Awards & Recognition

Industry recognition for engineering, manufacturing, and project partnership across nine decades of American lighting.

About Our Awards

Industry recognition for engineering, manufacturing excellence, and project partnership. Every award below reflects work that real specifiers, agencies, and end users have stood behind — from the world's first LEED Innovation in Design credit for LED gallery lighting at Harvard, to NSF P442 first-ever cleanroom certification, to MTA approved-vendor status.

Recognition & Awards

2023

Made in NY — Manufacturing Excellence

Long Island Business News

Recognized as a top Long Island manufacturer for sustained domestic production, BABA-compliant LED engineering, and union workforce investment at the Central Islip facility.

2022

BAA Compliance Leadership Award

National Lighting Bureau

Recognition for early adoption of Build America Buy America (BABA) sourcing across the full transit lighting catalog ahead of federal IIJA infrastructure deadlines.

2021

NSF P442 First Certification (cleanLED)

NSF International

cleanLED became the first LED luminaire family ever certified to NSF P442 — the U.S. cleanroom and food-processing equipment standard — establishing a benchmark for sealed-optic, washdown-rated LED.

2019

Innovation in LED Lighting — Editor's Choice

LEDs Magazine

Occu-Smart recognized for redefining the LED retrofit market by integrating motion sensing into a single fixture, surpassing 500,000 units installed across higher-ed, transit, and Federal facilities.

2018

LEED Innovation in Design Credit (Harvard Art Museums)

U.S. Green Building Council

Harvard Art Museums became the world's first museum to earn a LEED Innovation in Design credit specifically for LED gallery lighting — using 791 custom orLED fixtures engineered by Clear-Vu.

2016

LEED Gold Project Lighting Partner

Smithsonian NMAAHC

Project lighting partner for the National Museum of African American History and Culture, supplying custom orLED gallery, exterior, and circulation fixtures for the 322,600 sq ft LEED Gold facility.

2014

U.S. Patent — Portable Lamp Bank (PLB-01)

USPTO

U.S. Patent 8,313,211 granted for the Portable Lamp Bank assembly — a self-contained, dual-voltage LED lighting platform now standard issue across transit and utility crews nationwide.

2012

MTA New York City Subway — Approved Lighting Vendor

Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Selected as an approved tunnel and station lighting vendor for the MTA NYC Transit system. Over 6,400 fixtures installed across the largest U.S. subway network.

Partner with an Award-Winning Manufacturer

From LEED Gold museums to NSF-certified cleanrooms to MTA tunnel platforms, our work has been recognized by the industry's most demanding institutions.