Level Three: Lighting Specialist
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Level Three: Lighting Specialist
Advanced Specialist Market Knowledge
Transition from lighting generalist to lighting specialist with advanced training that prepares you to collaborate with lighting designers, specifiers, architects, and engineers. This paid course requires both NEMRA Lighting and IES membership. The course focuses on the cradle-to-grave journey of a lighting system (including bidding, approval, and long-term performance). Learn how to effectively engage in the specification process, anticipate pain points, and add meaningful value during critical project phases. Demonstrate your readiness to work alongside the design community by not just selling but collaborating.
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Contains 2 Component(s), Includes Credits
This is part 1 of a two part course titled Lights of the Round. The course features lighting industry leaders discuss industry dynamics including sales and supply chain, design team dynamics, and project management.
About this Course
Lights of the Round 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. Lights of the Round was created by the IES and AIA, the course consists of two parts.
Description: A group of industry leaders representing Architects, Distributors, Engineers, Lighting Designers, Lighting Controls Specialists and Lighting Manufacturers gather to discuss current lighting industry topics. The panelists describe the lighting design process, lighting team dynamics, and supply chain communication. With the adoption of LED, the group covers expectation management as well as changes to lighting specification and project management.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this course learners will be able to...
1. Understand the roles and responsibilities of; engineers, architects, lighting designers, distributors, manufacturers and lighting control specialists in the lighting design process.
2. Explore the dynamics of the post-bid supply chain including pricing, substitutions and communication.
3. Identify the importance of a lighting designer, and describe the influence they have on the team, and project.
4. Explore factors of the lighting control design process, including key moments in the specification process, interoperability concerns, and the role of a Lighting Control Specialist. -
Contains 2 Component(s), Includes Credits
This is part 2 of a two part course titled Lights of the Round. The course features lighting industry leaders discuss industry dynamics including sales and supply chain, design team dynamics, and project management.
About this Course
Lights of the Round 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. Lights of the Round was created by the IES and AIA, the course consists of two parts.
Description: A group of industry leaders representing Architects, Distributors, Engineers, Lighting Designers, Lighting Controls Specialists and Lighting Manufacturers gather to discuss current lighting industry topics. The panelists describe the lighting design process, lighting team dynamics, and supply chain communication. With the adoption of LED, the group covers expectation management as well as changes to lighting specification and project management.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this course learners will be able to...
1. Understand the roles and responsibilities of; engineers, architects, lighting designers, distributors, manufacturers and lighting control specialists in the lighting design process.
2. Explore the dynamics of the post-bid supply chain including pricing, substitutions and communication.
3. Identify the importance of a lighting designer, and describe the influence they have on the team, and project.
4. Explore factors of the lighting control design process, including key moments in the specification process, interoperability concerns, and the role of a Lighting Control Specialist. -
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: Within the last year, we’ve witnessed states, provinces, and cities across North America update their building energy codes and standards to further energy efficiency and conservation as well as construction practices. This presentation will review the most important and recent code changes as it deals with lighting and lighting controls. Most importantly, will review best practice lighting power and control design application for multiple common space types, while avoiding common code mistakes and misunderstandings reducing the confusion or challenges for lighting designers and engineering professionals when designing building lighting power and controls to meet codes.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this course learners will be able to...
1. Identify changes in the motives and dialogue of energy codes, and how these changes impact lighting practice.
2. Describe Lighting Power Allowance and learn about the downward trend.
3. Apply Interior and Exterior Lighting & Controls strategies including occupancy based control, daylighting controls, lighting reduction, etc. in lighting design practice.
4. Identify "Compliance Help" resources including recommended practices, manuals, code & design education. -
Contains 2 Component(s), Includes Credits Recorded On: 04/18/2019
Developed by the Lighting Controls Association and presented by lighting educator Steve Mesh, this webinar introduces networked control, typical energy savings, capabilities, types of systems, system elements, the potential for rebates, and a product comparison resource
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: Networked lighting controls promise significant energy cost savings and other robust capabilities, such as the ability to collect data and participate in the Internet of Things. Developed by the Lighting Controls Association and presented by lighting educator Steve Mesh, this webinar introduces networked control, typical energy savings, capabilities, types of systems, system elements, the potential for rebates, and a product comparison resource. It then discusses specification issues such as wired versus wireless, topology, cybersecurity, protocols, measuring & monitoring, and integration with other systems. The enthusiasm for healthier buildings has aligned with advances in LED technology, controls and research exploring the human biological response to light. This alignment has led to a rise in health claims related to lighting, yet there is still much to learn regarding the relationship between light and human biology. This webinar will look back at the background of circadian metrics, and look forward to the opportunities and challenges facing the future development and implementation of circadian metrics in the built environment.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this course learners will be able to...
