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FACES OF THE FUTURE 

December 2010 

Lighting Design and 

Application 

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IES LIGHTING HANDBOOK 

Editors: David DiLaura, Kevin Houser, 

Richard Mistrick, Gary Steffy 

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age-based illuminance ranges and mesopic adaptation 

Extensive updates on light sources, including solid state lighting 

Holistic and complementary daylighting and electric 

lighting strategies 

More extensive and specific qualitative lighting design criteria 

such as subjective impressions (psychological factors) and 

architectural spatial factors 

Broader quantitative criteria such as illuminance uniformities, 

power and energy aspects, light trespass, and light pollution 

In-depth coverage of sustainability practices: new chapters 

on daylighting, controls, sustainability, commissioning and energy 

management 

Features: 

Provides a compendium of what is known that directly relates to 

lighting and lighting design 

Concise explanation of material 

Content and format tailored to those involved in lighting decisions 

including practitioners, designers, architects, and engineers 

Four color throughout; 600+ illustrations that enhance 

understanding 

Conveniently-referenced tabular information is exemplified with 

numerous photographs and illustrations 

Sustainable practice embedded throughout: refinement of 

light level criteria, definitive criteria related to brightness and 

user impressions, factors influencing power and energy use for 

lighting, and methods to minimize light trespass and light pollution 

TABLES THAT SUCCINCTLY 

SUMMARIZE INFORMATION 

NUMEROUS COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND 

DETAILED CAPTIONS CLARIFY CONCEPTS 

Design | Designing Electric Lighting 

Design | Designing Electric Lighting 

Table 15.1 | Ceiling Mounted Ambient Linear Lighting 

Mounting Form Factor Configuration Optics/Look Distribution/Features/Caveats 

Recessed • Linear • Continuous • Details a 

Distribution: Direct (see 8.2.2.1 | CIE System). 

• Discrete 

• Baffled Features: Custom look; width of several inches to several feet; length of 

several feet to unlimited; depth of several inches to several feet. Uses off-theshelf 

optic/lamp/ballast/driver modules. 

• Lensed 

• Louvered 

Caveats: Overall cost of architectural detail may be more than off-the-shelf 

• Open b luminaires; photometric pedegree is elusive and demands careful modeling; 

• Slot c 

lengths typically based on available lamp modules. 

• Combination d 

• Luminaires Distribution: Direct (see 8.2.2.1 | CIE System). 

• Baffled Features: Width of several inches to perhaps a foot; length of several feet to 

 

unlimited; depth of several inches to perhaps a foot. Integral optics, lamps, and 

• Lensed 

ballasts/drivers. 

• Louvered 

Caveats: Ceiling construction needs to accommodate available modular 

• Open b lengths and mounting methods unless customized luminaires and/or ceilings 

• Slot c 

are used; longer runs demand heavy gage or extruded trims and/or housings 

• Combination d and finely-detailed, robust joiners to maintain true linearity. 

 

 

 

Figure 15.5a | Ambient Ceiling Recessed Continuous Linear Lensed 

Ambient light (to the left) for circulation and stack lighting in this library is achieved with 

ceiling recessed linear continuous luminaires technique . Linear row consists of 6” wide by 

4’ long units mounted end-to-end. Luminaires exhibit a regressed lens for a dimensional look 

and use F28W/T5/835 lamps and nondim ballasts. Other lighting is shown in adjacent areas. 

» Image ©Balthazar Korab Ltd. 

Figure 15.5b | Ambient Ceiling Recessed Discrete Linear Lensed 

Some ambient light for circulation and social interaction in this indoor pool is achieved with 

ceiling recessed linear discrete luminaires technique . Discrete luminaire consists of 3” wide 

by 4’ long extruded aluminum housing. Luminaires exhibit a flush diffuse lens with a flangeless 

trim for a “seamless” appearance with ceiling plane and use F28W/T5/830 lamps and 

nondim ballasts. Running the linear dimension perpendicular to the tangent of the arc, the 

close-spaced pattern works to accentuate the arc. A similar pattern of identical luminaires is 

wall mounted and lamped with F28W/T5/Blue lamps for a more decorative appearance . 

» Image ©Kevin Beswick. 

Semi-recessed • Linear • Continuous • Details a 

Distributions: Direct, Semi-direct, and General Diffuse (see 8.2.2.1 | CIE 

Surface • Discrete • Baffled System). 

Features: Custom look; width of several inches to several feet; length of 

• Lensed 

several feet to unlimited; depth of several inches to several feet. Uses off-theshelf 

optic/lamp/ballast/driver modules. 

• Louvered 

• Open b 

Caveats: Overall cost of architectural detail may be more than off-the-shelf 

• Slot c 

luminaires; photometric pedegree is elusive and demands careful modeling; 

• Combination d lengths typically based on available lamp modules. 

• Luminaires Distribution: Direct, Semi-direct, and General Diffuse (see 8.2.2.1 | CIE System). 

• Baffled Features: Width of several inches to perhaps a foot; length of several feet to 

unlimited; depth of several inches to perhaps a foot. 

• Lensed 

Caveats: Ceiling construction needs to accommodate available modular 

• Louvered 

lengths and mounting methods unless customized luminaires and/or ceilings 

• Open b are used; longer runs demand heavy gage or extruded trims and/or housings 

• Slot c 

and finely-detailed, robust joiners to maintain true linearity. 

• Combination d 

Pendant • Linear • Continuous • Details a 

Distribution: Direct, Semi-direct, General Diffuse, Direct-indirect, Semiindirect, 

and Indirect (see 8.2.2.1 | CIE System). 

• Discrete 

• Baffled 

Features: Custom look; width of several inches to perhaps several feet; 

• Lensed 

continuous length unlimited; discrete length typically 4' to 8'; depth of several 

• Louvered 

inches to several feet. Uses off-the-shelf optic/lamp/ballast/driver modules. 

• Open b Various suspension methods (stems, aircraft cable, rigid stanchions, vertical 

• Slot c 

plates) for different and unique appearances. 

• Combination d Caveats: Overall cost of architectural detail may be more than custom-fromfactory 

and/or off-the-shelf luminaires; photometric pedegree is elusive and 

demands careful modeling; lengths typically based on available lamp 

modules; detailing of suspension elements and power feed(s) critical. 

• Luminaires Distribution: Direct, Semi-direct, General Diffuse, Direct-indirect, Semiindirect, 

and Indirect (see 8.2.2.1 | CIE System). 

• Baffled 

Features: Width of several inches to perhaps a foot; length unlimited; depth of 

• Lensed 

several inches to perhaps a foot. 

• Louvered 

Caveats: Ceiling construction needs to accommodate typical suspension and 

• Open b power feed types and locations, which are not necessarily spaced on 

• Slot c 

incremental modules sympathetic to ceiling layout; longer runs demand 

• Combination d extruded trims and housings and finely-detailed, robust joiners to maintain 

true linearity. 

 

 

Figure 15.5c | Ambient Ceiling Recessed Discrete Linear Slot 

Linear open slots create the ambient lighting of the elevator lobbies in this 18-story hotel . 

Discrete luminaire consists of 9” wide by 6’ long 20-gage housing and extruded aluminum trim. 

Slot aperture exhibits minimal trim for a “ceiling-cutout” appearance. Luminaire uses F39W/ 

T5HO/Blue lamps and nondim ballasts. Lamps are hidden from view along one side—essentially 

a linear cove. All light is reflected from within 

the slot. A radial layout accentuates the planning 

arc. At night, the colored ambient light 

reflects from each elevator lobby’s white walls 

 

and ceiling to give the building its skyline 

presence without facade lights or excessive 

interior wattage. F32W/Triple/830 downlights 

at elevator doors and the effect of color constancy 

(colors, such as skin tones and clothing, 

retain their color appearance despite changes 

in the light source color) allow the blue light 

to succeed in this transitory space—albeit one 

contributing to the overall guest experience.. 

» Image ©Kevin Beswick. 

Figure 15.5d | Ambient Ceiling Pendant Discrete Linear Combination 

Ambient light for conferencing is achieved with ceiling mounted linear discrete luminaire 

technique . Linear luminaire consists of 3” wide by 4½” high by 13’ long extruded aluminum 

housing. Luminaire exhibits a flush bottom lens and an open top. Downlight ambient uses 

F54W/T5HO/830 lamps and dimming ballasts. Uplight compartment uses F54W/T5HO/830 

lamps and dimming ballasts. In combination with the direct-indirect ambient lighting, two 

37W/halogenIR LV /MR16 lamps provide supplemental task lighting. 

» Image ©Beth Singer Photographer, Inc. 

a. Consisting typically of millwork, drywall, or metal architectural details housing luminaires. 

b. The term “open” refers to linears exhibiting bare lamps or lamps with tight lamp shrouds or guards for an open appearance into the lamp chamber. 

c. The term “slot” refers to linears exhibiting return-lipped compartments for an open appearance but into a void where lamps are hidden from view. 

d. Combinations of any the aforementioned optics/looks. 

15.4 | The Lighting Handbook IES 10th Edition 

IES 10th Edition The Lighting Handbook | 15.5

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Table 24.2 | Educational Facilities Illuminance Recommendations continued next page 

Applications | Lighting for Education 

Table 24.2 | Educational Facilities Illuminance Recommendations continued from previous page 

b, c ,d 

Recommended Maintained Illuminance Targets (lux) Uniformity Targets e 

Horizontal (E h) Targets 

Vertical (E v) Targets 

Over Area of Coverage 

Visual Ages of Observers (years) 

Visual Ages of Observers (years) 

1 st ratio E h/2 nd ratio E v if 

where at least half are 

where at least half are 

different uniformities apply 

a 

Applications and Tasks Notes 65 65 Max:Avg Avg:Min Max:Min 

Category Gauge Category Gauge 

 

AUDITORIA 

(continued) 

Dedicated to artistic performances (likely fixed seating); For dedicated theaters see 28 | LIGHTING FOR HOSPITALITY AND 

Performance 

ENTERTAINMENT 

House As the architect coordinates contrast markings with steps, curbs, and ramps, localized lighting may be deemed appropriate. 

During event 2 2 2 Min F 5 10 20 Avg 5:1/3:1 

Applications | Lighting for Education 

Pre/Post event L 37.5 75 150 Avg K 25 50 100 Avg 3:1 

Stage 

Access ramps/stairs See AUDITORIA/Circulation 

Amateur productions 

Dance (performance) E h @floor; E v @5' AFF P 150 300 600 Avg R 250 500 1000 Avg 1.5:1 

Demonstration T 500 1000 2000 Avg R 250 500 1000 Avg 3:1 

Music P 150 300 600 Avg R 250 500 1000 Avg 2:1 

Theater Simple, no stage lighting cues P 150 300 600 Avg P 150 300 600 Avg 2:1 

Professional productions 

Prefunction 

Anteroom or transition space adjoining auditorium 

During event K 25 50 100 Avg I 15 30 60 Avg 3:1 

Pre/Post event, intermission N 75 150 300 Avg L 37.5 75 150 Avg 3:1 

Sound and light lock 

Transition from lobby or foyer space adjoining auditorium 

During event 2 2 2 Min I 15 30 60 Avg 5:1/3:1 

Pre/Post event, intermission M 50 100 200 Avg K 25 50 100 Avg 3:1 

BUILDING ENTRIES 

CLASSROOMS 

Arts 

See 22 | LIGHTING FOR COMMON APPLICATIONS 

Art Studios R 250 500 1000 Avg P 150 300 600 Avg 3:1 

Graphic Arts 

Displays 

Fine art See 21 | LIGHTING FOR ART 

Stage lighting as determined by production crew; See IES DG-20-09 | Stage Lighting A Guide to the Planning of Theatres 

and Auditoriums for guidance on architectural and electrical infrastructure 

Permanent/Temporary Awards, student art, plaques 

Dimensional 

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December 2010 

Vol.40/No.12 

FUTURE LEADERS: THE NEXT GENERATION OF LIGHTING LUMINARIES 

37 

68 72 

features 

departments 

6 Editorial 

8 Letters 

14 Updates 

18 Energy Advisor 

22 LED Watch 

26 Research Matters 

32 Education 

37 Tools + Techniques 

78 Annual Index of Articles 

84 Products & Literature 

87 Events 

88 Classified Advertisements 

89 Ad Index & Ad Offices 

90 New and Sustaining Members 

92 IES FYI 

41 FUTURE LEADERS: THE NEXT 

GENERATION OF 

LIGHTING LUMINARIES 

LD+A profiles 25 rising stars in the 

lighting profession 

68 WANTED: A NEW TYPE OF LIGHTING 

PROFESSIONAL 

Looking beyond the traditional roles of designer, 

manufacturer, rep and distributor, the author offers a 

fearless forecast of five new job titles poised to make an 

impact on the industry 

72 A STAR IS REBORN 

With its restored Tiffany fixtures and selective use of 

LEDs, the renovated Belasco Theatre is again the jewel in 

Broadway’s crown 

ON THE COVER: 

Our list of Future Leaders includes designers, suppliers, 

academics and researchers.

EDITORIAL 

No disrespect to the other 90-plus issues I’ve worked 

Publisher 

William Hanley, CAE 

Editor/Associate Publisher 

Paul Tarricone 

Associate Editor 

Elizabeth Hall 

Assistant Editor 

Roslyn Lowe 

Art Director 

Samuel Fontanez 

Associate Art Director 

Petra Domingo 

Columnists 

Edward Bartholomew • James Brodrick 

Mark Lien • Eunice Noell-Waggoner 

Don Peifer • Paul Pompeo 

Willard Warren 

Marketing Manager 

Clayton Gordon 

Advertising Coordinator 

Leslie Prestia 

Published by IES 

120 Wall Street, 17th Floor 

New York, NY 10005-4001 

Phone: 212-248-5000 

Fax: 212-248-5017/18 

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Email: ies@ies.org 

Vol.40/No.12 

on since becoming editor of LD+A, but for sheer fun, this one ranks near the top 

(right up there with the IES Centennial issue in January 2006). 

The theme of this issue is “Future Leaders: The Next Generation of Lighting 

Luminaries.” The idea for it grew out of an association publishing conference 

where editors of other society publications discussed various special “one-off” 

issues they’ve produced over the years. Soon after, we ran the idea by a few 

IES members—Kim Mercier, Kevin Flynn and Robert Davis, among others— 

who have taken a particular interest in mentoring and growing the ranks of our 

young professionals. 

As for methodology, LD+A rejected the “30 under 30” format found in many 

magazines for two reasons: it didn’t seem fair to exclude a contender based on 

age; and more importantly, many people come to lighting (or at least begin to 

specialize in it) later in their careers. With that, we narrowed our focus to those 

with about five years experience in the lighting industry (some have a bit more, 

some a little less). Much more important than rigid age/experience parameters 

were their achievements to date and their potential as future thought leaders. 

We met some talented, interesting and ambitious people—25 in all representing 

all niches of the profession—during this process. One hopes to revolutionize 

the traditional method of product procurement in the industry; another is 

developing a new coating for white LEDs that would make them markedly more 

efficient; one Ph.D. student is recruiting would-be lighting professionals in the 

nation’s high schools, while another academic might someday start his own 

university lighting program. Several others are gifted designers with an eye on 

marketing, management or running their own firms in the future. Finally, one is 

extremely specific: he hopes to be president of the IALD. 

We hope you enjoy reading their stories as much as we enjoyed telling them. 

PAUL TARRICONE 


ptarricone@ies.org 

LD+A is a magazine for professionals involved in the art, science, 

study, manufacture, teaching, and implementation of lighting. LD+A 

is designed to enhance and improve the practice of lighting. Every 

issue of LD+A includes feature articles on design projects, technical 

articles on the science of illumination, new product developments, 

industry trends, news of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North 

America, and vital information about the illuminating profession. 

Statements and opinions expressed in articles and editorials in LD+A 

are the expressions of contributors and do not necessarily represent 

the policies or opinions of the Illuminating Engineering Society of 

North America. Advertisements appearing in this publication are the 

sole responsibility of the advertiser. 

LD+A (ISSN 0360-6325) is published monthly in the United States of 

America by the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, 

120 Wall Street, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10005, 212-248-5000. 

Copyright 2010 by the Illuminating Engineering Society of North 

America. Periodicals postage paid at New York, NY 10005 and 

additional mailing offices. Nonmember subscriptions $44.00 per year. 

Additional $15.00 postage for subscriptions outside the United States. 

Member subscriptions $32.00 (not deductible from annual dues). 

Additional subscriptions $44.00. Single copies $4.00, except Lighting 

Equipment & Accessories Directory and Progress Report issues 

$10.00. Authorization to reproduce articles for internal or personal 

use by specific clients is granted by IES to libraries and other users 

registered with the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) Transactional 

Reporting Service, provided a fee of $2.00 per copy is paid directly 

to CCC, 21 Congress Street, Salem, MA 01970. IES fee code: 0360- 

6325/86 $2.00. This consent does not extend to other kinds of copying 

for purposes such as general distribution, advertising or promotion, 

creating new collective works, or resale. 

POSTMASTER: Send address changes to LD+A, 120 Wall Street, 

17th Floor, New York, NY 10005. Subscribers: For continuous service 

please notify LD+A of address changes at least six weeks in advance. 

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Canada Returns to be sent to Bleuchip International, P.O. Box 25542, 

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Inc. and Applied Science & Technology Index. LD+A is available 

on microfilm from Proquest Information and Learning, 

800-521-0600, Ann Arbor, MI 

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EDITORIAL 

No disrespect to the other 90-plus issues I’ve worked 

Publisher 




Associate Editor 


Assistant Editor 

Roslyn Lowe 

Art Director 

Samuel Fontanez 

Associate Art Director 

Petra Domingo 

Columnists 

Edward Bartholomew • James Brodrick 

Mark Lien • Eunice Noell-Waggoner 

Don Peifer • Paul Pompeo 

Willard Warren 

Marketing Manager 

Clayton Gordon 

Advertising Coordinator 


Published by IES 


New York, NY 10005-4001 

Phone: 212-248-5000 

Fax: 212-248-5017/18 

Website: www.ies.org 

Email: ies@ies.org 

Vol.40/No.12 

on since becoming editor of LD+A, but for sheer fun, this one ranks near the top 

(right up there with the IES Centennial issue in January 2006). 

The theme of this issue is “Future Leaders: The Next Generation of Lighting 

Luminaries.” The idea for it grew out of an association publishing conference 

where editors of other society publications discussed various special “one-off” 

issues they’ve produced over the years. Soon after, we ran the idea by a few 

IES members—Kim Mercier, Kevin Flynn and Robert Davis, among others— 

who have taken a particular interest in mentoring and growing the ranks of our 

young professionals. 

As for methodology, LD+A rejected the “30 under 30” format found in many 

magazines for two reasons: it didn’t seem fair to exclude a contender based on 

age; and more importantly, many people come to lighting (or at least begin to 

specialize in it) later in their careers. With that, we narrowed our focus to those 

with about five years experience in the lighting industry (some have a bit more, 

some a little less). Much more important than rigid age/experience parameters 

were their achievements to date and their potential as future thought leaders. 

We met some talented, interesting and ambitious people—25 in all representing 

all niches of the profession—during this process. One hopes to revolutionize 

the traditional method of product procurement in the industry; another is 

developing a new coating for white LEDs that would make them markedly more 

efficient; one Ph.D. student is recruiting would-be lighting professionals in the 

nation’s high schools, while another academic might someday start his own 

university lighting program. Several others are gifted designers with an eye on 

marketing, management or running their own firms in the future. Finally, one is 

extremely specific: he hopes to be president of the IALD. 

We hope you enjoy reading their stories as much as we enjoyed telling them. 

PAUL TARRICONE 



LD+A is a magazine for professionals involved in the art, science, 

study, manufacture, teaching, and implementation of lighting. LD+A 

is designed to enhance and improve the practice of lighting. Every 

issue of LD+A includes feature articles on design projects, technical 

articles on the science of illumination, new product developments, 

industry trends, news of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North 

America, and vital information about the illuminating profession. 

Statements and opinions expressed in articles and editorials in LD+A 

are the expressions of contributors and do not necessarily represent 

the policies or opinions of the Illuminating Engineering Society of 

North America. Advertisements appearing in this publication are the 

sole responsibility of the advertiser. 

LD+A (ISSN 0360-6325) is published monthly in the United States of 

America by the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, 

120 Wall Street, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10005, 212-248-5000. 

Copyright 2010 by the Illuminating Engineering Society of North 

America. Periodicals postage paid at New York, NY 10005 and 

additional mailing offices. Nonmember subscriptions $44.00 per year. 

Additional $15.00 postage for subscriptions outside the United States. 

Member subscriptions $32.00 (not deductible from annual dues). 

Additional subscriptions $44.00. Single copies $4.00, except Lighting 

Equipment & Accessories Directory and Progress Report issues 

$10.00. Authorization to reproduce articles for internal or personal 

use by specific clients is granted by IES to libraries and other users 

registered with the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) Transactional 

Reporting Service, provided a fee of $2.00 per copy is paid directly 

to CCC, 21 Congress Street, Salem, MA 01970. IES fee code: 0360- 

6325/86 $2.00. This consent does not extend to other kinds of copying 

for purposes such as general distribution, advertising or promotion, 

creating new collective works, or resale. 

POSTMASTER: Send address changes to LD+A, 120 Wall Street, 

17th Floor, New York, NY 10005. Subscribers: For continuous service 

please notify LD+A of address changes at least six weeks in advance. 

Canada Post: Publications Mail Agreement #40612608 

Canada Returns to be sent to Bleuchip International, P.O. Box 25542, 

London, ON N6C 6B2. 

This publication is indexed regularly by Engineering Index, 

Inc. and Applied Science & Technology Index. LD+A is available 

on microfilm from Proquest Information and Learning, 

800-521-0600, Ann Arbor, MI 

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LETTERS 

Power to the People 

The article by Greg Guarnaccia 

regarding the continuing reduction 

of lighting power density without 

regard to people (“The Code Word 

is People,” LD+A, October) is dead 

on. It’s about like mandating that 

all big cities get rid of cooling (to 

save power) and everyone run 

around naked! Ok, maybe not—but 

it’s about as ridiculous. Thanks for 

making a stand. 

Greg Pride, PE 

HGE, Inc. 

Coos Bay, OR 

Did you ever have a dream where 

you were standing in the middle 

of the road, a bus is coming at 

you, and you can’t get out of the 

way That’s what it feels like as 

I read LD+A month after month. 

Greg Guarnaccia’s article and the 

“President’s Perspective” in the 

October issue, Willard Warren’s 

thoughtful monthly column, and a 

host of eloquent writings from other 

concerned practitioners all point to 

the same thing: we’re watching as 

our watts are taken away. 

The bus is AARP and The 

Americans with Disabilities Act who 

(we predict) in the coming years 

will enact the full body slam of litigation 

for the under-illumination of 

spaces for the visually handicapped 

(that would be everyone over 50). 

Building owners spend millions of 

dollars each year on ADA-compliant 

improvements and enhancements, 

even if the ramps, handrails and 

large toilet stalls are never used. 

Everything costs more to comply 

with ADA, but not lighting. We’ve 

been championing the cause of 

lighting for the growing population 

over 50. New research results 

published by the America Society 

of Photobiology also supports the 

central point of more (and better) 

light for people. Now we have 90.1- 

2010 to look forward to. To make 

matters worse, the IES continues to 

base minimum recommended light 

levels on the visual needs of 30-year 

olds which starts the conversation 

behind the curve. 

Here’s what I wrote when I woke 

up from my nightmare: “We design 

lighting systems to meet current IES 

minimum light levels, and to comply 

with current ASHRAE/IESNA 90.1 

standards. This does not imply or 

represent that these light levels are 

appropriate for, or meet the needs 

of, persons over the age of 50 or the 

visually impaired.” There, I’m safe 

from my own practice. 

It’s a privilege to get up every 

day with the experience, knowledge 

and motivation to use light to create 

attractive, functional spaces for 

people. It would be refreshing if we 

didn’t have to do it with both hands 

tied behind our backs by the very 

PRESIDENT 

John Selander, LC, LEED AP 

Acuity Brands Lighting 

jselander@gothamlighting.com 

PAST PRESIDENT 

Fred Oberkircher, LC, FIES 

Texas Christian University (retired) 

VICE PRESIDENT 

(President-Elect) 

Denis Lavoie, PE, LC 

Philips-Lumec, Inc. 

TREASURER 

Chip Israel 

Lighting Design Alliance 

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT 


DIRECTORS 

Nick Bleeker 

Philips Day-Brite 

Jeffrey J. Davis, LC 

System Design Consultants 

Lisa Heschong 

Heschong Mahone Group 

Kevin Houser, Ph.D. 

The Pennsylvania State University 

Terrance Kilbourne, LC 

TEC, Inc. 

Mark Lien, LC, LEED AP 

Hubbell Lighting Inc. 

Eric Lind 

Lutron Electronics 

Peggy Sue Meehan 

Amerlux 

2010-2011 

Board of Directors 

Chad Watters, LC, LEED AP 

Lumia Light Studio 

David R. Woodward, Ph.D. 

Philips Lighting Company 

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LETTERS 

entities that are supposed to advocate 

and support good design. 

Hopefully, our final act (as you 

wrote) will be a legacy of lighting 

for human visual needs as we know 

them to be, not a bus accident. 

As Greg said, sustainable design 

begins with sustaining people. 

Bruce C. Dunlop, PLDA, IALD, LC 

Bruce Dunlop Lighting Design 

Lutherville, MD 

The DOE Defense 

The October issue of LD+A contained 

several references to DOE’s 

Solid-State Lighting program, 

which I would like to address. First, 

Dawn De Grazio’s letter to the 

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editor pointed out the illuminance 

requirements for the Walmart 

Leavenworth site (“Whole Lot of 

LEDs” June 2010) were not stated 

and it was therefore difficult to 

compare the 1000-W and 400-W 

PMH and LED options presented, 

each of which produced very different 

illuminance levels. Good point. 

The target illuminance level for the 

front drive was 1.50 footcandles 

(minimum) and for the main lot it 

was 0.75 fc (minimum), both with a 

max/min target uniformity of 10:1. 

Second, I want to address a misunderstanding 

evidenced in Alvin 

L. Hart’s letter regarding my statement 

in the August 2010 issue, which 

read: “We hope it will be clear to Mr. 

“Let there be light.” 

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Warren that calibrated illuminance 

meters of differing make/model may 

yield different results. . . .” Mr. Hart 

questioned how meters calibrated to 

traceable NIST standards could differ, 

the point of calibration being to 

yield comparable results. In general 

this is true, but meter calibration may 

or may not include spectral correction, 

cosine correction, or linearity, 

and these parameters may vary substantially 

between different make/ 

model illuminance meters. Some 

calibration labs only test for one light 

source, at one distance, and perpendicular 

to the face of the sensor. We 

recommend that readers check their 

calibration reports for these details. 

Also please see Robert E. Levin’s 

seminal Photometric Connection columns 

in LD+A, in which he notes, 

“Thus, a statement of traceability in 

itself is meaningless” (Nov, 1982). 

Finally, I’d like to respond to the 

“Energy Advisor” column, which 

takes as its starting point my 

August 13, 2010 Posting, a regular 

e-mail newsletter I use to communicate 

with the lighting and energy 

efficiency communities about SSL 

issues. Mr. Warren states, “The 

DOE claims that an LED is 10 times 

as efficient (efficacious) as an 

incandescent lamp. That’s true for 

the lamp itself, however, when you 

include the optical, driver and thermal 

losses, LEDs are only six times 

as efficacious as incandescents. . .” 

The passage Mr. Warren references 

is forward-looking, not a statement 

about current LED integral lamp 

efficacy: “With the promise of 

being 10 times more efficient than 

incandescent lighting, LEDs will 

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their homes and businesses.” This 

is consistent with performance 

projections (around 150 lumens 

per watt) for the year 2030, as estimated 

in the March 2010 DOE SSL 

Multi-Year Program Plan, and does 

indeed account for optical, driver 

and thermal losses. Incandescent 

efficacy varies, so LED integral 

lamps will be 10 times more efficacious 

than some incandescents by 

2020 (around 120 lumens per watt). 

Mr. Warren then provides a cost 

and savings example for converting 

magnetically ballasted T12 lamps 

to electronically ballasted T8 lamps 

and concludes DOE should provide 

rebates for T8 upgrades, strongly 

implying this would be a better 

investment than SSL. DOE agrees 

the T8 upgrade is a “no brainer.” In 

fact, we’ve been recommending it 

for nearly 20 years and we know the 

lighting industry, utilities, ESCOs 

and building owners are wellequipped 

to identify and implement 

this very straightforward measure 

without federal subsidies. 

James Brodrick 

U.S. Department of Energy 

Washington, D.C. 

Booed Off the Stage 

Absolutely fabulous article by 

Paul Pompeo about LeBron James 

and his exiting blunders (“Careers 

& Hiring,” LD+A, October). Point #4 

was right on the money, especially 

how he let down his employer and 

betrayed his teammates. He is certainly 

not going to find the same 

level of adulation in Miami, and 

I believe the Cavaliers are much 

better off without him. Too bad 

your article wasn’t printed in the 

Cleveland Plain Dealer. 

Tony Vespoli 

Ashtabula, OH 

Throwing Down the 

Gauntlet 

I would like to comment on the 

letter to the editor that appeared 

in the September issue of LD+A 

titled “Spectrally Enhanced Lighting 

Clarified” written by Dr. Sam 

Berman. Dr. Berman, as usual, has 

hit the nail on the head perfectly and 

is one of the few people that have 

conveyed the truth about the effect 

of SEL sources on the human eye. 

The problem is that Dr. Berman’s 

letter to the editor, albeit important, 

does not reach the masses in the 

lighting industry that have had their 

minds polluted by people that have 

taken his and other people’s research 

and skewed it to their agenda. I ask 

the editor of LD+A, Mr. Tarricone, 

to arm-twist Dr. Berman to write an 

article to be presented in LD+A as 

a feature article so the truth can be 

properly presented and debated. 

