Workshop

8:00 AM – 3:00 PM

Emerging Professionals Workshop

This workshop is included for all EP Registered Attendees.
Pre-Registration is required.

Emerging Professionals Workshop

This workshop is geared towards students, early-career professionals and those making a career change. The program provides attendees with opportunities to learn more about the lighting industry, interact with seasoned lighting professionals and engage with the IES community. Emerging professionals within the first five years of their lighting career are encouraged to register.

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Workshop

8:00 AM – 3:00 PM

Leadership Forum

The IES Leadership Forum is traditionally a full day in-person program, designed by the IES Leadership Forum Committee.
Pre-Registration is required.

Leadership Forum

The purpose of the Leadership Forum is to help leaders at all levels of the Society work effectively with volunteers and strengthen their leadership skills. The program offers leadership development, networking and learning opportunities for IES volunteers, section leaders, and industry professionals.
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Meetings

9:00 AM – 3:00 PM

Technical Committee Meetings

Technical committees are responsible for the creation and oversight of a technical document(s). Members of technical committees are individuals who have a recognized proficiency or interest in a specific field.

Technical Committee Meetings

The committees of the Society shall be the prescribed by the IES Bylaws, or as otherwise approved by the IES Board of Directors. The Board may from time to time create other Standing or Ad Hoc committees as it deems necessary to carry on the work of the Society and shall prescribe their powers and duties, and it may abolish any such committees. Technical committees are responsible for the creation and oversight of a technical document(s). Members of technical committees are individuals who have a recognized proficiency or interest in a specific field. Committees organized by Lighting Library® content. Committees under the other groupings (Education, Governance, Member Programs, Society Awards, Society Events, Society and Industry Support Committees) are responsible to perform a function that pertains to the business operations, administrative duties, or program and activity oversight of the Society.

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Awards

5:00 PM – 11:00 PM

Illumination Awards Reception/Gala/After Party

The IES Illumination Awards program recognizes individuals for professionalism, ingenuity, and originality in lighting design based on the individual merit of each entry.
Pre-Registration is required.

Illumination Awards Reception/Gala/After Party

The IES Illumination Awards will be presented as the opening session to kick-off the 2022 Annual Conference. With Acuity Brands as the platinum sponsor, many projects from around the world will be recognized with this honorable distinction. Thank you to those that submitted and congratulations to all award recipients.

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Platinum Sponsor

Reception Sponsor

Break

7:00 AM – 8:00 AM

Breakfast

Emerging Professionals Workshop

Each year, IES sections and corporate sponsors step up to provide funds to support the attendance of Emerging Professionals (EPs) — which includes students, early career professionals, and professionals making a career change — at the IES Annual Conference and the IES EP Workshop that precedes the conference.

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Greetings

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM

Morning Session

Welcome to the 2022 IES Annual Conference. 

Location: Grand Ballroom B/C

Leadership Forum

Every year, volunteer members and lighting professionals gather at the Leadership Forum event held in conjunction with the IES Annual Conference to learn more about the lighting industry and leadership within the IES while building valuable relationships and furthering their lighting careers. The purpose of the Leadership Forum is to help leaders at all levels of the Society work effectively with volunteers and strengthen their leadership skills. The program offers career development, networking, and learning opportunities for IES volunteers and industry professionals.

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Opening Event

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Keynote Address

The Color of Desire

Adam Rogers is the author of Full Spectrum: How the Science of Color Made Us Modern  

Location: Grand Ballroom B/C

Keynote Speaker: Adam Rogers

The Color of Desire

Even the earliest humans used color to direct each other’s attention and emphasize the things most important to them. Understanding what color and light actually are—in terms of physics and chemistry, but also in the eye and the mind—has always influenced what color and lights humans actually make. And vice versa. But the technology of the industrial age sparked what some historians have called a “chromatic revolution,” an era when color and light became tools not only of art but also of design, business, and marketing. That era hasn’t ended. We still use color to emphasize what’s important to us, but also to redirect what we all think is important. The story of color is the story of our shared culture.

A longtime editor and correspondent for WIRED, Adam Rogers grew up in Los Angeles. He started his career in journalism as a fact checker at Newsweek, where he reported on everything from life (or rather its absence) on Mars to the business of Star Wars. He also covered the presidential campaigns of Bill Bradley and Al Gore.

After Newsweek, Adam was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied urban ecology and the science of color.

