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First up
Editor’s Note 4

President’s Perspective 8

Tools of The Trade 17

In This issue
Willard Warren 18
Rising Tides Lift Efficiency

Jason Livingston, Michael Royer

and Lorne Whitehead 20

Photo: Brad Nelson

32
Color in Context

Alex Baker 22
New Year, New Policy Roundup

Features
in Every issue
Insights
11 24
HIDDEN AGENDA
Events 13 This bridge doesn’t just transport people from point A to point B. It also aids
in the movement of what’s above
IES Insider 43

Products 46 28
LABOR OF LOVE
Ad Index/Classifieds 51 That’s what The Metropolitan façade lighting project was for a Detroit-area designer
who has admired the building for years
Last Look 52

32
SAFE LANDING
A minimalist design that plays off the past helped transform a former air base
into a memorable landscape for outdoor enthusiasts

36
PROJECT IN PICTURES: Z HOTEL LONDON
With backlit keypads, occupancy sensing and automated blinds, one control system
provides an intuitive guest experience across a hotel group’s seven properties

38
2021 LIGHTING JOBS OUTLOOK
Professionals representing four major industry sectors discuss the challenges
and opportunities they expect for the year ahead

On The Cover
As a gateway to the city of Montreal, the Samuel De Champlain Bridge is an architectural treat for the
city and a navigational aid for the birds overhead (p. 24). Photo: Lauren Davis/Feinknopf Photography

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Editor’s Note
Lighting Design + Aspiration
s part of our IES Centennial
issue in January 2006, we
asked a group of readers to
dream about the future rather
than look back on the history of light-
ing. The article was entitled
“What They’d Like to Light.”
Readers were free to go
wherever their imaginations What
took them, in response to a began as a pre-Depression era building,
simple question: In your wildest nocturnal
dreams, if you had the chance visit after an the city bought a number of
to light one thing, what would
outing with abandoned buildings in hopes
it be? One reader wanted to
friends has
light an exterior aurora borealis
turned into
display at a winter theme park.
a completed
Another wondered what it would
be like to light a wave as it lighting
design
approaches the shore with light
that would increase in intensity
as the wave got closer. One waxed
poetic about illuminating a roaming
herd of bison in Yellowstone Park “at
the fading golden light of dusk.”
Fifteen years later in this issue of
LD+A (Lighting Design + Aspiration,
if you will), we look at how designer
Robert White really got to live the
dream…but much closer to home
in Detroit. “I happened on The
Metropolitan building in the ’80s after
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leaving a club with friends in the small
hours of the morning. There at the
end of a dark street was this strange,
imposing and menacing structure
totally devoid of life, tucked away and
seemingly forgotten. It left quite
an impression.”
Decades passed, but White
kept coming back to the
literally and figuratively, until
of restoring the downtown
area. After some of the smaller
buildings were restored, the
Metropolitan finally got its
chance in 2017, and White’s
firm, Illuminart, was tapped
for the lighting design. What
began as a nocturnal visit after an
outing with friends utlimately led to a
completed lighting design for a build-
ing reborn as the Element Detroit hotel
(p. 28).
The sleeping giant has awakened
and it wasn’t all a dream.
Paul Tarricone
Editor and Publisher
ptarricone@ies.org
LIGHTING DESIGN and APPLICATION
Editor and Publisher
Paul Tarricone
Managing Editor
Samantha Schwirck
Assistant Editor/
Digital Content Coordinator
Katie Nale
Senior Art Director
Samuel Fontanez
Art Director
Charyliz Rodriguez
Advertising Coordinator
Leslie Prestia
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Contributors 2020-2021
Board of Directors

PRESIDENT
Antonio Garza, LC
Iluminacion Total, SA de CV
president@ies.org

PAST PRESIDENT
Jennifer Jaques, LC
Lighting Application Sciences, LLC

Chip Israel, LC, Fellow IALD,
LEED AP, Member IES, past-
president IES, is CEO of
Lighting Design Alliance, with
offices in Los Angeles, Dubai
and Shanghai. p.17
VICE PRESIDENT
Willard L. Warren, PE,
(President-Elect)
LC, Fellow IES, DSA, is
Susanne Seitinger, Ph.D.
principal of Willard L. Warren Verizon
Associates and a long-time
columnist for LD+A on energy TREASURER
and lighting quality. p.18 James Potts
Cooper Lighting

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Timothy Licitra, MBA

DIRECTORS
Frank Agraz, LC
Eco Engineering

Carl Bloomfield
Intertek Testing Services

Jason Livingston is the principal of Studio T+L and co-chair of the IES Color Wilson Dau, LC
Committee. In addition to his design work, he is a frequent speaker on light Dau Design and Consulting, Inc.
and color, and teaches lighting design in New York City.
Mindy Iannello
Performance Lighting Systems
Lorne Whitehead is the University of British Columbia’s special advisor
on Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Research and a professor in the Jorge H. Lujan
Department of Physics and Astronomy. He holds 143 U.S. patents and CDm2 Lightworks
received a Ph.D. in Physics from UBC.
Rick Paradis
Michael Royer, Ph.D., is a senior engineer at Pacific Northwest National Synergy Investment
Laboratory, where he works on the U.S. Department of Energy Lighting R&D
Michelle (Shelly) Prew
program. His primary research area is human factors in lighting, with an
Cooper Lighting
emphasis on color. p.20
Ira Rothman
Apex Lighting Solutions

Kelly Seeger
Signify

Billy Tubb
Theatre Consultant

Alex Baker is manager of Paul Pompeo is president

government affairs and public
policy for the IES. p.22
of Pompeo Group (www.
pompeo.com), an executive
recruiting firm in lighting,
controls, electrical and IoT.
p.38

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 otherwise not attend the in-per-
son event. On the other hand,
we missed the annual tradition
of catching up with colleagues
in the events’ social functions,
as well as the interesting con-
versations that take place in
corridors and hotel lounges.

President’s
Looking forward, we must find a
way to mimic these experiences
in some shape or form if the

Perspective
need for virtual events persists.
Critical processes of our
Society have also been modi-
fied to our virtual reality. The IES
Antonio Garza, LC Nominating Committee usually
meets prior to the beginning
of our Annual Conference, and
ake a short trip with me, back in time to January 2020. As indi- this past October, it took on its
viduals, most of us had the traditional hopes and plans that usu- important tasks using virtual
ally come with the start of a new year. As a community, be it local technologies for the first time.
or global, we shared common goals and aspirations. Fully in the Pre-selecting and interviewing
Information Age, many of us were past the point of excessive optimism Human individuals for positions in the
that technology would solve all of our problems. In fact, we realized that nature Board of Directors via Zoom
technology comes with other equally difficult challenges to bridge. drives our demanded extra attention
Information itself—in its enormous breadth, wealth and availabil- constant to process and unique abili-
ity—at times demands an overwhelming amount of our attention to ties to identify the candidates’
aspiration
navigate in such a way that we are comfortable with the decisions strengths and traits that best
we make. Our network of contact points increased exponentially with
for suited our Society’s needs.
the availability of ubiquitous Internet connectivity. Still, something meaningful Improvement in technology is
felt wrong. Even though we were more connected than ever before, connections, definitively an asset for the IES
many felt lonely and craved for more genuine human attention and so it is up to in finding a better way to deliver
interaction. Somehow, all of this connectivity had also created a us to fill this our standards to the member-
sense of disconnect. void ship and other interested par-
Fast forward to January 2021 and the totally different world in ties. In October we launched the
which we live today. In most cases, that sense of disconnect has new Lighting Library, which now
been amplified. Since the start of the pandemic we have incorpo- includes all of our referenced
rated the term “social distancing” into our everyday language and standards and replaces the
actions. Physically getting together with the people we love and 2010 Lighting Handbook. The
appreciate is not only discouraged but downright dangerous at Lighting Library is a new digital
times. Therefore, we are thankful for the connectivity from technol- platform that replaces how you
ogy that allows us to maintain the links to our social and work com- and your company access IES
munities. Our days now revolve around virtual activities, with direct standards, offering an easier,
human interaction becoming the exception and not the norm. Even more functional lighting knowl-
with all of the technology at our disposal, we have a difficult time edge tool in the office or on the
nourishing our personal and communal relationships. go. The Lighting Library includes
a new Interactive Illuminance
At the IES we share the same struggles and have focused our Selector tool that facilitates this
efforts toward keeping our lighting community together during these task and generates shareable
stressful times. We had to make quick decisions to pivot our sched- information. It is always up to
uled in-person events to virtual ones. This format allowed us to date, searchable, and allows
maintain our commitment to dispersing valuable information to our users to share resources, com-
members, while increasing the participation of individuals who would ments and annotations regard-

