LESCO Lighting | Continuing Education

CONTINUING EDUCATION

Controls Basic Programming

In this hands-on class, students will acquire the skills and supporting knowledge to program, and operate an nLight® system. Topics include functional operation and installation best practices for nLight and nLight AIR.

Controls Design Applications

During this in-person program, students will participate in an interactive approach to controls design in applications. Instructors provide detailed product information, then show students how to apply products to put together a lighting control solution using Sensor Switch and nLight Platform lighting control systems within Acuity’s Visual Controls software.

Acuity Brands Stock and Project Solutions

This in-person seminar will provide attendees with an overview of Acuity Brand’s most common stock and project solutions from some of the most popular brands in the industry including Lithonia Lighting™, Juno™, SensorSwitch™, nLight®, and IOTA™.  Presenters will highlight readily available and configurable products to capture opportunity business and meet tight project timelines.

Designing nLight Wired Systems Using Viral Controls Design Software

In this Virtual Instructor-Led class, students will participate in an interactive approach to using design software to assist in lighting controls design. Instructors provide basic product information, then show students how to apply products to put together a lighting control solution using the Visual Controls design software. Students will learn how to develop nLight Air solutions by applying electrical concepts, lighting control strategies, and product knowledge. Students will also create layouts, bill of materials, riser diagrams, schedules, and comprehensive documentation for multiple nLight Wired solutions using the Visual Controls design software.

How to Provide a Continuous Clean Sweep: An Introduction to UV-Free, Antimicrobial Lighting: 1LU | HSW

This course will introduce a new kind of commercial lighting that's approved to do what traditional UV lighting isn't—constantly disinfectant bacteria and viruses, including COVID-19, with people present. Learn why 405-nanometer antimicrobial light meets the international standard for unrestricted use around people, how it differs from UV light, how it harnesses its germicide power and its effectiveness in real-world applications.

More Than Just A Flick of a Switch: An Introduction to Lighting Controls: 1LU

This course introduces the critical role of LED lighting controls and strategies in well-executed lighting designs—plus their functions, expanding capabilities and rising potential for building automation systems.Viewers will also learn how to change the appearance and function of a space, alter atmosphere and mood, increase productivity and user satisfaction, generate and collect data and automate a building with modern lighting controls such as 0-10V dimming, DALI, PoE and Bluetooth Mesh.

Setting the Retail Stage: How Light Helps Move Merchandise: 1LU

This course introduces how to leverage a lighting design to influence a customer’s mood, direct them to key merchandise and affect how they perceive a brand.Viewers will also learn how lighting impacts retail, how color temperature sways shoppers’ emotions, what color rendering is and how it best showcases merchandise when to use full gamut and standard LEDs.

Boost Productivity with Lighting Solutions

This course will help viewers discover how in an office, lighting isn’t just about seeing—it’s also about feeling.The session will detail how lighting can make office employees more productive, enhance their mood and health, and increase a company’s ROI—all with tunable LED white lighting controls.

How Lighting Makes Office Employees More Productive: 1LU | HSW

Discover how light can make office employees more productive.Research shows office light directly impacts employees’ health, morale and productivity. Learn what lighting capabilities and controls are needed to make workers feel good, think well and produce more.

Applications for Tunable White Lighting in Healthcare: 1LU

This course will introduce and explain how tunable white lighting works, discuss possible health benefits healthcare settings can realize with its impact on circadian rhythms, and introduce innovative healthcare applications for tunable white lighting.

LED Color Rendering: When, where and why to use full gamut LEDs vs. standard: 1LU

This course will introduce and explain the differences between leading color quality scales and equip attendees with knowledge for specifying a variety of projects.Viewers will learn how the CRI scale works how the TM-30 scale works, and discuss their strengths and weaknesses for calculating color and light quality.

Wellness, Work & You: Lighting in the WELL Building Standard: 1LU | HSW

This course dives into human-centric lighting and how it is important to the WELL Building Standards. Beginning with an explanation of WELL building and its 10 key elements, the course moves into lighting aspects of human-centric building design, discussing how light affects human circadian rhythm cycles, and how it affects the body's mechanisms. The course deep dives into the 8 features of the WELL Building lighting standards: 2 pre-conditions and 6 additional optimizations.