At WIRED, Adam has edited hundreds of features and short articles, as well as writing about science and culture. His article “The Angels’ Share” won a AAAS/Kavli award, and his piece “The Science of Why No One Agrees on the Color of This Dress” remains one of the most-read pieces of journalism on the internet. In 2018 he won the Research Society on Alcoholism Media award. Adam is a graduate of Pomona College in Claremont, California, and has a Masters degree in science journalism from Boston University. He lives in the California Bay Area.

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Speaker

Adam Rogers

Senior Tech Correspondent,
Insider, Inc.

Seminars

10:15 AM – 11:15 AM

Educational Sessions

• Call for Collective – An Open Forum for Change

  Location: Marlborough A

• Innovating the Lighting Design Process: Computational Tools to Illuminate and Empower Architecture

  Location: Marlborough B

• The Utopia of Darkness and Lighting: After we get the stars back

  Location: Prince of Wales

Educational Sessions

Call for Collective – An Open Forum for Change

Change starts with an idea, that is cultivated with actionable plans, and flourishes with support from a collective. Leader of the WILD Lamplighter Coalition Elizabeth Williams will encourage attendees to tap into their ability to impact the lighting industry. After a brief description of the Lamplighter Coalition and steps that were taken to establish WILD’s newest program, the audience will be challenged to design action plans that foster a change they wish to see in the industry. After an open forum discussion to brainstorm ideas, action plans will be developed in small groups and then presented to the larger audience. Content from this workshop may be published by WILD in efforts to engage a collective, and support these ideas for change.

SPEAKER:

Elizabeth Williams – Illuminart

Innovating the Lighting Design Process: Computational Tools to Illuminate and Empower Architecture

Our design community has benefited greatly from advancements in computational analysis and workflows over recent years. Parametric architecture has since entered an entirely new realm of possibilities and has redefined our broader practice. Advanced daylighting and energy modeling processes have equally boosted the relevance of computation in the lighting industry as software continues to push the boundaries for diverse analysis. Traditional lighting analysis allows for simulation and mock-up of only a single architectural option at a time, limiting its impact on the vast range of possibilities that is the design space. There is an opportunity to integrate iterative and flexible geometry with validated lighting software to quickly explore
undiscovered lighting solutions at every step in the design process. The integration of these processes allows for a new partnerships between architect and lighting designer to illuminate designs previously left in the dark.

SPEAKERS:

Nathan Sharnas – SmithGroup
Patrick McBride – SmithGroup
Mat Nosek – SmithGroup

The Utopia of Darkness and Lighting: After we get the stars back

This seminar lays the foundation for an artistic and scientific design process rooted in symbiotic design, ecological compassion and conservation, romanticism towards the night sky, and pragmatism towards lighting for human activity – a future that dovetails natural darkness and lighting through the merging of poetics with metrics.

SPEAKERS:

Jane Slade – Spec-Lines
Amardeep M. Dugar – Lighting Research and Design

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Speakers

Elizabeth Williams – Illuminart
Nathan Sharnas – SmithGroup 
Patrick McBride – SmithGroup
Mat Nosek – SmithGroup
Jane Slade – Spec-Lines
Amardeep M Dugar – Lighting Research and Design

Session

10:15 AM – 11:15 AM

Paper Sessions

• Applying Curve-Fitting Correction for Non-Linear Dimming Response of LED

  Location: Churchill B

• Temporal Light Modulation Waveform Generation, Distortion, and Correction

  Location: Churchill B

• Comparison of UVC light disinfection versus enhanced liquid disinfection practices on high-touch surfaces during the COVID19 Pandemic

  Location: Churchill C

• Towards More Consistency in Reporting the Properties of Upper Room Germicidal Ultraviolet Installations

  Location: Churchill C

  Paper Sessions

  Applying Curve-Fitting Correction for Non-Linear Dimming Response of LED

  This presentation will address the non-linear dimming response of LEDs and discuss curve-fitting as a potential method to solve this problem.

  SPEAKERS:

  Rugved Kor – Pennsylvania State University
  Dorukalp Durmus – Pennsylvania State University

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  Temporal Light Modulation Waveform Generation, Distortion, and Correction

  SPEAKERS:

  Eduardo Rodriguez-feo Bermudez – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  Lia Irvin – SPacific Northwest National Laboratory

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  Comparison of UVC light disinfection versus enhanced liquid disinfection practices on high-touch surfaces during the COVID19 Pandemic

  Between June 2020 and January 2021, a comparison of UVC disinfection versus enhanced liquid disinfection practices on high-touch surfaces was done. The settings included a sports stadium in Australia and 5 airports and 6 retail/pharmacy locations in the USA states and Canada. A total of 111 high touch surfaces were sampled, and over 300 swabs were obtained to compare enhanced liquid disinfection practices to automated UVC disinfection on the same surfaces. The results from this study indicate that the use of an automated UVC device will significantly decrease bacterial colonization on high-touch surfaces in retail keypads and public touch screen devices.