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less of where they are physically
located.
Recognizing the need for
connection with our membership
during the last couple of months,
we held an “Ask Me Anything”
session with the leadership from
every District. IES Vice-President
Susanne Seitinger, Executive
Director Tim Licitra and I met vir-
tually with chairs, vice-chairs as
well as Section presidents and
officers with an open agenda,
to listen to their ideas and con-
cerns. We talked about IES activ-
ities and future plans as would
be expected, but we also shared
stories about the effects of the
pandemic at business and per-
sonal levels. We were all encour-
aged by this re-connection exer-
cise and recognized the need for
more of these interactions, which
we will plan accordingly.
Our Board of Directors has
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also recognized the need for
interactions that go beyond our
monthly virtual meetings. The
Society’s bylaws establish that
the Board shall meet at least
three times a year. In 2017, it
was decided that we could use
technology to meet more often
in order to speed up the work
of the Board. The Board began
having monthly sessions while
maintaining its traditional in-
person meetings.
Unfortunately, since the start
of the pandemic, all Board of
Directors’ meetings have been
virtual and we realized that the
relationship building that took
place when we met in person
was missing. As a palliative, last
September we began schedul-
ing an informal Board meeting
every month where, although no
Society action is taken, we keep
an open dialogue on specific
topics and strategic planning,
combined with sharing personal
stories and experiences that
strengthen our bonds as a gov-
erning body.
There is no question that our
world is more complex and dif-
ficult to navigate now. We realize
that technology alone cannot sat-
isfy our need to feel connected
with each other. Human nature
drives our constant aspiration
for meaningful connections, so
it is up to us to make sure we fill
this void. As lighting people we
should always remember that
although we can talk about light-
ing all day long, it is the people
part that we must foster through
meaningful and personal interac-
tions. Simple questions—“How
are you doing? How is the fam-
ily? How can I help?”—go a long
way toward making everyone’s
lives better. In the end this is how
we can truly reconnect.
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 SIGHTS
Entry Upgrade • Disinfecting Tech • Retrofit Study

Fiber-optic and DMX technology

enable individual control of each light
in the new Gateway Entrance Sign.
Photos: Courtesy of Bergmann

Welcome to New York

A lighting installation now does its part to greet visitors—and planes—as they arrive
in New York. As part of Governor Cuomo’s initiative to revitalize Albany International
Airport’s transportation corridor, local firm Bergmann provided the lighting design,
architecture, civil and structural engineering for a new “Gateway Entrance Sign.”
The design team overcame an aggressive three-month design and construction
schedule, while also considering the effects of the lighting on the flight path, to create
the color-changing, DMX-controlled sign, which includes a combination of custom back-
lit sconces, downlights, backlit curved arc lights and backlit individual alphabet lights.
“What was unique about the project is that we used fiber optic between controllers,
and each lighting fixture is controlled via DMX. Basically, every individual light can be
controlled independently,” says Bergmann's Nikhil Bodhankar, who designed the light-
ing system. Additionally, since the lights are color-changing, the airport can modify the
colors in celebration of key events.
The installation marks the completion of New York State’s $72-million investment to
modernize the airport, providing a finishing touch meant to welcome people to state
capital for generations to come.

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 MERGERS &
MORE
• Universal Lighting
Technologies, Inc., a
member of the Panasonic
family of companies,
has announced a
Photos: Courtesy of Leviton/Current

strategic partnership
with Illumination
Technology Group (ITG)
to support Universal’s
distributor network of LED
lighting solutions across the
Northern Illinois region.
One application demonstrating the solution in the off position (left) vs. the active • Human Centric Lighting
position (right).
(HCL) innovator BIOS and
New Tech Could Offer Disinfection in global lighting solutions
Real Time provider Lumileds have
partnered to create a new
Leviton Lighting has licensed a new disinfection lighting technol- SkyBlue LED that they claim
ogy by GE Current, a Daintree company, to disinfect surfaces in doubles previously available
healthcare, commercial and educational facilities via the company’s chip performance.
luminaires and controls. The patented 365DisInFx UV-A technology • Surfacide has announced
uses UV-A LEDs to reduce the potential spread of certain common a partnership with iCleanse
infection-causing pathogens, allowing for spaces to be disinfected in to provide chemical-
real time while occupants are present. free hospital-grade UV
The technology works by delivering light in the 300-nanometer decontamination technology
spectrum, exciting certain molecules found inside microbes, which to protect healthcare and
causes reactions resulting in oxidative cell damage to pathogens, frontline workers.
rendering them inactive, and it has been proven effective on com-
mon pathogens including Staphylococcus aureus (including MRSA),

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Enterococcus faecalis, Escherichia coli, Acintobacter baumannii,

%
Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Candida albicans and aurias, as well
as on pathogen analogs such as bacteriophage MS2.
UV-A light emitted from the fixture is invisible to the human eye,
and fixtures incorporating the technology are designed to meet IEC
photobiological safety standard 62471.

They Said It…

"It would be great if decorative architectural light fixtures
Drop in lighting consumption
begin to have the option to be sealed—antimicrobial—and in the U.S. during 2020, due
easy to clean. We all share in the responsibility of keeping to the COVID-19 pandemic’s
each other safe. Being beautiful is not always enough." disruption of business, trade,
commerce, financial and
credit markets, according to
Susannah Gilbard, "2021 Lighting Jobs Outlook," p. 38 Research and Markets

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WAC Lighting received the
2021 HEARTS Award from the
Dallas Market Center and ART, for
demonstrating outstanding leadership,
empathy and service during the
COVID-19 pandemic. Last year, WAC
supplied 500,000 surgical masks
to U.S. hospitals, primarily in the
New York metropolitan area, where
healthcare workers were being overrun
by caseloads and were in desperate
need of supplies.
Study Shows Benefits
of 1:1 Replacement
A new study has concluded that ret-
rofitting outdated commercial lighting
individually with LEDs equipped with
luminaire-level lighting controls (LLLC)
has the potential to save just as much
energy as investing in a full commer-
cial lighting redesign. Researchers
from the University of Oregon and the
Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance
(NEEA) studied a roughly 1,000-sq ft
office space, analyzing the amount of
energy saved when fluorescent lights
were individually retrofitted with an LED
equipped with LLLC compared to a
complete redesign and upgrade of the
lighting system.
The study found that one-for-one
replacement saved between 50-74% in
energy annually, compared to the 59%
savings of a full redesign. One-for-one
replacement can typically be about ⅓
to ½ the cost. Along with the energy
savings, this study also showed the
quality of light in a one-for-one replace-
ment scenario may be just as good as
a full redesign.
The full research is available at
www.neea.org/resources/lllc-replace-
ment-vs-redesign-comparison-study.
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Events
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1. March 2-4, 2021:
NALMCO’s 2021 Spring Seminar
Learning Lab will be held in Orlando.
The interactive, two-day training
seminar will focus on technology and
hands-on learning. Topics include light-
ing trends, safety and maintenance.
www.nalmco.org
2. May 6-8, 2021:
LED Expo Mumbai will be held in hall
4 at the Bombay Exhibition Center
Mumbai in India. Occurring twice a
year, LED Expo showcases the entire
value chain of lighting products and
components, attracting attendees from
different parts of India and abroad.
www.theledexpo.com
3. August 17-18, 2021:
LEDucation 2021 will take place at
the New York Hilton Midtown in New
York City. Organized by the Designers
Lighting Forum of New York (DLFNY),
LEDucation provides a marketplace for
solid-state lighting innovations, as well
as a range of accredited seminars.
www.leducation.org
4. September 21-22, 2021:
The first ArchLIGHT Summit will take
place in the Dallas Trade Mart. The
trade event and educational platform
for architectural, specification and
design communities will include ac-
credited seminars, hands-on lab learn-
Insights
6
3
4
1
2
ing and panel discussions.
www.archlightsummit.com
5. October 21-23, 2021:
IALD Enlighten Americas 2021 will take
place in Banff, AB Canada. The annual
conference brings together hundreds of
lighting professionals for three days of
seminars, panels, innovative workshops
and networking.
www.iald.org
6. October 25-29, 2021:
LightFair 2021 will take place at the
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.
The event is the world’s largest annual
architectural and commercial lighting
trade show and conference, with over
500 exhibitors, hundreds of industry-
related courses and networking oppor-
tunities with industry leaders.
www.lightfair.com
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Single - Binning LEDs & Other
Misleading Light Quality Metrics 3000K
3500K 2700K
4000K
U N D E R S TA N D I N G S D C M
T H E O B J EC T I V E M EA S U R E O F H I G H - Q UA L I T Y L I G H T I N G
The distance from the target color point in each ellipse is measured in SDCM.
1-step SDCM
1 SDCM = Complete color consistency between thousands of LEDs in a run of lighting 3-step SDCM (Single Binning)
3 SDCM (Single Binning) = Color shift and temperature can start to become inconsistent 5-step SDCM

4+ SDCM = Noticeable color difference by the human eye

the inconsistencies of imperfect light

Single Binning sources. Even industry-standard
Single SDCM
Does not mean Superior brands produce linear LEDs that vary Proves Color Performance
noticeably in color temperature or
other color quality different production
batches do not match; and different
products from the same manufacturer
will have different color qualities that are
noticeable to the human eye.