Correction 

Ed Morel 

Schaumburg, IL 

IES Roadway Lighting 

Committee 

The quote at the conclusion 

of Edward Bartholomew’s 

“Education” column on mentoring 

in LD+A September should have 

been attributed to James Highgate 

of The Lighting Group, Las Vegas. 

LD+A regrets the error. 

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OLEDs Are Coming 

to America 

While other U.S. towns are still reeling from 

the recession, Canandaigua, NY, is getting 

some relief. It has been selected as the site for 

the America’s first pilot manufacturing facility 

The first U.S. OLED 

plant will open in for organic light-emitting diode (OLED) lighting 

panels. A partnership between the U.S. 

New York. 

Department of Energy (DOE), the Universal Display Corporation (UDC), 

Moser Baer Technologies, Inc. (MBT) and New York’s Smart System 

Technology & Commercialization Center (STC), the pilot facility will 

demonstrate the scalability of UDC’s phosphorescent OLED technology 

and materials for the manufacture of white OLED lighting panels that 

meet commercial lighting targets. 

The 140,000-sq ft facility will be designed, built and operated by 

Moser Baer and will produce more than 1,000 panels per day. The project 

is funded by a $4 million American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 

(ARRA) grant, an $11.5 million investment from MBT, state government 

incentives available through the STC and municipal tax credits. 

“The idea behind the Canandaigua project is to facilitate the growth 

of the embryonic OLED lighting industry by providing prototype 

lighting panels to U.S. luminaire manufacturers to incorporate into 

products, in order to facilitate testing of design and to gauge customer 

acceptance,” says DOE lighting program manager James Brodrick. The 

new facility should also “help bring down OLED manufacturing costs 

by developing efficient mass-production technology.” 

The facility is expected to create more than 50 high-tech jobs in 

Canandaigua by 2012. “We hear a lot these days about the decline of 

U.S. manufacturing, but this story gives us some much-needed good 

news in that regard,” says Brodrick. “The relationship between the four 

players involved illustrates how government-industry collaboration can 

lead to the creation of a new industry and high-tech jobs in America.” 

Texas Campus 

Invests 

in Green 

Upgrades 

Texans are known for living large, 

but the University of North Texas 

(UNT) in Denton, TX, is hoping to 

reverse the trend by minimizing its 

carbon footprint. UNT recently awarded 

a $42.4 million performance contracting 

project to Schneider Electric 

to improve energy efficiency, operations, 

reliability and comfort in 5.4 

million sq ft of its facilities. 

Schneider Electric will implement 

numerous energy conservation 

measures, including lighting control 

through motion sensors, electrical 

power quality upgrades, electronic 

building automation and various 

HVAC upgrades. 

The contract also includes the creation 

of a campus energy-tracking 

effort accomplished through extensive 

submetering of buildings. Energy 

usage data will be made visible on 

the Internet enabling the university to 

be proactive in managing usage on 

campus in a real-time environment 

and driving energy awareness among 

faculty and students. 

Turn on the Southern Charm 

Each year, Southern Living readers get a taste of the latest residential trends from the 

magazine’s Idea Houses—homes designed and decorated by local firms to foster design 

inspiration. Built in Senoia, GA, this year’s 3,700-sq ft, 3.5-story Idea House in may evoke the 

historical architecture of Savannah and Charleston, but its lighting is wholly modern thanks to 

LED luminaires. Used in the kitchen, bathrooms and bedrooms LED downlights (from Cooper 

Lighting) consume less than 15 watts each, but deliver between 511-945 lumens. 

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GE Spawns 

Hybrid Lamp 

What do you get when you cross 

an incandescent bulb with a CFL GE’s 

new hybrid lamp. Debuting in 2011, 

the new hybrid halogen-CFL contains 

a halogen capsule inside a CFL that 

is, in turn, encased in an incandescent-shaped 

bulb. The halogen capsule 

comes on instantly and shuts off 

once the CFL comes to full brightness. 

Engineered to operate with only 1 mg 

of mercury, the lamps will be RoHS 

compliant with an expected 8,000- 

hour lifetime. The 15-W and 20-W 

lamps will be first to launch. 

DOE Absorbs 

Cree LED City 

Participants in Cree’s LED City 

program will join forces with DOE’s 

Municipal Solid-State Street Lighting 

Consortium. The Consortium will 

assume the functions of the LED 

City program and will continue to 

provide a forum where municipalities 

in the process of evaluating SSL 

technologies can get information, 

discuss best practices and share lessons 

learned. Formed earlier this 

year, DOE’s SSL Street Lighting 

Consortium has nearly 400 members 

in 48 states, five Canadian provinces 

and four other countries. 

Mixed Results for CALiPER 

Round 11 

Citing good news and bad, the U.S. Department of Energy released 

its “Round 11 Summary Report” for the CALiPER testing program in late 

October. CALiPER tests a wide range of solid-state lighting products that are 

available on the market, and for benchmarking purposes compares them 

with similar products that use traditional light sources. The results of each 

round of testing are highlighted in a Summary Report. 

CALiPER Round 11 was conducted from March to September of this year 

and looked at 31 LED lighting products in five applications: linear replacement 

lamps, arm-mounted roadway luminaries, post-top roadway luminaries, 

high-bay luminaires and small replacement lamps. “Overall, there were 

some encouraging findings,” says DOE lighting program manager, James 

Brodrick. “For example, we saw a continuation of the steady increase in 

average overall efficacy over previous rounds. And although many products 

continue to carry misleading equivalency claims and inaccurate performance 

metrics, performance claims for a number of products were found 

to be accurate—especially for those products carrying the Lighting Facts 

label.” 

For LED linear replacement lamps, the good news, reports DOE, is that 

they’re getting better, especially in terms of efficacy, but the bad news is that 

they still have some major performance issues in the areas of light distribution, 

color quality and reliability. Still, using a troffer equipped with two SSL 

lamps to replace a single-lamp fluorescent troffer in situations where lower 

light levels are needed, or where other SSL characteristics provide an advantage, 

may now be viable in some cases—even though at this point in time 

LED linear replacement lamps will probably not be the most cost-effective 

or reliable option. 

Likewise, the roadway luminaire results were “a mixed bag.” Both the armmounted 

and the post-top luminaires showed a wide range in performance, 

although there was significant improvement on average over earlier rounds. 

Half of the SSL outdoor luminaires achieved light output and efficacy levels 

that matched or exceeded those of their benchmark counterparts, but most of 

those tested exhibited substantial variations in color characteristics, as compared 

to their rated CCT. 

A Summary Report containing the results from Round 11 testing is now 

available for download on the DOE SSL website at www.ssl.energy.gov/ 

reports.html. 

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LRC Specifier Report 

NLPIP Study Questions Effectiveness of 

LED and Induction Streetlights 

LED and induction streetlights may be popular alternatives 

to traditional high-pressure sodium (HPS) streetlights, 

but they may not be better options. According 

to a new study from The National Lighting Product 

Information Program (NLPIP) at Rensselaer Polytechnic 

Institute’s Lighting Research Center, it may take more 

LED and induction streetlights than HPS streetlights to 

meet necessary design criteria. 

In the study, NLPIP performed photometric 

evaluations of 14 streetlights 

that used either HPS, pulse-start metal 

halide (PSMH), induction lamps or LED 

modules. It analyzed the streetlights for 

light output and distribution, energy use, 

spectral effects on visual performance, 

discomfort glare, and economic factors. 

The streetlights were evaluated as part 

of installations that meet the lighting criteria 

as defined in the American National 

Standard Practice for Roadway Lighting, ANSI/IESNA 

RP-8-00 (R2005), for a simulated one-mile stretch of collector 

roadway (a road servicing traffic between local 

and major roadways). 

The NLPIP found that if LED or induction streetlights 

replaced the pole-mounted HPS streetlights, it would take 

twice as many of the streetlights to meet the lighting criteria 

as defined in RP-8-00. Additional findings included: 

• On average, the LED streetlights and the induction 

streetlight could be spaced only about one-half the 

distance of the HPS and PSMH streetlights and still 

meet the RP-8 lighting criteria. If an HPS or PSMH 

streetlight system just meeting RP-8 is replaced with 

the LED or induction streetlights tested in this report 

on a one-for-one basis, the streetlight system will 

not meet RP-8. 

• The life-cycle cost per mile is dominated by the initial 

and installation cost of the poles, not the initial cost 

of streetlights or any potential energy or 

maintenance cost savings. Because of the 

narrower pole spacing required to meet 

RP-8, the life-cycle cost of the LED streetlights 

tested for this study is up to twice that 

of the HPS and PSMH streetlights tested. 

However the study acknowledges that: 

• On average, the LED streetlights require 

between 1 percent and 10 percent less 

power per mile than the HPS streetlights 

tested in staggered and single-sided layouts, 

respectively. On average, the LED 

streetlights require between 8 percent and 24 percent 

less power than the PSMH streetlight tested in singlesided 

and staggered layouts, respectively. 

• At the illuminance levels typical of collector roadways, 

power requirements for “white light” sources 

are 3 percent to 19 percent lower than HPS sources 

based on models of mesopic photometry. 

The NLPIP’s finding were published in a Specifier 

Report, which is available online at www.lrc.rpi.edu/ 

nlpip/publications.asp. 

NALMCO Certification 

More Letters in the Alphabet Soup 

Move over LEED, the newest sustainable certification program is all about lighting. The interNational Association 

of Lighting Management Companies (NALMCO) has announced its new certification—Certified Sustainable Lighting 

Consultant (CSLC)—the industry’s first “sustainability certification” for lighting professionals. The certification can be 

earned through an exam that tests 10 areas of knowledge, touching on such topics as materials, recycling, transportation, 

light pollution, manufacturing and other environmental impacts. Only individuals who are already Certified 

Lighting Management Consultants, another NALMCO certification, are eligible to take the exam. 

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energy 

BY WILLARD L. WARREN A D V I S O R 

November’s column 

described the disconnect 

between 

manufacturers, who 

produce high CRI (Color Rendering 

Index) LEDs, and lighting designers, 

who complain about the color 

rendering and color consistency 

of white LEDs. In edisonreport.net, 

Marcel van der Steen with Olino.org 

explains that CRI was adopted by the 

CIE, a 39-country lighting organization, 

to establish a 0 to 100 grading 

system for color valuing. Eight matte 

swatches of various colors are illuminated 

by a 5,000K full-spectrum 

source and then scored, compared 

to a test source. The scores are averaged 

and Van der Steen points out 

eight colors aren’t enough for a true 

comparison. By averaging, one color 

might match perfectly while another 

misses, so while the average may be 

high, some colors may be way off. 

His solution is for the CIE to develop 

a new CRI test that overcomes this 

deficiency. It’s like the great Groucho 

Marx’s “con” line: “Who do you 

believe, me or your eyes” 

My August LD+A “Letter to 

the Editor” referred to the U.S. 

Department of Energy (DOE) 

Gateway study of roadway lighting, 

comparing LED luminaires to HPS 

cobra heads, as being misleading. 

In September, the National 

Lighting Products Information 

Program (NLPIP), administered by 

the Lighting Research Center (LRC) 

at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 

published “Specifier Reports: 

Streetlights for Collector Roads,” 

which stated: “Recently there have 

been many LED street lighting demonstrations 

(for example see the 

U.S. DOE Gateway program). Some 

of these demonstrations present 

incomplete and potentially misleading 

comparisons with incumbent 

technologies. A complete comparison 

should demonstrate the system’s 

performance compared to 

alternative technologies that meet 

all of the required performance criteria. 

Evaluations should be measured 

or simulated excluding ambient light 

and should include . . . full system 

costs.” 

On October 6, The Pacific 

Northwest National Laboratory 

(PNNL), which administers the 

Gateway project for its major client, 

the U.S. DOE, responded to the LRC 

report: “Regardless of whether or not 

[the accusations of inaccuracy] was 

the intent of the text, we request that 

the LRC consider revising the text to 

either remove the apparent accusation, 

or to clarify the real issues. If 

the LRC takes issue with particular 

aspects of particular Gateway reports, 

we would welcome your professional 

input in the form of direct correspondence. 

Please note that while the 

Energy Policy Act of 2005 mandates 

the DOE to accelerate SSL (solidstate 

lighting) technology, we do 

advise end users to consider another 

technology when it is immediately 

clear that LED is not a good fit for 

a given application. (You don’t see 

Gateway reports for these projects 

because once a decision is made to 

use another technology in lieu of SSL, 

our team is removed from the project.) 

We request in the interest of continued 

good relations between your 

program and ours, the LRC will consider 

revising this text appropriately. 

‘Many LED street lighting demonstrations 

present incomplete and potentially 

misleading comparisons with incumbent 

technologies’ NLPIP report 

Please . . . let us know if and when you 

will be making any changes.” 

THE LRC RESPONSE 

On October 13, the LRC responded 

to the PNNL as follows: “The NLPIP 

believes that the Gateway program 

has not provided neutral comparisons 

between streetlights with LEDs 

and other light sources. Examples 

might not have been selected randomly 

and may not be compared to 

other technologies that could deliver 

better performance or cost.” 

These were the specific objections 

enumerated by NLPIP: 

• In some installations, the average 

illumination provided by the 

new LED system was about half 

that provided by the HPS system 

it replaced. If a lower illuminance 

level is acceptable in a particular 

area, then this could also be 

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achieved by re-ballasting and relamping 

the existing luminaires 

to a lower power level, but these 

cases are not examined for energy 

and economic effects. 

• One Gateway report did not 

compare LED luminaires against 

HPS sources, which are the most 

commonly installed outdoor 

area luminaires and which NLPIP 

found most cost effective for collector 

roads from the models 

tested. 

• The studies fail to separately 

measure or adjust for ambient 

light levels. 

• For collector roads, the LED luminaires 

studied required a narrower 

pole spacing to meet (IES/ 

ANSI) RP-8 (Roadway Lighting) 

than did other lighting technologies, 

and this significantly affected 

their cost effectivness. 

• One report on maintenance presumably 

includes re-ballasting 

and cleaning for the previously 

installed system, but assumes 

no maintenance costs for an LED 

luminaire, even though there is 

no evidence LED drivers will outlast 

HID ballasts. 

• One LED installation with vacancy 

sensors is compared to an 

HID system without a motion 

sensor even though it is possible 

to dim HID sources. 

• In some cases the selected 

luminaires overlighted or underlighted 

the sites relative to the 

performance criteria. 

• One report showed a max-tomin 

illuminance ratio for the LED 

luminaire that is not consistent 

with the data presented and the 

price of the LED unit in the text 

is different from the price in the 

payback analysis, leading to a 

different economic result for the 

non-LED system. 

NLPIP has faith that LED systems 

will play an important role in the 

future of lighting, but strives to 

help “prevent backlash and permanent 

barriers for new technologies.” 

NLPIP also identifies “shortcomings 

of products, which has led to an 

industry response resulting in new 

and better products, and debunks 

non-performing products like power 

reducers, polarizing panels and 

specular reflectors, which resulted 

in their decreased market share.” 

THE VIRTUE OF PEER REVIEW 

The DOE is now being challenged 

by the independent LRC as to whether 

their Gateway reports are unbiased 

engineering studies or are only 

being used to “accelerate SSL technology.” 

This is the virtue of “peer 

review.” In order for the IES, or any 

technical organization to be considered 

relevant, it must engage in peer 

review. The IES is very careful to have 

every Recommended Practice (RPs), 

Measurement, Testing, Calculations 

(LMs) the IES Lighting Handbook, 

and its published reports, thoroughly 

vetted by experts to maintain its 

guarded reputation for relevance 

and accuracy. And LD+A continues 

to print “Letters to the Editor,” even 

when they criticize this columnist. 

Willard L. Warren, PE, Fellow 

IES, is principal of Willard L. 

Warren Associates, a consulting 

firm serving industry, government 

and utility clients in lighting 

and energy conservation. 

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LED WATCH 

The Standards Wave 

BY JAMES BRODRICK 

Rolls On 

At the movies, we get so caught 

up in the on-screen action that we 

seldom think about all the months of 

behind-the-scenes work that made 

our two hours of cinematic enjoyment 

possible—much less about the 

army of people who patiently and 

painstakingly carried out that work. 

Not just the producer, director and 

screenwriter, but also those unsung 

heroes—from the art director, to 

the set designer to the gaffer—who 

played far less glamorous roles. 

So it is with a technology like solid-state 

lighting (SSL). Most people 

focus only on the “wow factor” of the 

end product, without considering all 

the little things that lie behind it. One 

of the most important of those “little 

things” is standards, which play a 

huge role in the development of any 

technology. Without standards and 

test methods to consistently characterize 

product performance and 

assure safety, an “anything-goes” 

mentality could create widespread 

confusion and make things difficult 

for manufacturers, consumers and 

specifiers alike. 

And that’s just what happened 

in the early years of SSL, which 

were likened more than once to the 

Wild West. But recent progress in 

standards development has brought 

a semblance of law and order to 

Dodge City, thanks to the coordinated 

efforts of such organizations as 

the IES, NEMA, American National 

Standards Lighting Group (ANSLG), 

American National Standards 

Institute, National Institute of 

Standards and Technology (NIST), 

Underwriters Laboratories, International 

Electrotechnical Commission, 

International Commission on 

Illumination (CIE) and Canadian 

Standards Association. 

These groups have helped develop 

standards that have already 

addressed many key aspects of 

SSL—from nomenclature, to chromaticity 

and performance specifications, 

to power supply and safety. 

Two of the most important of these 

standards have come from IES: LM-79 

specifies a standard test method for 

measuring the photometric and electrical 

properties of SSL devices in 

order to compare light output and calculate 

luminaire efficacy, while LM-80 

lays out procedures for measuring 

lumen degradation over time, a key 

component of reliability and lifetime. 

Both are up for their regularly scheduled 

two-year reviews, with committees 

already formed and well-armed 

with lists of newly surfaced issues 

that may need to be addressed by 

updates that enable the standards 

to keep pace with a rapidly evolving 

technology. 

TWO ON THE WAY 

Two related standards from 

NEMA, which have been in development, 

are nearing publication. SSL-1, 

“Electronic Drivers for LED Devices, 

Arrays, or Systems,” is in the balloting 

stage and is expected to be published 

by the end of the year. A logical 

sequel to LM-79, which looks at lamp 

performance, SSL-1 focuses on the 

driver, which many feel is the weakest 

link in the SSL luminaire chain. 

The idea is to create some standards 

around drivers so that they live up to 

the same lifetime claims as the LEDs. 

What good are LEDs that last for 

50,000-plus hours, if they depend on 

a driver that lasts only 30,000 hours 

About as good as the proverbial cow 

that yields the sweetest milk in town 

but has an unfortunate habit of kicking 

the pail over. 

SSL-6, “Solid State Lighting 

for Incandescent Replacement- 

Dimming,” looks at another issue 

that’s been getting quite a bit of 

attention lately, namely, controllability. 

Many people assume that all 

LEDs are easily dimmable, but in 

fact that only holds true if the LED 

has an electronic driver with dimming 

capability and the driver is 

compatible with the chosen dimming 

control. SSL-6 provides interface 

recommendations for dimming 

control of integrated LED lamps 

intended to replace general service 

incandescent products. Like SSL-1, 

SSL-6 is in the balloting stage and 

should be published by year’s end, 

after which NEMA plans to initiate 

additional dimming standards. Both 

standards—SSL-1 and SSL-6—have 

been long-awaited and are sure to 

make a big difference when they’re 

published, because they’ll be filling 

what amounts to a huge void. 

THE QUESTION OF LIFETIME 

Still another much-anticipated 

solid-state lighting document, which 

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will potentially make a significant 

impact on the industry when it’s 

published, is IES TM-21. Intended 

for use with LM-80 test data, it is 

expected to specify a method for 

estimating future lumen depreciation 

of LED packages and modules, 

which can then be used in determining 

the expected useful life of an 

LED product. This potential useful 

life of an LED package or module is 

only one aspect of total LED luminaire 

reliability—but it is a key one, 

and an especially tricky one as well. 

Color is an important issue for 

solid-state lighting, and in the 

September issue of LD+A, I wrote 

about the Color Quality Scale, a 

new metric developed by NIST to 

convey the color quality of lighting 

products more accurately than the 

widely used Color Rendering Index. 

In April of this year, NEMA published 

SSL-3, a standard that will 

have an impact on LED color quality. 

Entitled “High-Power White LED 

Binning for General Illumination,” 

it provides a way for chip manufacturers 

to bin their chips based 

on color, which will translate into 

more consistent color quality of 

LED lighting products. 

A couple of white papers that were 

published by NEMA a while back may 

also eventually result in standards, 

because the subjects they cover are 

very much on people’s minds. LSD- 

44 “Solid-State Lighting—The Need 

for a New Generation of Sockets 

and Interconnects,” and LSD-45 

“Recommendations for Solid-State 

Lighting Sub-Assembly Interfaces 

for Luminaires,” both deal with the 

key issue of replaceability. That is, 

they deal with the importance of creating 

a standard format for replacing 

individual LED arrays within a 

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high-performance solid-state lighting 

products from laboratory to market 

draws on key partnerships with the 

lighting industry, research community, 

standards organizations, energy-efficiency 

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esearch 

BY JENNIFER A. VEITCH 

M A T T E R S 

In a previous column (March 

2008), I wrote about laboratory 

experiments that showed 

the benefits of individual, personal 

control over lighting. These 

experiments showed that giving 

people the opportunity to choose 

their own local lighting levels 

enables them to create conditions 

closer to their personal preferences. 

Working in one’s preferred conditions 

leads to a more positive mood 

and to better satisfaction with lighting. 

In experiments supported by 

the Light Right Consortium (www. 

lightright.org), having individual 

control over lighting seemed to 

improve motivation over the workday; 

people without control showed 

a drop in motivation from morning 

to afternoon. Today, I can update 

you on our progress in studying 

these effects in the field. 

When writing the final report for 

the Light Right Albany experiments, 

the team concluded that laboratory 

investigations of the effects 

of light distribution and individual 

control had reached the end of their 

usefulness (Boyce, et al., 2006; 

Boyce, Veitch, Newsham, Myer, & 

Hunter, 2003). To demonstrate the 

overall organizational benefits of 

high-quality, energy-efficient lighting 

in offices would require a field 

study in a functioning work setting. 

Our team at NRC-IRC has now 

completed that study, with funding 

from the Light Right Consortium. 

The investigation was designed to 

achieve two objectives: 

1. To replicate the results of the 

Light Right Albany experiments in a 

functioning work setting. 

2. To extend the model developed 

from the Albany data to organizational 

effectiveness outcomes. 

RESEARCH DESIGN 

The project was designed around 

a linked mechanisms map (Figure 1). 

As in the Albany experiments, each 

concept in the linked mechanisms 

map had at least one associated 

measurement. 

The experimental design was a 

naturally occurring field experiment 

in an organization that has undertaken 

a major renovation of three office 

buildings, involving both furnishings 

and lighting. Individual floors in all 

buildings will be renovated in phases 

over several years. During the study 

period (May 2008-September 2009), 

both old (pre-renovation) and new 

(post-renovation) conditions existed 

in the buildings. The old lighting 

consisted of recessed paraboliclouvered 

luminaires (similar to the 

Base Case condition in the Albany 

experiment 1), and the new lighting 

consisted of workstation-specific, 

individually controllable, suspended, 

direct/indirect luminaires (similar 

to the Dimming Control condition 

in the Albany experiment 1). 

Furnishings also changed with the 

lighting (from teal (dark) to off-white 

(light)), except for four floors in one 

building that have had the new lighting 

for several years and that are 

keeping their medium grey panels. 

All of the buildings had large windows 

on all orientations. Figure 2 

shows examples of the old and new 

lighting and furnishings. 

All occupants of the three buildings 

were asked to complete an 

online questionnaire on three occasions 

during the study, in May-June 

2008, June 2009 and September 

2009. Each time, the questionnaire 

included questions and tasks to 

assess the individual-level concepts 

in the linked mechanisms 

map. Each measurement wave 

included a site visit by the research 

team, during which the physical 

conditions in selected locations 

were measured, with photometric 

measurements both by day and by 

night (electric lighting only). Some 

of the participants moved to newly 

renovated offices between the first 

and second measurement waves; 

others had already moved to new or 

newly renovated spaces before the 

first wave; and others did not experience 

any office design or lighting 

changes during the study period. 

As is evident from the photos, 

the three luminaire and furnishing 

combinations created markedly 

different visual conditions. (There 

were also three variations in the 

operation of the workstation-specific, 

direct-indirect luminaires, which 

resulted in different proportions of 

indirect illumination, but these were 

small in comparison to the difference 

between workstation-specific, 

direct-indirect lighting and recessed 

parabolic louvered luminaires.) 

All the measured locations met or 

exceeded IES recommendations for 

work-plane illuminance. The offices 

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RESEARCH MATTERS 

with workstation-specific luminaires 

had higher ceiling luminances than 

the parabolic-louvered luminaire 

spaces; those with high-reflectance 

furnishings also had higher vertical 

luminances in the field of view. 

QUESTIONNAIRE RESULTS 

The questionnaire revealed the 

following. Detailed results are available 

in the project report (Veitch, 

Newsham, Mancini, & Arsenault, 

2010, in press) on the Light Right 

(www.lightright.org) and NRC 

(www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca) websites. 

Workstation-specific lighting with 

individual control is the higher-quality 

lighting solution. Workstationspecific 

lighting with individual 

(personal) control was preferred 

over parabolic-louvered luminaires 

regardless of the surface reflectances 

of the furnishings. The workstationspecific 

luminaires were rated as providing 

lighting that was better than 

in other similar workplaces; the parabolic-louvered 

luminaires were seen 

as being the same as in other similar 

workplaces. In the most sensitive statistical 

tests, small effects were found 

for several outcomes. Pleasure, room 

attractiveness and illumination, lighting 

satisfaction, overall environmental 

satisfaction, job satisfaction, and 

organizational commitment were all 

higher for the people in offices with 

workstation-specific luminaires. The 

frequency and intensity of physical 

symptoms and the intent to turnover 

(voluntarily seek other employment) 

were all lower for the people 

in offices with workstation-specific 

Figure 1. Proposed conceptual model. The black lines indicate 

relationships observed in the Albany experiments. The blue lines 

are relationships derived from other research. 

Figure 2. Top: Old panels, 

old lighting. Middle: 

New panels, new lighting. 

Bottom: Older panels, new 

lighting. 



2008). As shown in Figure 4, better 

luminous conditions (which in this 

case meant individually controllable, 

workstation-specific lighting and 

high-reflectance panels, as opposed 

to parabolic-louvered luminaires, no 

individual control and dark panels), 

generally produced better appraisals, 

and these in turn indirectly related 

to reduced health problems and 

to reduced intent to turnover. 

Figure 3. Group means for the overall comparison between responses 

from people in workstations lit with parabolic-louvered luminaires 

(PARAB), compared to those with workstation-specific direct-indirect 

luminaires with individual control (WS-60U-C), all with low-reflectance, 

old furniture. All differences are statistically significant. 

Figure 4. Conceptual form of final structural equation model. 

luminaires. There were no effects 

that were contrary to the expected 

direction. Figure 3 shows some of the 

results in graphical format. 

Room surface reflectances influence 

lighting quality. Workstationspecific 

luminaires with individual 

control were more likely to be rated 

as being better than in other similar 

offices when the surface reflectances 

were high. The workstation was also 

judged to be more attractive and to 

be more highly illuminated, and to 

deliver a better workplace image. 

Luminous conditions matter to 

organizational productivity. We 

tested the overall linked mechanisms 

map using structural equation 

modeling. The best-fitting model 

was based on the Albany experiments’ 

linked mechanisms map 

(Veitch, Newsham, Boyce, & Jones, 

DISCUSSION 

This field investigation achieved 

both objectives. The basic findings 

from the Albany experiments were 

replicated, in that we obtained clear 

evidence that energy-efficient lighting 

can deliver good lighting quality 

that benefits occupants, when it 

provides: 

• Light distribution that lights all 

the room surfaces (i.e., a mix of 

direct and indirect lighting); 

• Room surfaces that contribute 

to the light distribution; and, 

• Individual control to accommodate 

different needs and desires. 

Moreover, we replicated the 

appraisal path from the Albany linked 

mechanisms map and extended it 

to include organizationally relevant 

outcomes. The best-fitting model 

links these luminous conditions to 

higher ratings of room appearance; 

more favourable mood; fewer health 

problems; higher environmental 

satisfaction; higher job satisfaction; 

higher organizational commitment; 

and, lower intent to turnover. If goodquality 

lighting only resulted in more 

attractive spaces, the chain of relationships 

would stop at room appearance. 

It did not: We have shown that 

lighting conditions in employee offic- 

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es affect organizational productivity 

through effects on employees. 

Other NRC research in the same 

host organization has demonstrated 

that the workstation-specific, directindirect 

luminaires with individual 

control, daylight harvesting and 

occupancy sensors can save 69 percent 

of the electricity used compared 

to a conventional grid of parabolic-louvered 

luminaires (Galasiu, 

Newsham, Suvagau, & Sander, 

2007). The evidence that these luminaires 

also deliver a higher-quality 

work environment, and furthermore 

that this environment is associated 

with fewer health problems and better 

employee retention, makes this 

lighting solution an excellent choice 

for individuals, their employers and 

the environment. 

REFERENCES 

Boyce, P. R., Veitch, J. A., Newsham, G. 

R., Jones, C. C., Heerwagen, J., Myer, M., et 

al. (2006). Lighting quality and office work: 

Two field simulation experiments. Lighting 

Research and Technology, 38(3), 191-223. 

Boyce, P. R., Veitch, J. A., Newsham, G. 

R., Myer, M., & Hunter, C. (2003). Lighting 

quality and office work: A field simulation 

study. (PNNL 14506). Richland, WA, USA: 

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory 

Retrieved from http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/ 

obj/irc/doc/pubs/b3214.1/B3214.1.pdf. 

Galasiu, A. D., Newsham, G. R., Suvagau, 

C., & Sander, D. M. (2007). Energy saving 

lighting control systems for open-plan 

offices: a field study. Leukos, 4(1), 7-29. 

Veitch, J. A., Newsham, G. R., Boyce, P. 

