Best Voice Control Application within a Lutron System-Wipliance
4. Best Use of Lutron’s High-Performance LED Fixtures- Innerspace Electronics
5. Best System Upgrade- C&T Electric
6. Best Use of All Lutron Product Categories-Powerfull Systems
7. Best HomeWorks QS Project- NV Integration
8. Best Use of Sivoia QS Shades- Independence Interior Products
9. Best RadioRA 2 or RA 2 Select Project- Imagine More
10. The Essence of Pleasance- Aveon

The Lutron Hall of Fame
In 2009, the Lutron Hall of Fame was created to recognize excellence and dedication in the marketplace. Potential inductees are evaluated on several components: years of doing business with Lutron, loyalty, reputation, dedication to their business, market expansion efforts, execution of initiatives, project innovations using Lutron products and revenue growth.

Joining the 22 existing member companies, the 2018 Lutron Hall of Fame inductees are:

1. Lighting Control Solutions
2. Technical Comfort

“It’s an honor to recognize our customers for their outstanding use of Lutron products and their continued dedication to the industry,” said Michael Smith, Vice-President ¬– Sales at Lutron.. “These companies have truly raised the bar and set a high standard of industry excellence.”

About Lutron Electronics (www.lutron.com)
Founded in 1961, Lutron Electronics is headquartered in Coopersburg, Pennsylvania. From dimmers for the home, to lighting management systems for entire buildings, the company offers more than 15,000 energy-saving products, sold in more than 100 countries. In the US alone, Lutron products save an estimated 10 billion kWh of electricity, or approximately $1 billion in utility costs per year. The company’s early inventions— including the first solid-state dimmer invented by Lutron’s founder, Joel Spira—are now at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, DC.