Single-SDCM (Macadam Ellipse) vs

• “Single Binning” is a marketing term
that isn’t backed by data
• Quality of light is dependent on factors
outside of the control of the seller
• “Micro-Binning” may claim to indicate
consistent color temperature (CCT)
but at the sacrifice of true light quality:
color rendering
Single Binning
The color consistency, or chromaticity
consistency, of an LED light source is
critically important for lighting design.
Non-experts can distinguish light
sources that do not match, drawing
attention to the defects in poor-quality
illumination and away from the design
intent. The marketing term “single
binning” is not an objective measure
of light quality and is used to mask
“Single Bin” or “Micro-Bin”
Legacy LED lighting manufacturers say
they offer the best LED light quality in
the industry — but they do not.
Outdated marketing jargon like
“single binning” and “micro binned” is
commonplace. True Single-SDCM or
Single MacAdam Ellipse is the objective
measure of light quality, and ultimately, a
strong measure of the accuracy and quality
of a light source.
The MacAdam ellipse is a system of
color measurement that measures how
much color variation exists around the
black body curve before the human eye
detects a color shift. A series of ellipses
can then be drawn around any specific
color, and the closer any given light is to
the specific color, the less deviation will
be experienced when these lights are
positioned next to one another.
• Single Standard Deviation Color
Matching – One Macadam Ellipse
from the black body curve
• Statistically measurable and proven
color rendering and consistency
• References Fidelity and Gamut values
which are truer measurements of color
rendering
• Color Vector graphic reveals how each
color in the spectrum is truly rendered
Quality Through Manufacturing
To build linear LED products, billions
of LED chips are produced and
phosphor mix applied on an automated
manufacturing line. Inevitably there will be
color inconsistencies between individual
chips and the modules built from them.
In the early days of LED production,
product quality was determined by the

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accuracy of the binning process of chips.
Manufacturers referred to “binning”
as the method by which LEDs were
sorted according to their color output.
This was a subjective process and each
manufacturer “binned” differently. A
batch of LED chips in a “single bin” would
not necessarily result in consistent quality
light — what if that “bin” was defined
loosely, or to poor standards?
Single SDCM (Single Macadam Ellipse)
The Objective Quality Standard
Improvements in LED module design
have brought the MacAdam Ellipse to
the forefront of color analysis. The term
“single binning” no longer accurately
represents the consistent superior
quality in LED chips. A perfect LED
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at this quality level are used where color
performance and accuracy between
lighting fixtures and runs of linear light
is critical. Hence, single SCDM is the
highest standard of measurement of light
quality.
Who is Building True Single
SDCM Linear Lighting?
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Proprietary phosphor mix
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I
n the digital era, all trades
seem to be losing their crafts-
men. From machinists who
could create products from a
block of metal with incredible
accuracy to photographers
who actually worked with light
and contrast, not Photoshop
or post-production techniques,
these artists are an endangered
species.
The lighting field is no differ-
ent. The use of pen and ink has
been replaced by AutoCAD and
now Revit. Each are tools to
communicate our designs and
to assist the contractors in shar-
ing our vision. I am afraid that
this skill is being lost as many
students and young designers
may not have been taught how
line weight is just as informative
as the shape of the objects.
A s the IES continues to
concentrate on and support
the Emerging Professionals, we
must also continue the teaching
and mentoring process. There-
fore, the purpose of this series
of articles is to help pass down
some knowledge, and tricks of
the craft.
This month we will focus on
a simple topic that frustrates
many of our clients: bollard
installations. Bollards are great
at illuminating pathways and
toes, but they are also targets of
vandalism. Contractors want to
simplify bollard installations, so
they often use stakes or other
means, which end up being a
temporary solution. Only a prop-
erly installed footing can provide
the protection a bollard needs.
The bases can be formed or
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of the tr ade Bollard/Pole Installation
poured on-site or they can be
precast concrete. In either case,
you must coordinate the bolt pat-
tern, the bollard orientation and
the number of conduits (now that
we could have separate power,
or convenience outlets, 24/7
power, and control). I prefer a
raised foundation, especially
when installed in turf. Why? Be-
cause this extra height protects
the bollard and its finish from
gardeners and their weedwhack-
ers. By protecting the paint,
you minimize long-term rusting
issues. Bottom line, the concrete
base takes the abuse, not the
bollard. If in sidewalks, use a
flush-mounted detail.
Why do you want to include
the detail in your documents?
It‘s simple, it helps communi-
cate your design intent, elimi-
nates costly back charges or
time to reinstall the bollards, and
protects your client’s investment.
It can and will save you (or your
Base can be decorative boss) time and money as there
as well as functional. will be fewer RFIs and punch
list items. Once completed, it
can be reused on other proj-
ects or quickly modified if the
conditions require it, saving you
additional time.
BOLLARD/POLE
Chip Israel, Fellow IALD, LC,
LEED AP, Fellow IES
Lighting Design Alliance
Bottom Line:
Only a properly installed footing
can provide the protection a bollard
needs.
17

Testing the Tides Lunar power may be on the rise for cities built on rivers and bays
n article titled “How
Does Your State Make
Electricity?” published in
the New York Times in
October evaluated the sources
of electricity generated in the
U.S. to reveal that natural gas
is presently the most popular at
38%, followed by coal at 23%,
nuclear at 19%, and hydroelec-
tric at 7%, while the renewable
sources of wind and solar trail
at 7% and 3%, respectively.
Wind and solar power have
been on the rise in the last 10
years because utilities have
found that natural gas and
renewables are more economi-
cal than coal and petroleum. For
example, California now gets
50% of its generated electricity
from solar energy.
There’s also a new source of
tidal power generation—called
“lunar” energy, since it’s the
moon that generates our tides—
currently being tested in New
Photo: Courtesy of Verdant Power
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EnergyWillard Warren
York City. The first commercially
licensed tidal power project in
the U.S., the Roosevelt Island
Tidal Energy (RITE) project is
being developed in the East
Channel of Manhattan’s East
River, just off Roosevelt Island,
by Verdant Power, a leading
international marine renewable
energy company.
For the preliminary phase of
the project, which began in 2012,
the power generated by a single
submerged turbine supplied
electrical light and power to a
supermarket on Roosevelt Island
for eight years. For the second
phase of the project, a set of
three tidal turbines were placed
on the riverbed in October 2020.
The turbines of the RITE project
will generate about 105 kilowatts
of electricity, as the river flows in
each direction, to feed the NYC
power grid—and if that test is
also successful, more turbines
can be strung out along the riv-
Turbines installed in
Manhattan’s East River
are being tested as part
of the Roosevelt Island
Tidal Energy project.
erbed in the future to increase its
supply capacity.
The only other tidal power
plant in our hemisphere has
been operating for almost
three decades in the town of
Annapolis Royal in Nova Scotia
First cost on the Bay of Fundy with its
record 40-ft deep tides. The
can be far
Annapolis River Generation
less than
Plant supplies about 1% of the
traditional total power consumed annu-
electric ally in Canada, and when it is
generating not needed to supply power to
systems, the Canadian power grid, it is
and it’s out building up the river’s “head” by
pumping water back over a dam
of sight
on the Annapolis River.
yet right in There are other experimental
town tidal generating systems under
trial in the U.S. for application
in rivers and bays where the
turbines are mounted on floating
barges. Many of our largest cit-
ies are built on rivers and bays,
and “lunar” power may be in
their future as the Department of
Energy is aiming to reach Zero
Net Energy by the next decade.
River tidal power’s first cost
can be far less than traditional
electric generating systems, and
it’s out of sight yet right in town.
However, if the turbines are
placed on the riverbed and the
river is too shallow, “you better
get a smaller boat.”
Willard L. Warren, PE, LC,
Fellow IES, DSA, is principal of
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Jason Livingston, Lorne Whitehead and Michael Royer
All About Appearances Avoiding mismatches of white light
his issue marks the kick-
off of a new column by
members of the IES Color
Committee. The goal
is to describe the challenges
and opportunities associated
with white and colored light in
the LED era, with each column
providing actionable advice for
lighting practitioners. This article
looks at a common problem:
mismatches of the appearance
of white light. Unintentional
mismatches of the appear-
ance of white LEDs can occur
even within the same correlated
color temperature (CCT), lumi-
naire manufacturer and model.
Avoiding unintended mismatch is
an ongoing challenge for speci-
fiers, manufacturers and owners.
The color of light emitted by
a source is termed chromaticity.
Figure 1 illustrates a chroma-
ticity mismatch, in this case a
difference in nominal CCT. CCT
mismatches often look “wrong.”
Many specifiers would consider
the situation in Figure 1 unac-
ceptable and might require
the mismatched luminaire be
repaired or replaced.
A common misconception is
that as long as CCT is the same,
light sources will visually match.
Untrue! Chromaticity is at least
a two-dimensional phenomenon
and CCT is one axis—amber
to blue. The other axis, called
Duv, is green to pink. Figure 2
illustrates luminaires of the same
CCT, but one slightly greener.
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color
This type of color difference is
described as a more positive Duv.
Conversely, a relatively negative
Duv appears pinker. As with CCT,
a noticeable Duv mismatch is
often unacceptable. In this exam-
ple, too, the manufacturer may
be required to correct or replace
the mismatched luminaire.
Knowing how CCT and Duv
are calculated is important to
understanding why both are
important. CCT is calculated in
the CIE 1960 (u, v) chromaticity
diagram, a portion of which is
shown in Figure 3. The chroma-
ticity of a light source may fall
exactly on the blackbody locus,
but it is quite common for the
chromaticity of a light source to
be above or below. Thus, the
color appearance of two lumi-
naires may be different even
though the CCT is the same.
This is why Duv is important—it
is the direction and distance to
the chromaticity coordinates of
the light source from the nearest
point on the blackbody locus.
For commercially available white
light sources, Duv values are
typically between -0.007 and
0.005, although a wider range is
possible. Together, CCT and Duv
specify a unique chromaticity,
and vice versa.
Why does chromaticity mis -
match occur? LED manufactur-
ing inherently produces LEDs
with variations in many charac-
teristics. This is addressed by
binning, which is the process
of sorting LEDs so that the
variation is limited to a specific
range. Unfortunately, binning
is not standardized across the
industry, so it differs from one
manufacturer to another, and
possibly even from one product
line to another. A common mis-
A common conception is that ANSI/NEMA
misbelief C78.377 Specifications for the
Chromaticity of Solid-State
is that as
Lighting Products defines “ANSI
long as bins,” but it only specifies rang-
CCT is the es of chromaticity corresponding
same, light to nominal CCT designations,
sources will as shown in Figure 3. It does
visually not subdivide those quadrangles
match. into bins appropriate for ensur-
ing chromaticity consistency.
Untrue
Mismatch between products
from different manufacturers
can arise for several reasons.
Among them are variations in
the chromaticity coordinates
selected for the center of each
Figure 1. Example of CCT mismatch.
Figure 2. Example of a Duv mismatch.
bin, the tolerance size (i.e.,
the amount of permitted varia-
tion between individual LEDs
in a bin), and/or the tolerance
shape (i.e., circle, ellipse, or
quadrangle). Adding confusion,
manufacturers use different nota-
tions to describe the size of the
tolerance, usually MacAdam
Ellipse, Standard Deviation
Color Matching (SDCM), or Just
Noticeable Difference (JND). In
addition, some manufacturers
use tolerances such as “1x3
MacAdam Ellipse,” adding yet
another layer of complication.
So, even if two manufacturers
use “tight” binning to provide
internal chromaticity consistency,
it can be difficult for a specifier
to fully understand the informa-
tion being presented, gather
adequate additional information
(if needed), and finally, predict or
confirm the possible match/mis-
match between two luminaires.
Naturally, this all leads to
important questions: How can
specifiers predict, with reason-
able confidence, if two products
are going to be close enough
in chromaticity to match in a
given situation? Can they write a
specification to control this prob-
lem and filter out unacceptable
substitutions? Discussions of
CCT and Duv can sound techni-
cal, but the key point is simple:
in order for the chromaticity of
two lights to match well enough,
they need to be sufficiently
similar in CCT and sufficiently
similar in Duv. Unfortunately, “suf-
ficiently similar” is difficult to
define. While less difference is
better, the noticeability and toler-
ability of chromaticity variation is
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highly dependent on the context
and observer, making it very
challenging to create experimen-
tally derived tolerances that are
widely applicable.
When comparing CCT and
Duv, it’s obvious the metrics have
a very different scale. A CCT
difference of 50K is roughly
equivalent, in terms of visual
difference, to a Duv difference
of 0.001. These increments are Figure 3. ANSI/NEMA C78.377 bins in CIE 1960 (u, v)
both approximately the same as chromaticity diagram. Note that the background color is
only for orientation purposes.
a one-step MacAdam difference,
and in most scenarios, won’t be
visible in architectural lighting
applications. A difference ten send them to Jess Baker at
times larger, 500K or 0.01, will jbaker@schulershook.com.
certainly be visible, although it
may be acceptable in applica-
tions where color mismatch is Jason Livingston is the principal of
Studio T+L and co-chair of the IES
not an issue. This difference
Color Committee. He is a frequent
is also roughly what is allow-
speaker on light and color, and
able for products with the same
teaches lighting design in New
nominal CCT designation, which York City.
is why only specifying CCT isn’t
enough to ensure a consistent Dr. Lorne Whitehead is the
appearance. To have the best University of British Columbia’s
information when trying to match special advisor on
products, specifiers should ask Entrepreneurship, Innovation and
for the average chromaticity (or Research and a professor in
CCT and Duv) and the variation the Department of Physics and
in chromaticity (or CCT and Duv). Astronomy. He holds 143 U.S. pat-
ents that find application in comput-
To control mismatch in their
er screens, televisions and lighting
specification, specifiers may
products and has launched seven
want to include limits on chroma-
spin-off companies. He received a
ticity (or CCT and Duv) variation. Ph.D. in Physics from UBC.
For example, using the num-
bers above a limit of a 3-step Michael Royer, Ph.D., is a senior
MacAdam difference would be engineer at Pacific Northwest
roughly equivalent to 150K and National Laboratory, where he
0.003, or ± 75K and ±0.0015 works on the U.S. Department of
from a center point such as a Energy Lighting R&D program. His
CCT on the blackbody locus. primary research area is human
factors in lighting, with an empha-
sis on color.
If you have topic suggestions
for future color columns, please
21