R., & Jones, C. C. (2008). Lighting appraisal, 

well-being, and performance in open-plan 

offices: A linked mechanisms approach. 

Lighting Research and Technology, 40(2), 

133-151. 

Veitch, J. A., Newsham, G. R., Mancini, 

S., & Arsenault, C. D. (2010, in press). 

Lighting and office renovation effects on 

employee and organizational well-being. 

(NRC-IRC B3230.1). Ottawa, ON: NRC 

Institute for Research in Construction. 

Jennifer A. Veitch, Ph.D., 

Fellow IESNA, is a senior 

research officer at the 

National Research Council Canada 

Institute for Research in Construction 

(NRC-IRC). She’s best known for her 

research on lighting quality, and her 

contributions to Chapter 10, Quality 

of the Visual Environment, in the 

IESNA Lighting Handbook (Ninth ed.), 

and more recently for research into 

environmental and job satisfaction 

in open-plan offices. She serves on 

the IES Lighting Criteria Committee 

and the Operations Advisory Board 

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EDUCATION 

Project CANDLE: 

A Virus that Cures 

BY EDWARD BARTHOLOMEW 

I have often thought of lighting 

as the accidental profession. Unlike 

architecture—with its established 

career arc that starts with an accredited 

college degree, a three-year 

training period and a rigorous test 

before you are allowed to practice— 

lighting is a relatively young profession, 

and for most of the last century 

it has been focused on the engineering 

of a single building system, electric 

lighting. Practitioners stumbled 

upon lighting from far and wide with 

the primarily routes being electrical 

engineering or theatrical lighting, but 

with no established path to practice. 

But today, there are a growing 

number of academic programs that 

allow students to study lighting, 

and even obtain undergraduate and 

graduate degrees in lighting. Yet 

most high-school students who are 

looking into colleges or searching 

for a college major are unaware of 

lighting as a field of study, or even 

as a career option. So where will 

the next generation of lighting professionals 

come from 

At the same time that the lighting 

industry is seeking a new pool 

of educated professionals, high 

schools are undergoing significant 

reforms to improve student performance 

and graduation rates. In 

today’s global economy, America’s 

ability to compete depends on its 

ability to prepare high-school graduates 

to be successful in an increasingly 

knowledge-based economy. 

However, the Manhattan Institute 

has estimated that only 34 percent of 

all students who entered ninth grade 

in 2002 were prepared for college 

when they graduated high school. 

Increasingly, studies show that aligning 

high-school coursework to college 

and workplace opportunities is 

a critical step toward giving students 

a solid foundation in the academic, 

social and workplace skills needed 

for success in college or a career. 

ONE SOLUTION 

An innovative program called 

Project CANDLE may be a part of 

the solution to both of these problems. 

Project CANDLE is a lighting 

industry-funded partnership 

to Create an Alliance to Nurture 

Design in Lighting Education. 

This program was first proposed 

for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln 

College of Engineering by principal 

investigator Prof. Kevin Houser, who 

received the 2007 IALD Education 

Trust Grant. When Kevin moved 

from Nebraska to Pennsylvania State 

University, this program evolved into 

a collaboration between Pennsylvania 

State University, the IALD Education 

Trust and various lighting industry 

partners. 

One of Project CANDLE’s main 

goals is to meet the ever-growing 

demand for educated lighting professionals 

by “priming the pump” 

with high school students who will 

eventually choose lighting as a 

degree in college and as a career. 

Project CANDLE uses undergraduate 

students, referred to as “student 

ambassadors,” to speak in highschool 

classrooms about light and 

lighting in a way that is directly connected 

to the subject of their classes. 

Undergraduate college students are 

perfect for connecting with highschool 

students because they are 

closer in age and able to relate to 

them. It also helps if the student 

ambassadors are recent graduates 

of the high school that they are visiting, 

thus providing a personal connection, 

but this is not a necessity. 

The key is to speak honestly and 

directly to the students by showing 

them how lighting directly relates to 

their academics and career options. 

As Mark Roush, the president of 

the IALD Education Trust, eloquently 

put it: “We are expecting these student 

ambassadors to be passionate 

spokespersons that infect [highschool] 

students with their passion. 

Their passion is like a virus designed 

to infect their audience and spread 

the infection to a future generation 

of lighting professionals.” 

I recently attended a two-day 

Project CANDLE workshop for student 

ambassadors and lighting 

educators at Penn State University 

hosted by Prof. Houser and coordinated 

by Ph.D. candidate Andrea 

Wilkerson. This workshop brought 

together faculty from five different 

lighting programs throughout 

the country including our host, 

representing Penn State; Liliana O. 

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EDUCATION 

Beltrán, associate professor from 

Texas A&M University; Clarence E. 

Waters, professor from University 

of Nebraska-Lincoln; Derek Porter, 

director of the Lighting Design program 

at Parsons the New School 

of Design; myself, representing the 

University of Washington; as well 

as IALD Education Trust president, 

Mark Roush. 

Each of the faculty brought two 

undergraduate students with them 

to participate in this workshop, the 

purpose of which was to put these 

student ambassadors through 

intensive training on how to create 

effective lighting presentations 

that communicate their passion for 

lighting while demonstrating lighting 

concepts that directly relate to 

the high school’s class work. 

One module was developed for 

a physics class, another was for a 

geometry class and a third was a general 

module covering architectural 

lighting. Lighting demonstration kits 

with various educational tools have 

been developed and distributed to 

support each of these college lighting 

programs in their efforts to reach out 

to high schools in their community. 

But what made this workshop so 

valuable was its emphasis on developing 

the presentation skills of these 

young student ambassadors. Says 

Parsons student ambassador Caitlin 

Brow, “The presentation and communication 

skills that I learned at the 

Project CANDLE workshop will help 

me with future presentations as a 

student and later in my career.” 

One of Project CANDLE’s main 

goals is to meet the ever-growing 

demand for educated lighting 

professionals by ‘priming the pump’ 

with high-school students who will 

eventually choose lighting as a degree 

in college and as a career 

WHO BENEFITS 

The outcome of this effort to 

inspire high-school students would 

be significant even if only a small percentage 

ultimately choose a career 

in lighting, because a greater percentage 

of students will have gained 

an increased awareness and appreciation 

for lighting. Any effort that 

raises public consciousness around 

lighting is beneficial for our industry. 

Another important outcome from 

the program will be to spur the next 

generation of lighting clients. Our 

profession, services and goods will 

never realize their real worth until 

the public is made aware of the value 

that well-designed quality lighting 

provides to the built environment. 

We need better educated and more 

enthusiastic clients who will appreciate 

the value of our expertise. 

Creating a strong academic path 

for the next generation of lighting 

professionals requires three things: 

inspired, hard-working students 

who are made aware of an academic 

path to lighting; college and 

university lighting programs that 

offer this structured path; and welltrained 

and supported lighting educators 

that provide guidance and 

knowledge through their programs 

while shepherding these students 

along this path. 

By making an impact earlier in 

the academic supply chain, we can 

guarantee lighting’s place as a valued 

proficiency, grounded in rigorous 

study and academic accomplishment. 

Lighting students can act as 

a virus that infects unexposed students 

with their passion to pursue, 

appreciate and value lighting. 

For more information regarding 

this program please visit: www. 

engr.psu.edu/candle or contact 

Kevin Houser at khouser@engr. 

psu.edu 

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LC, LEED AP, is a lighting 

designer and research 

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of the College of the Built 

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A Dealer Cashes In 

Car dealers are typically responsible for promoting rebates. But this fall, Agincourt Hyundai in 

Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, received a rebate of its own from its local utility. Hoping to boost sales 

and cut maintenance costs with the right lighting, the dealership installed LED luminaires from Cireon 

in the showroom, offices, service areas and customer lounge of its new facility. Months after the installation 

was complete, Ontario Power Authority toured the facility and was so impressed that it issued 

Agincourt a retroactive rebate. 

With help from TEC3 Innovations, an automobile dealership contracting firm, Agincourt determined 

that the best method of reducing energy and maintenance costs would be to outfit its new facility with 

LEDs. In the two showrooms—one for new cars and one for pre-owned vehicles—56 180-W LED highbay 

luminaires were used in place of the 400-W metal halide fixtures that the owner had used at its other 

dealerships. Each luminaire contains six modules of 

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increased control. Neutral-white LEDs with a 75-plus 

CRI were used to complement the colors and finishes 

of the cars. 

From an 18-ft mounting height, the luminaires deliver 

95-105 footcandles of 4,100K light on the car hoods. To 

maximize natural light from the expansive glass windows, 

the fixtures incorporate a linear dimming 

system. Unlike traditional photocells that power 

on after sunlight levels peak, the linear system 

begins to reduce current incrementally at the 

first sign of daylight. “They read the energy 

as it’s coming in, so they completely adjust to 

the light on the ground,” says Cireon general 

manager, Jim Dilbeck. “You can’t tell when the 

increment changes.” Dilbeck estimates that of 

the 18 hours the lights are on per day, they are 

AGINCOURT HYUNDAI, SCARBOROUGH, ONTARIO dimmed or turned off for eight hours. 

The Challenge: Provide ample light for sales and service LED luminaires also save energy in the 

tasks, while reducing energy and maintenance costs 

offices and service areas. In the conference 

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the showroom and service areas 

2-ft, 60-W luminaires with 48 LEDs each were 

used as an alternative to standard fluorescent troffers. The luminaires are 4,100K and deliver 55-65 

fc in most of the office spaces, and as much as 95 fc in the conference room. Since the service areas 

require substantial light for detailed car repair and maintenance, 30 5,700K LED high-bay luminaires 

were specified. “We wanted the area to be really bright, and higher color temperature light is perceived 

as brighter,” says Dilbeck. Here, the luminaires average 70 fc. In total, Cireon and TEC3 estimate that the 

LED luminaires use 31,000 watts less than traditional sources. 


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Photo courtesy of Spring City 

Technology Takes the Scenic Route 

Ambler, PA, is a small town with big-city aspirations. With help from engineering firm Gilmore 

and Associates, it recently installed 22 new decorative LED luminaires from Spring City Electrical 

Manufacturing along Race Street and joined Cree’s LED City initiative (now the DOE’s Municipal Solid- 

State Street Lighting Consortium). Though it had previously used high-pressure sodium lights for 

street lighting, the Borough of Ambler decided to move in a new direction after receiving funds from 

the county to revitalize its streetscape. 

The first order of business was determining how 

to make LEDs work for a decorative street-lighting 

application. Unlike cobra-head LED streetlights, decorative 

LED streetlights are less common. “Decorative 

applications are a completely different animal than 

cobra-head applications,” says Spring City vice president 

of sales and marketing, Chris Rosfelder. “You not 

only want to light a street efficiently, you also want to 

create the right aesthetic atmosphere.” 

Rather than forcing the technology to fit into its 

existing fixtures, Spring City modified its luminaires 

to meet the needs of the LEDs. The Borough luminaires 

installed on Race Street are equipped with 

thermal management technology that allows for longer 

life of the LED drivers and optical technology that 

utilizes a parabolic and elliptical reflector system. 

Fitted with 3,000K Cree LEDs, each luminaire uses 74 

watts, as opposed to the 150-W power draw of the 

HPS fixtures typically used by the borough. 

RACE STRET DECORATIVE STREETLIGHTS, 

AMBLER, PA 

The luminaires also maintain an historic aesthetic 

The Challenge: Add LED streetlights without appeal. “The goal was to incorporate LED technology 

comprising the historic aesthetic of the streetscape without compromising the aesthetics of our design,” 

The Solution: Decorative luminaires with roofmounted 

LEDs shield the light source 

says Rosfelder. “You don’t want a fixture that looks 

like it’s from 1910 or 1920, and then have visible LEDs 

that look like Christmas tree lights.” To shield the LEDs from view, they are mounted in the cast roof of 

the luminaires. “It’s a semi-cutoff, post-top application that prohibits the viewer from seeing multiple 

points of light,” says Rosfelder. 

Ambler’s new decorative LED luminaires are expected to save it 60 percent in energy costs and $15 

a year per fixture in maintenance costs, for approximately $100 in savings each year. 


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Borough of Ambler, PA as seen in LD+A’s Tools and Techniques Section

FUTURE LEADERS 


THE NEXT GENERATION 

OF LIGHTING LUMINARIES 

LD+A profiles 25 rising stars in the lighting profession 

To compile our list of “Future Leaders,” LD+A editors reached out 

to more than 50 lighting professionals representing all corners of 

the industry and asked that they submit nominations. LD+A also 

contacted IES leadership at the Section level, as well as IES members involved 

in both the IES Emerging Professionals and Young Professionals 

Scholarship programs, for their feedback. We asked each of these people 

to recommend those with approximately five years experience who are 

on the cusp of leadership positions (e.g., technical, management, educational) 

in the industry. 

LD+A then selected 25 of these professionals to be profiled on the pages 

that follow. These “future luminaries” come from all walks of life in 

the industry, including the design community, the supplier side (be it 

manufacturers, a rep agency and a distributor), and the research and 

academic communities. Their achievements, to date, are equally varied. 

Some have demonstrated uncommon design/project management expertise; 

some are at the forefront of new product development; while others 

are committed to bolstering lighting education. 

A final word: this list is by no means all-encompassing. It is simply a 

representative sample—we believe a good one—of the future thought leaders 

of the lighting industry. 



AVRAHAM MOR 

LIGHTSWITCH 

ARCHITECTURAL 

CHICAGO 

CAREER CAPSULE 

• IALD; LEED AP 

• Past-president IES 

Chicago Section 

• Key projects: Chicago 

Model City-Chicago 

Architecture Foundation; 

The Fairfield Hotel, 

Chicago; Joe’s Seafood 

Prime Steak and Stone 

Crab, Las Vegas; 

Polar Play Zone and the 

Oceanarium at the John G. 

Shedd Aquarium, Chicago 

Avraham (Avi) Mor logs more 

time on the road than the business 

traveler played by George 

Clooney in Up in the Air. When he’s 

not designing the lighting for Chicago’s 

famed Wit Hotel or for exhibits at The 

Field Museum, you’re likely to find 

Mor on the proverbial rubber-chicken 

circuit, speaking or participating as a 

panelist at various industry conferences 

(he’s made more than 20 such appearances 

in just the last few years). 

If he’s not speaking, he might be off 

judging new solid-state lighting products 

for the Department of Energy in 

its Next Generation Luminaires competition, 

or even appearing on national 

television—on Housesmarts TV—as an 

advocate for residential lighting design. 

(As it happens, Mor was in New York 

City, presenting at a SSL lighting conference 

when interviewed for this profile.) 

“When I started speaking, I was really 

looking to educate people and have them 

hire Lightswitch Architectural [where 

Mor is a partner]. Recently, I really just 

want people to hire an IALD lighting designer, 

hoping they hire us, but as long 

as an IALD designer is involved in the 

project I have done my job.” 

If all those speaking engagements were 

not enough, Mor has also found time to 

compete in the last two Chicago Triathlons. 

“I look at training for a triathlon as 

cross-training for my design business. 

The mental and physical training required 

to complete a triathlon helps me 

keep a sharp focus at work and reinforces 

my self-discipline and confidence,” says 

the University of Kansas graduate. The 

2009 triathlon coincided with a professional 

milestone—Mor’s acceptance as a 

Professional Member into the IALD at the 

tender age of 30. 

A FEW KIND WORDS: “Since the first 

time I met Avi six years ago, I have never 

ceased to be amazed by his thirst for 

knowledge, his passion for the environment 

and his unrelenting pursuit of excellence 

in the field of lighting design,” 

says John Featherstone, principal, Lightswitch 

Architectural. “Our relationship 

certainly started with a mentor-student 

foundation, but as the years have passed 

I have learned every bit as much from 

Avi as he has from me.” 

DOWN THE ROAD: Mor has some farflung 

goals for the future. “I hope to 

become the president of the IALD and 

hopefully a board member in the not 

too distant future. I hope to be an assistant 

designer for an Olympic Games 

Opening Ceremony. (I’m still sad that 

Chicago did not get the games.) I also 

would like to design a high school and 

sail around the world.” 


‘I have to say The Wit is one of my favorite projects. Everyone in Chicago 

knows about it. The project is one of the best reasons to hire a lighting 

designer, and I designed it’ 

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Some people grow up knowing 

their future careers. Others simply 

stumble into them. Rachel 

Eichorn is in the latter camp. In fact, she 

can chalk up her successful lighting design 

and project management career to 

a series of random coincidences and one 

giant mistake. 

The daughter of midwestern Mennonite 

dairy farmers, Eichorn “didn’t 

have tremendous exposure to the lighting 

industry. Honestly I didn’t even realize 

lighting designers existed until the 

end of high school,” she recalls. All that 

changed when she accepted a summer 

job at the Interlochen Center for the Arts 

in upstate Michigan. “I thought I would 

be moving stands and chairs for orchestras,” 

says Eichorn. “Instead I ended up 

on the production crew.” 

Eichorn’s introduction to stage lighting 

was rocky, to say the least. One night 

after a technician joked about taking a 

night off, Eichorn decided that she would 

run the lighting console for that night’s 

performance. “Mind you I had never 

even touched a lighting console before,” 

she remembers. “However, I proceeded 

to stalk the technician until he agreed to 

let me run the show.” What followed was 

“a disaster. We will skip the details, but 

let’s say it involved the following items: 

a grand finale, a brother juggling act, 

multiple sharp objects, a unicycle and an 

ill-timed blackout.” 

Afterwards, Eichorn was “completely 

mortified.” Rather than cutting her losses 

and setting her sights on a new career, 

Eichorn decided to redeem herself with 

a second try. “I begged and pleaded, and, 

finally, I was given permission to cue 

and mix the lighting for [singer] Shawn 

Colvin. That evening changed my life. 

I fell completely in love with sculpting 

with light.” Later, Eichorn “was given a 

choice: go to SUNY Purchase for Lighting 

Design or go to Western Michigan 

for Pre-Med. I made the choice to go after 

the career that if I hadn’t, I would have 

regretted for the rest of my life.” 

If Eichorn’s résumé is any indication, 

she made the right decision. Since leaving 

the midwest to move to the Big Apple, 

she has racked up scores of design credits 

lighting Broadway productions, highend 

residential and hospitality projects, 

such as the W Hotel, and nationwide retailers, 

like Victoria’s Secret. 

A FEW KIND WORDS: “From Rachel’s 

[job] interview, she has expressed that 

her goal is to be at the top of her career 

path. We discovered quickly that she 

has the talent and ambition to do so,” 

says Jackson Ning II, principal, Kugler 

Ning Lighting Design, Inc. “Rachel 

can speak with confidence about her 

craft, and she enjoys the interaction 

and engagement. These skills can’t be 

taught, and they give her an edge as a 

project manager and help clients gain 

her trust.” 

DOWN THE ROAD: Next up, Eichorn 

wants to master the latest lighting 

technology. “Our firm has made the 

forward leap towards using REVIT on 

projects, and I’m certified in 2010 MEP. 

My goals are to continue to utilize technology 

that assists with workflow and 

to streamline the extensive paperwork 

process that architecture demands so 

that there is more time to do what I really 

love to do: design.” 


RACHEL EICHORN 

KUGLER NING LIGHTING 

DESIGN, INC 

NEW YORK CITY 


• Key projects: Hamlet; the 

Cincinnati Ballet; Nobu 

hotel and residence, 

Israel; Princeton Club, 

New York City; St. Regis 

Resort, Bahia Beach, 

Puerto Rico; Victoria’s 

Secret prototypes; Maple 

Leaf Sports and Fine 

Dining restaurants, 

Toronto 

‘I’m in love 

with retail. I 

really enjoy the 

quick nine to 

12-month 

build-outs. 

They allow you 

enough time to 

collaborate with 

the design team 

but not dwell 

on it’ 



AMER MALEH 

CONTINENTAL LIGHTING 

NEW YORK CITY 


• LEED AP 

• IESNY 2005 Student 

Grant Design 

Competition-First Place 

• Key projects: One Island 

East offices, Hong Kong; 

Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis; 

Highline Hybrid 

Tower, New York City; 

Newtown Creek Plant, 

Brooklyn, NY 

‘There have 

been a couple 

of exciting 

moments, from 

managing a 

multi-use 

project in 

China to 

randomly 

meeting Ingo 

Maurer on a 

focusing job at 

3:00 a.m.’ 

Amer Maleh’s experience as a 

designer might not necessarily 

open doors with his new clients, 

but once inside, it does give him 

plenty of good talking points. 

Earlier this year, Maleh, the one-time 

lighting designer/project manager with 

the highly regarded firm L’Observatoire 

International, moved to the other side of 

the fence, in the role of lighting specifications 

consultant for Continental 

Lighting, a manufacturer’s representative. 

Even though he’s now in sales, 

Maleh still speaks the language of the 

discriminating designer. “Working as a 

lighting designer in a high-end firm like 

L’Observatoire, I reviewed a lot of different 

products and had representatives 

calling on me all the time,” says Maleh. “I 

was very nitpicky when it came to products 

and always had some kind of modifications 

or custom requests with very 

tight timelines. So in a sense, I embodied 

the most demanding client I would have 

in my position at CLSI today.” 

The desire to gain a broader view of 

the industry prompted Maleh’s transition 

to sales. “I realized that I’m more 

interested in getting a full understanding 

of the lighting business and wanted 

to get involved in the other side,” he 

says. “Being an industrial designer too, 

I’m interested in product manufacturing 

and sales.” 

Still, Maleh hasn’t completely let go of 

design. Since 2009, he’s operated a small 

firm, maleh.design, where he’s had the 

luxury to pick and choose among projects. 

“I’ve been working on some fun 

and diverse projects,” says Maleh, among 

which are several private residences in 

Manhattan, the Brooklyn Brewery in Williamsburg 

and one of the tallest buildings 

in Beirut. “For now, I plan on keeping a 

very small number of projects per year 

to which I can bring substantial added 

value and creativity. I have seen too many 

designers lose their passion as a result of 

stress and overloaded deadlines because 

of the number of projects they need to 

keep afloat. I am not interested in that.” 

This dual-track career path makes 

teaching a natural fit. Maleh is an instructor 

at the Parsons School of Design, 

where he earned his Master of Lighting 

Design in 2006; he also holds a Master of 

Industrial Design from the Pratt Institute. 

Whether it’s design, sales or teaching, 

they’re all complementary pieces 

of a larger puzzle. “Quite simply, I am 

in love with light,” Maleh says. “Like a 

kid, I am still fascinated by this ethereal, 

ephemeral source of life.” 

A FEW KIND WORDS: “Amer is a 

key addition to our agency,” says Jean 

Jacques vice president of sales for CLSI. 

“His education and experience in the 

fields of electrical engineering, industrial 

and lighting design provides his clients 

with a level of expertise that is somewhat 

unique in our marketplace. As the lighting 

technology and landscape evolves so 

too does our agency, and Amer is a key 

component in that evolution.” 

DOWN THE ROAD: Maleh foresees 

continued multi-front involvement in 

the industry. “Whether this relates to 

innovation in product design, creation 

of a new business model or introduction 

of new lighting concepts, I hope to 

elevate the general awareness of lighting 

and its impact on our living environments 

and our bodies.” 


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If the lighting profession were a highschool 

class, lighting designer Andrea 

Hauber would be voted “most 

likely to succeed.” An over-achiever 

(in the best sense of the word), Hauber 

currently serves on the Philadelphia 

IES Section Board of Managers, Social 

Committee and Lights of Philadelphia 

Conference Publicity Committee, and 

instructs a section of the IES Intermediate 

Lighting Course. 

To sharpen her technical skills, she 

has plunged head-first into the industry’s 

alphabet soup of accreditation— 

LEED AP, LC, E.I.T.—and has designed 

facility lighting for commercial heavyweights 

like DuPont, Pfizer and Shire, 

as well as for healthcare, education, 

government and hospitality clients. Perhaps 

most impressive, Hauber has accomplished 

all this only six years after 

graduating with a B.S. in Architectural 

Engineering from Penn State. 

Hauber found a perfect fit in lighting 

design because it allows her to use her 

“engineering mind for a creative career.” 

This ability to blend science and 

art has not gone unnoticed by KlingStubbins’ 

chief of lighting, Donald Gallegos, 

who notes: “There are lighting 

designers who pride themselves with 

technical knowledge of lighting and 

those who are artistic in their designs; 

Andrea provides both technical intellect 

and artistry in her designs.” 

A FEW KIND WORDS: “Andrea always 

has a ‘need-to-know’ mentality—she 

needs to know what the client 

is looking for and always maintains a 

need to know what the lighting industry 

has to offer,” says Gallegos. “With 

such ‘need-to-know’ motivation, Andrea 

provides a design that follows 

form, function and technology, which 

in turn creates an outstanding design. 

Andrea is expanding her lighting expertise, 

leaps and bounds, and we can 

expect to see some truly exciting lighting 

designs from her very soon.” 

DOWN THE ROAD: Hauber plans for 

an alphabet upgrade: “My current focus, 

in preparing for the future, is to convert 

the letters E.I.T. to P.E. in my accreditations,” 

she notes. Her additional goals include 

“increasing my client involvement, 

maximizing involvement in design and 

controls of the lighting specification, and 

creating each experience to be aesthetically 

pleasing and efficient. Outside the 

office, my goals are to continue traveling 

and reading, two activities which introduce 

me to new vantage points and technologies 

and inspire my designs.” 


ANDREA HAUBER 

KLINGSTUBBINS 

PHILADELPHIA 


• LC; LEED AP 

• Key projects: U.S. Army 

Corps of Engineers’ 

National Geospatial- 

Intelligence Agency in 

Fort Belvoir, VA; Parx 

Grill in Bensalem, PA; 

the W.E. Hunt Community 

Center in Holly 

Springs, NC; the ING 

Clarion Metro Park 6 

office building 

‘My most memorable moment was the first time a client said to me, “I trust 

your professional opinion” ’ 



ANDREA 

WILKERSON 

PENN STATE UNIVERSITY 

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA 


• Graduate teaching 

assistant and research 

assistant at UNL 

• Intern for SmithGroup, 

RTKL and Smith & 

Boucher Engineers 

• R.J. Besal Scholarship; 

IES Young Professionals 

Scholarship; Thomas M. 

Lemmons Scholarship 

‘Awards are 

nice, but 

meeting the 

namesake for 

the award is far 

better’ 

Andrea Wilkerson never planned 

to be a teacher. But after serving 

as an assistant teacher for an 

undergraduate lighting design course 

while completing her master’s degree 

at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln 

(UNL), she knew she’d found her future 

career. “I distinctly remember waking 

up very early one morning and not being 

able to go back to sleep because I began 

reflecting on my teaching experience at 

Nebraska, and I realized how blessed I 

was to get paid to do something I would 

have gladly done for free,” she recalls. 

Wilkerson is currently a Ph.D. candidate 

at Penn State, where she is pursing 

a degree in architectural engineering 

and looking forward to becoming a 

professor. In the meantime, she’s scouting 

out new lighting recruits through 

Penn State’s Project Candle (Create an 

Alliance to Nurture Design in Lighting 

Education) Outreach Ambassadors 

program, which introduces architectural 

lighting to high-school students 

across the nation. “Lighting education 

is important because of the multi-faceted 

nature of lighting,” says Wilkerson. 

“Light provides security, improves 

health, creates comfort and has the 

potential to improve lives. Few other 

fields provide so many diverse benefits, 

and lighting education is necessary to 

ensure that society reaps them.” 

Like any good teacher, Wilkerson 

will be there to support her students 

through good times and bad: “I have 

struggled and failed during my education, 

and the reason for my success is 

that I work hard and have a great support 

network. I want to make sure my 

students will know they are not alone 

in their struggles, failing is not the end 

of the world and it will all work out if 

they keep working hard.” 

A FEW KIND WORDS: IALD Education 

Trust president Mark Roush knew 

Wilkerson was one to watch when she 

received the IALD Future Lighting 

Educator Fellowship as part of Project 

Candle. But Roush realized that she 

was in it for the long haul when she 

joined him skydiving to raise money 

for the trust. “Given we have jumped 

from planes together, and now interacted 

through several roundtables and 

conference events, I am sure of her 

commitment to pursue lighting education,” 

notes Roush. “She will make a 

formidable professor, and one can only 

hope that a new institution will form 

an academic program wherein Andrea 

can become chair and continue the fine 

work of her mentors and colleagues.” 

DOWN THE ROAD: “My overarching 

goal is to have an academic job in a few 

years,” says Wilkerson. “I hope that the 

Project Candle Outreach Ambassadors 

program I am coordinating increases 

interest in the field of lighting in high 

schools around the country. I also hope 

to return to Rwanda, help improve the 

educational environment for its students, 

and begin to examine how lighting can 

positively impact Rwanda and other 

third-world countries.” 


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In Keith Graeber’s world, research 

results don’t sit on a shelf gathering 

dust. Applied research is the operative 

term. As director of engineering at the renowned 

California Lighting Technology 

Center, Graeber coordinates the technical 

development and implementation of 

CLTC research projects, which include 

electric lighting, daylighting and lighting 

controls technologies. 

Industry partnerships are the lifeblood 

of CLTC, and Graeber is CLTC’s go-to 

guy for managing those relationships. 

The tasks are varied: there’s recruitment 

of new partners; serving as a liaison 

between CLTC and industry; and coordinating 

the communication between 

contractors, manufacturers and end users 

during installation of new technologies. 

Graeber uses a colorful expression 

to describe the process: “shepherding 

technologies across the ‘valley of death.’ ” 

The final result of a CLTC-industry 

collaboration ranges from product design 

to test reports, educational curriculum, 

speaking engagements and 

industry match-making activities. But 

the emphasis is typically on application-based 

research. “Because of this, 

we have extensive experience with 

most lighting technologies and strategies 

that are already in the market or 

nearing marketplace readiness,” says 

Graeber. “Controls do make up a significant 

portion of our project portfolio 

as we believe they are far and away the 

lowest hanging fruit in terms of enabling 

kWh reduction.” 

A licensed P.E., Graeber is also one 

of the few individuals in the lighting 

industry with a background in mechanical 

engineering. “The P.E. was a 

professional goal I set for myself after 

graduating college,” he says. “Early 

in my career I had the opportunity to 

work under and with professionally licensed 

engineers. That combined with 

the nature of my work made it the ideal 

situation for me to obtain my license.” 