  SPEAKER:

  Steve Reinecke – Proximity Systems

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  Towards More Consistency in Reporting the Properties of Upper Room Germicidal Ultraviolet Installations

  This presentation will summarize how previous studies characterized upper room GUV (UR-GUV) installations, focusing on their radiometric properties and dosing criteria. Across these studies, we examine the consistency in reported properties for potentials to inform the design of future UR-GUV installations. The questions to be answered are: 1) are the reported properties sufficient to inform the selection and sizing of UR-GUV systems for different applications? And 2) what measurements should be reported to promote consistency and comparability between studies?

  SPEAKER:

  Belal Abboushi – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

  
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  Speakers

  Rugved Kore – Pennsylvania State University
  Dorukalp Durmus – Pennsylvania State University
  Eduardo Rodriguez-feo Bermudez – PNNL
  Lia Irvin – PNNL
  Steve Reinecke – Proximity Systems
  Belal Abboushi – PNNL

Seminars

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Educational Sessions

• Adapting The Past To An LED Future

  Location: Marlborough A

• Health and Wellness Lighting and Energy Efficiency Converge

  Location: Marlborough B

• Understanding Solar Lighting

  Location: Prince of Wales

Educational Sessions

Adapting The Past To An LED Future

Join Ryan Stockman of Grand Light as he discusses preserving historic lighting fixtures with the integration of modern LED technologies, building codes, and regulations. The session will describe the processes required for the LED retrofitting of historic lighting fixtures, including luminaire surveys, specification development, and the various luminaire modernization options available. The presentation will also address the techniques used for the safe installation, logistics, and testing of new LED systems. Case studies will include projects such as the Massachusetts State House, Yale Schwarzman Center, and the William McChesney Martin, Jr. Federal Reserve Board Building.

SPEAKER:

Ryan Stockton – New Grand Light, LLC

Health and Wellness Lighting and Energy Efficiency Converge

As evidence mounts for the benefits of light on our wellbeing, the criteria for obtaining these benefits begin to solidify. The latest recommendation for healthy light, from a consortium of world-renowned researchers, is now the basis for the latest WELL Building criteria for circadian lighting, with other entities expected to follow soon. However, this criterion challenges the energy codes.

SPEAKERS:

Robert Soler – BIOS Lighting

Understanding Solar Lighting

This session will look at one of the ways we can help reduce greenhouse gases in our design practices. As lighting professionals, we have been designing with more and more efficacious luminaires and improved control systems to only have light on when needed. Solar powered lighting takes this to the next level by removing exterior nighttime lighting from the electric grid altogether with no dependance on fossil fuels. Off-grid Solar lighting also provides the added benefit of delivering light when the electric grid in down during storms or natural disasters.

SPEAKERS:

Sandra Stashik – Selux
Nancy Clanton – Clanton & Associates, Inc.
AJ Pualani – Selux
David Schmitt – Clanton & Associates, Inc.

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Speakers

Ryan Stockton – New Grand Light, LLC
Robert Soler – BIOS Lighting 
Sandra Stashik – Selux
Nancy Clanton – Clanton & Associates, Inc.
AJ Pualani – Selux
David Schmitt – Clanton & Associates

Session

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Paper Sessions

• Assessing the accuracy of emerging lighting simulation tools: Predicting spectral power distribution

  Location: Churchill B

• Advancements in daylight modeling for visual and non-visual effects

  Location: Churchill B

• Is my smart light smart enough? A preliminary text-mining analysis of reviews on smart light devices

   Location: Churchill C

• Integrative Solid-State Lighting & Heating: An Application Case Study of Self-De-Icing LED Signal

  Location: Churchill C

Paper Sessions

Assessing the accuracy of emerging lighting simulation tools: Predicting spectral power distribution

SPEAKERS:

Robert Davis – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Sarah Safranek – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Advancements in daylight modeling for visual and non-visual effects

SPEAKER:

Taoning Wang – Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Is my smart light smart enough? A preliminary text-mining analysis of reviews on smart light devices

In this presentation, web-scraping and text-mining techniques are applied in the field of Building Science to better understand the use of smart lighting in homes. Through the analysis of reviews about smart lighting devices, it is possible to understand the strengths and weaknesses of such devices to be used for technology and marketing improvements.