Politics, Technology, Alliances The annual ‘Baker’s Dozen’ has even more in store for 2021
appy New Year indeed.
Big ups to Father Time for
his stubborn persistence,
finally ending a miser-
able 2020. We have numerically
arrived at 2021 CE and there will
be no recount. Despite the public
health and political challenges,
this is a year full of opportunity
for IES Members. Here are a few
government affairs and policy
matters that may be of interest.
1. The U.S. Department of
Energy’s Lighting R&D
Workshop will be a free
virtual event this year,
cosponsored again by IES.
Scheduled for February
1-4, this will be the 18th
Workshop, but this one will
take place right at your office
desk, work bench, kitchen
table, linen closet, ironing
board or wherever you cur-
rently work.
2. D.C.’s political winds have
turned and calmed to
something not measured
on Saffir-Simpson hurricane
scale. The selection of
Former Secretary of State
John Kerry to serve as
U.S. Special Presidential
Envoy for Climate signals
to industry globally that
America’s Executive Branch
is ready to embrace the
changes required by the
Paris Agreement, to which
President-Elect Joe Biden
intends to recommit the U.S.
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PolicyAlex Baker
on Day 1. Energy efficiency
—including lighting—will play
a substantial role in meet-
ing these commitments. The
Alliance to Save Energy,
with IES as a member,
will provide Congressional
leadership in this space,
with all 12 members of the
Alliance’s Honorary Board
reelected in November.
3. Day 3 of the incoming
administration will mark the
fourth anniversary of White
House staff introducing the
electorate to “alternative
facts,” a term and concept
subsequently misapplied
daily to sciences both hard
and soft. Especially with
several promising vaccines
poised to reign in humanity’s
COVID-19 suffering, look for
newly elected and appointed
leaders in the U.S. to once
again elevate science to
where it properly belongs
in a modern, productive
society.
4. The High-Performance
Buildings Coalition is also
eyeing the first 100 days,
along with the preceding
lame duck session for which
expectations have been set
painfully low. As we have
grown to expect, the expan-
sive clean energy bill passed
Look for in the House in September
newly (HR4447) faces a Senate
elected with no appetite to develop
leaders in a companion bill likely to be
the U.S. to thwarted. IES is a member
of this coalition, for whom I
once again
serve as secretary. Policy pri-
elevate orities for the 117th Congress
science to are being drafted now. New
where it ideas from IES Members are
properly always welcome.
belongs 5. The market is flooded with
germicidal ultraviolet devices
in the complete absence of
measurement standards,
and proprietary measure-
ment methods appear to
be inconsistent at best.
Fortunately, help is on the
way. Within the Testing
Procedures Committee
(TPC), Dr. Cameron Miller is
leading IES and International
Ultraviolet Association mem-
bers in the development
of new standards for the
measurement of ultraviolet
radiation from discharge and
solid-state sources. Look
for ANSI/IES/IUVA LM-TBD
methods of measurement to
be published this year.
6. In early 2021 look for the
 new ANSI/IES TM-21-21
Calculator with the latest
standard revision. This will
be an enormously helpful
tool for bringing industry
luminous flux maintenance
projections into align-
ment with the standard.
Remember, TM-21 limits
projections to six times the
LM-80 testing duration. A
300,000-hour projection to
L70 requires 50,000 hours
of LM-80 testing. No one
has that.
7. In September the IES signed
a Project Agreement with
two divisions of the National
Park Service “to collaborate
on the development of IES
outdoor lighting standards
that address the needs of
national parks.” The project
will kick off this year with
IES and NPS both bringing
experts to the table, and
the resulting standards are
expected to “provide guid-
ance for interested federal,
state, local and international
parks, and other protected
areas having similar needs.”
8. With the Five Principles
for Responsible Outdoor
Lighting framing discussions,
IES, the Massachusetts
chapter of the International
Dark-Sky Association (IDA),
and IDA staff have jointly
submitted a proposal to the
Massachusetts Board of
Building Regulations and
Standards to fully shield
uplight from luminaires with
output over 1,000 lumens. It
includes more than a dozen
exemptions to maintain
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lighting design freedom.
If successful, one day
Massachusetts residents will
be able to lay on the grass
in Boston Common and
stare up at the stahhs. Sorry,
I had to.
9. The Five Principles conclude
with a recommendation to
“limit the amount of shorter
wavelength light to the least
amount needed,” but pres-
ently lighting practice has
no suitable metrics for this
purpose. Correlated color
temperature, vigorously and
erroneously defended by
some dark-sky proponents
as the right metric, is not
predictive of light pollu-
tion potential. Look for the
IES, IDA and NPS to work
together in the coming year
to take initial steps toward
identifying or creating a
better-suited metric.
10. The California Energy
Alliance, of which the IES
is a member, has grown
tremendously over the past
year in terms of organization,
membership and influence.
Outcome-based code work
continues, and the CEA
recently won a nearly $1 mil-
lion grant from the California
Energy Commission (CEC)
to “reduce electricity use of
active and standby modes
for residential and commer-
cial plug load devices, [and]
provide information that may
inform future updates to
codes and standards and
reduce commercial plug
load electricity use.”
11. The CEC’s 2022 Title 24
code development cycle
continues, with input from
IES and its members. Also
underway as required by
California Senate Bill 49
(2019), the Commission
recently opened docket
20-FDAS-01 to begin devel-
oping Flexible Demand
Appliance Standards (FDAS).
This essentially amounts
to an expansion of Title
20 goals to “also manage
energy loads to help main-
tain electrical grid reliability.”
Lamps are a regulated appli-
ance under Title 20, so we’ll
soon learn what CEC has in
mind for FDAS and lighting.
12. The IES has recently seated
the California Regulations
Committee, to be co-chaired
by IES Fellows Jim Benya
and Chip Israel, represent-
ing Northern and Southern
California respectively. This
committee will deliberate
over regulatory actions with
Title 20, Title 24 Parts 6 and
11, and Joint Appendix 8
(JA8), and will develop IES
positions and strategies.
13. I have the pleasure of report-
ing this progress to you, but
outreach is a team effort
with my colleagues Brian
Liebel and Mark Lien, and
we have a few more tricks
up our sleeves this year.
Please stay healthy and stay
tuned into the IES.
Alex Baker is manager of govern-
ment affairs and public policy for
the IES.
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 Hidden Agenda
Photos: Lauren Davis/Feinknopf Photography