But he’s glad to have found a home 

in lighting. “I have two favorite things 

about the lighting industry. I like how 

the end product defines environments 

and how people interact with them. I 

also like the variety of challenges it offers, 

ranging from basic hardware and 

software development all the way to 

implementation and design strategies.” 

A FEW KIND WORDS: “Keith has 

grown into a key senior leadership position 

at CLTC. He has developed a broad 

‘lab-to-marketplace’ perspective that 

has allowed him to be highly successful 

when working with industry towards 

the commercialization of next-generation 

lighting technologies,” says CLTC 

director Michael Siminovitch. 

DOWN THE ROAD: Graeber expects to 

make his mark through the combination 

of information exchange and product 

development. “I hope to continue to 

contribute to the growing body of work 

surrounding lighting and energy efficiency 

in the manner that I am best 

suited—sharing ideas and information, 

designing and refining product or any 

other opportunity that comes my way.” 


KEITH GRAEBER 

CALIFORNIA LIGHTING 

TECHNOLOGY CENTER 

UC DAVIS 


• P.E.-mechanical 

engineering 

• Named on three patents 

• Presented at the 2010 

Strategies in Light and 

LIGHTFAIR conferences 

‘A highlight 

was the first 

time I walked 

into a building 

and realized 

the lighting was 

the product of 

a collaboration 

between 

industry and 

CLTC that 

started with 

a whiteboard 

sketch and 

culminated in 

a commercial 

product’ 



CHRISTY ROGERS 

EWINGCOLE 

PHILADELPHIA 


• P.E.; LC; LEED AP 

• Key projects: George 

Mason University 

Arlington Campus 

Academic Building; 

University of Connecticut 

campus projects; Saint 

Mary’s University and 

Saint Mary’s College 

of Maryland new 

academic building; 

Princeton Theological 

Seminary, Princeton, NJ 

Christy Rogers knows a thing or 

two about football. The Pittsburgh 

native and Penn State 

alumna is a die-hard Steelers fan and 

Nittany Lions season ticket holder. 

What’s more, as a lighting designer, 

electrical engineer and head of Ewing- 

Cole’s Sports and Entertainment Studio, 

she designed the lighting for the New 

Meadowlands Stadium—the most expensive 

and second-largest NFL stadium 

ever constructed—and the IES Illumination 

Merit Award-winning New York Giants 

Training Facility. As a “huge football 

fan, it was truly exciting to work on 

these projects from design conception 

through construction,” says Rogers. 

When she’s not cheering on her 

teams, Rogers can be found volunteering 

with the IES Philadelphia Section, 

where she is a board member and contributes 

to various educational initiatives 

like teaching Fundamentals of 

Lighting courses and helping coordinate 

the Section’s “Students Design 

with Light” competition. “My involvement 

with the IES provides opportunities 

to network with talented professionals 

and stay current in the latest 

developments in my field,” says Rogers. 

One of these new developments is 

daylighting, which Rogers studied in 

depth while working on a daylight 

harvesting study for the U.S. Congress 

Architect of the Capitol that covered 13 

million sq ft of space and 19 buildings, 

including the U.S. Capitol building, the 

Library of Congress, the Botanic Gardens 

and the Thurgood Marshall Federal 

Judiciary Building. 

Rogers recently had the opportunity 

to educate others when she spoke about 

her findings at LIGHTFAIR 2010. “We 

presented our recommended lighting 

and daylighting control upgrades, as 

well as the projected energy savings 

and payback results of select facilities,” 

she notes. 

A FEW KIND WORDS: “Christy is a 

talented lighting designer and engineer 

whom architects and interior designers 

enjoy working with,” says Mary 

Alcaraz, principal, EwingCole. “She is 

creative and puts her heart and soul 

into her work. Christy recently had a 

receptive audience at Lights of Philadelphia 

2010 while speaking on daylight 

harvesting.” 

DOWN THE ROAD: Football may always 

be a favorite, but Rogers hopes to diversify 

in the future: “I would like to expand 

my project portfolio within the entertainment 

and hospitality sectors and hopefully 

have an opportunity to work on 

iconic projects.” 


‘After working on the New Meadowlands Stadium and New York Giants 

Training Facility from start to finish over a four-year period, I had the 

opportunity to attend an NFL game and experience the final product’ 

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For Matt Alleman, “Counterpoint” 

was a true high point. Alleman 

and his SmithGroup colleague 

Chris Coulter took their “Counterpoint” 

design concept to Germany after 

reaching the finals of the Architectural 

Lighting Design Competition 2010. Specifically 

for young lighting designers, the 

contest was sponsored by Philips Lighting 

and the Professional Lighting Designers’ 

Association. Although it didn’t 

win, the Alleman-Coulter design was 

one of four finalists chosen from more 

than 175 international entries. 

The assignment was to design a 

lighting concept for the exterior of the 

“youth-centric” St. Peter’s Church in 

central Frankfurt. “The intent of our 

design was to reflect in the architectural 

envelope the fusion of historic and contemporary 

that exists within the church 

walls,” says Alleman. “In music, ‘counterpoint’ 

refers to the art of combining 

melodies. Symbolically, our goal for the 

lighting design was to express the counterpoint 

that exists within St. Peter’s 

Church. Metaphorically our aim was [to 

use lighting] to ‘fuse’ the young contemporary 

congregation and the historic architectural 

envelope.” 

As it happens, Alleman is serving 

youth in other ways. Though only five 

years removed from Penn State himself, 

Alleman has been active in Smith- 

Group’s recruiting and mentoring 

program. Firm principal and director 

of operations Jeff Gerwing says Alleman 

has “a natural ability to connect 

with students; he teaches them our approach 

to the design process, how to 

utilize the appropriate tools and how to 

navigate the challenges of real-world 

lighting design.” 

Young designers and interns would 

be hard-pressed to find a better training 

ground than SmithGroup. “One of the 

reasons I chose to work for SmithGroup 

was the variety of projects I would get 

exposed to. I can’t speak to the experience 

of working at a smaller lighting 

firm, but I have been fortunate to work 

on a wide range of projects at Smith- 

Group, varying not just in size but also 

in design challenge,” says Alleman. 

Those projects include a billion-dollar 

hospital, the flagship facility for the 

world’s only university for the deaf, the 

renovation of a historic Eero Saarinendesigned 

museum and a streetscape renovation 

for a historic suburb of Detroit. 

A FEW KIND WORDS: “Matt has made 

critical contributions to both our lighting 

design group and the industry through 

his active role in recruiting and mentoring,” 

says Gerwing. “He has been an 

ambassador for SmithGroup and has received 

fabulous feedback from our summer 

interns. Through his efforts, he is 

shaping many of those who will be the 

future of our profession.” 

DOWN THE ROAD: For Alleman, good 

design and good talent go hand-inhand. 

“Over the next few years I hope 

to continue to build SmithGroup both 

as a world-class lighting design firm 

and also as a hotbed for developing talented 

lighting designers.” 


MATT ALLEMAN 

SMITHGROUP, DETROIT 



• Outstanding Record of 

Study in Illumination 

(Penn State 2005) 

• IES Illumination Awards of 

Merit for the Christman 

Building, Lansing, MI, and 

a communications center 

at Gallaudet University, 

Washington, D.C. 

‘Being a 

finalist in the 

Architectural 

Lighting Design 

Competition 

was gratifying 

because the 

selection 

committee was 

composed of 

lighting design 

professionals I 

greatly admire’ 



MEGAN CHRISTEN 

COOPER LIGHTING 

PEACHTREE CITY, GA 


• Robert Besal Scholarship; 

Jonas Bellovin Scholar 

Achievement Award 

• Listed as inventor on 

multiple patent 

applications 

‘Presenting my 

master’s thesis 

topic at the 

IES Annual 

Conference 

was extremely 

rewarding’ 

Guidance from one of lighting’s 

most revered educators, a welltimed 

internship and some 

course work during her years at the University 

of Colorado at Boulder, helped 

put Megan Christen on a career path to 

product development. “During my junior 

year of college, David DiLaura spurred 

my interest in illumination engineering 

in the broadest sense—this because I had 

not been immersed in the intricacies of 

any one discipline within lighting,” says 

Christen, who is now associate product 

manager-Outdoor for Cooper Lighting. 

“An internship with ERCO Lighting as a 

technical applications specialist exposed 

me to products, manufacturing and 

lighting design application. The junioryear 

internship experience, in addition 

to product-oriented courses, solidified 

my desire to work on the product side of 

the industry.” 

After four years in a purely product 

development role, Christen has now 

taken on the marketing mantle in her 

new position at Cooper. “The ongoing 

challenge in the new marketing role is 

weighing and comprehending the design, 

cost and quality metrics which are 

expected by our end-user, and prioritizing 

those entities to benefit the largest 

customer base.” 

One of the pluses of working for a 

manufacturer is that it provides a macro 

view of the industry, says Christen. “I 

enjoy the breadth of backgrounds and 

talents of the people in our industrylighting 

designers, architects, manufacturers’ 

representatives and engineers, 

as well as the intricacies of how they 

collaborate to advance our industry.” 

Finally, Christen is quick to point out 

that in many ways, we’re all a product 

of our environment—in her case, the 

University of Colorado, Boulder. “David 

DiLaura and Bob Davis instilled in 

their students’ work ethic an eagerness 

for lifelong learning. Their passion for 

the advancement of our industry resonated 

with students and professionals, 

and that enthusiasm and passion will 

continue to proliferate in each of their 

students despite both leaving traditional 

academia.” 

A FEW KIND WORDS: “Megan joined 

Cooper Lighting as an intern while 

working on her master’s degree. She 

quickly took to designing optics and impressed 

us enough to make her an offer 

for permanent employment in our division 

headquarters offices,” says Bart Ideker, 

vice president, engineering, Cooper 

Lighting. “Megan has been a key contributor 

on many new product development 

programs and is sought after by 

many of our new product teams.” 

DOWN THE ROAD: Christen will keep 

her eye on matching products to customers. 

“My goals in the next couple of 

years include understanding customer 

needs and the competitive landscape. 

It’s my intention to ensure market relevance 

with emerging products.” 


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They say a picture is worth a thousand 

words. But for Juan Pablo 

Lira, pictures are priceless. Lira, 

a lighting designer whose father is a wellknown 

Chilean photographer, developed 

his passion for light through photographs. 

“Ever since I can remember, I 

have been exposed to my father’s photography,” 

recalls Lira. “This made me 

aware of the potential of light in interior 

spaces. As I started to shoot, photography 

trained me further on how to observe, 

frame and capture an emotion. Now, as 

a lighting designer, I try to create, design 

and build a specific and unique emotion.” 

Combined with his early exposure 

to photography, Lira’s formal architectural 

training the Universidad Finis 

Terrae, in Santiago, Chile, showed him 

how to “rigorously analyze the design 

that organizes and creates three-dimensional 

spaces,” he says. “This is essential 

to every project so the lighting 

design synthesizes with the architects’ 

design as one. [My training] also created 

the habit of hand-sketching, which I feel 

is a powerful tool that can help explain 

your ideas and intent.” In fact, before 

emigrating to the U.S., Lira worked as a 

drawing teacher, as well as an architect, 

lighting designer and, of course, photographer 

in his native Chile. 

Currently a lighting designer at Focus 

Lighting in New York City, Lira has lent 

his artistic eye to an array of noteworthy 

projects such as the FAO Schwarz 

store and Le Cirque restaurant in New 

York City, as well as the recently completed 

Crystals at City Center in Las 

Vegas, for which he received an IES Illumination 

Award of Merit. Though he 

is surrounded by talented designers, 

Lira has cultivated his own aesthetic, 

one which draws on his roots. “[Photography] 

is in his blood,” says Focus 

Lighting principal, Paul Gregory. “He 

sees the light reflecting off surfaces and 

is able to capture it with his camera or 

his mind and recreate it architecturally 

with great precision and speed.” 

A FEW KIND WORDS: “Juan Pablo’s 

combination of architectural training, 

photography and drive for excellence 

will be the basis for his future success,” 

says Gregory. “His unique ability 

to see a project through an architect’s 

eyes, and then work like a photographer 

to compose the perfect shot, will 

undoubtedly lead to remarkable lighting 

designs.” 

DOWN THE ROAD: Like his father 

has with pictures, Lira hopes to “keep 

creating diverse spaces that generate 

strong, powerful emotions.” 


JUAN PABLO LIRA 

FOCUS LIGHTING 

NEW YORK CITY 


• Key projects: Tourneau 

Flagship Store, Las 

Vegas; Canyon Ranch, 

Miami; Aureole, New York 

City (IES Illumination 

Award of Merit 2010); 

exhibit hall at the 

Museum of Natural 

History, Los Angeles; 

renovations to the 

Fashion Institute of 

Technology, New York City 

‘The “great moments” are when you can see that people enjoy and 

appreciate the spaces you design’ 



BRYAN KLAMMER 

LIGHTING DESIGN 

ALLIANCE 

LOS ANGELES 


• Associate IALD; 

LEED AP 

• Key projects: Katsuya 

restaurant, Hollywood, 

CA (IES Illumination 

Award of Merit); S Bar, 

Hollywood, CA; Disney’s 

Animal Kingdom 

Lodge; Disney’s Art of 

Animation; Keyes 

Mercedes; Autry Museum; 

Aquabella Rancho Belago 

Some designers have all the luck. 

Take, for instance, Bryan Klammer, 

who has had the good 

fortune of unearthing extraordinary 

mentors wherever he goes. As a student 

at University of Colorado at Boulder, 

Klammer was taught by David DiLaura 

and Bob Davis. During a summer break, 

he interned at the Office of Visual Interaction 

in New York City, where he was 

exposed to the work of Jean Sundin and 

Enrique Peiniger. Following graduation, 

he landed a lighting design job at 

Lighting Design Alliance (LDA), where 

he has flourished under the guidance of 

Chip Israel and Kyllene Jones. 

These opportunities to “work for 

such well-recognized and respected 

lighting design firms” are strokes of 

“extreme luck,” says Klammer. “I feel 

like I’m in the right place at the right 

time to work alongside these coaches. 

I’ve modeled my approach to projects 

on their examples. These wise and experienced 

mentors have given me confidence 

in my potential.” 

But luck isn’t responsible for the host of 

accolades he’s received, including IES Illumination 

Awards of Merit and Lumen 

West Awards of Excellence and Merit 

for various LDA projects. Klammer has 

also translated that design acumen to 

the printed page by serving as editor of 

LDA’s Ignite: The Art of Lighting Design, 

a company profile book that had been on 

hold until he volunteered to complete it. 

“Initially, I gained a new appreciation for 

photography and graphic design,” says 

Klammer. “As the process developed, 

I’ve learned that creating a high-quality 

book takes much more effort than I ever 

expected. However, by taking that time 

to make it my best, I’ve also learned that 

all the effort pays off. The book highlights 

some of our most beautiful and 

eye-catching projects, and it’s a great visual 

for current and prospective clients.” 

A FEW KIND WORDS: “With his increasing 

ability to meet clients’ needs, 

keep sustainability in mind and develop 

innovative ways to provide lighting, Bryan 

has become a leader in his studio,” 

says Kyllene Jones, principal, LDA. “Regardless 

of his role, Bryan’s passion for 

design, keen eye for detail and developing 

expertise has helped ensure the success 

of several LDA projects. The quality 

of his work is exemplary and will only 

continue to impress in future years.” 

DOWN THE ROAD: “I think many 

people have expectations of themselves 

that either commit them in the 

wrong direction or lead them to disappointment,” 

says Klammer. “So, to be 

honest, I don’t try to plan too far in advance, 

instead making the best of every 

situation as it arrives. However, I 

can definitely say I’d like to be such a 

strong and recognized contributor that 

I could be considered for any future 

project, lighting design or otherwise.” 


‘Katsuya Hollywood (an ultra-modern sushi restaurant) and Disney’s 

Animal Kingdom Lodge-Kidani Village (an African-themed hotel) were two 

of my most rewarding projects. Both were once-in-a-lifetime spaces’ 

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You can’t say Lara Cordell doesn’t 

have a bold agenda for the lighting 

industry. Her goal, quite 

simply, is to reinvent the product procurement 

process. Cordell, director of 

technology with distributor Wiedenbach-Brown, 

has launched two major 

initiatives in her two years with the company: 

one is the Owner-Direct Lighting 

Procurement (ODLP) program; the other 

is the LED Performance Assessment 

Screening System (LED PASS). 

The ODLP program gives WB a seat 

at the table with key members of the design 

and construction team—the architect, 

engineer, lighting designer, owner’s 

rep, general contractor and electrical 

contractor—during the early phase of 

the project (i.e., design development). 

“When a project goes to bid through the 

typical distribution channel, the lighting 

package gets awarded prior to submittal 

review, which puts the design intent 

at risk. With ODLP, we bring control 

back to the design team, working on 

their behalf to negotiate fixture pricing 

with reps and manufacturers. This 

gives designers the power to decide how 

and where to ‘spend’ the budget in reference 

to real costs, down to sales tax and 

freight,” says Cordell. “The goal is pricing 

clarity so we can meet the owner’s 

budget, upfront, during design, thereby 

eliminating the need for future value engineering 

and associated project delays.” 

Meanwhile, with the LED PASS program, 

Cordell has taken on the role of 

LED watchdog for WB. “The goal was 

to develop a set of criteria whereby LED 

products can be quantitatively scored on 

their effectiveness to retrofit a given application. 

Some of the criteria are general 

go/no-go questions, others relate 

to threshold performance of the existing 

product and others focus on general 

manufacturer questions including financial 

well-being. This allows me to quickly 

weed through the junk (they generally 

don’t have UL or LM-79) and then prioritize 

which products to mock-up. I call this 

approach, ‘guilty until proven innocent.’ ” 

Cordell’s technology evaluations 

have a high currency in the marketplace 

due to her background. After 

earning a Master of Science from Rensselaer 

Polytechnic Institute’s Lighting 

Research Center, she started her career 

on the design side of the fence, 

with the Long Beach, CA, office of 

Lighting Design Alliance. Three years 

later, she transitioned to the product 

side of the industry. “I was approached 

to join a start-up manufacturing company 

[LITE360] as a partner. Eighteen 

months later the economy took a tumble 

and we closed up shop.” 

Cordell was quickly approached by 

WB, and two years later she calls it “the 

best decision I’ve made in my career.” 

A FEW KIND WORDS: “I find Lara one of 

the industry’s best tipping points because 

her knowledge is based on some good 

practical experience consolidated from 

many parts of the industry food chain,” 

says Lee Waldron of Grenald Waldron 

Associates. “As a knowledge maven with 

a good business sense, she will influence 

the future understanding of lighting information 

by both specifiers and clients.” 

DOWN THE ROAD: In the short-term, 

Cordell is focused on nurturing the 

ODLP programand “hope to grow it” into 

the preferred path for procurement.” 


LARA CORDELL 

WIEDENBACH-BROWN, 

YORBA LINDA, CA 



• Robert J. Besal Fund 

Scholarship 

• Board member of the 

IES Orange County 

Section and the IALD 

Education Trust 

• IES Lumen West and 

IIDA Award of Merit for 

the Port of Los Angeles 

Waterfront 

‘The path I’ve 

taken from 

design, to 

manufacturing 

and finally 

distribution 

has allowed 

priceless insight 

into how our 

industry works, 

and I have a 

vision for how 

I’d like to see 

it work in the 

future.’ 



LISA KRAMER 

H.E. BANKS + 

ASSOCIATES 

SAN FRANCISCO 



• Intern, Fisher Marantz 

Stone; lighting designer, 

Auerbach Glasow French 

and Flack & Kurtz 

• Key projects: Apple 

conference room 

renovation, Cupertino, CA; 

Four Seasons residence, 

San Francisco; Shooting 

Star Clubhouse, 

Jackson Hole, WY; the 

Hilton Hawiian Village Alii 

Tower Suites Remodel 

Art and science—to Lisa Kramer 

these are the yin and yang of 

lighting design. “Throughout 

my life I have always had a great interest 

in both the arts and sciences,” 

she says. “Lighting design is one of the 

few fields of study that combines these 

two interests.” Kramer first discovered 

lighting design while studying architectural 

engineering at Penn State. “I 

knew this was just what I was looking 

for,” says Kramer, “and I have been 

working in the lighting design field 

ever since I graduated.” 

Seven years later, Kramer has designed 

lighting for an impressive roster 

of clients, including Apple, Hilton, Williams 

Sonoma and Pottery Barn. Along 

the way, she has risen through the ranks 

to become a senior lighting designer and 

project manager at h.e. banks + associates. 

With the thoughtfulness of a Taoist 

philosopher, Kramer seeks to align 

the art and science of light in her work. 

“I love the combination of the technical 

knowledge and creativity required 

to achieve aesthetic and sustainability 

goals,” says Kramer. “A great balance 

between these two areas is required to 

achieve a successful lighting design.” 

Kramer has also learned to juggle 

designing with the business aspects 

of lighting design, such as client interaction, 

proposals, scheduling and 

budgeting. “I enjoy the opportunity to 

handle a mix of both project management 

and design responsibilities.” 

A FEW KIND WORDS: “Lisa’s dedication 

to advancing the lighting field is 

enviable,” says Jody Pritchard, principal, 

h.e. banks + associates. “Somehow 

she carves out the time to participate in 

public discussions like the new Title 24 

legislation—something we all know we 

should be a part of, but just don’t make a 

priority in our busy lives. She also is constantly 

seeking out classes, events and 

speakers that help broaden her knowledge 

about everything lighting related. 

Her efforts not only benefit her own career, 

but the rest of ours as well.” 

DOWN THE ROAD: The future looks 

green for Kramer, who plans to learn 

more about sustainable design through 

LEED AP continuing education courses 

and put that knowledge to practical use 

by “working on more LEED projects 

or projects that have sustainability as 

a major design element. I also hope to 

bring higher sustainable design goals to 

our residential projects and to continue 

diversifying my responsibilities and increase 

the client base of our firm, while 

working towards IALD professional 

membership.” 


‘I really enjoy working on projects in which the client is looking for creative 

solutions. I recently completed a residence in San Francisco where we 

integrated numerous custom design details to conceal standard linear 

fluorescent and LED sources’ 

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For Martha Lopacki, the transition 

from fashion to fixtures has been, 

in a word, seamless. 

Before joining the lighting industry 

five years ago, Lopacki spent the first 

part of her career as a product designer 

for Nike, Swiss Army and Callaway 

Golf. Today, she has risen to the position 

of studio director at Sean O’Connor 

Lighting. “I’ve always been drawn to 

the technical side of design whether it is 

the seam-sealed, waterproof construction 

of a jacket, or a luggage design that 

transfers the load and reduces weight 

in hand when wheeling,” says Lopacki. 

“For me, lighting design is the ideal balance 

of artistic expression and technical 

design and [the switch to the lighting industry] 

seemed a very natural progression. 

Product design is still very much a 

part of my job as a lighting designer.” 

In fact, Lopacki has a wealth of product 

development experience to draw 

on; her work has been featured at some 

of the most prominent museums in the 

U.S., while other designs have been 

used on the PGA tour and to summit 

Mount Everest. “There was a bamboo 

serving tray I designed that was included 

in an exhibit on green design at the 

Philadelphia Museum of Art and some 

technical outerwear pieces shown at 

the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design 

Museum technical fabrication exhibit. 

The patent I am named on is for a travel 

bag designed with an integral golf club 

protection system for airplane travel.” 

That ingenuity has transferred nicely 

to the lighting market: a large “pearl 

necklace pendant” is the centerpiece 

for the lighting design of the Park Hyatt 

in Philadelphia—a collaborative design 

with Sean O’Connor that received multiple 

design awards in 2006-2007. 

Lopacki also credits her extensive 

international travel with informing her 

lighting design. “Great lighting design is 

not something you see; it is something 

you feel,” she says. “I was 24 when I first 

visited China. It was a business trip; I 

went alone and was there for four weeks. 

That trip changed my life. The colors, 

tastes and smells of different cultures 

are all experiences that feed creativity.” 

A FEW KIND WORDS: “Martha’s experience 

outside the field of lighting design 

should not be downplayed. She came to 

us with amazing skills from fashion and 

product design, as well as manufacturing, 

that were immediately useful to 

what we do,” says Sean O’Connor. “Martha 

grasped lighting design very quickly 

and has changed the way we do things, 

whether it’s in-house systems, lighting 

design for a project or custom fixture 

and product design.” 

DOWN THE ROAD: Over the next few 

years, Lopacki expects to continue working 

wonders with new products. “Custom 

fixture design plays a large role in 

my projects, and I’d like to continue to 

grow that side of my work. I particularly 

like designing decorative fixtures where 

I take aesthetic cues from the interior and 

architectural design while applying my 

technical knowledge.” 


MARTHA LOPACKI 

SEAN O’CONNOR 

LIGHTING 

BEVERLY HILLS, CA 


• Adjunct professor, Santa 

Monica College 

• Design awards from the 

IES, IALD, GE Edison 

and Cooper Lighting for 

Sally Hershberger Salon, 

West Hollywood CA; 

Sidwell Friends School, 

Washington, D.C.; AT&T 

Experience Store prototypes; 

and the Park Hyatt 

Philadelphia 

• Named on U.S. patent 

for a golf bag carrier 

‘On the oceanfront residence in the Caribbean, everyone was incredibly 

talented, no one had an ego and all of us were united in creating the best home 

for our client. It was a true team and the final project reflects this’ 



Photo: Peiheing Tsai 

RENÉE JOOSTEN 

COOLEY MONATO 

STUDIO 

NEW YORK CITY 


• Interior designer, Olthaar 

Ontwerpen 

• Key projects: David 

Yurman flagship store, 

New York City; Pio Pio 

restaurant, New York 

City; Tiffany & Co. Hong 

Kong Plaza, Shanghai; 

Gucci, Macau 

The stamps on senior lighting designer 

Renée Joosten’s passport 

could rival those of a Travel 

Channel host. The Dutch native has 

traveled through Africa, Europe, Malaysia, 

Mexico and the U.S.; speaks 

five languages; and counts biking the 

700-mile pilgrimage route to Santiago 

de Compostela, Spain, excavating archeological 

artifacts from a Roman 

settlement and a medieval castle, and 

exploring Mayan temples in Mexico 

among her many adventures. Along the 

way, she also picked up a B.A. in Interior 

Design from the Royal Academy of 

Visual Arts in the Netherlands and an 

M.A. in Lighting Design from Parsons 

The New School for Design, which she 

attended on a Fulbright Fellowship. 

Travel has not only given Joosten the 

chance to explore new places, it has also 

taught her how light shapes architecture: 

“Through my travels I have seen how 

(day)light throughout time has always 

been an integral part of people’s culture 

and spiritual experience, from the temples 

of Tulum, where the Mayans used 

the position of the sun for their agriculture 

calendar, to the churches along el 

Camino de Santiago, where the interplay 

of light and architecture is meant to create 

a divine and magical experience. Being 

exposed to these sites has increased 

my awareness of the power of light and 

the balance between light and darkness.” 

When she’s not driven by wanderlust, 

Joosten can be found in New York City, 

designing lighting for international retail 

and residential projects, teaching in the 

lighting design program at Parsons, and 

interacting with the local lighting community, 

including the IES New York City 

Section. A firm believer in integrated design, 

Joosten both practices and preaches 

“that lighting should always be a cohesive 

and integral part of any spatial design. It 

is important to educate not only lighting 

design students, but also architecture 

and interior design students about light.” 

A FEW KIND WORDS: “Renée simply 

shines (pun definitely intended),” says 

Renée Cooley, principal, Cooley Monato 

Studio. “She has a keen design sense that 

embraces both the aesthetics of the studio 

and the needs of our clients. That, coupled 

with her solid project management 

skills, equates to bringing the concepts 

of our designs to fruition. During the six 

years we’ve been working together I’ve 

seen her grow steadily, fed by her curiosity 

and willingness to look beyond the 

easy answers. That internal spark is at 

the very heart of what makes an achiever—a 

future luminary—and she’s got it.” 

DOWN THE ROAD: Joosten is especially 

“interested in the correlation between 

health, light and darkness and 

how the developments of new technologies 

can tie into that. I’d like to further 

explore these developments and integrate 

this knowledge into public and 

private projects.” 


‘It was rewarding to get recognition when the Virtual Light Loft was 

awarded the IES Illumination Award of Merit’ 

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Many young lighting professionals 

have won awards, but 

how many have been recognized 

by the Worshipful Company of 

Lightmongers (No, that’s not a misprint.) 

Emrah Baki Ulas has. In 2008, 

he received the organization’s “Best 

Presentation Award.” 

In many ways, Ulas’s career is as 

singular as his achievements. An international 

man of light, he was trained 

in Turkey, attended graduate school in 

Germany, practices lighting design in 

Australia, and lectures and presents all 

around the world, most recently in Sweden, 

where he headed the PLDA’s Lights 

in Alingsås workshop. Though Ulas only 

has a few years of professional experience, 

his jam-packed résumé could easily 

be mistaken for that of a much more 

seasoned designer. Since graduating with 

an M.A. in Architectural Lighting Design 

in 2006, he has presented at more than 

10 conferences, won several prestigious 

awards, become an accredited Greenstar 

Professional from the Australian Green 

Building Council and has been promoted 

from lighting designer to lighting team 

leader at Steensen Varming. 

From his first foray in lighting, as a 

lighting crew assistant for the International 

Istanbul Biennial visual arts 

exhibition, to his current role, Ulas has 

maintained an experimental edge to 

his design, blending architectural lighting 

with art and performance. That 

approach is evident in both his architectural 

lighting, such as the Sydney 

Opera House lighting master plan, and 

his one-of-a-kind light art, like the recent 

“Lumi-Pops” installation at the 

University of Technology Sydney. 

While Ulas may relish the ethereal 

aspects of light, he also knows how to 

successfully execute a real project and 

counts teamwork as a major tenet of 

good design. “If you share the vision and 

the mindset of the people you work with, 

everything goes smoothly,” says Ulas. 