SPEAKER:

Giorgia Chinazzo – Northwestern University

Integrative Solid-State Lighting & Heating: An Application Case Study of Self-De-Icing LED Signal

Approximately 70-80% of the electricity consumed by LEDs is converted to heat rather than light, but this significant amount of LED heat is rarely harnessed in practice and wasted. This is a concern considering the desired optimization of whole lighting system efficiency and environmental sustainability. Thus, the development of integrative solid-state lighting and heating (SSL&H) technologies is necessary and their implementation in practice is also considered in urgent need. Toward that end, a novel system architecture of “Integrated Light and Heat Arrangement of Low Profile Light-Emitting Diode Fixture” (Patent No. US 10,215,441 B2) was developed for integrative solid-state lighting and heating. As an application of that embodiment, a new type of self-de-icing LED signal for highway intersections was developed as a replacement for existing LED signal lights that remain too cold to prevent snow, sleet, and ice buildup on the lens and could cause accidents in snowy conditions. Prototype self-de-icing signal LED modules (R, Y, G) were developed and tested in the laboratory, followed by closed-course performance and reliability tests on the roof of an engineering building and long-term field tests. The ongoing field tests of fully functional prototypes at selected highway signalized intersections in Kansas, Wisconsin, and Michigan would help project partners and state departments of transportation evaluate and initiate the implementation process. Participating states include Kansas, California, Michigan, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. Additionally, the initial development of the self-de-icing LED signal was supported by the TRB-IDEA program in the Joint IDEA Project S-29/NCHRP-190 for self-deicing LED signal for railroads and highway intersections.

SPEAKER:

Hongyi Cai – University of Kansas

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Speakers

Robert Davis – PNNL
Sarah Safranek – PNNL
Taoning Wang – Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Giorgia Chinazzo – Northwestern University
Hongyi Cai – University of Kansas

Break

12:15 PM – 2:00 PM

Lunch / General Session

Emerging Professionals Workshop

Each year, IES sections and corporate sponsors step up to provide funds to support the attendance of Emerging Professionals (EPs) — which includes students, early career professionals, and professionals making a career change — at the IES Annual Conference and the IES EP Workshop that precedes the conference.

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Seminars

2:15 PM – 3:15 PM

Educational Sessions

• Tracking Developments in Connected Lighting Systems

  Location: Marlborough B

• How to Avoid Common Visual Issues in an Operating Room

  Location: Prince of Wales

Educational Sessions

Light Privilege – A Practical Framework for Holistic Lighting in Underserved Communities

SPEAKERS:

Nick Albert – Chromatic
Lauren Dandridge – Chromatic

Tracking Developments in Connected Lighting Systems

SPEAKERS:

Ruth Taylor – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Dan Blitzer – Practical Lighting Workshop

How to Avoid Common Visual Issues in an Operating Room

SPEAKER:

Richard Wyton – IALD

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Speakers

Nick Albert – Chromatic 
Ruth Taylor – PNNL
Dan Blitzer – Practical Lighting Workshop
Richard Wyton – Kurtzon

Session

2:15 PM – 3:15 PM

Paper Sessions

• Wearable light loggers: a review of analysis procedures and application in a health care facility

  Location: Churchill B

• Energy Impacts of Human Health and Wellness Recommendations Considering Daylight and Electric Light

  Location: Churchill B

• In-Situ Assessment of Approaches to Germicidal Ultraviolet Disinfection

   Location: Churchill C

• Revising Germicidal Ultraviolet Irradiation Devices From Users’ Perspectives

  Location: Churchill C

Paper Sessions

Wearable light loggers: a review of analysis procedures and application in a health care facility

SPEAKERS:

Belal Abboushi – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Sarah Safranek – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Energy Impacts of Human Health and Wellness Recommendations Considering Daylight and Electric Light

SPEAKER:

Belal Abboushi – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Sarah Safranek – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Bob Davis – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

In-Situ Assessment of Approaches to Germicidal Ultraviolet Disinfection

SPEAKER:

Craig Bernecker – Parsons School of Design

Revising Germicidal Ultraviolet Irradiation Devices From Users’ Perspectives

SPEAKER:

Craig Bernecker – Parsons School of Design

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Speakers

Belal Abboushi – PNNL
Sarah Safranek – PNNL
Bob Davis – PNNL
Craig Bernecker – Parsons School of Design

Session

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM

Progress Report

Presentation of this years accepted products and innovations submissions.

