Level Four: Lighting Professional
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Level Four: Lighting Professional
Become a Trusted Lighting Consultant
The pinnacle of the NEMRA Lighting Stepped Educational Curriculum, Level Four course empowers you to master advanced lighting and controls applications, including layout techniques, system integration, control zoning, and aesthetic design principles. This paid course requires both NEMRA Lighting and IES membership. This course is ideal for supporting design-build teams, integrators, and high-performance building projects by empowering you to speak the language of visual comfort, spatial intent, interoperability, sustainability, and lighting quality. For Agents and Manufacturers, don’t just understand how the system works, but also how you serve people and places as trusted lighting advisors ready to elevate your approach to a consultative and strategic level.
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Contains 2 Component(s), Includes Credits
This is part 1 of a two-part course titled Architecture for Light. The course - as a whole - examines design considerations for creating built environments which embrace light.
About this Course
Architecture for Light is one course in the IES's Indispensable Lighting Series. This series was designed to provide members, educators and the general public access to information about quality lighting. Architecture for Light was created by Kim and Paul Mercier - who are both past Presidents of the IES - and their course consists of two parts; Part 1 is titled Heirloom Ideas, Modern Semantics and Current Realizations and Part 2 is titled Lighting Design in the Era of Energy Codes. Each part offers continuing eduction for learners; they can be purchased individually or as a package.
Description: Part 1 focuses on the influence energy codes have in the design process; the benefits of an integrated design team; the impact that people, materials, and geometry have on the lighting design process; and lighting strategies through the use of case studies.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this course learners will be able to...
1. Understand the influence of energy codes in the lighting design process.
2. Identify the benefits of an integrated design team, which includes the lighting designer's involvement in the imaging sessions.
3. Explore the impact of people, materials, and geometry on the lighting design process for the built environment.
4. Examine lighting strategies through case studies that explore visual hierarchy, light and direction, and verticality.Kimberly Mercier, MBA, PE, P.Eng., LEED AP
Managing Principal of Lighting Design Innovations
Kimberly Mercier is the Managing Principal of Lighting Design Innovations and is a lighting designer and professional engineer in the United States and Canada. She holds an MBA from SUNY at Buffalo and her experience includes managing electrical departments for consulting engineering firms in Calgary, Alberta and Buffalo and Rochester, NY. Kimberly is a LEED Accredited Professional and a Certified Lighting Efficiency Professional.Kimberly is a Past President of the Illuminating Engineering Society and award winning Lighting Designer and Educator.
Paul Mercier
Design Principal of Lighting Design Innovations
Paul Mercier is a professional member of the International Association of Lighting Designers and a professional lighting designer certified by the National Council on Qualifications for Lighting Professions. He holds an MS in Lighting from Queensland University of Technology. Paul has over 30 years’ experience in lighting design completing projects in centers across North America.
Mr. Mercier is a judge for international lighting design awards including those for the IES and General Electric. He has received numerous awards for interior – and exterior - lighting designs.
He is an adjunct instructor of undergraduate lighting design at SUNY Buffalo State University and a seasonal instructor for a post-graduate architectural lighting design course at the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Environmental Design. Paul instructs on several AIA approved course topics including: Lighting Emerging Technologies, LED Technologies and Applications, LED Architectural Applications and Heritage Landscape Lighting.
Paul is an International Past-President of the IES and Past Acting Executive Vice President of the organization. Mr. Mercier was the Featured Profile in Philips’ Luminous Spec Summer 2015 in which he described the relationship of his education to his success as a lighting designer as “…understanding the science of lighting provides you with the freedom to be creative.”
0:00 Introduction
5:08 The Original Disconnect
7:27 Efficiency of the Space
11:16 The Original Lighting Designers
16:40 Math Becomes Research
19:04 Transfer of Illumination
28:19 Creating the Unexpected
37:14 Light and Direction
41:09 Summations -
Contains 2 Component(s), Includes Credits
This is part 2 of a two part course titled Architecture for Light. The course - as a whole - examines design considerations for creating built environments which embrace light.
About this Course
Architecture for Light is one course in the IES's Indispensable Lighting Series. This series was designed to provide members, educators and the general public access to information about quality lighting. Architecture for Light was created by Kim and Paul Mercier - who are both past Presidents of the IES - and their course consists of two parts; Part 1 is titled Heirloom Ideas, Modern Semantics and Current Realizations and Part 2 is titled Lighting Design in the Era of Energy Codes. Each part offers continuing education for learners; they can be purchased individually or as a package.
Description: Part 2 focuses on the influence energy codes have in the design process; the benefits of an integrated design team; the impact that people, materials, and geometry have on the lighting design process; and lighting strategies through the use of case studies.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this course learners will be able to...
1. Understand the influence of energy codes in the lighting design process.
2. Identify the benefits of an integrated design team, which includes the lighting designer's involvement in the imaging sessions.