“At Steensen Varming we are a compact 

team made up of people with diverse 

skills. We learn a lot from each other, we 

work on enviable projects and we work 

hard. Every opinion is welcomed.” 

A FEW KIND WORDS: “Emrah is an 

unusually talented artist,” says his mentor, 

PLDA president, Dr. Georgios Paissidis. 

“He is devoted to the visualization 

of myths. Light in his hands is the language 

of myths. He is not contented with 

a decent lighting design approach and, 

as far as I know him, he rather dislikes a 

compromise with neutrality. He prefers 

risks and accepts adventures. I am certain 

that Emrah can enjoyably surprise 

us with his works for many years.” 

DOWN THE ROAD: Ulas has much on 

his to-do list. He hopes to “increase 

public awareness of good lighting and 

help influence codes and standards in 

the field of lighting (most of which date 

back to ancient quantitative methods 

and don’t really make better spaces 

for human beings); do more teaching; 

pursue a Ph.D. in lighting; collaborate 

with people from other creative industries; 

and explore light-as-art and socially 

conscious projects.” 


EMRAH BAKI ULAS 

STEENSEN VARMING 

NORTHBRIDGE, 

AUSTRALIA 


• CIBSE’s Society of Light 

and Lighting “Young 

Lighters of the Year 

2008” Award 

• University of Technology 

Sydney adjunct lecturer 

• Key projects: Art Gallery 

of New South Wales, 

Sydney; Tasmanian 

Museum and Art Gallery; 

National Capital Authority, 

Kings Avenue lighting 

‘One [career 

highlight] is to 

be involved with 

the Sydney 

Opera House 

lighting master 

plan’ 



CHRIS BAILEY 

HUBBELL LIGHTING 

BRADENTON, FL 


• LEED AP 

• Previously vice president 

of sales, Beacon 

Products 

• Leader, Hubbell’s Solar 

Technology Initiative 

Plenty of people prognosticate on 

tomorrow’s lighting technologies. 

Chris Bailey does them one 

better by looking out to the day after tomorrow, 

if you will. Really, who else is 

talking about “quantum dots” (Store 

that one away in your memory for future 

reference.) 

As the newly appointed technical strategist 

for the Hubbell Solid-State Lighting 

Team, Bailey is responsible for researching 

the latest SSL technologies available 

today (e.g., LED and plasma) and others 

which may soon be viable. He evaluates 

the impact each type of technology may 

have on individual market segments, 

categories and Hubbell brands, and will 

help educate the marketplace by co-developing 

curriculum used at Hubbell’s 

Lighting Solutions Center. 

And for those stumped by the quantum 

dot, it’s a nano-carbon crystal (somewhere 

in the vicinity of one-billionth of a 

meter in size) that can replace the phosphor 

coating in white LEDs, potentially 

making LEDs 50 percent more efficient 

than they are today. 

A FEW KIND WORDS: “Chris is an articulate 

lighting evangelist with charisma 

who will ascend to higher levels of 

leadership in our industry and deserves 

to,” says Mark Lien of Hubbell Lighting. 

“Every company needs people who are 

forward thinkers, others who are great 

communicators and some disciplined 

enough to consistently do the parts of 

the job that most of us consider the hard 

work. Because Chris excels at all three 

skills he is destined for a long successful 

career in lighting.” 

DOWN THE ROAD: The possibilities 

are endless in terms of new product development, 

says Bailey. “The light bulb 

has just been reinvented. Never before 

has there been as much ‘energy’ dedicated 

to the advancement of SSL and 

other energy-saving technologies. Our 

industry finally has the chance to innovate 

in a way that could truly reshape 

the future of lighting. To be even a small 

part of that is extremely exciting.” 


‘I have been involved in several LED luminaire designs and as a result have 

filed for several valuable patents. Knowing these designs have become 

real products—and solutions to real problems—gives me what I want most, 

which is to make a difference’ 

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Whether it’s serving as the Illumination 

Awards Committee 

chair for her local IES section, 

taking on the role of treasurer for the Society 

of Women Engineers or authoring 

articles for her firm’s in-house publications, 

Chrysanthi Stockwell is what you 

would call “a joiner.” She’s even working 

to polish her rhetorical skills as a member 

of the worldwide educational group, 

Toastmasters International. “Toastmasters 

is an opportunity to improve my 

public-speaking skills and network with 

others in the engineering group,” says 

Stockwell. “Besides the chance to speak 

in front of my colleagues, I have also 

learned to conduct efficient meetings, answer 

questions impromptu and give constructive 

evaluations. I like Toastmasters 

because it really applies to many aspects 

of our industry, such as interviewing, 

marketing and client interaction.” 

But Stockwell doesn’t just talk the talk. 

She has also demonstrated her engineering 

and design expertise on a range of 

projects since graduating from the University 

of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2007. 

Working for a major industry player such 

as HGA has provided Stockwell ample 

opportunity to show her technical chops. 

“It’s given me the opportunity to work 

on many projects types throughout the 

country and across the different offices.” 

That variety of project types has cut 

across the healthcare, corporate, arts 

and education sectors, and, in some 

cases, Stockwell has also taken on project 

management duties. “The Owatonna 

Replacement Hospital and Clinic was my 

first project that I was in charge of from 

beginning to end. I learned a lot about 

healthcare lighting on this project. I also 

learned the importance of lighting details 

and architectural coordination.” 

The diversity within the industry, itself, 

also appeals to Stockwell. “The lighting 

industry is a melting pot of people from 

all different backgrounds. Everyone has 

a story about where they came from and 

how they got into lighting,” she says. “It’s 

very rare to find people who have a taste 

for design, but at the same time love the 

intricacies of calculation and technology. 

That is one of the most appealing things 

about our industry; lighting touches so 

many aspects of life, from psychology to 

design to engineering.” 

A FEW KIND WORDS: “In spite of 

her relative newness to the lighting 

industry, Chrysanthi has a great understanding 

of what lighting can bring 

to a project. She understands how to 

integrate with other disciplines and 

designers to create a cohesive project 

design. She has shown the ability to 

work with clients, understand their 

needs and educate when necessary,” 

says HGA’s Pat Hunt. 

DOWN THE ROAD: Broader project 

experience is the short-term goal for 

Stockwell. “I especially have an interest 

in learning more about cultural 

arts projects and would love to gain 

more lighting experience in that area. 

Eventually, I would like to be involved 

in project marketing and advocating 

lighting design as an integral part of 

full architectural services.” 


CHRYSANTHI 

STOCKWELL 

HAMMEL, GREEN AND 

ABRAHAMSON 

MINNEAPOLIS, MN 



• 2009 IES Young 

Professionals Scholarship; 

Mutual of Omaha IST&E 

Scholarship; Litecontrol 

Scholarship; Robert J. 

Besal Scholarship 

• Key projects: Douglas 

County Hospital, 

Alexandria, MN; 

General Mills Photo 

Studio, Golden Valley, MN 

‘It is scary 

doing your first 

project as the 

lead lighting 

designer. When 

you see it all 

come together, 

there is a 

moment that 

makes it all 

worth it and 

inspires you to 

do it again’ 



KRISTY BENNER 

KAPLAN GEHRING 

McCARROLL 

ARCHITECTURAL 

LIGHTING 

EL SEGUNDO, CA 


• Associate IALD; LC; 

LEED AP 

• IES Illumination Awards, 

GE Edison Awards and 

IIDA Awards for The 

Palazzo, Jersey Boys 

theater and Grand Lux 

Café 

• President, Los Angeles 

Chapter of the Designers 

Lighting Forum 

‘Going to the 

IES conference 

last year to 

accept an award 

for The Palazzo 

and being 

recognized 

among a 

handful of other 

design teams 

selected from 

over 500 entries 

was an honor’ 

Kristy Benner is not one to be intimidated 

by the size of a project. 

“Every large project can 

be broken down into small, manageable 

pieces,” says Benner, an associate with 

KGM Architectural Lighting, who has 

worked on several mega-projects during 

her five years at the firm. The most notable 

was The Palazzo Resort Hotel and 

Casino and the Jersey Boys theater lobby 

in Las Vegas. “The Palazzo was definitely 

a challenging project, but more 

from the complexity of the project itself 

rather than the size. One of the biggest 

challenges with the Palazzo was that it 

had previously been designed to meet 

standard codes and then we had to carry 

out the design through construction and 

redesign it to comply with LEED.” 

All in a day’s work for Benner, who 

has been responsible for everything 

from schematic design to construction 

administration on a wide range of projects, 

including a Vera Wang store in West 

Hollywood, CA, the San Antonio River 

Improvement Project, the Mission Chapel 

in Malibu, CA, as well as a number 

of private residences. These projects all 

have one thing in common: “Lighting 

design can be somewhat universal—light 

the work plane, light the walls, light the 

ceiling, etc.—but each project has a specific 

task or function. The main objective 

is to light that task,” she says. “Beyond 

that we have creative license to layer 

lighting effects and details to get many 

interesting compositions for the different 

spaces and functions.” 

The geographic locale of these installations 

has been equally varied: southern 

California to Kuwait and all points in between. 

“The most interesting difference 

[between U.S. and international projects] 

is the way projects are constructed 

and how lighting fixtures are installed. 

When I was in India, I was definitely 

surprised by contractors that didn’t have 

proper shoes, much less hard hats; the 

bamboo scaffolding was interesting as 

well. Also, because they don’t have traditional 

housings like we are used to using, 

they can simply drill a hole in the ceiling 

and move any fixture at anytime.” 

Benner has seen a lot in a mere five 

years; it’s no surprise she’s unruffled 

by a $2 billion project like The Palazzo. 

A FEW KIND WORDS: “Kristy Benner 

has all the right qualities inherent 

in a successful lighting consultant—her 

technical skills are well-matched with 

a sense of understanding about each of 

the projects she takes on. She continues 

to show leadership skills both in 

the office and through her involvement 

in organizations such as the Designers 

Lighting Forum,” says Martin van 

Koolbergen, a partner with KGM Architectural 

Lighting. 

DOWN THE ROAD: Benner is ready for 

the shifting landscape in the industry. 

“In the near future lighting is going to 

change in a big way. Budget and energy 

efficiency are going to drive each design 

and I would like to continue to positively 

impact interesting projects, large and 

small, worldwide. Mastering the delicate 

balance between design complexity, 

energy efficiency and budget is a skill I 

aspire to have.” 


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Lighting designer. Builder. Sportsman. 

Photographer. International 

volunteer. Craig Spring is 

lighting’s Renaissance Man. 

A lighting designer with Candela, 

Spring is currently on a leave of absence 

from the firm and traveling with 

his wife to Nepal, Southeast Asia and 

South America until February. “The 

first month we volunteered with The 

Mountain Fund, a non-profit organization 

based out of Nepal. My time was 

spent in a rural mountainous village in 

the Langtang region, working with the 

local community to implement a photovoltaic 

system for a school. Heather will 

be working at a nearby clinic, providing 

medical care to the community.” 

Eventually, though, it’s back to Seattle 

to continue a career that’s gotten off to 

an impressive start since Spring earned 

his Master of Science from the University 

of Colorado at Boulder, in 2004. His 

first taste of working in the profession 

actually came a few years earlier when 

he interned for two of the most wellregarded 

firms in the industry while 

an undergraduate at Colorado. “My first 

internship at Auerbach and Glasow in 

San Francisco [now Auerbach Glasow 

French] was a great introduction into 

the lighting industry. Both Patricia Glasow 

and Larry French were excellent 

role models and educators of the design/ 

construction process,” says Spring. “The 

following summer, I wanted to see a different 

perspective out on the east coast, 

so I joined Fisher Marantz Stone in New 

York for an internship. I was looking for 

a different scale of firm and approach to 

see what fit my personality best.” 

Spring ultimately joined Candela in 

2005 and earlier this year earned his 

first IES Illumination Award of Excellence 

for the Lightcatcher Museum. 

Several months earlier, he attended the 

IES Annual Conference in Seattle under 

the Society’s Young Professionals 

Scholarship program. 

But it is Spring’s extra-curricular activities 

that set him apart. Robert Davis, 

his former advisor at Colorado and 

now director, product management for 

Litecontrol, says his “outside experiences 

are what make him a fascinating 

person to be around.” He has a passion 

for photography, picked up from his father, 

a professional photographer. He 

designed and supervised construction 

for a vacation home for his family, outside 

of Breckenridge, CO. And his outdoor 

activities include skiing and golf. 

Between that and his design and volunteer 

work, it’s been a busy few years. 

A FEW KIND WORDS: “Craig is one of 

the bright young stars in our industry,” 

says Litecontrol’s Davis. “As one of the 

top undergraduates, Craig was a natural 

candidate for graduate school, and I was 

fortunate to serve as his thesis advisor 

for his Master of Science degree. He designed 

and built his own experimental 

apparatus as part of this project, an apparatus 

that is still in use at CU Boulder.” 

DOWN THE ROAD: Spring says he has 

“reached that threshold in my career 

where I am looking for the next challenge 

and opportunity. From opening an 

office to experiencing a new locale, both 

are appealing and are atop the list.” 


CRAIG SPRING 

CANDELA 

ARCHITECTURAL 

LIGHTING 

CONSULTANTS 

SEATTLE, WA 


• Associate IALD; LC; 

LEED AP 

• Key projects: 

University of Alaska 

Arena; Nintendo corporate 

headquarters, 

Redmond, WA; Legacy 

Children’s Hospital, 

Portland, OR 

‘The Mine 

Shack, the 

Lightcatcher 

Museum and 

Ladder Creek 

Falls had varied 

challenges. 

Each provided 

an avenue 

for creative 

freedom with 

light either 

enhancing the 

architecture or 

interacting with 

nature’ 



AARON SMITH 

RENSSELAER 

POLYTECHNIC 

INSTITUTE’S LIGHTING 

RESEARCH CENTER 

TROY, NY 


• B.S. Electrical Engineering 

Technology from Cal State 

Long Beach 

• Key projects: USGBC 

daylighting pattern book 

for schools; daylight 

technical services for the 

New York State 

Energy Research and 

Development 

Authority; Welch Allyn 

facility renovation 

Daylighting is the new recycling. 

At least it will be if Aaron Smith 

has a say. The senior research 

specialist at LRC wants to spread the gospel 

of daylighting not only to academics, 

but to the general public. “Most people 

are probably unfamiliar with the term 

‘daylight harvesting’ and rarely consider 

working by daylight alone,” says Smith. 

“It probably never occurs to most people 

that working by daylight can reduce electricity 

consumption and make a positive 

impact on the environment.” 

Smith hopes to educate consumers 

through a widespread educational campaign 

“similar in nature to the voluntary 

curbside aluminum and plastic recycling 

programs that began in the late 

’80s and early ’90s,” he explains. “The 

recycling programs changed many people’s 

minds about the need to recycle, 

and I think similar benefits—a general 

awareness and a surge in participation— 

could be gained from voluntary daylight 

harvesting.” 

At the moment, Smith is spearheading 

research on the Daysimeter, a device 

that monitors and logs an individual’s 

light exposure and rest/activity patterns 

over an extended period of time. 

“The Daysimeter allows researchers to 

quantify the light and activity history 

of people wearing the device, which is 

leading to more in-depth studies on the 

impact of light on human health and 

well-being, and will change the way we 

study circadian disruption,” says Smith, 

who believes that “the opportunities in 

daylighting are endless.” 

A FEW KIND WORDS: LRC director 

Mark Rea describes Smith as “smart and 

dedicated, and, with his modest yet persistent 

demeanor, [he] can coordinate 

and rally a team to achieve significant 

milestones. He has true leadership qualities 

and is on the path to making great 

contributions in the lighting industry.” 

DOWN THE ROAD: Smith intends to 

be a vocal advocate for daylight harvesting 

education “by demonstrating 

effective strategies for working by daylight, 

such as office set-up and window 

blind positioning,” he says. “Eventually, 

people may start routinely walking 

into their offices and reaching to adjust 

or open the window blinds to provide 

light rather than immediately reaching 

for the light switch.” 


‘I chose daylighting as a focus because I want to make a difference by 

helping design buildings that contribute to people leading healthier, more 

productive lives’ 

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Shanna Olson was green before 

green was cool. In college, Olson 

and six other interior design 

students founded the Environmental 

Collegians of Sustainability (ECOS). 

“At its inception, ECOS mainly focused 

on bringing new sustainable technologies 

and design concepts to the interior 

design department,” says Olson. As copresident 

of ECOS, Olson expanded the 

scope of the organization beyond her 

department “to the entire college. We 

made attempts to educate the public and 

reduce energy within our school.” 

Now a lighting and electrical designer 

for IBC Engineering, Olson is still 

a steward of the environment and returns 

to her alma mater each year “to 

guest lecture about what I do and why I 

find sustainability so important.” 

Sustainability is also an integral aspect 

of her design portfolio. “I find that selecting 

the right lamp sources as well as 

luminaires; providing appropriate, but 

not excessive, illumination levels; supplying 

adjustable task lighting as needed; 

and utilizing enhanced controls significantly 

reduces the actual used lighting 

power while still creating a productive 

and pleasant environment,” say Olson. 

Olson’s efforts to educate others aren’t 

limited to her work with ECOS. She also 

serves as the chair of the IES Milwaukee 

Section Education Committee, where 

she facilitates the Lighting Fundamentals 

course. The post has allowed her 

“to pull together a wide variety of highly 

qualified lighting designers and engineers 

to lecture.” It has also given her 

the opportunity to become part of a new 

community of like-minded designers: 

“The board strives to bring new technologies 

and methods of design to their 

members while going out of their way to 

make emerging professionals, such as 

myself, feel welcome.” 

A FEW KIND WORDS: “A few years ago 

we took a chance hiring someone without 

an engineering background to be a 

part of our electrical engineering team 

because she impressed us with her enthusiasm 

for learning,” says Fieena 

Zvenyach, IBC president and CEO. “We 

have never regretted the decision to 

bring Shanna on board; she has proven 

herself a quick study and has continued 

to move above and beyond our expectations. 

She has a knack for pairing her 

style and artistry with a passion for sustainability 

that benefits both our clients 

and our internal team.” 

DOWN THE ROAD: “Education will be 

my main focus in the next few years,” 

says Olson. “As education chair for the 

Milwaukee Section, I will continue to 

focus on bringing new technologies and 

methods of design to our lighting community. 

As a part of the IBC team, I will 

strive to educate our clients on the importance 

of sustainability and the best 

methods of achieving this goal. In this 

vein, I hope to continue to work on projects 

which have a long-term impact both 

aesthetically and sustainably.” 


SHANNA OLSON 

IBC ENGINEERING 

SERVICES, INC. 

WAUKESHA, WI 


• Key projects: Shaw 

Technology and 

Learning Center Power 

House High, Chicago; 

Engberg Anderson Design 

Partnership, Milwaukee; 

Milwaukee Intermodal; 

Chicago Park District 

Sustainable Prototype 

• IES Illumination Awards 

of Merit for St. Croix Falls 

Library, St. Croix Falls, 

WI, and Muchin College 

Prep, Chicago 

‘Designing 

sustainably 

is not only 

the right 

choice, but the 

rational one’ 



RACHAEL 

CLARK-LANE 

LIGHTING DESIGN 

INNOVATIONS 

CALGARY, CANADA 


• Benjamin Moore 

Scholarship; Jason Lang 

Scholarship; Karen 

Miller-Tait Memorial 

Scholarship 

• Intern designer, City of 

Calgary 

• Key projects: Banff 

Springs Hotel Gold Floor, 

Banff, Alberta; 

Timber-frame Residence 

and Landscape, Okotoks, 

Alberta; Medalta 

Potteries Interpretive 

Centre, Medicine Hat, 

Alberta; LDI headquarters, 

Batavia, NY 

In November 2008, Rachael Clark- 

Lane made her lighting debut at the 

IES Annual Conference. Hours after 

walking across the stage to receive her 

college degree, Clark-Lane hopped on a 

plane and headed to Savannah to attend 

her first industry event through the IES 

Young Professionals Scholarship program. 

A few months later in the pages of 

LD+A, Clark-Lane told our readers about 

the combination of nerves and excitement 

she had felt as a new recruit surrounded 

by an army of lighting veterans. 

Soon after, Clark-Lane shook off her 

early jitters and hit the ground running. 

Just two years later, she is an associate 

at Lighting Design Innovations 

(LDI) and board manager for the IES 

Calgary Section, where she’s leading 

the Emerging Professionals program 

and offering encouragement to young 

professionals like herself. 

Perhaps Clark-Lane’s biggest strength 

as Emerging Professionals chair is her 

ability to empathize with other young 

lighting practioners; like them, she is 

learning as she goes. “Sometimes you 

don’t even know what resources and 

opportunities are available to you when 

you first enter an industry,” she says. 

“Everything is new, and it is hard to 

know where to look for personal and career 

opportunities and advancement.” 

For Clark-Lane, mentors Kim and 

Paul Mercier at LDI offered a roadmap: 

“To have someone with much more experience 

in the industry help you navigate 

and find your way is invaluable.” 

Likewise, the IES helped boost her confidence. 

“At first I just watched from the 

sidelines, but I gradually began taking 

on some responsibility and felt comfortable 

enough to contribute to the discussions,” 

she recalls. 

After honing her design skills on 

commercial, hospitality and residential 

projects, Clark-Lane has discovered that 

“what I love about light is its ability to 

make you see and think about the world 

around us. One of my favorite quotes 

comes from Charles Eames: ‘Choose 

your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely 

and to the best of your ability, and 

that way you might change the world.’ I 

think I’ve found an exciting corner.” 

A FEW KIND WORDS: “Most of an individual’s 

contributions are recognized in 

retrospect,” says IES past-president and 

LDI principal, Kim Mercier. “These include 

a conscientious ethic, being designminded, 

being learned and learning, and 

possessing a sense of responsibility that 

comes from within and a drive to be a 

better person. Rachael has these characteristics 

and is on this path.” 

DOWN THE ROAD: Ever the emerging 

professional, Clark-Lane “looks forward 

to taking on opportunities that will expand 

my accreditations and knowledge 

of lighting and to be able to apply that directly 

to my work.” 


‘This really shows how new I am, but the most excited I’ve been in my 

career was when one of my first projects was finally completed and we 

turned the lights on. I truly felt like a designer’ 

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Many in the profession have 

voiced concern over the past 

few years that there will not be 

enough Ph.D.s to sustain university lighting 

programs. Michael Royer, who will 

earn his Ph.D. from Penn State University 

in May, wants to be part of the solution 

to that thorny problem. “There are many 

people out there who are good at and love 

to teach lighting, but the problem is that 

most universities require a Ph.D. for fulltime 

faculty members,” says Royer. “In 

recent years, there’s been a shortage of 

Ph.D.s coming out of lighting programs, 

which in turn creates a shortage of lighting 

programs and a vicious cycle ensues. 

Dr. Kevin Houser, my advisor, has made 

a dedicated effort to bring in graduate 

students who are intent on pursuing 

academic careers. This will allow existing 

programs to flourish while creating 

a pool of qualified individuals who can 

start new programs. I’d like to think I’m 

among the first of the next generation of 

lighting educators, both helping to expand 

the reach of lighting education and 

eventually filling the void as the existing 

generation of educators move on.” 

Royer, who also earned his bachelor’s 

and master’s at Penn State, is working 

toward a Ph.D. in Architectural Engineering, 

Illuminations Systems. His dissertation 

includes research done with 

doctors at Penn State’s Milton S. Hershey 

Medical Center. “My work with Hershey 

focuses on examining light therapy as 

a prophylactic treatment for a general 

population of seniors. We are examining 

the possibilities of adapting light therapy 

as an integral part of daily activities. The 

end goal is to improve quality of life, and 

potentially longevity, for seniors.” 

Royer also hopes to educate those outside 

the industry by showing the public 

what’s possible through lighting. “The 

coolest thing about working in lighting 

is the opportunity to change someone’s 

environment in a way they never imagined. 

I think lighting is underappreciated 

as an integral part of the built environment, 

but once people see what can 

be done, they are usually amazed.” 

A FEW KIND WORDS: “When I first met 

Michael at the IES Conference in Seattle, 

I found his enthusiasm for the lighting 

profession refreshing. His interest in ensuring 

that lighting professionals take 

ownership and responsibility for the visual 

environment was exciting to hear,” 

says Kevin Flynn, executive vice president, 

Kiku Obata & Company. “I look forward 

to following Michael’s career and 

one day reading about his lighting program 

at one of our nation’s universities.” 

DOWN THE ROAD: Royer is looking 

forward to a dual-track career in academia. 

“In the next few years, I hope 

to establish myself as a prominent 

researcher and begin giving back to 

the industry by training the next generation 

of lighting professionals. I hope 

that my research will lead to increased 

energy efficiency, more pleasing visual 

environments and lighting systems 

that emphasize not only visual needs, 

but biological needs as well.” 


MICHAEL ROYER 

PENN STATE UNIVERSITY 

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA 


• 2010 Jonas Bellovin 

Scholar Achievement 

Award; 2009 NSF 

Graduate Research 

Fellowship, Honorable 

Mention; 2009 IES Young 

Professionals 

Scholarship 

‘Seeing my first 

paper published 

in LEUKOS 

wasn’t the most 

fun or exciting 

moment, but 

it’s memorable 

since, hopefully, 

it’s the 

beginning of 

bigger things to 

come’ 



FAITH JEWELL 

HORTON LEES 

BROGDEN LIGHTING 

DESIGN 

SAN FRANCISCO 


• Young Urbanist, 

San Francisco Planning 

+ Urban Research 

Association 

• Key projects: Canyon 

Land Resort Hotel, 

Phoenix; the San 

Bernardino Courthouse; 

UC Berkeley Moffitt 

Library; Cologne Science 

Center. 

‘I’ve been 

working on a 

hotel in Austin, 

TX, and am 

excited to 

see how it 

turned out’ 

Faith Jewell has something of a 

dual personality when it comes 

to lighting. While she can wax 

philosophical about the design nuances 

in different cultures, she also sweats 

the small stuff in her role at HLB. 

After graduating from the University of 

San Diego, Jewell earned an M.A. in Architectural 

Lighting Design at the Hochschule, 

Wismar in Germany. Her travels 

in Europe took her to the Luminale Light 

+ Building Festival in Frankfurt, where 

her design for a parking garage near the 

city’s central train station was installed; 

to France where she studied architecture; 

to Cologne, Germany, for an internship; 

and later to Berlin, where she 

designed the lighting for several international 

projects, including the Palazzo 

Versace Dubai hotel and resort. 

That journey revealed both similarities 

and differences between the U.S. and 

Europe in design approach. “Europe is 

divided into many small countries and 

many tiny markets. Each European 

country has a distinct culture and education 

system that have led to a unique design 

approach that is often part of a country’s 

identity,” notes Jewell. “A good way 

to visualize it is to think about the differences 

between a Mercedes sports car and 

a Ferrari. Design in Italy is something 

totally different from design in Germany, 

and this also holds true in terms of lighting 

design across Europe.” 

The U.S., by contrast, may offer more 

creative opportunities. “In terms of design 

style and process, there are subtle 

regional differences, but because we are 

one big domestic market and designers 

are often educated in a region different 

from their own, there is a thread that 

ties us all together, but less of a distinctly 

‘American’ style,” she says. “In many ways 

this is what I like most about working as a 

lighting designer in the U.S. It is not meant 

as an insult because no one can argue 

with the greatness of European design. 

Certainly the design process in the U.S. 

is much less stylized than it is in Europe, 

but here we have the freedom to develop 

concepts from many different traditions 

and a style that is uniquely our own.” 

Jewell’s interests, though, extend beyond 

the conceptual to the day-to-day 

concerns of the designer, and she’s been 

instrumental in developing quality control 

practices among her peers at HLB. 

“We meet as a team to focus on both 

small- and big-picture issues ranging 

from office standards, drafting techniques, 

to what lessons we can learn from 

completed projects, project management 

styles and how to learn from each other’s 

design approach,” says Jewell. 

A FEW KIND WORDS: “Faith is constantly 

learning from the projects around 

her as well as reaching beyond the lighting 

practice to take ideas and inspiration 

from the design community and the 

world at large,” says HLB senior principal 

Angela McDonald. “Her openness 

to new ideas is invigorating to the other 

professionals who have the opportunity 

to work with her.” 

DOWN THE ROAD: Jewell hopes to refine 

her design techniques. “My focus 

will be on continuing to develop my 

personal style and approach. I am hoping 

that by filling my head with inspiration, 

exploring new technologies and 

continuing to sharpen my methods that 

someday I will be recognized as an expert 

in the industry.” 


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WANTED 

A NEW 

TYPE OF 

LIGHTING 

PROFESSIONAL 

Looking beyond the traditional roles of 

designer, manufacturer, rep and distributor, 

the author offers a fearless forecast of five 

new job titles poised to make an impact on 

the industry 

BY KELLY M. SEEGER 

When Paul Tarricone asked 

me to write a companion 

piece for this issue of 

LD+A focusing on new and emerging 

jobs in lighting, I jumped at the 

opportunity. Watching industry 

trends and considering new roles for 

lighting professionals has long been 

an interest of mine. 

It has been so much of an interest, 

in fact, that three years ago I 

developed a presentation on these 

topics for the graduate students of 

the Lighting Research Center at 

RPI. The intent was simple: give 

the students a leg up and let them 

in on the things that I’ve learned 

over my 10 years out in the real 

world before they enter it. I convinced 

my good friend and colleague, 

Peping Dee, Jr., a lighting 

product designer and fellow LRC 

alum, to assist in editing and delivering 

the presentation. 

The result was an overview of 

the lighting industry covering topics 

they should be familiar with 

but wouldn’t learn in school—the 

different jobs they could do, the 

sales process, lighting organizations, 

credentials, trends and so on. 

What began as a small effort on my 

part to give back to my alma mater 

and the lighting community has 

grown into a two-hour, 60-slide 

presentation entitled, “The Lighting 

Industry in a Nutshell” that we 

continue to give to the students and 

will enter its third year this spring. 