This bridge doesn’t just transport people from point A to point B. It also aids in the
movement of what’s above

By Samantha Schwirck

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 Samuel De Champlain Bridge

Floodlights hidden behind structural

beams create a ribbon of light across
the St. Lawrence River.

t’s true. Beauty really is only skin deep. And

lighting design is no exception. Designed by
HLB Lighting Design (New York City), the new
Samuel De Champlain Bridge in Montreal
shows how architectural bridge lighting can also
serve a hidden purpose by protecting native wild-
life and building community during trying times.
As part of a design/build team, HLB spent more
than four years developing the lighting plan for the
bridge, which opened to traffic in the summer of
2019. Spanning almost 3.4 kilometers (2.1 miles)
across the St. Lawrence River, the design utilizes

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more than 7,000 luminaires and 45 universes
of DMX control to realize a lighting display that
reflects the thriving city of Montreal and its diverse
population, while also respecting the area’s native
wildlife.
“The goal was to give Montreal a world-class
cable-stayed bridge with a dynamic nighttime
presence,” says Kenneth Douglas of HLB, who
worked with colleague Elizabeth Johnson to
carry out the RFP supplied by the Government of
Canada, the project owner. “The lighting system
allows the movement of light along the structure’s
entire length and up the inner faces of the cable
stay tower, all while restricting uplight and limiting
skyglow around the structure.”
T he design team—which included engineer T.Y.
Lin International and Donald McDonald Archi-
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tects—also had to accommodate one particularly
sensitive end user: bird “traffic” overhead. The
mission was to protect the bird migration route
along the waterway by strategically using colors
least likely to distract the wildlife. “Using research
[indicating that] the birds are using the moon to
navigate, we specified a set of wavelengths that
are not as disruptive to them,” Johnson explains.
The project satisfied the need for both a vibrant
yet wildlife-friendly design concept using just
one fixture family, with the majority of the 7,000
luminaires being Lumenbeam fixtures by Lumen-
pulse. “The fixtures that create the ribbon of light
When not are hidden behind the structural beam in each
in migratory
bay. The Extra Large version [of the fixture] is up
season, the full
spectrum of on the tower recessed in niches of the inner face,”
colors are used Douglas says. “The optics vary over the length of
to celebrate the tower to get the most even light coverage, and
different all are color changing using RGB LED.”
community
The luminaires located along the edge girder
events and
seasons.
are mounted close to a structural support beam to
conceal them from view, Johnson adds. “They use
alternating mounting angles to evenly illuminate the
edge girder from top to bottom. The aiming angles
and beam spreads are different on the north and
south sides of the bridge because the mounting
distance from the edge girder differs. Care was
taken to accommodate special conditions like
drainpipes and expansion joints so although the
mounting conditions change the ribbon of light
looks consistent along the full length.”
 Samuel De Champlain Bridge

At A Glance
During
inclement
weather, a
A t the same time, the lighting concept is an
ambassador of sorts for Canada, Quebec
and Montreal. The initial scenes for the bridge
• The design uses roughly 7,000 luminaires and 45
ceilometer
universes of DMX control. acknowledge their place in the world, with red and
measures cloud
• Precise aiming studies minimized on-site adjustments. white Canadian scenes referencing the nation’s
height and
• The project received a 2020 IES Illumination Award flag, as well as scenes celebrating Quebec using
automatically
of Merit.
reduces light its signature blue and white colors. The Cana-
output to dian government has also used the bridge as a
minimize canvas, illuminating the span in rainbow colors to
reflections.
reflect a message of unity and gratitude for health-

T he scale of the project—and mid-project tech-

nology developments—added complexity to
the design process. “Providing a lighting system
that stretched continuously over 3 kilometers and
consistently performs the programmed scenes
required a robust control system network design,”
Johnson explains. “The system started out using
traditional DMX distribution connected to a fiber
network, but the temperature requirements drove
us to try to remove the DMX gateways which were
not meeting the minimum temperature required,
and instead use network cables to deliver the
control signal.
“We were fortunate to have the change in DMX
control network technology happening in the mid-
dle of our control system design process. With the
collaboration of the luminaire manufacturer and the
lighting control systems integrator [Barbizon NYC],
we were able to design a control system with fewer
components that could provide a more reliable
control signal in the structure’s environment.”
care professionals and other essential workers
during the coronavirus pandemic.
At night, the lighting scenes bring the structure
to life across the St. Lawrence. “The nighttime im-
age of the bridge has become an icon for Mon-
treal showing up on community and social media
posts,” Douglas says. “The bridge has quickly be-
come a landmark and the dynamic lighting allows
the Government of Canada to use lighting scenes
to create a connection back to the community.”
THE DESIGNERS | Kenneth Douglas, Fellow IALD, LC,
LEED AP, Member IES, is a principal at HLB Lighting
Design in New York City.
Elizabeth Johnson, Associate IALD, Member IES, is a
senior associate for HLB, based out of the company’s
San Francisco office.

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Labor
of Love
That’s what The Metropolitan façade lighting project
was for a Detroit-area designer who has admired the
building for years
By Paul Tarricone
A
classic line in cinema can help explain lighting designer
Robert White’s attachment to The Metropolitan building in
Detroit. It “had him at hello.”
White, a principal with local firm Illuminart, describes how
he came to revere this example of 1925 Gothic Revival architecture.
“As a student in the ’80s I became enamored with Detroit and its arts
scene. Frequenting music and dance clubs in chilly, poorly main-
tained buildings with leaky roofs and dodgy fire/safety compliance, I
started seeing Detroit’s real beauty hidden beneath decades of ne-
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glect,” he says. “I happened on The Metropolitan
after leaving a club with friends in the small hours
of the morning. There at the end of a dark street
was this strange, imposing and menacing structure
totally devoid of life, tucked away and seemingly
forgotten. It left quite an impression which haunted
me. Like so many of Detroit’s pre-Depression era
skyscrapers, it was born in wealth and splendor
and fell into vacancy and slow decay. For 40 years
it lay empty, save for occasional and risky explora-
tions by daring students and architectural explor-
ers trying to glimpse Detroit’s golden age before
the wrecking ball did its work.”
In the years that followed, White would pass the
building “and pause to see how it was doing, but
the story grew sadder,” he recalls. “Time started
to weigh heavily on it, and I remember at some
point it started to gather graffiti on the upper floors.
What struck me was that the street art included big
red hearts lovingly and carefully painted on some
of the windows. Somebody took the time to climb
many unlit stairs to leave a valentine on this lonely
building. I began to dream of someday helping
revitalize the building using light as love.”
The love story continued into the 2000s when
the city acquired The Metropolitan and other prop-
erties hoping to rescue rather than demolish them.
“McIntosh Poris Architects contacted me to talk
about how temporary lighting could call attention
to these buildings and build interest for redevelop-
ment. When l was invited to tour the buildings and

develop concepts, I jumped at the chance.” One
thing that stood out when visiting The Metropoli-
tan in 2010: the graffiti hearts on the windows sill
remained, even while many of the other windows
in the building had long since been broken. There
they were, merrily marching down the south façade.
A s he stood on the roof—“once one of the
coolest spots to admire a once vibrant city”—
White pondered how The Metropolitan could be lit
to embody Detroit’s urban renewal should it pro-
ceed. Illuminart “developed concepts of how The
Metropolitan (and other buildings) could be lit with
minimal installation complexity, cost and energy
use. Simple renderings conveyed the concepts
and the city embraced the ideas.”
Some of the smaller buildings were acted on,
but The Metropolitan remained dormant until 2017
when a complete renovation and repurposing of the
15-story building got underway. The building would
re-emerge as the Element Detroit hotel at The Met-
ropolitan. The Roxbury Group were the owners and
developers. The project team included Quinn Evans
Architects in charge of architectural and histori-
cal work; Patrick Thompson Design handling the
interiors; Peter Basso Associates as engineers; and
Illuminart, responsible for the exterior lighting.
State of Michigan preservation guidelines allowed
luminaires to be applied to the building, but they
had to be hidden within elements such as the win-
dow framing at street level, as well as the rooftop.
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The Metropolitan
Opposite: Hearts Regarding the design philosophy, “we decided
painted on the against lighting the entire building and wanted to
windows of create more of a residential and hospitality feel,”
the abandoned
White recalls. “There is little visual brightness on
building inspired
the design team. neighboring buildings to fight so this proved viable.”
Elizabeth Knibbe, principal, Quinn Evans, adds
Above: A rooftop that the classic architecture, in a sense, had to
view of a revived speak for itself. “The lighting designers understood
Detroit skyline.
the need to provide exterior lighting that substan-
tially enhanced the historic character of the build-
ing through the use of fixtures that do not detract
from the character of the building—and they did so
within a tight budget.”
T he design called for lighting 13,500 sq ft on
the main façade, additional lighting around the
main façade corner, small coat-of-arms details
around the entire parapet, and lighting at the roof
terrace and the rooftop penthouse on all sides.
The simplicity of the design is reflected in the lim-
ited number of fixture types. “There are just three
basic luminaire types to service to help reduce
maintenance,” says White, who specified six 10-in.
diameter spot uplights, six 50-W floodlights and
14 6-in. diameter floodlights (14 watts) to capture
the coat-of-arms detailing at the west, north and
east cornices. Supplementing the luminaires is 300
lineal ft of 120-V tape at street level, and for upper
cornice and rooftop detailing. All sources are LED.
Façade conditions gave the designers the
chance to be creative. “The window frames at
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At A Glance
• Lighting covers 13,500 sq ft on the main façade.
• Three fixture types limit maintenance.
• 3000K light accentuates the terra-cotta masonry.
street level were being rebuilt which gave us the
opportunity to design a small channel the tape
could lay into. The channel has weep holes to let
water out,” White explains. “It’s really hard to see
where the light is coming from and it beautifully
renders the window eyebrow masonry.”
The historical architectural detailing of the roof-
top terrace afforded similar opportunities to con-
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ceal light sources. “Only a few surface-mounted,
small floods were used. The rest is indirect glow
from the 120-V tape light,” he says.
White adds that “there were no specific footcan-
dle levels to achieve, and the client was happy with
splashes of light. Some other hospitality properties
in Detroit were over-lit and we wanted to avoid this.
For color temperature, we arrived at 3000K as it
brought out the warmth of the terra-cotta masonry
Left: Once dark, without making it too yellow. There is a certain visual
the façade now freshness created that still retains a residential feel.”
features splashes Finally, future nighttime wanderers—emerg-
of warm light
ing from dance clubs as White once did—won’t
that give the
be greeted by the menacing structure he found.
hotel a residential
look. “The project has reactivated what was a dark and
foreboding intersection hidden between major
Right: LED tape avenues. It has warmly connected the street expe-
light and small rience and has added a charming and attractive
surface-mounted
element to Detroit’s historical skyline.”
floodlights
illuminate
the forgotten
rooftop. THE DESIGNER | Robert White, IALD, LC, Member
IES, is a principal with Illuminart, Ann Arbor, MI.
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Safe Landing
A minimalist design that plays off the past helped transform a former
air base into a memorable landscape for outdoor enthusiasts