Technical Committee Meetings

The committees of the Society shall be the prescribed by the IES Bylaws, or as otherwise approved by the IES Board of Directors. The Board may from time to time create other Standing or Ad Hoc committees as it deems necessary to carry on the work of the Society and shall prescribe their powers and duties, and it may abolish any such committees. Technical committees are responsible for the creation and oversight of a technical document(s). Members of technical committees are individuals who have a recognized proficiency or interest in a specific field. Committees organized by Lighting Library® content. Committees under the other groupings (Education, Governance, Member Programs, Society Awards, Society Events, Society and Industry Support Committees) are responsible to perform a function that pertains to the business operations, administrative duties, or program and activity oversight of the Society.

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Reception

5:30 PM – 7:30 PM

Tabletop Reception & Exhibits

View the latest products from lighting manufacturers.

Tabletop Reception & Exhibits

The IES Illumination Awards will be presented as the opening session to kick-off the 2022 Annual Conference. With Acuity Brands as the platinum sponsor, many projects from around the world will be recognized with this honorable distinction. Thank you to those that submitted and congratulations to all award recipients.

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Networking

6:30 PM – 9:00 PM

NOLA Scavenger Hunt

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The IES Illumination Awards will be presented as the opening session to kick-off the 2022 Annual Conference. With Acuity Brands as the platinum sponsor, many projects from around the world will be recognized with this honorable distinction. Thank you to those that submitted and congratulations to all award recipients.

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Break

7:00 AM – 8:00 AM

Breakfast

Emerging Professionals Workshop

Each year, IES sections and corporate sponsors step up to provide funds to support the attendance of Emerging Professionals (EPs) — which includes students, early career professionals, and professionals making a career change — at the IES Annual Conference and the IES EP Workshop that precedes the conference.

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Greetings

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM

Morning Session

Location: Grand Ballroom B/C

Leadership Forum

Every year, volunteer members and lighting professionals gather at the Leadership Forum event held in conjunction with the IES Annual Conference to learn more about the lighting industry and leadership within the IES while building valuable relationships and furthering their lighting careers. The purpose of the Leadership Forum is to help leaders at all levels of the Society work effectively with volunteers and strengthen their leadership skills. The program offers career development, networking, and learning opportunities for IES volunteers and industry professionals.

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Session

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Keynote Address

Phototects Light the Way

The think tank PhoScope (Gk. photo “light,”skopos “aim”) takes a “socio-photocentric” stance on the built environment to advance the practice, education and critical study of light. Reclaiming the Greek etymology of light, PhoScope also redefines and repositions the lighting design discipline as Phototecture (Gk. tektōn “builder”): its neologisms serve as a manifesto and are woven into all of its initiatives. Over the years, the nonprofit has become an experimental platform to pursue technical and social innovation and critical study through research and projects.
Works presented include the charitable global solar lighting initiative “Light Reach” – with ongoing programs in Puerto Rico and Lebanon; “Dermaphotor” – which questions and resolves our industry’s pervasive bias towards fair skin; and “Phomo Sapiens,” – whose evolved vision substitutes for today’s lighting devices and optics needed by our seeing bodies.
As it pushes visual and technical boundaries to investigate minimal and ecological lighting solutions, PhoScope seeks to empower wide new audiences with lighting knowledge and best practices, and to scaffold a new agency for pivotal change and social justice in lighting.
Location: Grand Ballroom B/C 

Keynote Address

Nathalie Rozot is a phototect and a phototectural critic and the founder of PhoScope. She focused her professional and academic practices in phototecture in 2000, after working for over ten years in product, exhibition, architecture, landscape and urban design, and was a director for l’Observatoire International before specializing in innovative and alternative lighting solutions and starting her own design and research practice in 2006.

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Speaker

Nathalie Rozot

President, CEO, PhoScope

Seminars

10:15 AM – 11:15 AM

Educational Sessions

• Lark 2.0 – a simulation tool to support the design of healthy indoor environments

  Location: Marlborough A

• Identifying when emergency or egress lighting actually required

  Location: Marlborough B

• Light and emotions: the importance of context

  Location: Prince of Wales

Educational Sessions

Lark 2.0 – a simulation tool to support the design of healthy indoor environments

How can we apply new knowledge about non-visual responses to light in practice? How do we use that knowledge to optimize our built environment according to occupants’ psychological and physiological needs? This session will present the new version of an open-source light simulation tool, Lark 2.0, which supports the design of healthy indoor environments.

