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Jim Benya presents: Lighting Design with Efficiency
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Mar 27, 2008, 11:48

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OVERALL OBJECTIVE
This seminar gives you the practical tools you need to integrate high efficiency design techniques and daylighting strategies into your lighting design. We’ll talk about the art of efficient lighting design and the science of lamps, ballasts, luminaires and controls.
 
AS A RESULT OF THIS TRAINING YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
• Evaluate lighting designs in existing buildings for quality, power and efficiency
• Analyze daylighting strategies to meet LEED standards
• Incorporate the latest lighting technologies into your lighting designs
• Utilize the latest lighting technology to ensure energy efficient design
• Integrate daylighting principles in future projects
• Select from a toolbox of design strategies and lighting technologies
 
BENEFITS OF ATTENDING
• Hear the latest lighting information from an international lighting expert
• Learn how to produce better projects by correctly designing and implementing
sophisticated lighting for commercial, retail and institutional spaces
• See award-winning design examples
• Find out how low you can go—use the lowest amount of light for the job
• Understand why daylighting is key—for healthy buildings and healthy people
• Hear Jim’s LIGHTFAIR presentation before the rest of the world does
 
AGENDA
8:00 am—Registration and
Continental Breakfast
8:30 am–4:00 pm—Program
 
COST
The registration fee for attending this training is $179. IES members who register online will receive a $30 discounted rate. Register online at http://www.ecw.org/lighting
 
CONTINUING EDUCATION UNITS
Members of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) who attend this workshop will receive 6 HSW learning units.
 
Lighting professionals who have earned the National Council on Qualifications for Lighting Professionals Lighting Certification are required to participate in ongoing professional development to maintain their LC designation. This course has applied for NCQLP for lighting education units.
 
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Architects, engineers, lighting designers, contractors, interior designers, lighting contractors, manufacturers, dealers and distributors, lighting wholesalers and distributors and anyone interested in commercial building design
 
DATES AND LOCATIONS
 
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Wisconsin Energy Conservation Corporation (WECC)
431 Charmany Drive
Madison, WI 53719
 
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
We Energies Auditorium
231 West Michigan Street
Milwaukee, WI 53203
 
Thursday, April 17, 2008
OWP/P
111 West Washington Street,
Suite 2100, Chicago, IL 60602
 
PRESENTER—Jim Benya
Jim is one of the world’s best teachers of lighting design and applications. He started teaching lighting in 1974 and in 34 years has become recognized worldwide as a practical environmentalist and passionate designer. He is a certified professor of environmental design at the University of California at Davis, an AIA professional development education provider, a certified ASID/IIDA interior design continuing education provider, and one of the top public speakers in the field. A former adjunct professor of architecture and design at California College of Art, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Michigan, and Lawrence Institute of Technology, Jim has taught over 400 CEU programs, 300 college classes, and given over 200 speeches about lighting at LightFair, NeoCon, Designers Saturday, and other gatherings of the trade.
 
QUESTIONS?
For more information, contact Trisha Stibor at 608.238.8276 x124 or tstibor@ecw.org.

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