By Katie Nale

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 Upper Bee & Bosque Trails and Tunnels

Downlights integrated into metal panels

throughout the undercrossing satisfy
city lighting requirements. The structure
is a gesture to the aircraft hangars that
once populated the site.

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B
eaches, sunshine and surfing are among
the first images that come to mind when
one mentions Southern California, but
there is more to the region than just its
celebrated coastline. Good weather year-round
encourages various forms of outdoor activities
like walking, running and biking—all of which
promote an awareness of the state’s unique
wildlife alongside healthy living. The Great
Park Trails in Irvine are no exception, with the
Upper Bee and Bosque bike and pedestrian
trails winding through a 53-acre site intended
to connect visitors with the southern California
landscape. “The goal of the project was to create
a natural relief in an otherwise suburban city
while keeping its impact to the area extremely
low,” says lead lighting designer Brad Nelson of
local firm StudioK1.
Developed with crushed concrete from the
runways of the Marine Corps air base that
previously occupied the area, the trails wrap
around rolling hills and valleys featuring California-
native species of plants and the wildlife they
beckon. Between June 2015 and the park’s
opening in June 2019, Nelson crafted a minimalist
design using uniform light levels across various
areas of the park. Rather than creating a
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Pedestrian homogenous look throughout the park, the lighting
poles illuminate enhances the diversity of its landscape. “We
the hardscape wanted there to be moods, contrast and identifying
surfaces with
features throughout the parks that make them
minimal spill light
and relatively visually interesting,” says Nelson.
tight uniformity.
A notable feature of the park (which is divided
into four segments by major roadways)
are the three half-domed undercrossings that
lead the paths below the busy car-filled streets.
“The undercrossings posed a design challenge
because the goal was to create something
completely different,” recalls Nelson. Constructed
out of large culvert-like metal structures, the
undercrossings integrate core drill downlights at a
regular patterned interval to mimic the appearance
of the nearby historical airfield hangars.
Beyond the undercrossings and along the
trails, pedestrian poles illuminate the hardscape
surfaces with minimal spill light and relatively tight
uniformity. On a mission to select a trail fixture
that was unobtrusive during daylight hours, yet
highly functional at night, Nelson chose the Signify
UrbanScape LED Post-Top to replace the previous
high-pressure sodium “pumpkin heads.”
Outside of the required trail illumination, lighting
was used sparingly to accentuate the location and

create destinations that visitors could identify. “We Left:
subtly took advantage of the abundant landscape Even the
at night by focusing our lighting efforts on the restroom was
incorporated
heritage trees that were saved from the Marine
into the lighting
Corps air base,” says Nelson. Soft illumination plan: Soft linear
celebrates the trees as well as the playgrounds illumination helps
and sitting areas they surround. In keeping with it blend in with
the theme of minimalism, two simply constructed the trail’s lighting.
restroom facilities with soft linear illumination marry
Right:
perfectly with the trail lighting. Large heritage
trees saved
T he project was subject to Irvine’s Uniform
Security Code, which mandates specific
lighting levels be maintained for all outdoor,
from the Marine
Corps air base
are illuminated
to highlight
hardscaped areas for safety and security. These
the natural
codes exceed the IES lighting recommendations, landscape.
keeping in-line with Irvine’s reputation as one of
the safest cities in America. “The City of Irvine
requires a minimum of 0.25 footcandles with
an average of 1 fc for all paved trail systems
not directly serving buildings,” says Nelson,
who also notes the city’s 1-fc minimum on all
hardscape areas including parking, sidewalks,
building entries and recreational areas. “Gaining
the approval of the city required thorough
documentation of photometrics, construction
details, specification of long-life materials, and
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Upper Bee & Bosque Trails and Tunnels
ease of replacement to satisfy their needs as
eventual owners of the park.”
The design also adheres to California’s 2016
Title 24 Energy Code and CALGreen regulations
for outdoor lighting. “Meeting both the higher
lighting levels with the restrictive energy codes
drove the design toward maximum efficiency
for trail lighting,” says Nelson, who notes other
examples of sustainability on the project. “The
design team we worked with was extremely
driven to reduce, reuse and recycle whatever
we could from the previous air base. Changing
this area from a giant concrete series of runways
into parks and sports fields is a dramatic
transformation, but not displacing the concrete in
landfills or destroying the existing trees is a big
accomplishment in this climate.”
At A Glance
• The project is entirely LED.
• The design strategy creates moods and contrast.
• The design earned a 2020 IES Illumination Award
of Merit.
THE DESIGNER | Brad Nelson, Member IES, is a
director at StudioK1.
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project
Photos: Earl Smith
in pictures
Quality Breeds Quantity

Bev King, co-owner of Z Hotels in London,

knows how to keep his clientele wanting more.
Providing “affordable, compact luxury in prime
locations,” the hotel chain has expanded to 13
different sites over the past few years. First used
for the hotel’s Z City location, a Lutron system
was chosen as an alternative to the usual keycard
system for lighting control. The backlit keypad allows guests to control light levels
>>

The brand was also selected for its wireless as well as other room settings. “Our main objective was to
control system, which can determine if a guest make the guest experience a bit easier. As a guest you don’t
is in the room. Lutron has been used in every Z want to fumble around to find light switches,” says Z Hotels
Hotel built after the Z City location and its role has Technical Manager Eamon Kelly.
expanded with the addition of Palladiom keypads
and automated blinds to its myRoom prime
solution.

Automated blinds equipped with blackout fabric were added to system.

>>

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 >>
The solution helps provide an
intuitive experience for guests
at the hotels, where automation
and controls are an important part
of a design philosophy dedicated
to stylishness and simplicity.

>>
Lutron controls are
currently used in seven
Z Hotel properties. “We’ve
put it in every hotel we built
since that first experience
with Z City,” says King.

>>
The system also aids in hotel
operation. “We’re able to
control the blinds, dimming
for the lighting, and room
thermostats,” says Kelly. “It’s
been really easy to integrate
with the systems we already
use, including the HVAC.”

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 MANUFACTURING REP AGENCY

Altschaefl Palmer Danzig

DISTRIBUTION LIGHTING DESIGN

Jones Drouet Gilbard

2021 LIGHTING
Lightspec Canada, Inc./Lightspec, LLC), Janelle
Drouet (associate principal, lighting, ARUP),
Susannah Gilbard (partner, Lightcraft, a division
of AKF Group LLC), Travis Jones (vice president/
general manager, lighting, WESCO Distribution)

JOBS OUTLOOK
and Trevor Palmer (SVP, digital lighting networks,
Acuity Brands). We started our conversation off with
a question on many people’s minds.