What I would like to share here 

is my perspective and observations 

on industry trends and new jobs for 

lighting professionals—ones that I 

have seen and the emerging roles 

that I think are on the horizon. I 

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will add that my perspective on the 

industry is perhaps a bit unique in 

that my current role falls into what 

I call “The Others” in my presentation—one 

of a group with nontraditional 

roles in lighting. These 

roles might technically be in other 

market sectors, but in some way 

they intersect with lighting. 

In my case, this is as consultant 

who specializes in lighting for a 

global professional services firm. 

In my primary role as an account 

manager for a commercial lighting 

incentive program, I interact with 

lighting designers, architects, engineers, 

manufacturer’s reps, distributors, 

contractors, lighting energy 

services companies (ESCOs) 

and end-users on a daily basis. In 

addition, my experience extends 

to working as a lighting designer 

and to manufacturing, where I’ve 

worked as an applications engineer, 

metro New York regional 

sales manager and director of sales 

and marketing. 

INDUSTRY TRENDS 

One of the things I find so great 

about our industry is that it’s young 

compared to many other industries—there 

are still things left to 

be discovered and the rules aren’t 

set in stone. Our industry is constantly 

expanding and evolving. 

Just as our universe is expanding, 

so is lighting—we are improving 

existing techniques and developing 

new ones. We are learning to 

utilize sophisticated technologies 

such as solid-state lighting and we 

are adapting control protocols into 

our lighting systems. In doing this, 

we are also incorporating new professionals 

and skills sets from other 

industries. Our industry is truly 

becoming well-rounded. 

The following are several trends 

that I anticipate for the lighting industry 

in the coming years. 

Companies will consolidate 

resources and look for an edge 

to help them stand out from 

the crowd. We’ve all heard it. The 

number of LED manufacturers is 

predicted to drop drastically over 

the next few years as LED manufacturing 

processes solidify and 

standards take hold. The same will 

be true of other sectors of the industry 

and lighting professionals will 

be tasked with wearing more hats, 

doing more jobs and becoming proficient 

in more skills. Opportunities 

will be there for truly outstanding 

individuals to shine in leading 

roles in the industry. To quote 

Stephen Covey, “effective people 

are not problem-minded; they’re 

opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities 

and starve problems.” 

An increase in architecture 

and engineering firms with inhouse 

lighting departments. 

This is an interesting trend. Some 

design firms now offer energy 

auditing and lighting redesign 

services; no longer are these services 

confined to the realm of the 

contractor or ESCO. It will be advantageous 

for these companies 

to employ lighting professionals to 

bridge the gap between design and 

energy efficiency. 

Lighting professionals in 

non-traditional roles. Since 

becoming a consultant, I am continually 

amazed at how many opportunities 

exist for lighting professionals 

outside the traditional 

roles of designer, manufacturer, 

lighting rep and distributor. The 

growth of solid-state lighting as 

well as the move toward greater 

energy efficiency across our nation 

ensures the need for lighting professionals 

in neighboring market 

sectors including energy, environment, 

policy/government, utilities, 

state agencies and municipalities. 

WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS 

So what does the future hold for 

the lighting professional Well, to 

borrow a phrase from an old ’80s 

song, “The Future’s So Bright, I 

Gotta Wear Shades.” We can identify 

several emerging jobs as well 

as a number of jobs that will become 

more widespread in the coming 

years. These jobs are likely to 

come about in one of two ways—either 

as spin-offs or specializations 

from within traditional roles, or 

in response to needs that arise in 

the marketplace. The infusion of 

new technologies, infrastructure 

improvements, the refinement 

of codes and standards, and new 

practices/strategies will all contribute 

to the creation of new jobs 

and expansion of existing ones. 

What follows is a look at five job 

titles that may be just over the horizon. 

1The Lighting and Controls 

Specialist. If the focus on 

energy efficiency, LEDs 

and controls integration continues 

(which I expect it will), there will 

be a need for ESCOs, A/E Firms, 

electrical distributors and electrical 

contractors to employ lighting 

specialists. The trend toward sus- 



tainable building design practices 

indicates that what may have traditionally 

been handled by existing 

staff at these companies will 

now need to be overseen by trained 

lighting professionals. The Lighting 

and Controls Specialist may 

also coordinate efforts to ensure 

that the systems are installed as designed 

in order to maximize energy 

savings and return on investment. 

2 

The Lighting Systems Commissioning 

Agent. As the 

design and implementation 

of lighting and control systems becomes 

more sophisticated, owners 

will need to employ commissioning 

agents specifically for these systems. 

The Lighting Systems Commissioning 

Agent may also coordinate 

the measurement and verification 

(M&V) process to make sure that the 

owner receives anticipated energyefficiency 

incentives for the project 

from utilities or other organizations. 

3The Municipality Energy 

Manager. It’s not uncommon 

for a city or town to 

have an Energy Manager. What is 

uncommon is for that individual to 

be educated in good lighting design 

and practice. And today, this is exactly 

what is needed because now 

more than ever, their challenges 

are lighting-related. Traditionally, 

Energy Managers have been responsible 

for identifying opportunities 

for energy-efficiency upgrades, 

training personnel on energy conservation, 

conducting outreach and 

creating an energy management 

plan for the municipality. 

Today, municipalities have a lot of 

lighting work. Many have received 

stimulus funding or other grants to 

upgrade lighting to improve energy 

efficiency in schools, on streets and 

at other sites throughout their areas. 

There is growing need for lighting 

professionals to direct these planned 

upgrades. Within an Energy Manager 

role, a lighting professional can 

So what does the future hold for the 

lighting professional Well, to borrow a 

phrase from an old ’80s song, ‘The Future’s 

So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades’ 

also be of crucial importance when 

it comes to writing specifications 

and requests for proposals as well as 

managing the installation process. 

4The Independent Lighting 

Product Designer. In recent 

years, manufacturers 

have increasingly sought product 

development assistance from outside 

engineering firms. In response 

to this need, lighting professionals 

who have mechanical engineering 

or industrial design backgrounds 

will begin taking on this role. The 

ability to marry industrial design 

with an understanding of optics 

and lighting sets the Lighting 

Product Designer apart from the 

typical mechanical engineer or industrial 

designer. 

5The Consultant (who specializes 

in lighting). Traditionally, 

when the term 

lighting consultant is mentioned, 

one typically thinks of a lighting 

designer. In the coming years, I 

think these two terms will cease 

to be synonymous. Wikipedia and 

dictionary.com define a consultant 

as “a professional who provides 

expert advice in a particular area 

of expertise and has a wide knowledge 

of the subject matter.” 

Continued national, regional 

and local emphasis on energy efficiency 

and lighting will facilitate 

the need for more consultants who 

specialize in lighting. Lighting 

Consultants will be called upon to 

provide advice and technical assistance 

to a wide range of clients 

from federal and state agencies to 

utilities, municipalities and others. 

They will provide valuable support 

to our industry as proponents and 

educators of good lighting principles 

and practices. 

All in all, it’s an exciting time to 

be a lighting professional. 

About the Author: Kelly Seeger, 

MSc, LC, Member IES (2005), LEED 

AP ID+C, is an associate with ICF 

International, where works for the 

Energy Efficiency line of business. 

She works on several projects including the NYSERDA 

Commercial Lighting Program where she is an account 

manager. Ms. Seeger holds a Master of Science in 

Lighting from the Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer 

Polytechnic Institute and is the president of the 

IES New York City Section (IESNYC). 

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PROJECT 

The coffered ceiling has inset “lay lights”—22 

octagonal panels of Tiffany glass. Suspended 

from the ceiling are 22 long pendants, which 

beam uplight. On the orchestra and mezzanine 

balcony ceilings, three of the 13 Tiffany stainedglass 

fixtures that were missing were replicated 

to match the glass of the original fixtures. 

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PROJECT 

With its restored Tiffany fixtures and selective 

use of LEDs, the renovated Belasco Theatre 

is again the jewel in Broadway’s crown 

BY VILMA BARR AND ELLEN LAMPERT-GRÉAUX 

A STAR IS 

REBORN 

Photo: Whitney Cox 

Theatrical lore has it that 

Manhattan’s Belasco Theatre 

is haunted, and that the 

ghost of fabled showman and playwright 

David Belasco still appears 

backstage, watching over his former 

home. Perhaps, now that the theater 

has undergone a $14.5 million restoration, 

Belasco’s ghost can bask 

in the glow of the restored Tiffany 

stained-glass fixtures, satisfied that 

the theater bearing his name once 

again glitters on Broadway. 

With seating for 1,000, the circa 

1907 building was designed in neo- 

Georgian style by George Keister, 

a well-known theatrical architect 

of the early 20 th century. Belasco 

maintained a duplex apartment 

in the building’s northeast tower. 

For 23 years after its opening, Belasco 

produced and directed more 

than 50 shows, many of which he 

also wrote, introducing such actors 

as Humphrey Bogart to New York 

theatergoers. Through the decades 

following Belasco’s death in 1931, 

the theater presented such classics 

as Follies, Will Success Spoil Rock 

Hunter and Oh, Calcutta! 

The restoration and general improvement 

of the lighting in the 

Belasco was “a key element” in the 

recent renovation, says architect 

Francesca Russo, who oversaw the 

project for The Shubert Organization, 

which has owned the theater 

since 1948. “The overall lighting in 

the theater is very artistic and many 

of the fixtures were created by Tiffany 

Studios following Belasco’s instructions,” 

she recounts. Belasco 


PROJECT 

Bunches of purple glass grapes affixed to tapered 

pilasters seem to burst with light now that they have been 

cleaned and relighted from behind with LEDs. 


and Louis Comfort Tiffany were 

good friends, and Tiffany’s manufacturing 

firm received the commission 

to create the theater’s light fixtures. 

When the theater opened, the 

lighting was the talk of the town. 

As Arthur David noted in Architectural 

Record in 1908 about the 

then-Stuyvesant Theatre (later 

renamed the Belasco): “. . . lights 

veiled in tinted glass, whose color 

is borrowed from the decorations 

against which they are placed: the 

soothing color scheme in which 

the whole interior is floated-amber, 

golden brown, dusty gray, orange, 

and faded green blues.” Observers 

pointed out that Belasco had the 

theater decorated and illuminated 

as if he were inviting guests into 

his living room. 

STAGE REVIVAL 

Coordinating the renovation’s 

lighting and power upgrade was Ted 

Jacobi, engineering project manager 

for The Shubert Organization. 

He describes the lighting in the coffered 

ceiling as inset “lay lights”—22 

octagonal panels of Tiffany glass. 

“They were part of the first phase of 

the restoration, two years ago,” says 

Jacobi. Suspended from the ceiling 

are 22 Rosette-style fixtures on long 

pendants, which beam uplight onto 

the elegant palace-like geometric 

pattern overhead. Although many 

of the originals were missing, they 

were replicated from the surviving 

fixtures by Femenella & Associates, 

Branchburg, NJ-based restoration 

specialists. “We replaced the existing 

11-W incandescent lamps with 

40-W incandescents to enhance the 

visibility of the ceiling,” says Jacobi. 

Three of the 13 Tiffany stainedglass 

fixtures on the orchestra and 

mezzanine balcony ceilings that 

were missing were also replicated to 

exactly match the glass of the original 

fixtures. “The originals, which 

had been in storage for 40 years, had 

eight sockets each which I assumed 

held 25-W lamps, or 200 watts per 

fixture, for a total of 2,600 watts,” Jacobi 

says. “We installed a new bracket 

with four 6-W LEDs in each, or 24 

watts each, a savings of 2,288 watts.” 

During LD+A’s tour of the Belasco, 

Thomas Stein, project manager 

for The Shubert Organization, noted 

that the new lighting on all of the 

theater’s levels accents a very warm 

palette of earthy colors comprising 

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PROJECT 

The original lobby fixture, this six-armed gilded chandelier with globe glass 

shades, was reconditioned and restored, with missing pieces recast for 

authenticity. The murals were also cleaned and washed with LED light. 

terra cotta, verdigris, wood graining 

and gold. Stein pointed out how the 

Tiffany-made stained-glass glows in 

the fixtures at the top of the pilasters 

on the orchestra and mezzanine levels. 

Bunches of purple glass grapes 

affixed to these upward tapered columns 

seem to burst with light now 

that they have been cleaned and 

relighted from behind with LEDs. 

“The equipment installed in 1906 

took up a great deal of space inside 

the column capitals and blocked the 

removed and replaced with four 6-W 

12-in. LED strips and four 3-W 6-in. 

strips in each capital, a total of 36 

watts each, a total of 180 watts, saving 

3,020 watts.” 

“The [column] capitals over the 

box seating were given the same 

treatment,” Jacobi continues. “There 

were approximately 12 40-W lamps 

in each of four fixtures, or 1,920 

watts. We brought the total down to 

118 watts by installing LED strips, a 

saving of 1,802 watts.” 

reflective surface, making it impossible 

to light the lower half of the fixture,” 

Jacobi says. There were four 

40-W incandescent lamps on each 

of the four surfaces of these fixtures 

on the pilasters (640 watts per fixture) 

MARQUEE ON THE MARK 

Outside the theater, the new 

marquee repeats details from the 

original, but combines what had 

been three sections into one con- 

and there are five fixtures, for tinuous element that sparkles 

a total of 3,200 watts. “I had them all when illuminate from 4 p.m until 


midnight. Under the marquee’s 

pressed tin ceiling, and the chase 

lights around the perimeter, are 

rows of 3-W cold-cathode lamps, 

a total of 500 enclosed in glass 

globes to evoke the look of traditional 

incandescent bulbs. “By replacing 

each 25-W lamp, we went 

from 13,000 watts to 1,600,” Jacobi 

says. There are now a total of 2,000 

3-W cold-cathode lamps on the underside 

of the marquee and on the 

two-sided vertical “Belasco” sign 

that identifies the theater. 

Walking into the lobby reveals 

new lighting there, as well. The original 

chandelier was reconditioned 

and restored, with missing pieces recast 

for authenticity. The lobby décor 

includes original leaded glass panels 

in a circular bulls-eye pattern, also 

restored by Femenella & Associates 

and relighted from behind. Additional 

fixtures over the ticket windows 

add illumination to the lobby and the 

carved cherubs that grace the lobby. 

Broadway lighting designer Ken 

Billington consulted on the lighting 

of the restored murals on the first and 

second floors, as well as the lounge 

level and lobby. “Some of the murals 

had been painted over in the 1950s 

with white paint, totally hidden from 

view. Others were coated with dirt 

from a century of cigarette smoke 

and dust,” Billington says. “Some of 

the reflectors on the fixtures were 

just black from age; they all needed 

to be thoroughly cleaned.” 

Once the murals were restored, 

Billington specified the wall washes 

to bring them to life. In the lobby, 

he opted for a 2,700K white LED 

system. “The lobby had never been 

lighted like this before. You can 


PROJECT 

The combined efforts of many 

artisans and design professionals 

working together restored the grand 

palazzo-like interior and upgraded 

the exterior to create a glowing theatrical 

landmark on New York’s Great 

White Way—like a period theater 

during the days of David Belasco. 

Vilma Barr is based in Philadelphia 

and is a regular contributor 

to LD+A. She is collaborating on 

her sixteenth book on design and 

the built environment. 

Ellen Lampert-Gréaux is the 

consulting editor for Live Design 

magazine and conference director 

for LDI, an annual entertainment 

design and technology trade show. 

Under the marquee’s pressed tin ceiling are rows of 3-W cold 

cathode lamps, a total of 500 enclosed in glass globes to evoke 

the look of traditional incandescent bulbs. 

really see the exceptional murals 

that were created by three artists, 

including Everett Shinn,” he says. 

For the lounge level and first floor 

murals, he selected warm white LED 

strips. “They come with their own 

dimmer and can be dimmed 100 

percent, which is better for the house 

lights,” explains Billington. On the 

second floor, the lamps had to fit into 

a very shallow ceiling space, so recessed 

MR16 dimmable downlights 

were specified. “The challenge,” Billington 

notes, “is to put modern fixtures 

into an historic building like 

the Belasco and still be eco-friendly.” 

Billington set the levels for the 

mural lighting with the assistance 

of programmer Victor Seastone. An 

ETC Unison architectural lighting 

control system handles the house 

lights and lobbies. “We set several 

levels: walk-in, house to half, house 

out with lights in boxes and stairs 

still on, and a cleaning cue,” notes 

Billington. “We never set the lights to 

100 percent, to increase lamp life, to 

keep the house lights off as much as 

possible and to save power.” 

“When you walk in and see the 

lighting, you might imagine that it 

looked just this way when the theater 

was constructed,” Billington muses. 

“But of course today’s lighting program 

meets all current safety standards 

and regulations.” A new fire 

alarm system was put in place, along 

with an emergency generator. 

Photo: Vilma Barr 

About the Designers: Francesca 

M. Russo, architect for the restoration 

of the Belasco Theatre, has 

made a specialty in the restoration 

and adaptive reuse of buildings related 

to the arts, education and housing. Based in Nyack, 

NY and Barnstable, MA, she served as architect for the 

award-winning renovations of the Hirschfeld, St. James, 

American Airlines, Sam S. Shubert and Eugene O’Neill 

Theatres. She is a member of the Society of Architectural 

Historians. 

Theodore V. (Ted) Jacobi III, has 

been engineering project manager 

for The Shubert Organization. Inc., 

since 1997. His responsibilities 

cover design coordination and 

project management for all electrical, plumbing, mechanical 

systems, fire alarm and fire protection for theater 

renovations and day-to-day theater maintenance. 

Theatrical lighting designer Ken 

Billington, Member IES (1985), this 

season opened his 93 rd Broadway 

show, The Scottsboro Boys. Previous 

productions include: Chicago, 

Sondheim on Sondheim, The Drowsy Chaperone, The 

Visit, and revivals of Sunday in the Park with George, 

Candide, Annie, My Fair Lady and Fiddler on the Roof. 

He is the recipient of Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics 

Circle Awards. 

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ANNUAL INDEX SUBJECT 

BRIDGES 

Flight Simulator ............ Sep p.49 

The Museum of Flight—T. Evans 

Wyckoff Memorial Bridge 

Jeff Losnegard 

by Paul Tarricone 

COLUMNS 

Apps + Answers ...........Apr p.24 

Apps + Answers ...........Jun p.28 

Apps + Answers ...........Sep p.24 

Careers + Hiring ............Jan p.14 

Careers + Hiring ............Apr p.28 

Careers + Hiring ............Jul p.24 

Careers + Hiring ............Oct p.34 

Editorial ....................Jan p.4 

Editorial ....................Feb p.4 

Editorial ....................Mar p.4 

Editorial ....................Apr p.8 

Editorial ...................May p.26 

Editorial ...................Jun p.4 

Editorial ...................Jul p.4 

Editorial ....................Aug p.4 

Editorial ....................Sep p. 4 

Editorial ....................Oct p.4 

Editorial ....................Nov p.4 

Editorial ....................Dec p.6 

Education ..................Feb p.17 

Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mar p.28 

Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May p.46 

Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug p.18 

Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sep p.28 

Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nov p.20 

Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dec p.32 

Energy Advisor ............Jan p.12 

Energy Advisor ............Feb p.12 

Energy Advisor ............Mar p.16 

Energy Advisor ............Apr p.16 

Energy Advisor ............May p.42 

Energy Advisor ............Jun p.20 

Energy Advisor ............Jul p.14 

Energy Advisor ............Aug p.14 

Energy Advisor ............Sep p.14 

Energy Advisor ............Oct p.20 

Energy Advisor .............Nov p.16 

Energy Advisor ............Dec p.18 

Essay ......................Jan p.16 

Essay ......................Feb p.22 

Essay ......................Jul p.26 

Eye on the Boomers ........Jan p.18 

Eye on the Boomers .......Apr p.32 

Eye on the Boomers ........Jul p.20 

Eye on the Boomers ........Oct p.28 

LED Watch ................. Feb p.20 

LED Watch .................Apr p.20 

LED Watch .................May p.52 

LED Watch ................Aug p.28 

LED Watch .................Sep p.20 

LED Watch ................Oct p.24 

LED Watch ................Dec p. 

Policy Points . ..............Jul p.28 

Policy Points . ..............Sep p.32 

Policy Points . ..............Nov p.30 

President’s Perspective . . . . Jan p.8 

President’s Perspective . . . . Mar p.10 

President’s Perspective . . . . May p.32 

President’s Perspective . . . . Jul p.10 

President’s Perspective . . . . Oct p.12 

Research Matters. . . . . . . . . . Mar p.22 

Research Matters. . . . . . . . . . Jul p.18 

Research Matters. . . . . . . . . . Aug p.24 

Research Matters .........Nov p.26 

Research Matters. . . . . . . . . . Dec p.26 

Rules + Regs ...............Mar p.20 

Rules + Regs ...............Jun p.24 

DIRECTORIES 

2010 LIGHTING ............Mar p.53 

EQUIPMENT + 

ACCESSORIES DIRECTORY 

EDUCATION 

Buy Low, Sell High .........Jan p.37 

Art Center College of Design 

by Vilma Barr 

George Washington ........Jan p.39 

Says Hail to the Chiefs 

by Erin Speck 

EDUCATION FACILITIES/ 

LIBRARIES 

A Lesson in Retrofitting . . . . May p.59 

University of Maryland 

by Elizabeth Hall 

Adaptive Approach ...... Nov p. 59 


Big Technology ............Jun p.54 

on Campus 

University of Colorado, Boulder Campus 


Clearly Stated .............Jul p.54 

The Annenberg Public Policy Center 

Helen Diemer; The Lighting Practice 

and Fumihiko Maki; Maki and 

Associates 


Kinetic Cool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sep p.60 

Aldis Light Engine No. 19 at the 

Arizona State University Walter 

Cronkite School of Journalism and 

Mass Communication 

Paul Deeb; Vox Manufacturing 

The Big Switch .............May p.69 

Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress Resort, 

Rockford High School and the Bowden 

Ice Arena 


University of Michigan . . . . . Sep p.38 

Hill Dining Center 


ESSAY 

The Code Word Is People . . Oct p.56 

by Greg Guarnaccia 

Wanted: A New Type .......Dec p.68 

of Lighting Professional 

by Kelly M. Seeger 

FAÇADE/LANDSCAPE LIGHTING 

Combo Pack. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sep p.40 

Alegent Health, Bergan Mercy 

Hospital, parking garage 

Kyle G. Pearson 


Holiday Gift. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nov p.53 

Denver City and County building 


Line of Sight ................Sep p.44 

Spire Tower 

Rachel Petro; RNL 


Up on the Roof .............Jan p.21 

Midtown Manhattan Rooftop 


FUTURE LEADERS: THE NEXT 

GENERATION OF LIGHTING 

LUMINAIRIES 

Matt Alleman; .............Dec p.49 

SmithGroup, Detroit 


Chris Bailey; Hubbell .......Dec p.58 

Lighting, Bradenton, FL 


Kristy Benner; Kaplan ......Dec p.60 

Gehring McCarroll 

Architectural Lighting, 

El Segundo, CA 


Megan Christen; ...........Dec p.50 

Cooper Lighting, 

Peachtree City, GA 


Rachel Clark-Lane; ......... Dec p.64 

Lighting Design Innovations, 

Calgary, Alberta, Canada 


Lara Cordell; ...............Dec p.53 

Wiedenbach-Brown, Yorba Linda, CA 


Rachel Eichorn; Kugler . . . . Dec p.43 

Ning Lighting Design, Inc., New York, 

NY 


Keith Graeber; California . . Dec p.47 

Lighting Technology Center, UC Davis 


Andrea Hauber; ............Dec p.45 

KlingStubbins, Philadelphia 


Faith Jewell; Horton .......Dec p.66 

Lees Brogden Lighting Design, 

San Francisco 


Renée Joosten; ............Dec p.56 

Cooley Monato Studio, New York, NY 


Bryan Klammer; Lighting . . . Dec p.52 

Design Alliance, Los Angeles 


Lisa Kramer; h.e. ........... Dec p.54 

banks + associates, San Francisco 


Juan Pablo Lira; ............ Dec p.51 

Focus Lighting, New York, NY 


Martha Lopacki; ...........Dec p.55 

Sean O’Connor Lighting, Beverly Hills 


Amer Maleh; .............. Dec p.44 

Continental Lighting, New York, NY 


Avraham Mor; ..............Dec p.42 

Lightswitch Architectural, Chicago 


Shanna Olson; .............Dec p.63 

IBC Engineering Services, Inc., 

Waukesha, WI 


Christy Rogers, ............Dec p.48 

EwingCole, Philadelphia 


Michael Royer; .............Dec p.65 

Penn State University 


Aaron Smith; Rensselaer . . . Dec p.62 

Polytechnic Institute’s 

Lighting Research Center 


Craig Spring .............. Dec p.61 

Architectural Lighting Consultants, 

Seattle, WA 


Chrysanthi Stockwell . . . . Dec p.59 

Hammel, Green and Abrahamson 

Architects and Engineers, 

Minneapolis, MN 


Emrah Baki Ulas; ..........Dec p.57 

Steensen Varming, 

Northbridge, Australia 


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Andrea Wilkerson; . . . . . . . . . Dec p.46 

The Penn State University 


HEALTH CARE FACILITIES 


Alegent Health, Bergan Mercy Hospital, 

parking garage 



HOSPITALITY LIGHTING 

A League of Its Own . . . . . . . . Feb p.40 

Harvard Club New York City 

Suzan Tillotson; Tillotson Design 

Associates 


Big Payoff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Feb p.48 

MGM Grand Detroit 

Kenneth Klemmer; Illuminating 

Concepts 

Deep in the Vault . . . . . . . . . . . Aug p.54 

Boston Mandarin Oriental Hotel’s 

Mizu Salon 

Jeffrey T. Berg, John Powell, Christopher 

Leon; Parsons Brinckerhoff 


Elements of Entertainment . Aug p.33 

FireKeepers Casino 


Natural Selection . . . . . . . . . . Feb p.44 

Canyon Ranch 

Paul Gregory and Juan Pablo Lira; 

Focus Lighting, Inc. 


One Shell of a Structure . . . . Feb p.34 

Yas Hotel, Abu Dhabi 

Brian Stacy and Rogier van der Heide; 

Arup Lighting 


Recovery Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Apr p.40 

Renaissance New Orleans Pere Marquette 

Hotel and Mila Restaurant 

Scott Oldner; Scott Oldner Lighting 

Design 


The Big Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . May p.69 

Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress Resort; 

Rockford High School; and The Bowden 

Ice Arena 


The Langham Yangtze . . . . . . Sep p.37 

Boutique Hotel 


HOUSES OF WORSHIP 

Moonstruck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug p.48 

Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan 

Mosque 

Jonathan Speirs and Keith Bradshaw; 

Speirs and Major Associates 


IES ANNUAL CONFERENCE 

PREVIEW 

IES Conference Preview . . . Sep p.64 

IES FYI 

2010 IES Annual . . . . . . . . . . . . Mar p.120 

Conference Call for Papers 

2010: A Light Odyssey . . . . . . Jun p.80 

Besal Scholarships Go . . . . . May p.115 

to Student Members 

Deadline Approaches . . . . . . Apr p.100 

for Shemitz Scholarship 

Educating the Elderly. . . . . . . Jan p.80 

IES 2010 Position . . . . . . . . . . . Oct p.84 

Statement Recap 

IES and LD+A Win . . . . . . . . . . May p.116 

Media Awards 

IES to Host 29 th Annual . . . . . Jun p.80 

Street and Area Lighting Conference 

Lights of Philadelphia . . . . . . Nov p.75 

Manufacturers . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nov p.76 

on the Move 

NCQLP Announces . . . . . . . . Aug p.96 

2009 LC Exam Results 

New York’s Finest . . . . . . . . . . Aug p.94 

Celebrate at 2010 Lumens 

NYC Students Compete . . . . May p.116 

with Light 

Reflections from . . . . . . . . . . . Mar p.116 

the Emerald City 

Re-Model Home . . . . . . . . . . . Aug p.95 

Retro Redux at . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sep p.79 

Lumen West 

Saul Goldin Scholarship . . . . Sep p.79 

Section Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug p.94 

and Tributes 

Society to Honor . . . . . . . . . . . Sep p.80 

Members at Annual Conference 

Sometimes You Get . . . . . . . . Jun p.12 

What You Need 

by Rachael Clark-Lane 

Stories from Seattle . . . . . . . . Jan p.79 


Street and Area Lighting . . . Dec p.92 

Conference 

Survey: Members . . . . . . . . . . May p.115 

Satisfied with Dues Renewal 

University Students . . . . . . . . Aug p.9 

Receive Design Scholarships 

Upcoming IES Webcast . . . . Feb p.68 

to Cover Controls 

IES ILLUMINATION AWARDS 

2010 IES Illumination . . . . . . . Aug p.37 

Awards 

Deep in the Vault . . . . . . . . . . . Aug p.54 

Boston Mandarin Oriental Hotel’s 

Mizu Salon 

Jeffrey T. Berg, John Powell and Christopher 

Leon; Parson Brinckerhoff 


Moonstruck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug p.48 

Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan 

Mosque 




IES 2010 Illumination . . . . . . . Aug p.60 

Awards of Merit 

ANATOMY OF AN AWARD 

Bethesda Lane . . . . . . . . . . . . . Feb p.26 


Chicago Cultural Center . . . . Feb p.25 

Preston Bradley Hall Dome 


China Basin Landing . . . . . . . Jun p.34 


DTW North Terminal . . . . . . . Apr p.38 


Hello Cupcake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nov p.35 


Logan College Student . . . . . Jun p.33 

Center 


Taubman Museum of Art . . . Nov p.36 


The Langham Yangtze . . . . . . Sep p.37 






World Market Center . . . . . . Apr p.37 


OBITUARIES 

Camille Labrecque . . . . . . . . . Aug p.95 

James Richards . . . . . . . . . . . . Nov p.75 

INDUSTRIAL LIGHTING 

A Slow Go on the . . . . . . . . . . . Jun p.43 

Factory Floor 


Fewer Parts Required . . . . . . Jun p.42 

Frontline International 

Manufacturing Plant 


LIGHTFAIR 2010 

PREVIEW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Apr p.58 

Speakers In the Spotlight 

Daylight Decoder . . . . . . . . . . Apr p.78 

Mudit Saxena 


Household Name. . . . . . . . . . . Apr p.82 

Steven Klein 


LED Provocateur . . . . . . . . . . . Apr p.66 

Jack Curran 


Master of the Details . . . . . . . Apr p.74 

D. Schweppe 


Musings of a Mentor . . . . . . . Apr p.70 

Alice Prussin 


The Landscape Luminairie . Apr p.62 

Jan Moyer 


MUSEUMS/EXHIBITS 

Backlighting Goes . . . . . . . . . . Aug p.34 

Back in Time 

West Virginia State Museum 


Flight Simulator . . . . . . . . . . . . Sep p.49 

The Museum of Flight—T. Evans 

Wyckoff Memorial Bridge 

Jeff Losnegard 


Imagination Revisited . . . . . . Oct p.66 

Science Storms Exhibit at the Museum 

of Science and Industry 

Paul Gregory, J.R. Krauza and Joshua 

Spitzig; Focus Lighting, Inc. 


