Education + Resources

The Advanced Lighting Guidelines Online Application Directory provides comprehensive designs of lighting and controls based on specific building types or space types. Check out this office design module, Open-Plan Office Application – Wallwash 1 (PDF), detailing the design approach, criteria and controls for effective wallwashing. Explore the Application Directory for more design modules.

The Designers Lighting Forum of New York (DLFNY) has announced the return of LEDucation VI March 21, 2012, 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM, at the Hotel Pennsylvania, New York City. More than 1,800 lighting design community members are expected to attended seminars led by LED experts to help attendees recognize the ever-changing, constantly evolving LED [...]

The Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES) is presenting a symposium on the role and effects of lighting on older adults to be held in Washington, DC, March 6-7, 2012. The two-day symposium is designed to disseminate the latest research about the special lighting needs of older adults with aging eyes. The researchers delivering [...]

Just announced for 2012 the public offered courses at the GE Lighting & Electrical Institute at Nela Park in Cleveland, Ohio … Fundamentals of Lighting – 1.5 CEU Industrial Solutions 101 Industrial Solutions 102 LED Indoor Workshop – 1.0 CEU Lighting Retrofits – 1.0 CEU Industrial Solutions 101 Fundamental of Lighting – 1.5 CEU Industrial [...]

David DiLaura walks you through the 10th edition of the IES Lighting Handbook.

Cooper Lighting has announced the 2012 SOURCE calendar of educational classes for the lighting and design community. The SOURCE is located at Cooper Lighting’s headquarters in Peachtree City, Georgia, and offers a wide variety of seminars designed to broaden the understanding of lighting and its applications. The SOURCE has been servicing the lighting industry for [...]

Daylighting is the technique of bringing natural light into a space and using it to enhance the space’s visual quality as well as energy performance. LEDs are a dynamic new technology with tremendous potential. This webinar will touch on the fundamentals of daylighting and LEDs, as well as the best ways to incorporate them into [...]

Lightsearch.com offers a page at its Lighting Resource Center which lists Mobile Apps for iPad, iPhone and Android mobile devices, including calculators, light meters, wireless lighting and DMX controllers, and catalogs. Check it out here.

Electrical Contractor recently published an article I wrote about a simple methodology for evaluating light sources based on a basic series of questions: • What is the distribution of the light? Distribution is measured in candelas (cd). • How long does the lamp last? Service life is measured in hours. • How much light does [...]