1. Identify elements of a networked lighting control system and how those elements relate to code requirements.
2. Understand benefits and features of various control strategies.
3. Identify different control systems based on facility type and control systems structure.
4. Discover differences in devices utilized in wired and wireless topologies for various square footages. -
Contains 2 Component(s), Includes Credits
Now is the moment to integrate lighting with other building systems, and this webinar will discuss some recent successes, and the challenges involved. It will also preview the latest from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Integrated Lighting Campaign, designed to encourage the integration of lighting and other building systems such as HVAC and plug loads, and to promote the use of innovative sensors.
Lighting and Integration
The IES offers Educational Webinars throughout the year, purposefully spanning a broad range of topics and speaker expertise. This was a live webinar hosted in partnership with the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL) and is now available as an archived webinar and CEU course.
Description: Lighting equipment and controls can do more than just provide light to the visible spectrum. Now is the moment to integrate lighting with other building systems, and this webinar will discuss some recent successes, and the challenges involved. It will also preview the latest from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Integrated Lighting Campaign, designed to encourage the integration of lighting and other building systems such as HVAC and plug loads, and to promote the use of innovative sensors.
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Contains 2 Component(s), Includes Credits Recorded On: 08/13/2020
The session walks through dimming expectations for LEDs vs. incandescent such as dimming floor, color temperature, and linearity; the most common problems with LED dimming such as power line noise and how to address them.
About this Course
Description: LEDs are the go to light source for the replacement of existing lamps and luminaires providing a significant reduction in energy and an extended lifespan. LEDs can fit any form factor, and are extremely malleable compared to what we’ve been using in the past. However, dimming LEDs require careful coordination of lamps, drivers and controls to ensure proper performance. The session walks through dimming expectations for LEDs vs. incandescent such as dimming floor, color temperature, and linearity; the most common problems with LED dimming such as power line noise and how to address them.
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Contains 2 Component(s), Includes Credits Recorded On: 01/16/2020
This presentation provides an overview of wireless lighting security basics: concerns around wireless devices, definitions of Authentication, Encryption, and Certificates, and considerations for implementing security in wireless lighting controls.
About this Course
Description: Why do we want to talk about security? Security implementations in Lighting Control Systems is a major differentiator. Increasing numbers of networked devices, their hardware, software, and communications must be secured. Yet few of us have a security background. This presentation provides an overview of wireless lighting security basics: concerns around wireless devices, definitions of Authentication, Encryption, and Certificates, and considerations for implementing security in wireless lighting controls.
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Contains 2 Component(s), Includes Credits Recorded On: 06/06/2024
The authors of three papers published in Leukos will present their work on various aspects of daylight and daylighting.
About this Course
Description: LED drivers matter. Their quality, capability and intelligence drive the results of your lighting design and empower lighting controls on your project. This course will provide an in-depth review of the driver performance specifications to deliver quality of light, dimming, flicker-safe capabilities and lighting controls including luminaire-level lighting controls.
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Contains 4 Component(s), Includes Credits
Color tunable light sources provide tremendous flexibility in terms of spectral power distribution, but the resulting range of variation in chromaticity, color rendition, and other characteristics poses a challenge for product characterization and specification. Using a massive dataset generated with high-performance computers, this webinar will discuss new methods to convey the extent to which color rendition can be varied, and how different factors (number of LED channels, type of LEDs) influence the range of performance.
Characterizing the Performance of Color Tunable Light Sources
Description: Color tunable light sources provide tremendous flexibility in terms of spectral power distribution, but the resulting range of variation in chromaticity, color rendition, and other characteristics poses a challenge for product characterization and specification. The millions or billions or trillions (or more!) of spectral power distributions that can be created from one luminaire enables designers to meet various design intents and influence the visual appearance of spaces. However, in contrast with characterizing the performance of a fixed-output luminaire, there are no established methods or guidelines for characterizing performance over the tuning range for the variety of SPD-related metrics, which can impede engineering and specification of color tunable products. Using a massive dataset generated with high-performance computers, this webinar will discuss new methods to convey the extent to which color rendition can be varied, and how different factors (number of LED channels, type of LEDs) influence the range of performance.