Local Hero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mar p.38 

Auckland War Memorial Museum 

Francois Roupinian; Lightemotion 


Taubman Museum of Art . . . Nov p.36 

Taubman Museum of Art 


Under the Influence . . . . . . . . Jan p.28 





Vision Quest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jan p.24 

James Turrell Museum of the Hess Art 

Collection 

James Turrell and Felix Schweizer; 

Bodega and Estancia Colome’ and Bill 

Ellis; Candela Contols 


OFFICE LIGHTING 

Another Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May p.76 

The Empire State Building, Skanska 

USA Offi ce 

Matt Franks; Arup 

Clearly Stated . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jul p.54 

The Annenberg Public Policy Center 

Helen Diemer; The Lighting Practice 

and Fumihiko Maki; Maki and Associates 


Color Chameleon . . . . . . . . . . . Nov p.56 

Reflective Flow Chandelier 

Beau McClellan; Beau McClellan 

Design and Jonathan Labbee; LSI Saco 


Daylight Savings . . . . . . . . . . . May p.82 

Lighting Design Alliance 

Chip Israel; Lighting Design Alliances 


Digging For a Solution . . . . . . Jul p.33 

Bucyrus International Headquarters 


Hospital Turned HQ . . . . . . . . Apr p.52 

Crow Holdings Headquarters 

LEDs Go To Work . . . . . . . . . . .Jul p.34 

Ranstad Offi ce Building 


Microsoft Pieces it . . . . . . . . . Oct p.40 

Together 

Microsoft Conference Center 


Next-generation . . . . . . . . . . . Oct p.46 

Workstation 

Glumac Irvine Office 

Carlos Inclan and Jennifer Berg; 

Glumac 


Re/Max Redo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jan p.30 

Re/Max Headquarters 

Marla J. Stauth; Frankly Lighting and 

Deborah Barber; Barber Architecture 


Theatrics at Work . . . . . . . . . . May p.86 

Design Duncan Miller Ullmann’s Offi ce 

Headquarters 


PROGRESS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jan p.45 

REPORT 2009 

PUBLIC BUILDINGS/SPACES 

Big Technology. . . . . . . . . . . . . Jun p.54 

on Campus 

University of Colorado, Boulder Campus 


Chicago Cultural Center . . . . Feb p.25 

Preston Bradley Hall Dome 



Alegent Health, Bergan Mercy 

Hospital, parking garage 



DTW North Terminal . . . . . . . Apr p.38 


Government Tree Hugger . . Nov p.50 

U.S. Federal Courthouse 

Attila Uysal; SBLD Studio 


Seven in Silhouette . . . . . . . . Nov p.38 

Rosa Parks Transit Center 

Tushar Advani; Parsons Brinckerhoff, 

Charles R. Scales; Scales & Associates, 

Nicholas Goldsmith and Ashish Soni; 

FTL Design Engineering Studio 

by Vilma Barr 

Solar Power Hits the Lot . . . May p.60 

Spokane Convention Center Parking Lot 


The Great Indoors . . . . . . . . . . Nov p.44 

Vancouver International Airport 

Michael W. Graham; MMM Group 


Q+A 

Americans in Dubai . . . . . . . . Jul p.60 

Matthew Dacey and Nydia Bonilla 

by Roslyn Lowe 

Blockbuster by Design . . . . . Jan p.42 

Lisa Passamonte Green 


Seattle’s Man on . . . . . . . . . . . May p.94 

the Street 

Edward Smalley 


Still Life Is Still Life . . . . . . . . . Jun p.64 

Rick Belzer 


21 st Century Fox . . . . . . . . . . . . Feb p.54 

John Fox 


The Chinese Connection . . . Nov p.60 

Michael Siminovitch 


RESEARCH 

Northern Extremes . . . . . . . . Oct p.61 

Daylighting Simulations 

Conor Sampson 

RESIDENTIAL LIGHTING 

Artistry in Residence . . . . . . . May p.88 

Kilbourn Towers 

Steven L. Klein; Klein Lighting 

Home Very Sweet Home . . . Aug p.76 

Randall Whitehead’s Residence 

by Randall Whitehead 

One For Two. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oct p.42 

Arterra Condominiums 

Angela McDonald; Horton Lees 

Brogden Lighting Design 


RESTAURANT 

Recovery Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Apr p.40 

Renaissance New Orleans Pere Marquette 

Hotel and MiLa Restaurant 

Scott Oldner; Scott Oldner Lighting 

Design 


Sombrero as Ceiling . . . . . . . . Feb p.28 

T&T Restaurant 

Ann Kale and Jeffrey Boynton; Ann 

Kale Associates 

by Vilma Barr 




RETAIL 

A New Lease On Life . . . . . . . May p.62 

The Cherry Hill Mall 

William M. Kader and Lauren Roberts; 

Grenald Waldron Associates 

by Vilma Barr 

Bethesda Lane . . . . . . . . . . . . . Feb p.26 


Cabela’s Under Control . . . . . Jul p.41 

Cabela Hardware Stores 


Flip Sides of Footwear. . . . . . Jul p.43 

United Nude and Christian Louboutin 

by Vilma Barr 

Haute Contours . . . . . . . . . . . . Jul p.48 

Armani/5th Avenue 




Hello Cupcake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nov p.35 

Hello Cupcake 


Keep It Fresh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jan p.22 

Bi-Lo Grocery Store 


Market Ready . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oct p.39 

Chestnut Hill Star Market 


Ordinary Stores, . . . . . . . . . . . Apr p.46 

Extraordinary Design 

Walgreens, Kangaroo Express and 

Sprout 

by Vilma Barr 

Prototypes Roll On . . . . . . . . . Jul p.36 

Store Prototype Lighting 


ROUNDTABLE 

OLEDs Taking Shape . . . . . . . Jun p.58 

Jim Anderson, Shelley Wang, 

Mark Lien, Peter Ngai and Ann Reo 


SPECIAL REPORT: ARRA UPDATE 

Taking Stock of . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug p.70 

the Stimulus 

Special Report: ARRA Update 


SPORTS LIGHTING 

Oval Everlasting . . . . . . . . . . . . Mar p.44 

The 2010 Richmond Olympic Oval 

Galina Zbrizher; Total Lighting 

Solutions, Inc. 


The Big Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . May p.69 

Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress Resort; 

Rockford High School; and The Bowden 

Ice Arena 


STREET LIGHTING 

Alternate Routes . . . . . . . . . . . Sep p.54 

San Diego and Chula Vista Street 

Lighting 


One Fixture, Many . . . . . . . . . Mar p.36 

Functions 

02 World Arena 


Relighting History . . . . . . . . . . Mar p. 35 

Blaue Liliengasse and Untere Bachgasse 

Alleyways 


Taking a Dim View of . . . . . . . Sep p.58 

Switched-off Streetlights 

Streetlighting in Westminster 

by Michael McDonnell 

TECHNOLOGY 

Lessons from the Field . . . . . Jun p.47 

Three U.S. Department of Energy 

Gateway Installations 

by James Brodrick 

Points Well Taken . . . . . . . . . . Oct p.52 

by Michael Llewellyn 

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The Customer Is . . . . . . . . . . . Mar p.48 

Always Right 

OLEDs 

by Ian Ashdown and Brent York 

THEATER LIGHTING 

A Star is Reborn . . . . . . . . . . . . Dec p.72 

Belasco Theater 

by Vilma Barr 

Black-Tie Optional . . . . . . . . . Jun p.36 

Rensselaer Politechnic Institute’s 

Experimental Media and Performing 

Arts Center 

Enrique Peiniger and Jean S. Sundin; 

Offi ce for Visual Interaction 


Still Life Is Still Life . . . . . . . . . Jun p.64 

Rick Belzer 



A Dealer Cashes In . . . . . . . . Dec p.37 

Agincourt Hyundai 


A Lesson in Retrofitting . . . . May p.59 

University of Maryland 


Backlighting Goes . . . . . . . . . . Aug p.34 

Back In Time 

West Virginia State Museum 


Digging For a Solution . . . . . . Jul p.33 

Bucyrus International Headquarters 


Elements of Entertainment . Aug p.33 

FireKeepers Casino 


Keep It Fresh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jan p.22 

Bi-Lo Grocery Store 


LEDs Go to Work . . . . . . . . . . . Jul p.34 

Ranstad Offi ce Building 


Market Ready . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oct p.39 

Star Market 


Microsoft Pieces . . . . . . . . . . . Oct p.40 

It Together 

Microsoft Conference Center 


One Fixture, Many . . . . . . . . . Mar p.36 

Functions 

02 World Arena 


Relighting History . . . . . . . . . . Mar p. 35 

Blaue Liliengasse and Untere 

Bachgasse Alleyways 


Solar Power Hits the Lot . . . May p.60 

Spokane Power Convention Center 

Parking Lot 


Technology Takes the . . . . . . Dec p.38 

Scenic Route 

Race Street Lighting 


Up on the Roof . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jan p.21 

Midtown Manhattan Rooftop 


UPDATES 

A Green Standard to . . . . . . . Mar p.14 

Build On 

A New Approach to . . . . . . . . Feb p.10 

Nighttime Lighting 

A School Grows in . . . . . . . . . Oct p.17 

Tanzania 

A Wild Ride in Q2 . . . . . . . . . . . Oct p.17 

America Voices Opinions . . Mar p.13 

in Socket Survey 

Arc De Triomphe . . . . . . . . . . . Aug p.13 

At Ikea, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sep p.13 

Incandescents Are Flying Off the Shelf 

Bollards May Improve . . . . . . Jun p.17 

Crosswalk Safety 

Business Confidence . . . . . . Aug p.13 

Inches Forward 

Call for Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mar p.12 

Call for Speakers . . . . . . . . . . . Apr p.14 

Catch of the Day. . . . . . . . . . . . Sep p.12 

Come Sail Away . . . . . . . . . . . . Sep p.13 

Design-it-Yourself . . . . . . . . . . Jul p.12 

Fixtures 

Dial it Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nov p.13 

DOE Absorbs Cree . . . . . . . . . Dec p.15 

LED City 

DOE Forecasts SSL . . . . . . . . May p.38 

Future 

DOE Funds Small . . . . . . . . . . Nov p.13 

Business SSL Grants 

Enlighten America . . . . . . . . . Sep p.12 

Goes Viral 

Fixture Market to . . . . . . . . . . . Jun p.18 

Accelerate 

GE Spawns Hybrid Lamp . . . Dec p.15 

Green Building . . . . . . . . . . . . . May p.38 

Goes Global 

Green Strategies that Pay . . Jan p.10 

Help for Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug p.12 

How Many Users Does . . . . . Jul p.13 

it Take to Change a Website 

IES RP22 Review . . . . . . . . . . Aug p.13 

Underway 

Incentives May . . . . . . . . . . . . Oct p.16 

Disappear Along with T12s 

Industry Confidence . . . . . . . Mar p.13 

Rises In Early 2010 

Is the Bulb Back . . . . . . . . . . . Nov p.12 

Joining Forces . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jul p.12 

LED Leaders to Share . . . . . . Sep p.12 

Patents 

LEDs Bring Jobs to . . . . . . . . . May p.39 

Cleveland 

Legislation to Address . . . . . Jan p.11 

Outdoor Lighting 

Lighting for Tomorrow. . . . . . Nov p.14 

Names Winners 

Lighting Sales Increase . . . . May p.40 

In 2009 Q4 

Lighting Sales Increase . . . . Jul p.12 

in Q1; Modest Gains Forecast For ‘10 

Lights Out for ConEd . . . . . . . Oct p.16 

Lutron Artifacts at Home . . Jun p.16 

in the Smithsonian 


Made in Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jul p.12 

Make Way for the Green . . . Sep p.12 

Facility Manager 

Making the Most . . . . . . . . . . . Feb p.10 

of Metrics 

Manufacturers Join . . . . . . . . Apr p.15 

Haiti Relief Effort 

Mixed Results for . . . . . . . . . . Dec p.16 

CALiPER Round 11 

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall . . Feb p.10 

More Letters in the 

Alphabet Soup . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dec p.16 

Mystic River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jun p.18 

NEMA Q3 2009 Indices . . . . Jan p.10 

Reflect Highs and Lows 

New Members Join . . . . . . . . Jul p.13 

Emerge Alliance 

New Mexico to Pursue . . . . . Nov p.14 

Green Grid 

NLPIP Study Questions . . . . Dec p.16 

Effectiveness 

Nuckolls Grant Funds . . . . . . Aug p.12 

Multi-Institution Learning 

Oceanic Oasis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mar p.12 


OLEDs Are Coming . . . . . . . . . Dec p.14 

to America 

One Small Step For LEDs . . . Jan p.10 

One-Watt Wonder . . . . . . . . . May p.39 

Plasma Coming Soon . . . . . . Nov p.13 

to Indiana 

Ports of Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mar p.13 

Red, White and Blue . . . . . . . Jan p.11 

Turns Green 

Rhode Island Adopts . . . . . . . Nov p.12 

IGCC 

Smartphone Users . . . . . . . . . Aug p.13 

Take Control 

Solar Decathlon 

Goes Abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oct p. 18 

Starchitecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oct p.16 

States Go One-Stop . . . . . . . Jan p.11 

Shopping For SSL Products 

Stimulus Grants for . . . . . . . . Mar p.14 

SSL Projects 

Students Engineer LED. . . . . Nov p.12 

Luminaires 

Texas Campus Invests . . . . . Dec p.14 

in Green Upgrades 

Turn on the . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dec p.14 

Southern Charm 

UC Davis Students . . . . . . . . . Jun p.18 

Design Fixtures of the Future 

Volt, Watt...and . . . . . . . . . . . . May p.38 

Rosenfeld 

Winds of Change . . . . . . . . . . . May p.40 

Wine’s Newest Pairing . . . . . Apr p.14 




ANNUAL INDEX AUTHOR 

AUTHOR 

Ashdown, Ian and York, Brent 

The Customer is Always . Mar p.48 

Right 

OLEDs 

Barr, Vilma 

A New Lease on Life . . . . . May p.62 

A Star is Reborn . . . . . . . . . . Dec p.72 

By Low, Sell High . . . . . . . . . .Jan p.37 

Flip Sides of Footwear. . . . . .Jul p.43 

Ordinary Stores, . . . . . . . . . .Apr p.46 

Extraordinary Design 

Seven in Silhouette . . . . . . Nov p.38 

Sombrero as Ceiling . . . . . . .Feb p.28 

Bartholomew, Edward 

Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dec p.32 

Project CANDLE: A Virus that Cures 

Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mar p.28 

Sharpening the Skill Set 

Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sep p.28 

The Grasp of a Helping Hand 

Brodrick, James 

LED Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Feb p.20 

LED Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May p.52 

LED Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dec p.22 

LED Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oct p.24 

Getting a Higher Education in Solid- 

State Lighting 

LED Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Apr p.20 

LED Products Declared Ready in NGL 

Competition 

LED Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug p.28 

Lumens—The Forgotten Metric 

LED Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sep p.20 

Redefining Color 

Lessons from the Field . . . .Jun p.47 

Three U.S. Department of Energy 

Gateway Installations 

Clark-Lane, Rachael 

Sometimes You Get . . . . . . .Jun p.12 

What You Need 

Fisher, Randall P. 

Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jul p.26 

Gammon, Leland 

Rules + Regs . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jun p.24 

Always Pack Your EPAct 

Guarnaccia, Greg 

The Code Word . . . . . . . . . . . Oct p.56 

Is People 

Hall, Elizabeth 

A League of Its Own . . . . . . .Feb p.40 

A Lesson in Retrofitting . . May p.59 

Adaptive Approach . . . . . . Nov p.59 

Alternate Routes . . . . . . . . . .Sep p.54 

Backlighting Goes . . . . . . .Aug. p.34 

Back in Time 

Bethesda Lane . . . . . . . . . . . .Feb p.26 

Black-Tie Optional . . . . . . . .Jun p.36 

Chicago Cultural Center . . .Feb p.25 

China Basin Landing . . . . . .Jun p.34 

Clearly Stated . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jul p.54 

Color Chameleon . . . . . . . . . Nov p.56 

Daylight Decoder . . . . . . . . .Apr p.78 

Daylight Savings . . . . . . . . . May p.82 

Digging for a Solution . . . . . .Jul p.33 

DTW North Terminal . . . . . .Apr p.38 

Elements of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug p.33 

Entertainment 

Future Leaders . . . . . . . . . . . Dec p.64 

Rachel Clark-Lane; Lighting Design 

Innovations, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 


Rachel Eichorn; Kugler Ning Lighting 

Design, Inc., New York, NY 


Andrea Hauber; KlingStubbins, 

Philadelphia 


Renée Joosten; Cooley Monato Studio, 

New York, NY 


Bryan Klammer; Lighting Design Alliance, 

Los Angeles 


Lisa Kramer; h.e. banks+ associates, 

San Francisco 


Juan Pablo Lira; Focus Lighting, New 

York City 


Shanna Olson; IBC Engineering Services, 

Inc., Waukesha, WI 


Christy Rogers, EwingCole, Philadelphia 


Aaron Smith; Rensselaer Polytechnic 

Institute’s Lighting Research Center 


Emrah Baki Ulas; Steensen Varming, 

Northbridge, Australia 


Andrea Wilkerson; Penn State 

University 

Haute Contours . . . . . . . . . . . .Jul p.48 

Hello Cupcake . . . . . . . . . . . . Nov p.35 

Imagination Revisited . . . . . Oct p.66 

Keep it Fresh . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jan p.22 

LEDs Go to Work . . . . . . . . . . .Jul p.34 

Line of Sight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sep p.44 

Local Hero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mar p.38 

Logan College Student . . . .Jun p.33 

Center 

Market Ready . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oct p.39 

Microsoft Pieces It . . . . . . . . Oct p.40 

Together 

Moonstruck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug p.48 

Musings of a Mentor . . . . . .Apr p.70 

Natural Selection . . . . . . . . .Feb p.44 

Next-generation . . . . . . . . . . Oct p.46 

Workstation 

Oceanic Oasis . . . . . . . . . . . . Mar p.12 

One Fixture, Many . . . . . . . Mar p.36 

Functions 

Recovery Act . . . . . . . . . . . . .Apr p.40 

Relighting History . . . . . . . . Mar p. 35 

Solar Power Hits the Lot . May p.60 

Taubman Museum of Art . Nov p.36 

10 Degrees of Design . . . . . .Jun p.41 

The Great Indoors . . . . . . . . Nov p.44 

The Landscape . . . . . . . . . . . .Apr p.62 

Luminairie 

The Langham Yangtze . . . . .Sep p.37 


Theatrics at Work . . . . . . . . May p.86 

Under the Influence . . . . . . .Jan p.28 

University of Michigan . . . .Sep p.38 


Up on the Roof . . . . . . . . . . . .Jan p.21 

Vision Quest . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jan p.24 

Wine’s Newest Pairing . . . .Apr p.14 

World Market Center . . . . .Apr p.37 

Hamburger, Rick 

Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jan p.16 

Hansen, Dain M. 

Rules + Regs . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mar p.20 

New DOE Effi ciency Standards for 

Lamps 

Herbert, Paulette R. 

Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Feb p.58 

Lighting for Driving and The SLL Lighting 

Handbook 

Horner, Bob 

Policy Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sep p.32 

A Star Might Be Born 

Policy Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nov p.30 

Defining High-Performance Buildings 

Policy Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jul p.28 

Into the Alphabet Soup 

Leetzow, Larry 

Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Feb p.22 

Lien, Mark 

Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May p.46 

A Treatment for Obsessive Lighting 

Disorder 

Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Feb p.17 

Church of the IES 

Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nov p.20 

When I Woke Up It Was 2020 

Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug p.18 

Why Smart Lighting Professionals Do 

Stupid Things 

Llewellyn, Michael 

Points Well Taken . . . . . . . . . Oct p.52 

Lomelino, Luis Fernandes; 

Siminovitch, Michael; 

Papamichael,Konstantinos 

Research Matters. . . . . . . . Mar p.22 

Lowe, Roslyn 

Americans in Dubai . . . . . . . .Jul p.60 

Blockbuster by Design . . . .Jan p.42 

Still Life Is Still Life . . . . . . . .Jun p.64 

The Chinese Connection . Nov p.60 

McDonnell, Michael 

Taking a Dim View of . . . . . .Sep p.58 

Switched-off Streetlights 

Newsham, Guy R. 

Research Matters. . . . . . . . Aug p.24 

Noell-Waggoner, Eunice and Dupuy, 

Robert J. 

Eye on the Boomers . . . . . . .Jan p.18 

Eye on the Boomers . . . . . . .Apr p.32 

Eye on the Boomers . . . . . . . .Jul p.20 

Eye on the Boomers . . . . . . . Oct p.28 

Oberkircher, Fred 

President’s Perspective . . .Jan p.8 

President’s Perspective . . Mar p.10 

President’s Perspective . . May p.32 

Papamichael, Konstantinos; Lomelino, 

Luis Fernandes; and 

Anothai Thanachareonkit 

Research Matters. . . . . . . . Nov p.26 

Peifer, Don 

Apps + Answers . . . . . . . . . .Apr p.24 

Apps + Answers . . . . . . . . . .Jun p.28 

Apps + Answers . . . . . . . . . .Sep p.24 

Pompeo, Paul 

Careers + Hiring . . . . . . . . . . .Jan p.14 

How Candidates Can Get the Most Out 

of Recruiters 

Careers + Hiring . . . . . . . . . . . .Jul p.24 

How to Tweet Yourself Out of a Job 

Careers + Hiring . . . . . . . . . . . Oct p.34 

Lessons From LeBron and Brett 

Careers + Hiring . . . . . . . . . . .Apr p.28 

Time For A Search Firm Definitely, 

Maybe 

Sampson, Conor 

Northern Extremes . . . . . . . Oct p.61 

Seeger, Kelly M. 

Wanted: A New Type . . . . Dec p.68 

Of Lighting Professional 

Selander, John 

President’s Perspective . . . .Jul p.10 

President’s Perspective . . . Oct p.12 

Siminovitch, Michael 

Research Matters. . . . . . . . . .Jul p.18 

Taking the Long View on LED Street 

Lighting 

Speck, Erin 

George Washington . . . . . . .Jan p.39 

Says Hail to the Chiefs 

Tarricone, Paul 

A Slow Go On the . . . . . . . . . .Jun p.43 

Factory Floor 

Big Technology On . . . . . . . .Jun p.54 

Campus 

Cabela’s Under Control . . . . .Jul p.41 

Combo Pack. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sep p.40 

Deep in the Vault . . . . . . . . . Aug p.54 

Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jan p.4 

Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Feb p.4 

Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mar p.4 

Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Apr p.8 

Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May p.26 

Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jun p.4 

Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jul p.4 

Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug p.4 

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Editorial ...................Sep p.4 

Editorial ..................Oct p.4 

Editorial ................. Nov p.4 

Editorial .................. Dec p.6 

Fewer Parts Required .....Jun p.42 

Flight Simulator ...........Sep p.49 

Future Leaders ........... Dec p.49 

Matt Alleman; SmithGroup, Detroit 


Chris Bailey; Hubbell Lighting, 

Bradenton, FL 


Kristy Benner; Kaplan Gehring 

McCarroll Architectural Lighting, El 

Segundo, CA 


Megan Christen; Cooper Lighting, 



Lara Cordell; Wiedenbach-Brown, 

Yorba Linda, CA 


Keith Graeber; California Lighting 

Technology Center, UC Davis 


Faith Jewell; Horton Lees Brogden 

Lighting Design, San Francisco 


Martha Lopacki; Sean O’Connor Lighting, 

Beverly Hills 


Amer Maleh; Continental Lighting, 

New York, NY 


Avraham Mor; Lightswitch Architectural, 

Chicago 


Michael Royer; Penn State University 


Craig Spring; Candela Architectural 

Lighting Consultants, Seattle, WA 


Chrysanthi Stockwell; Hammel, Green 

and Abrahamson, Minneapolis, MN 

Government Tree Hugger Nov p.50 

Holiday Gift. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nov p.53 

Household Name. . . . . . . . . .Apr p.82 

LED Provocateur ..........Apr p.66 

Lutron Artifacts at ........Jun p.16 

Home in the Smithsonian 

Master of the Details ......Apr p.74 

OLEDs Taking Shape ......Jun p.58 

One For Two. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oct p.42 

One Shell of a Structure . . .Feb p.34 

Oval Everlasting ..........Mar p.44 

Prototypes Roll On .........Jul p.36 

Re/Max Redo .............Jan p.30 

Seattle’s Man on the .....May p.94 

Street 

Stories from Seattle .......Jan p.79 

Taking Stock of ........... Aug p.70 

the Stimulus 

The Big Switch ...........May p.69 

21 st Century Fox ...........Feb p.54 

Jennifer Veitch 

Research Matters. . . . . . . . Dec p.26 

Warren, Willard L. 

Energy Advisor ............Jan p.12 

Energy Advisor ............Feb p.12 

Energy Advisor ...........Mar p.16 

Energy Advisor ............Apr p.16 

Energy Advisor ...........May p.42 

Energy Advisor ............Jun p.20 

Energy Advisor .............Jul p.14 

Energy Advisor ........... Aug p.14 

Energy Advisor ............Sep p.14 

Energy Advisor ............Oct p.20 

Energy Advisor ........... Nov p.16 

Energy Advisor ........... Dec p.18 

Whitehead, Randall 

Home Very Sweet Home . Aug p.76 

ANNUAL INDEX 

H O W A R D B R A N D S T O N 

LEARNING TO SEE: A Matter of Light 

To order visit the IES Bookstore at www.ies.org 

LEARNING TO SEE 

A Matter of Light 

HOWARD M. BRANDSTON 

The reviews are in… 

“...Brandston shares in an easy to understand manner his more than 50 years of experience. 

His book is completely accessible to students and professionals alike...Although 

Brandston’s focus is on architectural lighting, it is easy to see how his approach is rooted 

in theatrical design principles.” 

Theatre Design & Technology, Summer 2010 

“At 138 pages, it’s a slim book, but its content is ambitious in its comprehensiveness, covering 

the science of art and the art of lighting. It is Brandston’s gift to the design community, a playful 

but incisive distillation of more than 50 years of experience designing and teaching lighting.” 

Lightsearch.com, February 2009 

“Howard Brandston’s career achievements that span more than a half-century are a testimony to 

his preeminent leadership role in the lighting profession. The slim volume covers the art of lighting 

design as Brandston sees it in the context of light. He intermixes philosophy with the use of 

light in the built environment and its impact on human perception.” Mondo, October/November 2008 

List Price: $65.00 IES Member Price: $50.00 


PRODUCTS + LITERATURE 

Nora Lighting introduces Moonglow, a collection of softly lighted 

pendants designed for hospitality, commercial and residential installations. 

Featuring a variety of styles, finishes and sizes, the Moonglow pendants cast 

a warm glow over tabletops, lounge areas or retail islands. The Cocoon and 

Open Pond pendants add an accent to a trendy environment, while the Beaded 

shade and Feather fixture fit well with traditional interiors. The pendants are 

available in five different lamp sources: GU24 self-ballasting compact fluorescent 

(13 watts to 26 watts); low voltage bi-pin (50 watts); and line voltage with 

a G9 base (40 watts), E12 candelabra base (60 watts) and E26 medium base A19 (100 watts). www.noralighting.com 

Photoprotective Technologies, Inc.’s Mel-Lumen CFL with melanin is a replacement 

for traditional CFLs. Like UV, high-energy visible light (HEV) also causes glare and damage to 

the eyes and skin. The Mel-Lumen CFL has a new polymer-coating that eliminates all of the UV, 

significant reduces the HEV and selectively filtrates light (melanin filters the wavelengths of 

light roughly in proportion to their ability to cause eye damage, skin damage and glare). Benefits 

include less eyestrain and glare from reflections; less risk of skin and eye damage resulting 

from UV and HEV light; and increased ability to perceive colors in the lighted environment. 

www.melaninproducts.com 

Sun Valley Lighting’s turn-of-the-century-style streetlights now feature new VLED Optical 

Modules. The VLED Modules, featuring Philips/Lumileds Luxeon Rebel emitters, deliver fullspectrum 

illumination while minimizing light pollution, trespass and glare. The VLED Module 

reflector-prisms use the full output of each LED and feature 64 emitters (75 system watts), 80 

emitters (94 system watts) or 120 emitters (141 system watts). They are precisely oriented to produce 

Type II, Type III, Type IV and Type V-Sq. IES light distribution patterns. The LED driver operates 

with input voltages from 120 to 277V (50/60 Hz) and is independently sealed and UL-listed 

for wet locations. Sun Valley Lighting offers a varied and versatile collection of traditional-styled 

luminaires with VLED modules. www.usaltg.com 

Litetronics has introduced 11-W BR30 Micro-Brite cold-cathode lamps. The lamps generate 

450 lumens to replace a 50-W incandescent bulb in recessed cans and track lights and dim 

down to 5 percent of light output on standard dimmers. They work on standard dimmers, making 

them ideal for restaurants and cinemas that use dimming circuits. The lamp is available in 

two color temperatures: 2,250K and 2,850K. www.litetronics.com 

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OSRAM Opto Semiconductors has added the Oslon Black Series to its 

Oslon LED family. The first member of the new series has a metal lead frame and 

a compact package. The LED can be used wherever there are large fluctuations in 

temperature and a large amount of light is needed from a small area. The black 

molded package of this high-power LED ensures a high level of stability. Not only 

does the thermal coefficient of expansion of the molding material precisely match 

the coefficient of expansion of the boards, but there is also an ESD protective diode 

concealed in the molding. The Oslon Black Series has a lens with a 90-deg beam angle and produces a typical brightness 

of 115 lm at an operating current of 350 mA and a color temperature of 6,500K. www.osram-os.com 

American Lighting introduces the LED Clear Flex, which is designed for cove, bookcase, 

backlighting, architectural built-ins, glass edge-lighting, under-cabinet lighting and other small, 

compact spaces. Less than 1 /2-in. wide by 3 /16-in. high, this ribbon-like linear lighting product is clear 

and flexible and provides bright, dimmable light. The LED Clear Flex uses Cree LED chips to deliver 

light with 82 CRI and has a PVC housing that allows tight bends and is rated for indoor and outdoor 

use. Available in 3,500K and 5,500K color temperatures. Other colors available by special order. 

www.americanlighting.com 

Neidhardt introduces RPD02, a geometric deign based on linear extrusions supporting T5 

lamps in 24-, 36-, 48- and 60-in. lengths. The stock octagon pendants range in overall diameter 

from 60- to 146-in. The T5s are lensed with a satinized acrylic for a soft, even diffusion. The 

linear sections are cleanly joined with inner brackets. Co-axial cables supply power to the sections. 