VISITS Program: 5LU | HSW

“VISITS” is an acronym for “Very Important Specifiers Invited to Santa Barbara.” In the Spring and Fall each year, BEGA hosts these day-long seminars in their state-of-the-art 1200 sq. ft. showroom and training facility in Carpinteria, CA. Guests arrive in Santa Barbara on Thursday for the group’s first get together that evening at a great local restaurant. On Friday, they are transported to the BEGA factory for a day filled with education, networking, idea sharing, gourmet food – and yes – even fun! Topics include materials selection and manufacturing processes for architectural lighting solutions, product comparisons, digital specification tools, and new product review. With its red tiled roofs, azure seascapes, pristine beaches, and majestic mountains, few places in the world are as breathtaking and naturally beautiful as the American Riviera, Santa Barbara, CA.

A Holistic View of Illumination: 1LU | HSW

An AIA-approved program offering one LU or HSW credit delves into the concept of holistic illumination, helping architects understand how to design spaces that promote human well-being. The course examines the interplay of lighting and sound, the importance of layered lighting, and the role of sustainability in creating supportive environments.

Approaches to Acoustic Lighting: 1LU | HSW

Luminous Surfaces for Architecture

An AIA approved program providing one LU or HSW credit examines various approaches for incorporating acoustic lighting into buildings to help architects understand its value and provide the background required to evaluate their options. Learn why acoustic lighting is suddenly an important component of designing modern spaces. Topics include the trends driving the need for acoustic lighting, in particular the intersection of open concept spaces with designing for wellness. Also, basic acoustic design factors that influence the effectiveness of acoustic lighting, and different approaches to combining acoustics and lighting.

Advanced Lighting and User-Designed Controls for Modern Classroom: 1LU | HSW, 1 LEU

Reducing energy costs and complying with energy codes is only part of the equation for good lighting control for the modern classroom. This presentation examines how we can choose to improve learning with light color and light intensity. Understanding prior research and a recent Department ofEnergy funded study that states teachers, administrators and other users see lighting as a powerful tool to enhance the learning environment and cue behavior within the classroom setting. A key objective of this presentation is to analyze how peers’ feedback led to the design of a user friendly interface to meet the objectives of a simple, intuitive, preset control that teachers could modify to suit their goals. A significant part of the study outcome and presentation explains how to make this technology affordable so that it can be implemented today in designing schools that have no additional source of funding. With this user designed lighting control solution, this course explains how the modern classroom can support learning while minimizing operating costs.

Designing with Acoustics for a Better Working Environment: 1LU | HSW, 1 LEU

The design of tomorrow will increase the use of glass, concrete, exposed ceilings, and other hard surfaces into the built environment. These architectural elements not only deliver modern and desirable aesthetics, but also provide surfaces that are easily cleanable. The continued use of these non-sound absorbing elements will present us with acoustical challenges and will have direct impacts on occupants well-being and productivity. This course will dive into modern design and the health impacts related to these decisions. We will also explore the ways architectural acoustics impact the interior environment and occupants. Lastly, we will learn how to properly identify and specify sound absorbing materials while exploring the types and benefits associated with luminaire integration.

Designing with Linear: Luminaire Design Metrics and Lighting Trends for Modern Environments: 1LU | HSW, 1 LEU

In this course we will analyze the value that lighting brings to modern interior environments and its occupants. This presentation will discuss foundational elements of lighting design and examine industry benchmarks for luminaire specification. Lastly, we will examine strategies for lighting modern applications, including Education, Commercial, Healthcare, and Transportation Hubs.

Product Transparency for the Future of Healthy Buildings: 1LU | HSW, 1 LEU

Product transparency and sustainable design is a green building initiative gaining momentum with specifiers and building owner requesting materials free of harmful chemical toxins in an effort to create healthier, high performing environments. In this seminar we will discuss why project teams should be seeking out product transparency documentation to achieve their material ingredient transparency and optimization goals. We will dive into recent green building standards with an emphasis on the International Living Future Institute’s Living Building Challenge, Red List, and Declare 2.0 program. Lastly, explain how project teams can use this information to make more informed decisions and achieve various credits, features, and imperatives within the LEED, WELL and Living Building Challenge.

Understanding, Light, Color, and Emerging Metrics: 1LU | HSW, 1 LEU

This course will provide attendees with an overview and update regarding how Tunable White LED technology has revolutionized lighting. Attendees will learn emerging concepts regarding Tunable White and gain an understanding how lighting can be used for preference, alertness, and circadian entrainment.

