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Free 3-Part Online Series: Implementing & Designing Residential Lighting Controls, October 13, 20 & 27, 9-11 am 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: 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.
This webinar is the first in a 3-part series offered by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E). To enroll in the entire "Residential Lighting Controls" series register HERE.
Designing Residential Lighting Controls - October 20, (9am - 11am)
With recent changes in code requirements and new lighting technology, residential lighting controls can present some challenges for even basic installations. This class shows you how to design practical, code compliant, and feasible residential lighting controls that enhance the beauty, value, and energy efficiency of residential spaces. Award-winning lighting designer David Wilds Patton and author and lighting expert Clifton Stanley Lemon will cover control types; code requirements; zoning; system sizing; compatibility; scenes; smart home integration; and the design and documentation process. This class is intended for designers, specifiers, building contractors, and homeowners..
The objective of this course is that at the conclusion, participants will be able to:
- Identify and resolve typical residential lighting controls problems and malfunctions
- Apply a basic understanding of function, compatibility, zoning, code requirements, and location in the selection of lighting controls equipment
- Explain different control types, their functions, interconnections, and behaviors
Identify best practices in working with the owners and project team to execute a successful lighting controls design
Implementing Residential Lighting Controls - WEBINAR - October 27, (9am - 11am)
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: 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.
- Controls behaviors 9:10 - 9:30
- Translating design documents 9:30 - 9:50
- Break 9:50 – 9:55
- Installation, troubleshooting, and maintenance 9:55 - 10:20
- Typical controls fails & remedies 10:20 - 10:30
- General Q&A 10:30 - 10-50
- Summary 10:50- 11:00
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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