What positions do you see in most demand in

Professionals representing four major industry sectors
discuss the challenges and opportunities they expect
for the year ahead
2021?
JONES: Project management and installation posi-
tions. I suspect this will be especially true in the
lighting retrofit market segment.
ALTSCHAEFL: As a U.S.-based manufacturer and
given our expected growth, I see manufacturing

W
elcome to our eighth annual LD+A Jobs
Outlook panel. After a year that many
people are glad to have behind us, we
look forward to 2021 with cautious opti-
mism. This year’s group of panelists includes: Mike
Altschaefl (CEO and board chair, Orion Energy
Systems, Inc)., Steve Danzig (president/principal,
positions being in the highest demand. The second
By Paul highest demand will be for construction services per-
Pompeo sonnel to work on our turnkey installation projects.
DANZIG: Marketing, especially the people and
firms who can master the social media platforms
for their companies and get customer engagement
while at arm’s length.
PALMER: Software engineering resources have

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been in high demand for some time. We don’t see
this trend disrupted by the current situation sur-
rounding COVID-19, but rather accelerating.
GILBARD: At this time, it feels like an impossible
question for me to answer. We were not hiring for
the last half of 2020. We only hope that things start
to improve. Until that happens, nothing will change
in our hiring outlook.
DROUET: I anticipate that innovative problem
solvers will be important, as in the past, but even
more so. If you’re good and excel as a subject
matter expert, there will be opportunity. Efficien-
cies are being reviewed at various points along the
workflow, which leaves the opportunity for results-
driven team performers. That can mean different
things for different projects or companies, but [for
design firms] people who have a more organized
approach to the creative process or project deliv-
ery will be in demand. People who can help with
leadership at various stages of their career and
innovators that can see and contribute to solutions
and are accountable will be in high demand.
What positions will see a reduction in
demand?
ALTSCHAEFL: I currently don’t see any areas
where we expect a reduction in positions.
DROUET: Positions that are a single note, one-
task type, will need to be reduced. That can mean
dipping your toe in other work, or team roles. Some
may describe this type of future position as one
where you wear a lot of hats. Members or positions
that are slow to adapt, or have rigid boundaries
that do not allow for growth, will have a reduction of
demand. Positions that handle or oversee a holistic
approach will fare better, and I believe that can
often be the result of the person, not the position.
DANZIG: Regional sales managers. It’s unfortu-
nate, but the day of the traveling salesperson is
gone. If they do not have the ability to engage your
agency network from afar, or reinvent how they
have done business for decades, these jobs will
go by the wayside.
What product(s) and/or technologies will
create the most jobs in the year ahead?
DROUET: Certainly, we’ve all seen the interest in
UVGI [Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiance] product
solutions and advisory services, in addition to
other COVID response solutions. We are all look-
ing at ways systems can help reduce and mitigate
risk and lighting (or irradiance) technology, lighting
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Jobs Roundtable
controls and smart building solutions are included
in those discussions. While not the highest number
for job opportunities, as it is still highly specialized,
it is—by the percentage of people pre-pandemic in
the field—a high growth area.
ALTSCHAEFL: We see our high-bay products,
including linear, UFO and strip fixtures, creating
the most jobs in the year ahead. In addition, the
continued expansion of lighting controls being
incorporated into projects will have an impact.
Finally, we expect the growth in the services side
of our business to create a need for jobs.
GILBARD: It would be great if decorative architec-
tural light fixtures begin to have the option to be
sealed—antimicrobial—and easy to clean. I think
we’ve all learned that we all share in the responsi-
bility of keeping each other safe. Being beautiful is
not always enough.
PALMER: The market for intelligent, networked
lighting solutions continues to grow. Software is a
key component in delivering “future ready” digital
lighting networks which can get smarter over time
and offer value beyond lighting. I believe we’ll con-
tinue to see strong demand for engineering talent
to further develop lighting management platforms
in this respect.
‘The demand for technology used to
measure activity, monitor energy
consumption or control devices will drive
the most jobs this year’
—Jones
DROUET: Flexibility is a theme from workflow to
product, and the flexible design solutions between.
We need to adapt, the same way we need our
product and lighting systems to adapt for future
needs, some that can be foreseen and some that
can’t, so flexibility is key. Products, technologies
and people that contribute to this flexibility will
have many more opportunities.
JONES: The demand for technology used to
measure activity, monitor energy consumption or
control devices will drive the most jobs this year.
The design, installation and commissioning of such
technology, as well as lighting equipment that might
contain it, are likely to create the most jobs in 2021.
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How will COVID-19 affect the lighting job
market in 2021?
GILBARD: There is a lot of uncertainty in the light-
ing design job market for this year and beyond.
Similar to every other job market—it’s very hard to
predict. I do hope that now that the election year
is behind us, the banking community will start to
release funding for more projects to get going.
JONES: Companies will remain cautious as we
continue to recover from the worst of the pandem-
ic. I expect an uptick in the pace of hiring in the
second half of the year.
DROUET: We are moving into 2021 with some of
the traditional routes not available and with smaller
pools of opportunity, yet I know companies are still
looking for those people, positions and skills that
will continue their growth. I think we will also see
some of those individuals looking for their new path
and branching out on their own, and some of them
will find the future “star” companies—the ones to
watch. So, staying connected to all the change and
industry happenings is critical. There has been so
‘The day of the traveling salesperson
is gone. If they do not have the ability
to engage your agency network from
afar, or reinvent how they have done
business for decades, these jobs will
go by the wayside’
—Danzig
much change in the world around us, the door has
opened for more calculated risk and new ideas.
ALTSCHAEFL: The business uncertainty caused
by COVID-19 will cause many companies to be
cautious on hiring. It may also result in companies
hiring temporary workers versus full-time employ-
ees until the business climate has more clarity.
DANZIG: The overall job market in lighting and
the entire electrical construction industry will be
decreased in 2021.
Is the Zoom meeting a temporary or
permanent replacement for many of our
industry meetings/product presentations?
DANZIG: Temporarily, it will replace most sales
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meetings with the design community in general,
especially general product presentations, lunch and
learns, and those types of things. However, there
will always be a need for one-on-one interaction
when trying to solve unique design parameters.
The fact is many members of the design commu-
nity were looking to find ways to keep the “generic”
sales calls to a minimum and the pandemic has
been the perfect excuse for them to use.
PALMER: COVID-19 has highlighted the impor-
tance of digital connectivity tools such as Teams
and Zoom. We see digital connectivity comple-
menting face-to-face engagements nicely. It’s an
effective and efficient way to connect with custom-
ers and stakeholders, which I believe will continue.
DROUET: Zoom and other videoconferencing soft-
ware has been a replacement for in-person meet-
ings and has helped facilitate construction reviews,
design workshops and other types of meetings
that we would have traditionally done in-person.
I’ve seen so many creative ways that people are
still gathering and accomplishing tasks or con-
nections that in some cases are better virtually. In
other situations, we’ll be excited to go back to a
hybrid of virtual or in-person when it feels appropri-
ate to do so.
ALTSCHAEFL: It will be some of both. In-person
meetings and events will be significantly scaled
back for some time. However, I do think there will
be a need for certain events to be in person.
GILBARD: Zoom meetings—my office uses
Teams—will likely become a regular part of our
work meetings. We will likely be working at least
part-time from home for the foreseeable future. We
plan to allow staff to work from home indefinitely, at
least part-time. I think there are clearly times when
in-person is important and I think eventually that
will return, but there is no plan to require full-time
at-office work. Because of that, “virtual” is here
to stay—and it works for us. One thing that we all
have seen is that email conversations have slowed
and Zoom meetings have increased dramatically,
and that’s a great thing.
THE AUTHOR | Paul Pompeo is president of Pompeo
Group (www.pompeo.com), an executive recruiting firm
in lighting, controls, electrical and IoT.
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MENTIONS
Candace
Steele Flippin
has been
appointed
chief commu-
nications officer for Acuity
Brands, Inc.

Avatars stroll through the digital party.

B-K Lighting + TEKA
Illumination have launched
a new online community
IES Mexico Goes Virtual for 70th Celebration for members of the lighting
IES Mexico celebrated its 70th anniversary in October with a virtual event for industry at bklighting.com.
members, sponsors and guests of the Section. For the event, all participants had
their own “avatar” to use on a digital platform, enabling attendees to interact as if Bold = Individual or
everyone was physically present. Sustaining Member

Obituary
Michael Rossi, IES Toledo President
Michael J. Rossi, the past-president of the IES Toledo Section, passed away in October
at the age of 31. Mr. Rossi earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the
University of Toledo and was most recently working at the Buehrer Group in Maumee. He was
also a member of the Holy Catholic Church in North Baltimore; enjoyed photography; and was
an avid Pittsburgh Steelers fan. Memorial donations may be made to Mr. Rossi’s family. Online
condolences may be sent to his family at www.barndtfuneralhome.org.

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 New Members The IES is pleased to welcome 55 first-time individual members.

Henry Abrari CA Adam Goodings Canada Sarah Mosser TN Lauri Spitzenberger UT

Christina Antulov Canada Jessie Grillo NY Elham Motevalian CA Rebecca Tenney WV
Bill Beck OH Chris Halbrook AK Alexandra Muller Canada Bianca Thrasher-Starobin GA
Ryan Boozer SC Dan Hill CA Shawn Nadeau CA My Ton OR
Allison Brotz WI Abigael Hutchinson CA Kris Obine NY Angelica Vargas Chavarro
Jorge Alberto Carrillo Stephen Italo NY Alan Parham TN Colombia
Espinoza Mexico Bernard Jannin France Mojtaba Parsaee Canada Sabra White CA
Chris Cate GA Jerin Joshua Canada Kevin Pezzoni CA David Zador MD
Randy Cherwin ID Walter Jukes CA Andrew Piaskowski Canada
Sastry D V R S India Sowsen Khatib Canada Mitchell Plant CO *As of October 31, 2020
Amy Dickerson NY Suji Lee MA Sean Pourvakil CA
Randy Dominick VA Michael Lewallen WA Md Mushfiqur Rahman
Glenn Edmonds NC Michael Mahon MI Canada
Ali Faghih Canada Joseph Marra WA Scott Runyon SC
Neda Farshidi CA Nicholas W Medendorp, Jean Santos Puerto Rico
Andrea García Mexico Jr. NC Sudipta Sarkar Canada
Sean Gerety KS Nicholas Monaco MD Scott Sikora AZ

university Members
Kansas State University Parsons/The New School University of Colorado, Boulder
Oklahoma State University Texas Christian University University of Nebraska
Oregon State University Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara Virginia Tech