Light + Office: 1LU | HSW

Current workspace environments continue to adapt to workers' evolving behaviours and expectations in order to meet the wide variety of needs. Thoughtful selection of lighting in the workplace elevates the architectural environment, providing a level of functionality, well-being and visual comfort to space occupants, as well as enhancing the attributes of the architectural design itself. This presentation is a guide for understanding the considerations when designing for a variety of work environments and establishing the connection between lighting and human wellness. It gives an overview of key lighting factors in various office environments, and offers practical recommendations and strategies for designing and specifying lighting in workplaces.

Light + Education: 1LU | HSW

Today's classrooms are multifunctional learning spaces designed to inspire. Flexible, comfortable, high performance lighting is critical to complement and support the variety of collaborative and individual-led teaching and learning activities and functions these environments demand. This presentation is a guide for understanding the considerations when designing for education and establishing the connection between lighting and human wellness in education-oriented environments. It gives an overview of key lighting factors in various spaces in both K-12 and higher educational establishments, and offers practical recommendations and strategies for designing and specifying lighting in educational spaces.

Light + WELL Building: 1LU | HSW

WELL is the leading tool for advancing health and well-being in buildings globally. As stated by The International WELL Building Institute™ (IWBI™), 29,761 projects encompassing over 2.72 billion square feet are applying WELL across 97 countries. (July 2021). The WELL v2 is the latest version of the WELL Building Standard, a rating system that focuses exclusively on the way that the design and operations of buildings and everything in them—including lighting—can improve our comfort, impact and influence human behaviours, and enhance our health and wellness. This presentation gives an overview of the lighting requirements in WELL v2 pilot program, focusing on key factors plus practical recommendations and strategies that should be considered when designing and specifying human-centric lighting in commercial spaces.

Rethinking Light, Design + Human Experience: 1LU | HSW

A one hour presentation explores the basics of advanced architectural anidolic daylighting strategies and determine how they can be deployed with LEDs in solid state lighting technologies. The participants will analyse human visual interpretation of light and colour and application best practises for minimal energy usage in commercial and institutional settings using specific examples that focus on energy efficiency and sustainable design values.

Fluxwerx Facility Tour: 6LU | HSW

A full day course at Fluxwerx headquarters and manufacturing facility provides a comprehensive review of LED light fixtures design processes, construction methods and new optics options. Tour topics include a review of luminaire product design and various forms of anidolic optics, and how it links to energy efficiency and sustainable design values. Lean manufacturing and its important role in flexible lighting manufacturing is also covered in detail.

Strategies for Designing with Integrated Lighting and Acoustic Solutions: 1LU | HSW, 1 IDCEC

This course will review the importance of acoustics in architecture, discuss the fundamental principles of sound management, explore how to design interior spaces to maximize occupants’ comfort, and review emerging tools to solve for both sound and lighting. It will also focus on the standards that govern acoustic requirements for diverse applications.

Maximizing Year-Round Enjoyment with the Louvered Roof Pergola

This comprehensive course focuses on revolutionizing outdoor living spaces through the strategic use of louvered roof pergolas and a curated selection of add-ons and accessories. Participants will gain the expertise to handpick and implement a spectrum of enhancements that serve a dual purpose: they will aesthetically enrich outdoor settings and amplify their functionality for year-round enjoyment. Accompanied by demonstrative images, this course offers immersive learning experiences, equipping attendees with the necessary skills to craft appealing and adaptable outdoor environments. Embrace the cutting-edge of outdoor design and comfort, and learn to create spaces that offer a seamless blend of beauty, innovation, and practicality.

Urban Lighting & Space Design

The goal of this course is for you to acquire a better understanding of how our ever evolving urban spaces need more opportunities for humans to connect, interact, and live. We will focus on how the city of Denver – pioneers of the urban pedestrian mall concept – have reimagined the 16th Street Mall and the approach to lighting the space to better address the needs of the human inhabitants using the space.

Pedestrian & Pathway LED Lighting

This session will explore the human interaction with contrast, color rendering, and glare reduction that shape and enhance the visual experience while protecting the environment. Lighting design based on pedestrian activities at night requires very different requirements from vehicular roadway-centric lighting. Participants will learn the basics of LED technology and become familiar with concepts to help evaluate LED lighting for future projects.

Materiality

This course is designed to provide in‐depth information about materiality that may be unknown in the design community. It will provide important knowledge for design professionals to problem‐solve and recommend material specifications for use in the outdoor environment. It will also inform specifiers on how to educate clients with the implications of materiality relevance, supporting their recommendations, and client expectations for the life of the project.

