FUNDAMENTALS OF LIGHTING 2024
Apr
16
to May 4

FUNDAMENTALS OF LIGHTING 2024

This ten-module course provides participants with an introduction to the fundamentals of illumination. It gives a comprehensive overview of basic lighting principles, lamp and luminaire types, lighting calculations, and controls, as well as functional and aesthetic applications best practices. This course is ideal for architects, engineers, designers, contractors, sales reps, customer service reps, manufacturers, distributors, and students.

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Emerging Professionals Happy Hour
Feb
22
5:00 PM17:00

Emerging Professionals Happy Hour

Are you new to the industry and looking to connect with other in your local lighting community? Join us for a happy hour and get to know your fellow Emerging Professionals in the IES Rocky Mountain Section! An Emerging Professional is an individual who has less than 5 years of experience in the lighting industry. Register at the link below. We can't wait to see you there!

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Tech Talk: A (very) Brief History of Theatrical Lighting
Feb
13
12:00 PM12:00

Tech Talk: A (very) Brief History of Theatrical Lighting

Plenty of our work relies heavily on concepts developed within the theatrical lighting industry, but how did all of that come to be? How did we get from literal candles to LED sources? How do these things get controlled? Join Jared as he wanders quickly (and irreverently) through a history of lighting, controls, and design in the theatrical world. Hopefully no fires will be reported from simply talking about candles and gas lamps.

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Tech Talk: Illumination Awards - Tips and Tricks from a Judge
Jan
16
12:00 PM12:00

Tech Talk: Illumination Awards - Tips and Tricks from a Judge

Illumination Awards season is upon us! The IES Illumination Awards (IA) program recognizes individuals for professionalism, ingenuity and originality in lighting design based on the individual merit of each entry. Submissions for the 51st Annual Illumination Awards will be open beginning January 4th, 2024! Join us for a short presentation as our Illumination Awards Chair shares valuable insight into creating a winning entry. Gain tips for selecting the right category, crafting an optimal narrative, and capturing stunning photography. We'll also delve into the judges' criteria, submission process, necessary rules, and the actual scoresheets used for evaluation. Don't miss this opportunity to help answer any IA questions you might have!

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Denver After Dark Tours: Meow Wolf
Jan
8
4:15 PM16:15

Denver After Dark Tours: Meow Wolf

Come see the ever-changing colors that illuminate the Meow Wolf Denver building, transforming it into an epic landmark in the Colorado nighttime sky! Tour guides will share the development, architecture, and lighting design of the building before the group moves upstairs into the exhibit to further explore the importance of design within the building. Entrance into Meow Wolf is included in ticket purchase.

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Denver After Dark Tours: Union Station & Millennium Bridge
Dec
11
4:30 PM16:30

Denver After Dark Tours: Union Station & Millennium Bridge

Take a trip through Denver’s history. Focused on landmarks new and old, the tour will reveal how the construction of the Millennium Bridge and redevelopment of Denver Union Station catalyzed the transformation of Denver’s railyards and warehouse district into a national model of development connecting the urban core and the historic neighborhoods along the South Platte River. The tour will also explore the lighting design and its importance for both the station terminal and Millennium Bridge.

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Decompress December
Dec
5
5:00 PM17:00

Decompress December

As we approach the end of a busy year, please join the IES for Decompress December! We will kick off the session with an Increasing Kindness Lab workshop by Union Yoga, focusing on stress management, intention vs. impact, kindness, releasing tension and meditation examples. We will then transition into a 45 minute yoga class with Jana Bozeman.

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Tech Talk: Generative Design and Advanced Configurability Enabled by Additive Manufacturing
Nov
14
12:00 PM12:00

Tech Talk: Generative Design and Advanced Configurability Enabled by Additive Manufacturing

The merging of generative design, advanced configurability, and additive manufacturing technologies has created an opportunity to rapidly generate, visualize, and evaluate parametrically configured luminaire solutions. There is also the opportunity to be significantly more environmentally sustainable than conventional manufacturing while shortening the product development timelines. Lighting designers spend a significant amount of time preparing designs for visual evaluation using a variety of software tools and CAD models to present options to a client and to the manufacturer for approval. Generative design can create designs with user controlled parameters to rapidly visualize a design tailored to an application. Error checking with the actual CAD can eliminate the need for manufacturer approval effectively making a “custom” solution standard. The generative design component is also seeded with randomness that will generate designs that would never have otherwise been considered. This design tool has been developed and beta tested with select lighting designers to determine next steps for optimizing workflows.

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Tech Talk: Enlightenment of the Use of UGR in Designed Spaces
Oct
24
12:00 PM12:00

Tech Talk: Enlightenment of the Use of UGR in Designed Spaces

Visual comfort by addressing glare has become a important factor in lighting design as well as volunteer standards. Unified Glare Rating or UGR has been used in these design standards, but what is it and how is it used? This session will discuss the advantages and pitfalls of the metric. It will also cover the results when it is misused including limited fixture selections and unintended glare. The presenter will show key concepts of the UGR Metric and give an insight as to best practices to use UGR effectively.