3. Explore the impact of people, materials, and geometry on the lighting design process for the built environment.
4. Examine lighting strategies through case studies that explore visual hierarchy, light and direction, and verticality.Kimberly Mercier, MBA, PE, P.Eng., LEED AP
Managing Principal of Lighting Design Innovations
Kimberly Mercier is the Managing Principal of Lighting Design Innovations and is a lighting designer and professional engineer in the United States and Canada. She holds an MBA from SUNY at Buffalo and her experience includes managing electrical departments for consulting engineering firms in Calgary, Alberta and Buffalo and Rochester, NY. Kimberly is a LEED Accredited Professional and a Certified Lighting Efficiency Professional.Kimberly is a Past President of the Illuminating Engineering Society and award winning Lighting Designer and Educator.
Paul Mercier
Design Principal of Lighting Design Innovations
Paul Mercier is a professional member of the International Association of Lighting Designers and a professional lighting designer certified by the National Council on Qualifications for Lighting Professions. He holds an MS in Lighting from Queensland University of Technology. Paul has over 30 years’ experience in lighting design completing projects in centers across North America.
Mr. Mercier is a judge for international lighting design awards including those for the IES and General Electric. He has received numerous awards for interior – and exterior - lighting designs.
He is an adjunct instructor of undergraduate lighting design at SUNY Buffalo State University and a seasonal instructor for a post-graduate architectural lighting design course at the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Environmental Design. Paul instructs on several AIA approved course topics including: Lighting Emerging Technologies, LED Technologies and Applications, LED Architectural Applications and Heritage Landscape Lighting.
Paul is an International Past-President of the IES and Past Acting Executive Vice President of the organization. Mr. Mercier was the Featured Profile in Philips’ Luminous Spec Summer 2015 in which he described the relationship of his education to his success as a lighting designer as “…understanding the science of lighting provides you with the freedom to be creative.”
0:00 Introduction
5:15 The Alarming Question
9:02 Vertical Design Process
16:00 Imagining Sessions
28:23 Appropriate Treatments
35:55 Space Volume and Geometry
43:06 Verticality
54:09 Hierarchy
1:03:04 Light and Direction
1:09:00 Efficiency of Design
1:14:44 Problem Solving Becomes Design -
Contains 2 Component(s), Includes Credits
This seminar outlines the steps taken on various diverse projects to address those essentials and create the desired mood, atmosphere, and functionality.
About this Course
The IES offers Educational Webinars throughout the year, purposefully spanning a broad range of topics and speaker expertise. This course was a live webinar, now available as an archived webinar and CEU course.
Description: What is lighting design, and why does focusing on lighting layouts fall short? Lighting layouts are not the same as lighting design. Quality lighting design begins with concept development – a form of programming for the visual environment that considers many elements such as perception, contrast, and visibility. This seminar outlines the steps taken on various diverse projects to address those essentials and create the desired mood, atmosphere, and functionality. The case studies span different sectors, from heritage to retail to residential, and identify the range of challenges that good design can help overcome, with many universal lessons.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this course learners will be able to...
1. Understand the value of "lighting with intention".
2. Recognize how project challenges and goals guide the development of a lighting design.
3. Appreciate the challenges and opportunities that lighting controls present.
4. See how designers can deeply affect perception through lighted effects.Deborah Gottesman
Principal
“At Gottesman Associates, we balance all facets of light to reflect the lighting priorities that are unique to each client and project.”
Deborah Gottesman is the principal of Gottesman Associates, an award-winning architectural lighting design firm established in 1999, with distinctive expertise in sustainability and heritage applications. Deborah’s 30+ years in all facets of the lighting industry, including design, engineering, management, education, and manufacturing gives her a unique contextual understanding of lighting from all perspectives.
Deborah has successfully worked on projects in many sectors, and has taught lighting at all levels to a wide audience from students to senior architects. A past president of the Toronto Section Illuminating Engineering Society, Deborah has been involved in the IES at local, regional, and international levels, and was awarded the Toronto Section Service Award in 2013.
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Contains 2 Component(s), Includes Credits
This webinar will demonstrate how light remains a driving force in architecture, and how lighting designers and architects can collaborate to create better lighting and better buildings.
About this Course
The IES offers Educational Webinars throughout the year, purposefully spanning a broad range of topics and speaker expertise. This course was a live webinar, now available as an archived webinar and CEU course.
Description: What if a primary purpose of architecture is to deliver light? An examination of historical building practice answers this question in fascinating ways. A careful examination of the specific geometric properties of both building enclosures and luminaires shows striking similarities at different scales: forms that are effective in reflecting amplifying and mitigating daylight are also effective with electric light. A whole building approach to lighting, using available daylight first, then supplementing it with electric light, provides a better approach to balancing light sources. As a “service” provided by buildings, light has a primary role, often determining or significantly impacting building siting, massing, fenestration, materials, height, and structural systems, as well as interior surfaces and colors. History provides many examples of effective strategies for maximizing daylight (and firelight) that evolved over millennia in a wide variety of cultures and climates. This webinar will demonstrate how light remains a driving force in architecture, and how lighting designers and architects can collaborate to create better lighting and better buildings.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this course learners will be able to...
1. Identify effective lighting strategies in architectural history before gas and electric lighting that inform sustainable building practice when integrated with Solid State Lighting. Participants will learn how rich lessons from the past can help to build the future.
