Hotel and Venue

Beyond Diversity: Making an Honest Effort Toward Equity and Inclusion

The top three questions I'm asked on panels and at conferences: "How can we make our office more inclusive?" "What does any of this have to do with lighting?" "Why do we need this DEI stuff anyway?" This presentation seeks to answer all of them.

SPEAKER:

Alana Shepherd - Intangible Light

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

The Unified Glare Rating (UGR), when properly applied, can provide insight to lighting designers about lighting comfort in many indoor settings. However, UGR also has limitations and shortfalls which designers need to understand to avoid unexpected and poor results in its use. Using a single metric to represent glare can further be challenged by factors such as individual perception, age and the physiology of adaption to light. This session takes a shallow dive into the science, standards and papers behind UGR while demonstrating how the lighting industry has come to three UGR categorical uses called Application UGR, Point UGR and Luminaire UGR. It will explain each of these uses and describe what can happen when inadequately used. This session will inform lighting practitioners on the appropriate use of UGR that will lead to improved lighting design and lighting comfort in practice.

SPEAKERS:

Harold Jepsen - Legrand
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 - PNNL
Star Davis - Focal Point