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 Sustaining The following companies have elected to support the Society as Sustaining
Members which allows the IES to fund programs that benefit all segments of the

Members
membership and pursue new endeavors, including education projects, lighting
research and recommended practices.*

CHAMPION AMBASSADOR ETC, Inc. naturalLED

Cree Lighting EYE Lighting International of NA Neotek
Crawford Solutions First Light Technologies, Ltd. OCL Architectural Lighting
Focal Point, LLC Optic Arts
BENEFACTOR Form Lighting and Controls P2S, Inc.
Crestron Electronics, Inc. FortisAlberta, Inc. Pace Industries
Finelite, Inc. Hapco Pathway the Lighting Source
GE Current, a Daintree Company Harman Professional Prudential Lighting Corp.
Hubbell Lighting Healthe by Lighting Science PureEdge Lighting
Kurtzon Lighting Hera Lighting Q-Tran, Inc.
Lutron Electronics iGuzzini RAB Lighting, Inc.
Musco Lighting Illuminart Reggiani Lighting USA, Inc.
Intense Lighting RDG Planning & Design
SUPPORTER Kenall Mfg. Co. Senso Lighting
Acclaim Lighting
The Kirlin Company Smart Engine|WTEC
A.L.P. Lighting Components Co.
Latin Technology SFM
Apogee Translite
LEDil, Inc. SGM Light A/S
Ascent Battery Supply, LLC
LEDRA Brands Spectrum Lighting Inc. San Antonio
Barn Light
Lee Filters USA Sternberg Lighting
B-K Lighting
Legion Lighting Co., Inc. Stresscrete Group/King Luminaire
BR+A Consulting Engineers
Legrand/Wattstopper Tempo Industries
Associated Lighting
Lighting Analysts, Inc. Tivoli, LLC
Representatives, Inc. – Oakland
Lighting Design Lab Touche Lighting Controls
BIOS Lighting
Lighting Services, Inc. Trinity Manufacturing
Black & McDonald, Ltd.
The Lighting Quotient Truly Green Solutions
Boca Flasher
Litelab Corporation Ubicquia
Capital Electric – A Sonepar
Los Angeles Lighting Mfg. Co. Urban Solar
Company
Louis Poulsen Lighting, Inc. USAI Lighting
Con Edison Company of New York
Louvers International Velux America, Inc.
ConTech Lighting
LUMA Lighting Design/PAE Vermont Energy Investment
Crenshaw Lighting
Engineers Corporation
Douglas Lighting Controls
LSI Industries, Inc. Visa Lighting
Duke Energy Co.
Lucifer Lighting Company WAC Lighting Company
DWM Holdings
Lumenomics XtraLight Energy Efficient Lighting
e-Lumen International, Inc.
LumenPulse Solutions
Eclipse Lighting, Inc.
LumenWerx, Inc. Zumtobel Lighting
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• Rosendin Electric, Inc. • Performance Lighting • Reyes Engineering, Inc.

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technical business that engages with lighting, each organization can pick and choose levels of benefits and discounts for their company
employees directly—and in certain cases, non-employees’ partners, as well—furthering the reach to a larger group of professionals. The complete
new Sustaining Membership structure (including the tax deduction levels) is listed at: www.ies.org/membership/ies-sustaining-membership.

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1.
2.
1. KIM Lighting introduces the Intent
RGBW linear floodlight. Available in
three sizes, the luminaire comes in six
white, RGBW and RGBA distribution
patterns with lumen outputs from
3,000 to 15,000. Distributions include
narrow and wide flood, narrow
medium, medium, wall wash, wall
graze and horizontal flood. Intent is
also offered with full DMX dimming
and color control capabilities.
www.hubbell.com/kimlighting
2. Brightline introduces the
Presenter Lighting Kit, which
uses PoE and wireless control to
deliver lighting packages for single
presenters. Available for corner or
straight installations, the kits feature
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Brightline’s Flex-T recessed lighting
LED panels for drop ceilings and
drywall. Two single-module and one
double-module Flex-T units are used
for key, fill and back lights. A patented
design allows the lighting carriage
to rotate for a higher level of control
while spot optics avoid lighting spill
on nearby screens or video monitors.
www.brightlines.com
3. Louis Poulsen announces the PH
5 pendant and mini in a monochrome
palette. The new color series
reimagines the classic design and
color spectrum with a minimalistic,
modern look. Available with matte-
painted metal shades in black, white
and blue, all versions have white inner
3.
4.
sides for optimum light reflection. The
PH 5 also comes with a top shade
19.5 in. (diameter) and an E27 light
source, while the Mini comes with
a top shade measuring 11.8 in.
(diameter) and an E14 light source.
www.louispoulsen.com
4. Flos introduces Belt, a lighting
system by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec.
Created to balance the softness and
flexibility of natural leather with the
architectural rigidity of aluminum, Belt
gently curves and suspends from
above. It can be adjusted by sliding the
leather straps through dedicated metal
buckles that act as ceiling hooks.
www.flos.com

5.
6.
5. NICOR introduces its HBG LED Spec Grade High Bay.
Featuring up to 180 lumens per watt, this fixture meets
DLC 5.1 requirements. CCT options are offered in 4000K
and 5000K with color rendering levels at 70 and 80 CRI.
The high bay comes in multiple wattage packages and can
deliver over 30,000 lumens with a consistent and even light
distribution. It is also compatible with 0-10-V dimming.
www.nicorlighting.com
6. Structura announces the Lineal Sconce, an aluminum
wall sconce available with single or double modules. The
sconce comes standard with an integral dimmable driver
in both configurations. It is available with Type II and IV
distributions—the double module allows for two different
distribution types within a single sconce. It is also
available in five standard color temperatures, including
amber for wildlife friendly installations.  collaborate and even think outside the box.
www.structura.com
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Photos: Ryan Fischer
CLEAN LINES
hen the owners of 100 Summer Street decided that
the Boston skyscraper’s 8,500-sq ft lobby needed
an update, they wanted it to speak to today’s work-
anywhere-at-any-time culture. Multidisciplinary design
firm Atelier Cho Thompson catered to this by creating
four zones to respond to varying workstyles, each tailored
with appropriate furnishings. The lighting of each zone
was customized by Dan Weissman, senior associate and
director of Lam Labs at Lam Partners.
Weissman recalls one of the project’s biggest challenges
being the retrofit of an existing soffit with a cove when
the design team did not want to add a new cove shelf.
To overcome this, Weissman’s team installed more than
150 linear ft of Fino (Amerlux)—an indirect LED lighting
solution that runs across the walls without the need to cut
studs. The result, Weissman notes, is a streamlined-looking
space that urges visitors in every zone to slow down,
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7. Peerless, an Acuity Brands
company, announces Peerless Venue
suspended luminaires. Designed
for open ceilings, the luminaires are
available in rectangular and square
shapes, each in either a convex or
concave curvature. They are made
from a one-piece, thermoformed
automotive-grade polymer housing and
are available in black, white, painted 7.
aluminum or a range of custom colors.
https://peerlesslighting.acuitybrands.
com

8. Amerlux announces the Curvano

linear lighting solution. Available
in recessed and pendant mount,
Curvano offers five curved-diameter
corner options and three circular
selections. It features a 2.5-in. aperture
and is equipped with magnetic LED
reflector trays in its curved sections. It
also offers a uniformly lit designer lens
and an end cap light-block shield to
prevent light leakage.
www.amerlux.com 8.

9. FC Lighting introduces the FCSL

1016 step light for interior and
exterior lighting. An auto on/off dusk-
to-dawn and PIR motion sensor
makes the FCSL ideal for stairways,
pathways, driveways, patios and
other landscape lighting needs. It
is IP65-rated and comes in a color
temperature of 3000K. The step light
projects light downward to illuminate
each tread without glare.
www.fclighting.com
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10.
11.
12.
11. ETC announces the D4 CV driver family.
The line of drivers is designed for use with
24 VDC constant voltage LED loads, such as
linear tape applications. The line complements
the recently introduced F-Drive system and
includes wall-mount and rack-mount options
with four channels per driver.
www.etcconnect.com
12. ConTech Lighting by Leviton announces
the K Series Residential Downlights in 4-in.
and 6-in. apertures. The downlights feature
classic-look trim options and soft-glow
optics that mimic traditional incandescent
sources. They also feature 90+ CRI and three-
step MacAdam Ellipse Tolerance for color
consistency in every room.
www.contechlighting.com
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10. Ross Gardam introduces the Arbour Line Pendant, a linear
timber light created to celebrate the beauty of nature. The
pendant comes in two sizes and three finishes—solid walnut,
rock maple and oak. The finishes are made to marry perfectly
with hand polished champaign anodized elements. The Arbour
Line Pendant is manufactured from sustainably sourced timbers.
www.rossgardam.com.au
Endless Options
from TCP
Choose from 8,000+ SKUs of our
LED Direct Troffers
Our DT Series can be used in virtually any application – perfect
for schools, offices, restaurants and other spaces that use a T-bar
grid ceiling.
Other reasons to love the DT Series:
• Back lit technology creates a full diffusion of even, uniform light
• Easy to install
• Slim and lightweight low-profile design
• Robust, durable frame holds up over time
• Substantial energy savings over fluorescent
Learn More
and Find a Distributor
at TCPi.com/DTSeries
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 o capitalize on increased
traffic, Chimelong Resort
in China’s Panyu District
upgraded technology at its two
amusement parks last year.
At Guangzhou Chimelong,
new evening tours include
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“experience points” using
approximately 5,000 pieces of
sound and light equipment, with
one networking system (Luminex)
providing central control of
devices across both parks.

Photo: Courtesy of Luminex

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