2. Articulate more effective roles for lighting designers in the early design phases of building projects when crucial decisions are made about siting, glazing, building orientation, and energy use. Lighting designers will understand how they can make the role of lighting designer more relevant, and architects will understand how to improve building design through a better understanding of lighting.
3. Describe and analyze improved daylight/electric light balance to that will help align project teams with other sustainable strategies. Designers will understand how traditional architectural design strategies for mitigating glare and providing proper light distribution and views are often preferable to relying on electric lighting and complex control systems and can contribute to higher LEED scores, reduced energy use, and better occupant health and comfort.
4. Compare the benefits of integrating successful historical strategies with new technology to current building practice. Designers will learn ways to question current practices, have more impact on early stages of building projects, and defend design ideas with historical precedent. -
Contains 2 Component(s), Includes Credits
This webinar offers an overview of the application of color rendering in lighting design, from schematic design to design development to documentation and beyond.
About this Course
The IES offers Educational Webinars throughout the year, purposefully spanning a broad range of topics and speaker expertise.
Description: This webinar offers an overview of the application of color rendering in lighting design, from schematic design to design development to documentation and beyond. It focuses on Annex E of TM-30 along with the forthcoming LP-30, which both provide guidance on the use of TM-30. Annex E provides recommendations for specifying light source color rendition and is a valuable tool for selecting light sources that meet color rendering requirements. LP-30, expected to be released later this year, will be a specifier-oriented document that explains how to optimize each step of the color rendering design process to achieve the most desirable results. This webinar is an ideal opportunity to learn how to evaluate and specify the color properties of light sources. Gain a deeper understanding of specifying color rendering using TM-30.
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Contains 2 Component(s), Includes Credits
This course explores how indirect lighting can be used to improve the comfort level of a space and allow it to be used in multiple ways. Participants will learn lighting design techniques for optimizing the design of interior spaces by illuminating ceilings and walls, and by backlighting through translucent materials.
About this Course
The IES offers Educational Webinars throughout the year, purposefully spanning a broad range of topics and speaker expertise. This was a live webinar, now available as an archived webinar and CEU course.
Description: Humans have evolved to prefer certain characteristics of light and interior spaces – we naturally gravitate towards and feel more comfortable in spaces that are coherent, that provide a clear view of how to move through them, that are well illuminated by full-spectrum light and where contrasts in light and colors are used to create emphasize what is most important, creating a visual hierarchy. Indirect lighting makes use of the building’s interior envelope and volume to modulate, amplify, and balance lighting from various sources. A layered approach to the lighting of interior spaces, which incorporates a balance of direct and indirect lighting improves visual coherence and wayfinding; articulates and highlights architectural elements, and positively impacts health and productivity. This course explores how indirect lighting can be used to improve the comfort level of a space and allow it to be used in multiple ways. Participants will learn lighting design techniques for optimizing the design of interior spaces by illuminating ceilings and walls, and by backlighting through translucent materials.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this course learners will be able to...
1. Identify basic characteristics of light and how to apply them in interiors.
2. Apply examples from nature and basic behavioral principles to the design and lighting of interior spaces to improve how we experience interior spaces.
3. Recognize the four layers of light and their different functions.
4. Analyze and apply basic techniques of interior indirect lighting design. -
Contains 2 Component(s), Includes Credits
This webinar is an overview of the concepts in ANSI/IES LP-16-22: Documenting Control Intent Narratives and Sequences of Operations.
About this Course
The IES offers a series of webinars that provide supplemental education to coincide with a recently revised or new IES Standard (Recommended Practice - RP, Technical Memorandum - TM, etc.). You can view this standard in the IES Webstore.
Description: Join us for an overview of the concepts in ANSI/IES LP-16: Documenting Control Intent Narratives and Sequences of Operations. Intended for a variety of users in the lighting community, LP-16 is a reference manual of best practices on how design intent is included in the project documentation and communicated to the construction and commissioning teams. Learn directly from committee members who wrote LP-16.
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Contains 4 Component(s), Includes Credits
Learn how historical and psychological context can inform layered and adaptable lighting design solutions for lobbies, reception areas, restaurants, and residential living spaces that result in happier humans and more dramatic architecture.
About this Course
The IES offers Educational Webinars throughout the year, purposefully spanning a broad range of topics and speaker expertise. Layers of Light: Residential & Hospitality was a live webinar, now available as an archived webinar and CEU course.
Description: Lighting plays a critical role in fostering safety, security, and a sense of welcome to residential and hospitality projects, especially after the sun goes down. Learn how historical and psychological context can inform layered and adaptable lighting design solutions for lobbies, reception areas, restaurants, and residential living spaces that result in happier humans and more dramatic architecture.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this course learners will be able to...
1. Discover the historical and psychological implications of the layers of light in hospitality spaces.
2. Investigate the theory behind the five promises embedded in the layers of light; light for doing, knowing, feeling, changing, and story.
3. Explore the way properties of light contribute to spaces that are welcoming, comforting and relaxing.
4. Learn to discuss the interrelationship of the layers of light, and communicate the value of each.