SPEAKER:

Clotilde Pierson – Oregon State University (OSU) | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)

Identifying when emergency or egress lighting actually required

SPEAKER:

Samuel Haberman – Alvine Engineering

Light and emotions: the importance of context

While there are things we don’t question, such as the relation between emotions and lighting, I wonder why and how are they related. Concepts from other disciplines are to be used to understand this relation. From understanding the difference between light, lighting and lighting design, to understanding what is emotion nowadays and how can it be triggered. Context takes an important role in the link of these concepts, so we also have to understand why it does and how can it be constructed.

SPEAKER:

Orquidea Vara – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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Speakers

Clotilde Pierson – Oregon State University 
Samuel Haberman – Alvine Engineering
Orquidea Vara – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Session

10:15 AM – 11:15 AM

Paper Sessions

• Quantification of Perceived Spatial Brightness Relevant to Interior Reflectance and Light Distribution

  Location: Churchill B

• Comparing perceptions of web-based 2D perspective and 360-degree navigable images with measurements from a physical space and a virtual reality headset

  Location: Churchill B

• The benefits of 3D printed antennas in connected lighting systems

  Location: Churchill C

• Investigating current and temperature dependencies of UV-A light-emitting diodes

  Location: Churchill C

Paper Sessions

Quantification of Perceived Spatial Brightness Relevant to Interior Reflectance and Light Distribution

SPEAKERS:

An Hsu – Parsons, School of Constructed Environments
Craig Bernecker – Parsons School of Design, The New School | The Lighting Education Institute

Comparing perceptions of web-based 2D perspective and 360-degree navigable images with measurements from a physical space and a virtual reality headset

SPEAKER:

Robert Davis – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

The benefits of 3D printed antennas in connected lighting systems

In connected lighting systems, the antenna is an important component for enabling reliable data transfer between lighting fixtures and the central control system. The antennas are usually placed inside the light fixture enclosure. In this study, communication signal attenuation due to different obstructions within and outside the light fixture was investigated, and shown that signal strength can be improved by placing the antenna outside the fixture enclosure. With 3D printing becoming a promising technology for manufacturing components for solid-state lighting fixtures, the authors of this paper investigated the feasibility of making 3D-printed antennas for connected lighting systems.

SPEAKERS:

Akila Udage – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Investigating current and temperature dependencies of UV-A light-emitting diodes

Near-UV LEDs are becoming popular in various lighting as well as non-lighting applications. These applications demand more robustness under practical operating conditions. Therefore, it is important to understand how the luminous characteristics of near-UV LEDs depend on different operating conditions. This study focuses on how the emission spectrums of near-UV LEDs behave under different thermal conditions and drive currents.

SPEAKERS:

Akila Udage – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Sachintha DeVas Gunawardena – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Indika Perera – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Speakers

An Hsu – Parsons, School of Constructed Environments 
Craig Bernecker – Parsons School of Design
Robert Davis – PNNL
Akila Udage – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Sachintha DeVas Gunawardena – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Indika Perera – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Seminars

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Educational Sessions

• Beyond Diversity: Making an Honest Effort Toward Equity and Inclusion

  Location: Marlborough A

• Seeing UGR Clearly: A Study on Background and Application Use of UGR

  Location: Marlborough B

• How Can BIM Deliver on its Promise?

  Location: Prince Of Wales

Educational Sessions

Beyond Diversity: Making an Honest Effort Toward Equity and Inclusion

The presence of DEI in our workplaces and in the collective consciousness is ubiquitous and undeniable—so much so that the words and the concepts behind them seem to have lost their meaning. What began in 2020 as intense self-reflection and an earnest desire to do better (among some of us at least) has become rote; for many in management, it’s just another box to be ticked. For those of us seeking equity and belonging, however, the urgency has not abated. Quite the contrary. Black people, indigenous people, immigrants, LGBTQ+ folks and other marginalized groups are finding their histories, their basic rights, and in some cases their very existences debated and legislated away, all the while businesses are twisting themselves in knots to “achieve” diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace. We will examine DEI practices and initiatives in the lighting industry: comparing it to the world at large (spoiler: it’s not pretty); unpacking the resistance to change that is pervasive in certain corners of the industry; identifying performative acts, missteps, and pitfalls; and illustrating honest actions that can improve not only the office, but the world beyond as well.

SPEAKER:

Alana Shepherd – Intangible Light | North American Coalition of Lighting Industry Queers

Seeing UGR Clearly: A Study on Background and Application Use of UGR

When understood and used properly, the Unified Glare Rating (UGR) can provide insight into lighting visual comfort expectations. When not understood or used improperly, UGR can lead to unintended glare, unnecessarily limited luminaire selections, and overall unexpected project results. This session will dissect the UGR metric by sharing how it has evolved as a standard metric and how it is best applied as a predicter of glare for interior spaces. It will also review human factors with glare, UGR application pitfalls and demonstrate the three categorized uses of UGR in practice.