Designing the Outdoor Room

The purpose of this course is to provide inspirational tools that promote conversation and open minds (and funding) for more comprehensive outdoor spaces. We will examine the critical role that site furnishings and supporting technology play in meeting the unique and evolving needs of outdoor space, by presenting and exploring insights and solutions in a range of outdoor environments - from college, healthcare, and corporate campuses, to transit, living and recreational spaces. We believe outdoor space has the ability to connect people with nature and each other in meaningful ways and that potential can be optimized with smart site furnishing and supporting technology applications.

Lighting Design in the Outdoors & Minimization of Environmental Impacts

This session will explore why lighting design in outdoor spaces needs to take into consideration not only human activities, but also the context of pedestrian spaces, among them the architecture, changes based on day to night, and adjacencies to the space. This CEU will discuss the hierarchy of design elements to consider when lighting outdoor spaces for people and how they live, learn, work, care, play and travel. In addition, it will also explore the varying types of lighting zones, the applications of those zones, and the amount of light to be used within those lighting zones.

Campus Lighting Design

There are a lot of variables that impact whether a student feels connected to the college or university that they attend or how an employee interacts with the corporate campus at which they work. The right lighting strategy can dramatically improve daily campus activity, whether educational or corporate, and use of the campus into the evening hours. This CEU will discuss how one design firm approached the outdoor lighting of an educational campus’ central quad and its hierarchy of pathways to not only connect the buildings, but also create a sense of community. In addition, other lighting design use cases will also be explored - from small plazas to large, open areas - to showcase how the lighting can be tailored to maximize the spaces that are being lit.

Behavioral Health Essential Lighting Requirements: 1LU | HSW

The importance of Lighting in Behavioral Health Spaces Plays a pivotal role in creating safe, stable, and supportive environments for individuals with behavioral health conditions. Patients experiencing bipolar disorder, clinical depression, and other mental health challenges are significantly impacted by the intensity brightness, and color of both natural and artificial light. This course explores critical aspects of lighting design for behavioral health facilities and highlights the importance of proper lighting. Promote patient comfort and well-being. Enhance safety for patients and staff. Support staff functionality and efficiency. Offer design flexibility for unique behavioral health needs. Ensure compliance with health care standards. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of how lighting solutions can positively influence recovery, safety, and operational outcomes in behavioral health spaces.

UGR In The Workplace: 1LU

UGR stands for Unified Glare Rating and is a numerical measure of how much glare is emitted by luminaires. Glare can adversely affect wellbeing and productivity in the workplace, particularly where there are lots of computer monitors. In general managing UGR is managing better visual comfort. This course will provide you with an understanding of UGR and the impact it has on the workplace and how to manage it.

LED Lighting for Exterior Architecture: 1LU, Non-HSW 1 PDH

Landscape lighting is a key feature that can set a building or landscape apart, as it plays with light and dark, creating contrast, shadows, and silhouettes. It provides curb appeal at night, introducing drama and intimate spaces softly washed in light, or well-lit spaces that invite you to sit and stay. This course will show you how to set a scene and create lines of light with exterior LED landscape lighting technologies.

Planet Forward: A Course in Optimized Materials

LightArt's latest CEU is an educational video presentation focusing on optimized and net positive materials. The course functions as an overview for architects and interior designers on how to use product disclosures to meet advanced sustainability goals.

Everything is Acoustic

Our new CEU covering all things acoustic is taught by acoustic specialist Zackery Belanger.

Behavioral Health Lighting Solutions: 1LU | HSW

Behavioral healthcare continues to evolve in our ever-changing society. Treatment spaces for mental well-being are continually improving to provide safer and more therapeutic environments for patients and clinicians alike. Treatment objectives are moving beyond symptom control to patient-centered recovery. Design choices should incorporate every element of the behavioral health facility design, including lighting and lighting control. This course provides evidence based insights on behavioral healthcare within the context of the environment, an overview of behavioral health safety standards, examines considerations for lighting and luminaire design for behavioral health spaces, and illustrates successful behavioral health lighting applications relevant to patient-centered care and current best practices.

NICU Lighting: 1LU | HSW

The NICU is a complex medical environment, and at any time there will be vulnerable newborn infants, family members and professional medical staff occupying the area, requiring thoughtful application of the lighting design. This course will focus on lighting design strategies that meet the standards and best practices for NICU patient rooms and their unique illumination needs. This course will also address special lighting for the treatment of infants with medical conditions unique to neonates including addressing the body’s photo-biological response to daylight and the visual lighting spectrum and how to apply it. The lighting design intent in the NICU is to create a space for healing, care, and respite for the newborns, their families, and caregivers.

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