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Free Online Training: Residential Lighting for Beauty, Comfort and Efficiency, April 5, 9am-12pm PT
Event Description
This class shows designers, specifiers, contractors, and homeowners how to create beautiful residential lighting while saving energy and meeting code. Award-winning lighting designer David Wilds Patton and author and lighting expert Clifton Stanley Lemon demonstrate the fundamentals of good residential lighting design. The course encompasses light on target, light layers, lighting people, light quality, fixture selection, and working with reflected light. They will go through the design, specification, documentation, and construction process, and show real-world examples of residential lighting to train you how to recognize and correct typical lighting design problems. The next two classes in this series will focus on residential lighting controls.
The objective of this course is that at the conclusion, participants will be able to:
- Purpose of lighting (9:10am - 9:30am)
- Design principles (9:30am - 10:00am)
- CA Title 24 (10am - 10:10am)
- Real design problems (10:10am - 10:40am)
- Break (10:40am - 10:45am)
- Your lighting palette of tools (10:45am - 11:10am)
- Design, documentation and construction (11:10am - 11:40am
- Discussion-what's wrong with these spaces how would you improve the lighting (11:40am - 12pm)
David is an award-winning independent lighting designer based in the Bay Area for the past thirty years. His work is primarily focused on residential design. Along with a small group of other practitioners, he has been actively attending California Energy Commission meetings and participating in comments on Title 24 and lighting codes since 2005.
Clifton Stanley Lemon, IES
Clifton Lemon Associates is a consultancy providing strategic advising and education to the lighting and energy industries. Clifton was the Program Director for the LightSpec and Strategies in Light conferences and Marketing Communications Manager for Soraa. He is the co-author of Beautiful Light; An Insider’s Guide to LED Lighting in Homes and Gardens and a past President of the San Francisco Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society.
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