SPEAKERS:

Harold Jepsen – Legrand North & Central America
Melissa Rickets – Acuity Brands
James Gaines – Signify

How Can BIM Deliver on its Promise?

In typical practice, lighting designers are responsible for defining design intent and specifying lighting and control technology that they believe will deliver that intent. However, designers often sacrifice control over what products actually get installed or discover a gap between expected and actual product performance that limits their ability to control characteristics of the finished environment. This presentation continues the conversation started in a 2021 IES Webinar by further examining how digital workflows can deliver additional measures of validation, accountability, and control into the design-bid-build process. Attendees will learn how the use of standard practice tools like Autodesk Revit can be extended to capture more design intent, how contract language can be modified to support the delivery of BIM models, how software applications can leverage BIM models to automate design and create performance expectations that can be verified, and how emerging standards are making it easier to develop such applications.

SPEAKERS:

Michael Poplawski – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Star Davis – Focal Point

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Speakers

Alana Shepard – Intangible Light 
Harold Jepsen – Legrand North & Central America
Melissa Ricketts – Acuity Brands
James Gaines – Signify
Michael Poplawski – PNNL
Star Davis – Focal Point

Session

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Paper Sessions

• Dining in the Dark: Mesopic Vision and Visual Food Experience

  Location: Churchill B

• Repurposing Lighting: Maximizing Efficiency, Improving Quality, Minimizing Waste and Improving Accessibility

  Location: Churchill B

• New Flicker Research Results and How to Fix It

  Location: Churchill C

• Glare Perception in Outdoor Sports Lighting Applications: A Field Study

  Location: Churchill C

Paper Sessions

Repurposing Lighting: Maximizing Efficiency, Improving Quality, Minimizing Waste and Improving Accessibility

SPEAKER:

Craig Bernecker – Parsons School of Design, The New School | The Lighting Education Institute

New Flicker Research Results and How to Fix It

A demonstration of flicker waveforms, and stroboscopic and phantom array effects. Presentation of human factors experiment exploring visibility of wide range of waveforms based on frequency, modulation depth, duty cycle, and wave shape. Also, the difference in responses between highly-sensitive and less sensitive subjects.

SPEAKER:

Naomi Miller – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Glare Perception in Outdoor Sports Lighting Applications: A Field Study

Discomfort glare causes discomfort without necessarily impairing the vision of objects. It is usually associated with subjective impressions and lack of physical explanation. Here, the results from a field study are analyzed by comparing subjective impressions and photometric measurements in baseball, softball and soccer fields illuminate with LEDs and metal halide (MH) light sources.

SPEAKERS:

Wangyang Song – Penn State University
Dorukalp Durmus – Penn State University
Yuwei Wang – Penn State University

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Speakers

Craig Bernecker – Parsons School of Design
Naomi Miller – PNNL
Wangyang Song – Penn State University
Dorukalp Durmus – Penn State University
Yuwei Wang – Penn State University

Session

12:30 PM – 2:30 PM

Lunch / Closing Session / Game Show 

Emerging Professionals Workshop

Each year, IES sections and corporate sponsors step up to provide funds to support the attendance of Emerging Professionals (EPs) — which includes students, early career professionals, and professionals making a career change — at the IES Annual Conference and the IES EP Workshop that precedes the conference.

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Seminar

2:15 PM – 3:15 PM

Educational Session

• Why the Lighting Industry Needs To Stop Talking to Itself and Start Talking to the Public

  Location: Marlborough A

Educational Sessions

Why the Lighting Industry Needs To Stop Talking to Itself and Start Talking to the Public

Traditionally the lighting industry has been very good at talking to itself about the importance and value of light. But as conversations turn to health, well-being, and sustainability the lighting industry will need to get comfortable talking to the general public about the value of light (and darkness) and how it can improve our daily lives and experiences.

SPEAKER:

JP Bedell – Delivered Lumens

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JP Bedell – Delivered Lumens

Session

2:15 PM – 3:15 PM

Paper Sessions

• Outcomes from a tunable lighting office feasibility study: What worked and what didn’t?

  Location: Churchill B

• Window View Quality: Assessment framework, ongoing efforts, and future research needs

  Location: Churchill B

• Investigating Lighting Design for Improved Alertness

  Location: Churchill C

Paper Sessions

Outcomes from a tunable lighting office feasibility study: What worked and what didn’t?