Stock finishes are available in flat silver mist or flat casino gold. Custom paint finishes are 

available, as well as custom lens options. neidhardtinc.com 

Bulbrite introduces an adjustable LED Multi-Beam MR16 featuring six 

distinct beam angles. The LED MR16 features beam-control technology 

that combines the functionality of six MR16s into one. The adjustable dial 

allows the user to select any of the six different beam angles including 15, 

20, 25, 30, 35 and 40 deg. The LED multi-beam MR16 can be used with both 

magnetic and electronic transformers, and it is designed for recessed, track 

and landscape lighting applications in residential and commercial retrofit installations. Each 2-W LED is equivalent to a 

10-W halogen bulb and operates on a low 12-V lighting system. It has a 75 CRI, 3,000K color temperature and 85 lumen 

output. www.bulbrite.com 


PRODUCTS + LITERATURE 

Crestron has released the DIN-DALI-2 interface, which delivers fluorescent 

ballast control. The DIN-DALI-2 supports two DALI channels, enables 

control of up to 128 individual DALI ballasts, and provides direct, 2-way network 

connectivity between a Crestron control system and a DALI-compliant 

ballast. Designed to fit in a DIN rail enclosure, the DIN-DALI-2 includes an 

integrated DALI power supply. Developed specifically for the DIN-DALI-2, 

Crestron DALI commissioning software provides step-by-step configuration 

of ballast properties, groups and scenes. Simply set the ballast address and check connectivity status, edit minimum/ 

maximum levels and fade time, and change ballast grouping and scenes as needed. www.crestron.com 

RAB Lighting has expanded its family of outdoor LED lighting with the 

cLED ceiling fixture. The RAB cLED is designed for indoor and outdoor use. The 

cLED is available in three configurations: the 20-W cLED replaces up to a 100-W 

metal halide, the 26-W cLED replaces up to a 150-W metal halide and the 40-W 

cLED replaces up to a 175-W metal halide. All cLED fixtures are UL Listed for 

damp locations and can also be used as an uplight in damp locations. All RAB 

Products are LM-79 and LM-80 tested and L70 lifetime determination data is 

available upon request. Additionally, the 26-W and 40-W cLED fixtures have a 

voltage-sensing driver for 120 up to 277 volts. www.rabweb.com 

WattStopper has introduced a line of wallbox dimmers and fan speed 

controls to help building owners and facility managers capture energy savings 

when lighting is on. The new dimmers include a family of specification-grade 

architectural dimmers, intended primarily for commercial applications, and 

three families of designer dimmers for commercial, hospitality and residential 

applications. WattStopper now offers products designed to dim most lighting 

loads, including two-wire, three-wire and 0-10 volt fluorescent ballasts. The 

architectural dimmer family includes 120 and 277 volt models, and high-capacity dimmers for larger loads. The designer families 

include touch dimmers, paddle dimmers and slide dimmers, all styled to fit standard decorator wallplates so they can be 

ganged easily with switches, sensors and other devices. www.wattstopper.com 

New LEDgend Roadway LED luminaires from Holophane emit zero 

uplight to reduce light pollution. The units’ highly engineered light engine 

is designed to restrict the direct view of the individual LEDs, creating a 

wholly luminous appearance and minimizing glare. Glass optics help prevent 

dirt depreciation and a sealed optical system provides an IP66 ingress 

rating against water and dust and extends component life. The luminaires 

are designed for a minimum of 80,000 hours, allow 100 percent light output during hours when roadways are the busiest and 

can decrease output to 50 percent. Holophane LEDgend luminaires are available with three optical distributions: Type I, Type 

II and Type III. www.holophane.com 

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December 15–16: The 

Eighth Annual “NeoCon East.” 

This two-day event held at the 

Baltimore Convention Center, 

Baltimore, MD, is geared to 

the federal design community 

and professionals including 

architects, interior designers, 

facility managers, government 

specifiers, space planners, 

etc., responsible for commercial 

interiors, focusing on 

the repair, retrofit and green 

modernization of city, county, 

state and federal government 

buildings. More than 7,500 

attendees are expected with 

over 250 exhibitors providing 

an ideal opportunity with 

government buyers flush 

with new budgets looking for 

products to fill their organization’s 

needs. CEUs include 

seminars such as healthcare 

safety and welfare, hospitality, 

institutional, office design and 

professional development, 

residential, and lighting. For 

more information Contact: 

Lauren Finch 312-527-0114, 

E-mail: lfinch@mmart.com 

January 24–26: Acuity 

Brands Lighting presents the 

“Specifier Seminar.” Held at 

the Light & Space Center in 

Conyers, GA, this three-day 

program offers the lighting 

design professional a review 

of the breadth of the Acuity 

Brands Lighting companies. 

Focus is on Gotham, Peerless, 

Hydrel, Antique Street Lamps, 

Mark Architectural, Tersen 

and recent Lithonia introductions. 

Lighting regulations 

and energy code updates are 

included. Participants travel to 

Conyers on Monday, January 

24, with an opening reception 

that evening. The program 

begins Tuesday morning 

and concludes Wednesday 

afternoon. All transportation 

to and from the Atlanta airport, 

lodging, and food expenses 

are included. For more information: 

Contact: Tricia Foster 

770-860-2049; E-mail: Tricia. 

Foster@acuitybrands.com 

February 10: Acuity Brands 

Lighting presents “Visual 

Training.” Held at the Light & 

Space center in Conyers, GA, 

this full-day session offers 

hands-on experience with the 

“Visual Professional Edition.” 

Attendees follow along on a 

computer (computers will be 

provided) as the instructor 

demonstrates how to create 

real-world applications. The 

agenda covers new features 

of Visual 2.6, navigating the 

Visual interface, creating 

and modifying models and 

a step-by-step walk through 

the interior and exterior of a 

project. Maximum attendance 

is 12 people. All ground transportation, 

food and one night 

hotel stay for the program will 

be covered, but the participant 

is responsible for airfare to 

Atlanta. For more information: 

Contact: Tricia Foster 770-860- 

2049; E-mail: Tricia.Foster@ 

acuitybrands.com 

February 21–23: Acuity 

Brands Lighting presents, 

“Product Workshop,” at 

the Light & Space center in 

Conyers, GA. This three-day 

program provides an overview 

of all Acuity Brands Lighting 

companies. Focusing is on the 

benefits and applications of 

key Lithonia Lighting products. 

Participants arrive in Conyers 

February 21, with an opening 

reception that evening. The 

program begins Tuesday am 

and concludes Wednesday at 

2:30 pm. For more information: 

Contact:Tricia Foster 

770-860-2049; Email: Tricia. 


March 14–16: Acuity Brands 

Lighting presents the “Application 

and Solution Basics 

Workshop.” Held at the Light & 

Space center in Conyers, GA, 

this three-day program equips 

participants with cutting-edge 

technology enabling them to 

develop their best designs in 

the least time. Sessions target 

the lighting needs of offices, 

classrooms, warehouses and 

parking lots along with the benefits 

and limitations of products 

typically used in these spaces. 

Lighting regulations and 

energy codes are reviewed, 

along with a number of webbased 

support tools. Training 

begins with an opening reception 

at the People Center on 

Monday, March 14. Tuesday 

and Wednesday will be training 

days, with departures at 2 pm 

on March 16. For more information: 

Contact: Tricia Foster 

770-860-2049; E-mail: Tricia. 


March 16: The Designers 

Forum of New York (Dlfny) 

is offering the fifth annual 

program on LED technology, 

entitled, “LEDucation 5,” to be 

held at the Hotel Pennsylvania, 

New York City. Attendees have 

the choice of four credited 

programs and the opportunity 

to speak with manufacturers 

directly to see firsthand the 

speed at which products have 

progressed, by viewing the 

latest innovations on display at 

more than 96 LED and control 

manufacturer exhibits. Exhibit 

are from 12:00 pm to 9:00 pm. 

LED presentations will begin at 

12:30 pm thru 7:30 pm. Cost: 

No charge for DLF and IES 

members, $20 for all others 

(pre-registration required). For 

more information Contact: 

dlfny.org or Leducation.org 

April 15–16: The IES St. 

PURE DRAMA 

Create stunning effects in your landscape 

with the HUNZA Metal Halide Pole Lite, 

featuring intense light output with low energy 

usage. At Hunza we take pride in making the 

finest outdoor lights in the world, engineered 

in New Zealand from the best materials to 

provide a lifetime of pure enjoyment. 

www.hunzausa.com 

HUNZA LIGHTING USA 

Ph: +1 888 578 6005 Toll Free 

sales@hunzalightingusa.com 

Louis Section is offering 

“Fundamentals of Lighting.” 

This two-day introductory 

course is the replacement 

for the IES ED-100 Course 

covering the basic and 

most important principles 

of lighting. Topics will 

be presented by experts 

including lighting designers 

Randy Burkett and James 

Benya. The seven lessons 

are ideal for those with 

basic awareness of lighting 

and those interested in 

a refresher course. Cost: 

$275 for IES members, 

$325 for nonmembers and 

$175 for students. CEUs: 16 

available IES, USGBC CEs 

and 16 AIA, LUs with Health, 

Safety and Welfare (HSW) 

credit. For more information 

Contact: KJWW Engineering 

Consultants www.kjww.com 

Events KEY 

= tradeshows & conferences 

= educational opportunities 

For all Industry Events go to 

the website www.ies.org 

EVENTS 


CLASSIFIED 

SALES REPS 

Commercial Lighting.We still have openings for Sales agents 

in several areas of the US. 

Review Our web site www.rhlightingsolutions.com then 

Call us at 877-428-3080 

NATRALITE FILTERS, INC. 

Needs coverage for ALL areas. 15 yr. of sales to ‘who’s who’ 

in business, from AT&T to XEROX are using our product. 

Now adding CFL LED + LENSES for ALL LIGHTING. Great 

COMMISSIONS and NO COMPETITION. Trademark protected 

and patented. 

We make all fluorescent & LED look like incandescent. 

natralitefiltersinc@comcast.net or 914 263 3636 

FACULTY POSITION IN 

BUILDING SYSTEMS ENGINEERING 

The University of Colorado at Boulder Department of Civil, 

Environmental and Architectural Engineering invites applications 

for a tenure-track position in its Building Systems 

Program (BSP) group to begin in Fall 2011. We seek candidates 

with research and teaching interests in general areas 

of architectural engineering and building systems with 

an emphasis in illumination engineering or building energy. 

Suitable areas include: illumination, lighting technologies, 

daylighting; heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning 

(HVAC); building electrical power, distributed renewable 

energy technologies; innovative building envelopes and 

materials; and building controls. Applicants must be able to 

develop an externally funded research program and to teach 

at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Applicants 

must hold a Ph.D. in engineering or other discipline appropriate 

to their area of expertise. Professional experience is 

valued. The position is offered at the Assistant Professor 

level, however other levels may be considered for exceptional 

candidates. 

Further information is available at WEBSITE. 

Interested persons should apply through JobsAtCU 

(http://www.jobsatcu.com). Search for Job Posting Number 

8XXXX. The University of Colorado is an Equal Opportunity 

Employer committed to building a diverse workforce. 

VISIT 

the IES Career Center 

www.ies.org 

click on “Jobs” 

For employers and 

job seekers 

Targeted to the 

lighting industry 

+ 

make your voice 

HEARD! 

Join an IES committee: 

Fax: 212-248-5017 

Got new 

Light Products 

Email: ehall@ies.org 

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The companies listed below would like to tell you more about their products 

and services. To learn more, access the websites listed here. 

Company Website Page # 

Barn Light Electric Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.barnlightelectric.com . . . . . . . . 30 

Chauvet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.chauvetlighting.com . . . . . . . . . 33 

Cree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.creeledlighting.com . . . . . . . . . 13 

Crestron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.crestron.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 

Dialux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.dialux.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 

Feelux Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.feelux.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 

Finelite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.finelite.com . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 

FSP Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.fspgroupusa.com . . . . . . . . . . 20 

Future Electronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.futurelightingsolutions.com . . . . . 67 

Gotham Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.gothamlighting.com . . . . . . . . . 40 

Hatch Transformers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.hatchtransformers.com . . . . . . . 29 

Howard Brandston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.ies.org . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 

Hunza Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.hunzausa.com . . . . . . . . . . . 87 

Hydrel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.hydrel.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 

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NEW MEMBERS 

Membership Committee chair Norm Waff announced the IES gained four Sustaining Members and 147 members (M), 

associate and student members in October. 

Sustaining Members 

Contrast Lighting ML, Inc., St-Jean Chrysostome, QC 

It’s On Electric Company, Inc., Surrey, BC 

Walt Disney Imagineering, Glendale, CA 

Westpac LED Lighting, Inc., Hacienda Heights, CA 

Midwest Region 

Austin Ashe, General Electric, Cleveland, OH 

Emily Bahr, TCP, Inc., Minneapolis, MN 

Brandon Cartwright, Kenall Lighting, Gurnee, IL 

Grant W. Kightlinger, Schuler Shook, Chicago, IL 

John Langevin, Rambus, Brecksville, OH 

Jarrod E. Mann (M), Professional Engineering 

Consultants, P.A., Lawrence, KS 

Christine Oriti, The H Leff Electric Co., Cleveland, OH 

Chad D. Palmer, Budget Lighting, Inc., Minnetonka, MN 

Sanjay K. Sahni, X-cel Engineering, Columbus, OH 

Tom Stirling, 3M Commercial Graphics, St. Paul, MN 

Ben S. Strauss, Gary Steffy Lighting Design, 

Ann Arbor, MI 

James T. Wasko, GE Lighting Solutions, East 

Cleveland, OH 

Julie Whitmore (M), University of Akron, Akron, OH 

Columbus State Community College 

Charleann Laing 

Illinois Institute of Art Chicago 

Ramune Vincaityte 

Kansas State University 

Ryan D. Gant, Eric J. Stoyanov 

University of Kansas 

Grant W. Jamison 

University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Omaha Campus 

Spencer G. Gaskell, Evans Sordiashie, Yulia Tyukhova 

Northeast Region 

Davin Bartello, Standard Products, Inc., 

Mississauga, ON 

Paul A. Cicchetti, Reflex Lighting of Connecticut, 

Newington, CT 

Mathew J. Clark, Moncton Plumbing & Supply - 

Electrical Division, Moncton, NB 

Daniel R. Constable, Liteco, Moncton, NB 

David A. Cowan (M), MCW Maricor, Moncton, NB 

Timothy Daniel Craddock, The Stresscrete Group, 

Burlington, ON 

Susan E. Evans, City of Brampton, Brampton, ON 

Vincent C. Forte (M), Marktech Optoelectronics, 

Latham, NY 

Gerard Frederickson, Lightscape Materials, Inc., 

Princeton, NJ 

Dave Kwant, Practical Energy Solutions, Wallingford, CT 

Patrick La Pointe, Standard Products, Inc., 


Mario Lemay, Cyclone Lighting, Boisbriand, QC 

Christopher J. Leone (M), Parsons Brinckerhoff, 

Boston, MA 

Richard T. Lindemann, Jr, Samson Electrical Supply, 

South Plainfield, NJ 

Gary M. Malmquist, Magnetic Induction Lighting, Inc., 


Anthony L Mascaro, Percon Electric, Rochester, NY 

Daniel Mclvor, M & R Engineering, Ltd., Halifax, NS 

Steve D. Megaffin, Rosco, Markham, ON 

Terry Mocherniak, Encelium Technologies, 

Richmond Hill, ON 

Arlene G. Northmore, Sylvania Lighting Services, 


Andre O’Connell, Contrast Lighting ML, Inc., St-Jean 

Chrysostome, QC 

Ana C. Pena, Domingo Gonzalez Associates, 

New York, NY 

Jason D. Preet, City of Brampton, Brampton, ON 

Greg Rushby, Ontario Power Authority, Toronto, ON 

Joyce P. Russell, D2S, Inc., Toronto, ON 

Peter Saccomanno (M), Lutronics Electronics Co., Inc., 

Caledon East, ON 

Marcos A. Salvador (M), Bombardier, Montreal, QC 

Collin M. Thomas, Philips - Lightolier, Wilmington, MA 

David Tomasone, City of Brampton, Brampton, ON 

New Brunswick Community College 

Brent Atkinson, Jeremie Bourque, Rick Cormier, Heather 

Ginson, Jennifer Guidry, Maxime LeBlanc, 

Patrick LeBlanc, Julie Roy, Christopher Sanderson 

Pennsylvania State University 

Lisha A. Brown 

Tufts University 

Chirag Chaitanya Sthalekar 

South Region 

Sathish Anabathula (M), The University of Virginia, 

Charlottesville, VA 

Peter C Augusta, Duluth, GA 

Gene C. Casola, Spears/Votta & Associates, Inc., 

Baltimore, MD 

Solomon Chinnam, Genesis LED Solutions, Plano, TX 

Neill P Ferrill, Intertek ETL, Duluth, GA 

Jerry M. Gaines (M), Voss Lighting, Albuquerque, NM 

Landon B. Gennetten, Cooper Lighting, 


Grant Green, Mayer Electric Supply Co, Nashville, TN 

Mark Hand (M), Acuity Brands Lighting, Conyers, GA 

Danae S. Heath, Jacobs, San Antonio, TX 

Ryan W. Holloway, Lawrence Perry & Associates, Inc., 

Roanoke, VA 

Lawrence A Kramer (M), DFW Airport, DFW Airport, TX 

Joan W. LaRock, LaRock Associates, Inc., 

Virginia Beach, VA 

Christina Morrisey, Leah Wallace Associates, Inc., 

Charlotte, NC 

Charles E. Nealy Sr., CEN Designing, Houston, TX 

Vince M. Pearl (M), Holophane Lighting, 

Fredericksburg, VA 

Harry Persaud (M), City Of University Park, 

University Park, TX 

Raul G. Quintero-de la Garza (M), Lumidim de Mexico, 

Monterrey, NL, Mexico 

Anibal Rosado, Rig-A-Lite Partnership, Ltd., Houston, TX 

Robert W. Schoggin, ALPHA Lighting Distributors, Inc., 

Canyon Lake, TX 

Meredith Smith, Gewin Tucker and Associates, 

Birmingham, AL 

Allen R Sprinkle, Lone Mountain Contracting, 

Bosque Farms, NM 

Saiko Terahara (M), Washington, DC 

Benjamin J. Warren, Clark Nexsen, Architecture and 

Engineering, Norfolk, VA 

David E Wright (M), ccrd partners, Richmond, VA 

University of Alabama 

Kelsey Brock, Marina Coleman, Leigh Anne Creel, 

Jan Hales, Stefanie Keel, Julie Massey, 

Brittany Prescott, Cassie E. Pugh, Sarah Roberts, 

Jenna Simmons Emily Smith, Lacey Stalter, Amy Tucker, 

Rachel Vaughan, Sydney Wallace 

West Region 

Teren D. Abear (M), Southern California Edison, 

Irwindale, CA 

Rana M. Ali (M), Government of Nunavut, Iqaluit, NT 

Klay Anderson (M), Klay Anderson Audio, Inc., 

Salt Lake City, UT 

John T Brown PE (M), G. C Wallace, Inc., Las Vegas, NV 

Rebecca A. Carlson, B-K Lighting & TEKA Illumination, 

Madera, CA 

Stanton Dodson, Duke EcoGreen, Los Angeles, CA 

Ezra M. Domsky, City of Mesa, Mesa, AZ 

Charlotte Douglas, It’s On Electric Company, Inc., 

Surrey, BC 

Jeff W. Erwin, Graybar Electric, Sparks, NV 

Andy W. Ferguson, Philips Lighting, Corona, CA 

Andrew C. Fisher, Nulite Lighting, Highlands Ranch, CO 

Jessica Granderson (M), Lawrence Berkeley National 

Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 

Thomas l. Grey (M), WattStopper, Carlsbad, CA 

Jeremy R. Hall (M), PWA Engineering Ltd., 

Saskatoon, SK 

Travis N. Johnson, Xcel Energy, Denver, CO 

Lucas B. Krech, Lucas Krech Lighting Design, 

Oakland, CA 

Jorge H. Lujan, Dasal Industries, Port Coquitlam, BC 

Angela McDonald (M), Horton Lees Brogden Lighting 

Design, San Francisco, CA 

David Metcalfe, Sky Cast, Eloy, AZ 

George Mieling (M), Vode Lighting, Sonoma, CA 

Mridula Nathan, Ameri Lights, Inc., Artesia, CA 

Eric Percic (M), G & W Consulting Electrical Engineers, 

Venice, CA 

Anne C. Rubenstein, Qualcomm, San Jose, CA 

Todd H. Schuler, EECOL Electrical Corp, Saskatoon, SK 

Roger Spring (M), Evergreen Consulting Group, 

Beaverton, OR 

Rachel B. Stewart, Chips and Wafers, Inc., 

Paradise Valley, AZ 

David A. Taylor, Walt Disney Imagineering, Glendale, CA 

Randy P Walter, Energy Effi cient Group, Billings, MT 

Christopher T. Werner, Chris Werner Design, 

Los Angeles, CA 

Riley J Wedewer, ReLumen Engineering, Edmonton, AB 

Yi Yang (M), Acuity Engineering and Consulting 

Services, Ltd., Edmonton, AB 

British Columbia Institue of Technology 

Paula Guerra, Jonette Pantos, Yuri Shinozawa, Erica 

Son, Kevin KM Wu, Gyunghee Yun 

Salt Lake City Community College 

Sean Murphy, Karl J. Redel 

University of California-Berkeley Extension 

Sara Kayal 

International 

Kaveh Ahmadian Tazeh Mahalleh, Rastak Pouya 

Tarh,Tehran, Iran 

Myriam Aries (M), Eindhoven, Netherlands 

Hoon Kim (M), Kangwon National University, 

Chuncheon, South Korea 

Rami Majzoub, Saudi Diyar Consultant, Jeddah I, 

Saudi Arabia 

Universite Catholique de Louvain 

Coralie E. Cauwerts, Maria B. Piderit Moreno 

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The following companies have elected to support the Society as Sustaining Members 

which allows the IES to fund programs that benefit all segments of the membership and 

pursue new endeavors, including education projects, lighting research and recommended 

practices. The level of support is classified by the amount of annual dues, based on a 

company’s annual lighting revenues: 

Diamond: $15,000 annual dues 

Lighting revenues over $500 

million 

Emerald: $10,000 annual dues 

Lighting revenues to $500 million 

Platinum: $5,000 annual dues 


Gold: $2,500 annual dues 


Silver: $1,000 annual dues 


Copper: $500 annual dues 


(Copper members are listed in the 

IES Annual Report.) 

DIAMOND 

Acuity Brands 

Cooper Lighting 

GE Lighting 

Hubbell Lighting, Inc. 

OSRAM SYLVANIA, Inc. 

Philips Lighting Co. 

EMERALD 

Holophane 

SUSTAINING MEMBERS 

PLATINUM 

Finelite, Inc. 

H E Williams, Inc. 

Lightolier 

Lutron Electronics Co, Inc. 

Musco Lighting 

Philips Day-Brite 

Watt Stopper/Legrand 

GOLD 

A.L.P. Lighting Components Inc. 

Altman Lighting, Inc. 

Canlyte a Philips Group Brand 

Con-Tech Lighting 

Contrast Lighting ML, Inc. 

Duke Energy 

Edison Price Lighting, Inc. 

ETC 

EYE Lighting Int’l of NA 

Focal Point LLC 

Intense Lighting 

IOTA Engineering LLC 

Kenall Mfg Co. 

The Kirlin Company 

Kurt Versen Co. 

Lighting Science Group Corp 

Lighting Services, Inc 

Louis Poulsen Lighting, Inc. 

LSI Industries, Inc. 

Lucifer Lighting Co. 

National Grid 

Neonlite Electronic + Lighting (HK) Ltd. 

Philips Emergency Lighting 

Philips Gardco 

Prudential Lighting Corp 

RAB Lighting, Inc. 

Renova Lighting Systems, Inc 

San Diego Gas + Electric 

Sternberg Lighting 

Visa Lighting 

Vista Professional Outdoor Lighting 

Zumtobel Lighting, Inc. 

SILVER 

Apollo Lighting 

Associated Lighting Representatives. Inc. 

Axis Lighting, Inc. 

BAERO North America, Inc. 

Bartco Lighting, Inc. 

Barth Electric Co., Inc. 

Beta Lighting 

Birchwood Lighting, Inc. 

BJB Electric Corporation 

Black + McDonald 

Border States Electric Supply 

Bulbrite Industries, Inc. 

Carmanah Technologies 

Celestial Products 

City of San Francisco 

Con Edison of New York 

Day Lite Maintenance Co. 

Delta Products Corp. 

EAE Lighting Co. 

Eastern Energy Services, Inc. 

Echelon Corporation 

Eclipse Lighting, Inc. 

Eco Lumens 

Eiko Ltd 

Encapsulite International, Inc. 

Energy Network Service 

ENMAX 

Enterprise Lighting Sales 

Fawoo Tech North America, LLC 

Gammalux Systems 

Illuminating Technologies, Inc. 

Illumivision, Inc. 

Kramer Lighting 

Lam Lighting 

LCA Holdings P/L 

The L.C. Doane Company 

Ledalite Architectural Products, Inc. 

LED Roadway Lighting Ltd. 

Lee Filters USA 

Legion Lighting Co. 

Leviton Mfg. Co., Inc. 

Lighting Analysts, Inc. 

Lighting Design Lab. 

Litecontrol Corp 

Litelab Corp 

LiteTech 

L. J. Illumination S. A. deCV. 

Lumascape USA, Inc 

Luma Stream, LLC. 

Luxim Corporation 

Manning Lighting 

Medga Lighting Group, Inc. 

Megalite USA, Inc. 

Metalumen Manufacturing, Inc. 

MP Lighting 

Neidhardt, Inc. 

Nora Lighting 

OCEM Acquisition Corp. dba 

Optical Research Associates 

Paramount Industries, Inc. 

Peter Basso Associates, Inc. 

Reflex Lighting Group, Inc. 

Richard McDonald & Associates, Ltd. - Calgary 

Richard McDonald & Associates, Ltd. - 

Edmonton 

Ruud Lighting Canada Corp. 

Senso Lighting 

Sentry Electric Corporation 

Shakespeare Composites & Structures 

Smedmarks Inc. 

Southern California Edison 

Strand Lighting, Inc. 

StressCrete King Luminaire Co. 

The Climate Group 

The Lighting Quotient 

Tivoli, LLC. 

Toshiba International Corporation 

Traxon Technologies 

Utility Metals. 

Velux America, Inc. 

Westpac LED Lighting, Inc. 

Xal, Inc. 

As of October 2010 

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IES FYI 

Street and Area Lighting Conference, 

Huntington Beach, CA 

More than 650 lighting professionals gathered in Huntington 

Beach, CA, for the 29 th Annual Street and Area 

Lighting Conference in September. The conference kicked 

off with opening remarks from the Huntington Beach energy 

project manager, Aaron Klemp, who spoke about 

the city’s recent installation of LED streetlights. Speakers 

ranged from lighting designers, such as Lighting Design 

Alliance’s Chip Israel, to government officials, including 

Ed Ebrahiminian from the City of Los Angeles and Laura 

Stuchinsky from San Jose, and utility program managers, 

like Chris Balliet from we energies and Steve Dannecker 

from Pacific Gas & Electric. Balliet also received the IES 

Lifetime Achievement Award. Next year’s event will be 

held September 18-21, 2011, in New Orleans. 

Attendees peruse the tradeshow. 

Attendees mix at the welcome event. 

Mark McClear presents on LEDs. 

Members in the News 

Candace M. Kling of C.M. Kling 

& Associates and Charles Stone of 

Fisher Marantz Stone, Inc. have been 

inducted into the IALD College of Fellows. 

Kevin Houser has 

been appointed associate 

editor for LEUKOS, 

Houser the journal of the IES. 

Kenneth Neppach 

has been named regional 

sales manager for W2 

Architectural Lighting’s 

Neppach 

eastern division. 

WAC Lighting has 

appointed Timothy E. 

Vislay to western regional 

sales manager. 

Vislay 

Leviton’s global headquarters is 

the first commercial interior on Long 

Island to achieve LEED Certification. 

Cooper Lighting received the Silver 

Medal in the Lighting and Lighting 

Controls category for its Halo Downlight 

series in Consulting-Specifying 

Engineer magazine’s 2010 Product of 

the Year competition. Lutron Electronics 

Co., Inc. will collaborate with 

the American National Standards 

Institute to develop standards for 

the national Smart Grid effort. The 

company will also participate in an 

Automated Demand Response Small 

Commercial Pilot Program conducted 

by Lawrence Berkeley National 

Lab and Pacific Gas & Electric. 

IES 

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Events 

May 15-19, 2011 

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