SPEAKERS:

Jessica Collier – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Eduardo Rodriguez-Feo Bermudez – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Window View Quality: Assessment framework, ongoing efforts, and future research needs

Two important functions of a window are to provide daylight and a view of the outside environment. When considering that we spend a significant proportion of our lives indoors, windows are the essential architectural element that allows us to have much-needed contact with the outdoors and they can have a profound impact on physiology and psychology.

Although past review articles have extensively documented the myriad effects of windows, daylight, and views on occupant health and wellbeing, to our knowledge, not many design guidelines assess window view quality, and standards that do, provide incomplete recommendations that are unable to comprehensively support overall quality. With a lack of support and coordinated efforts in the domain, there are challenges ahead when moving the field forward. To address this issue, one of the largest endeavors was formed to conceive a design framework capable of holistically measuring window view quality. This incorporated daylighting standards, green certification labels, and scientific studies, in an attempt to bridge relevant, but widespread recommendations. Stemming from our efforts, an organized symposium and workshop on research and design practice related to window views were held, leading to an innovative position statement outlining the primary components and future direction for window view quality and assessment. This presentation will include the contents of these two recently published papers on the window view quality assessment framework and position statement in the journal of daylighting.

SPEAKER:

Won hee Ko – New Jersey Institute of Technology

Investigating Lighting Design for Improved Alertness

Increased levels of time are spent indoors, decreasing human interaction with nature and degrading photoentrainment, the synchronization of circadian rhythms with daylight variation. Recent research has shown that both the illuminance (i.e., perceived intensity) and wavelength of light affect photoentrainment and modern lighting technologies have improved our ability to construct lights with desired wavelengths. To improve photoentrainment in low light environments, the current research discusses a multiple regression model to explore the relationship between wavelength composition of artificial light and the circadian stimulus for a fixed illuminance.

SPEAKERS:

Alexander Price – Air Force Institute of Technology

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Speakers

Jessica Collier – PNNL 
Naomi Miller – PNNL 
Eduardo Rodriguez-Feo Bermudez – PNNL
Won hee Ko – New Jersey Institute of Technology
Alexander Price – Air Force Institute of TechnologY

Workshops

2:15 PM – 5:15 PM

Educational Workshops

• Designing with Luminance and Exitance

  Location: Churchill A1

• Digital Design Tools to Enhance Productivity and Presentation Panache

  Location: Churchill A2

Educational Workshop

Designing with Luminance and Exitance

Most people design lighting systems to meet illuminance recommendations, but what we actually see is determined by luminance. Join in on this lively hands-on workshop to learn more about the difference between illuminance and luminance, design criteria for luminance and exitance, the devices for measuring these quantities, and, taking advantage of the conference venue, actually measuring the illuminance and luminance of various lighting systems and spaces for comparison with your visual experiences. You’ll also go home with a luminance measuring app for your cell phone or tablet that will enable you to take luminance measurements on your own to further explore the lighting of your everyday environments and commission your lighting projects.

SPEAKER:

Craig Bernecker – Parson’s School of Design, The New School | The Lighting Education Institute

Digital Design Tools to Enhance

Working from home during the pandemic highlighted the need for new digital applications to facilitate communications, fully vet lighting design concepts, and streamline the installation management process in a socially distanced world. This session enables attendees to explore hands-on several of the latest lighting digital design tools available for designers to set themselves apart from their competitors. (Please note: Attendees wanting to explore applications “hands-on” during the demonstrations must bring their own laptop).

SPEAKERS:

Emlyn Altman – DLR Group
Travis Taullie – DLR Group

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Speaker

Craig Bernecker – Parson’s School of Design
Emlyn Altman – DLR Group 
Travis Taulie – DLR Group

Seminar

3:30 PM – 4:30 PM

Educational Session

• Strategies for Achieving Life Cycle Goals

  Location: Marlborough A

Educational Sessions

Strategies for Achieving Life Cycle Goals

Sustainability in lighting is typically linked energy use, but it is time to consider the challenges and opportunities available when we quantifying the impact of design decisions made throughout the product life cycle. We may not have complete information on life cycle impacts, but we cannot afford to wait until comprehensive information is available to inform our specification decisions. This session will provide a framework for weighing operational energy use, embodied carbon, and material impacts. Leave this session empowered to discuss big picture project goals, associated impacts along the supply chain, and steps you can take right now to ensure your designs have a positive environmental influence in the short and long term.

SPEAKER:

Alexandra McDowell Gadowski – HMFH Architects

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Speaker

Alexandra Gadawski – HMFH Architects