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The CU Boulder Lighting Program Presents: An Evening with Jean Paul Freyssinier
Oct
11
5:00 PM17:00

The CU Boulder Lighting Program Presents: An Evening with Jean Paul Freyssinier

  • Engineering/Rustandy Bridge - Room ECCS 201 (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

3D Printing for Lighting - Where are We Now and What are the Possibilities

3D printing shows promise to revolutionize the way lighting is designed, manufactured, specified, sold, and installed. It can provide many opportunities to make lighting systems more flexible, responsive, and efficient to meet the needs of modern building and construction practices. The lighting industry is uniquely positioned to apply 3D printing and create a major transformation toward a business model of custom, value-added, architecturally integrated lighting that matches the specific needs of each application.

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Industry Panel: Specifications 101
May
9
11:30 AM11:30

Industry Panel: Specifications 101

You’re invited to Kenny Electric for our IES Industry Panel: Specifications 101.

The IES Rocky Mountain Section is hosting a panel of individuals to help all of us better understand how we can develop and maintain the specifications throughout the construction process to meet a project's design intent. We will be asking our panelists a series of questions centered on specifications to get an inside look at all levels of the industry.

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IES Rocky Mountain Fundamentals of Lighting (FOL)
Apr
4
to Apr 22

IES Rocky Mountain Fundamentals of Lighting (FOL)

This ten-module course provides participants with an introduction to the fundamentals of illumination. It gives a comprehensive overview of basic lighting principles, lamp and luminaire types, lighting calculations, and controls, as well as functional and aesthetic applications best practices. This course is ideal for architects, engineers, designers, contractors, sales reps, customer service reps, manufacturers, distributors, and students.

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EP Happy Hour
Mar
29
5:00 PM17:00

EP Happy Hour

Are you new to the industry and looking to connect with others in your local lighting community? Join us for a happy hour and get to know your fellow Emerging Professionals in the IES Rocky Mountain Section! An Emerging Professional is an individual who has less than 5 years of experience in the lighting industry. Register at the link below. We can't wait to see you there!

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Tech Talk: It's All In The Details
Mar
28
12:15 PM12:15

Tech Talk: It's All In The Details

Join Addie as she unpacks how to bring an inspiration image to life through fully realized and custom integrated lighting details. She will explore how to analyze desired lighting effects to understand the visual and physical characteristics of light at play, talk about the effect of light on materials, cover many applications and types of lighting details, and offer some insight on how to make a buildable and maintainable detail. She will also touch on the practical measures you can take to ensure your lighting details get built as intended.  

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IES Rocky Mountain Tech Talk - Lighting Controls Commissioning
Feb
7
12:15 PM12:15

IES Rocky Mountain Tech Talk - Lighting Controls Commissioning


Lighting Controls Commissioning is a term many are familiar with but not everyone fully understands. We'll be breaking down why this is important, who is responsible for its completion and documentation, and what to watch out for on your next lighting project.


Please note that this is a Virtual Event Only. Register below!


Speaker:

Carl Canfield currently serves as Education Chair on the local IES board. He is a Colorado native and studied Architectural Engineering at CU Boulder, where he developed a passion for lighting and its influence on people's behavior and well-being. After working in energy services and building electrical design for 7+ years, he is now a Sales Engineer at The Lighting Agency, where he enjoys enlightening the local lighting community on the best practices for lighting controls. When not at work, Carl can be found somewhere outdoors, behind a book, or over the chess board.

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The CU Boulder Lighting Program Presents: An Evening with Suzan Tillotson
Oct
10
5:00 PM17:00

The CU Boulder Lighting Program Presents: An Evening with Suzan Tillotson

  • Discovery Learning Center Collaboratory - DLC 1B70 (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Lighting Design: An Inside Look

Join us for a conversation with Suzan Tillotson, founding partner of Tillotson Design Associates. Suzan will outline her process for exploring a design and will walk the attendees through this process using previous projects as case studies. She will present the project criteria and challenges faced with the design, the inspiration for the solutions, and the process for their implementation.

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The Art of Landscape Lighting
Apr
19
5:30 PM17:30

The Art of Landscape Lighting

It gets dark every night. We have the opportunity to present landscape spaces in an enjoyable, comfortable scene using the design techniques and technical information we have learned about how the interaction of the eye and brain systems inform us. The University of Colorado Student IES Chapter and the IES RMS Chapter are pleased to host Landscape Architect Janet Lennox Moyer. Jan will share what she has learned over the years of her 47 years practicing landscape lighting.

Speaker Overview:

Janet Lennox Moyer FIALD, AOLP, COLD, 2018 IES Trailblazer & Icon, 2017 Michigan Lighting Hall of Fame

Jan began her lighting design career in 1976, working on many diverse projects, from the Defense Intelligence Agency’s first home in Washington, DC to winery caves, entertainment gardens and botanical gardens. She began specializing in landscape lighting in the mid-1980s and wrote the essential book used around the world, “The Landscape Lighting Book”, first released in 1992 and now in its third edition (pub. 2013), integrating the disruptive technology LED, publisher John Wiley & Sons. Sharing lighting knowledge is important to Jan. She began teaching in undergraduate school at Michigan State University, next at the University of Michigan, then at The Academy of Art, SF, UC Berkeley, Rutgers and the Lighting Research Center, among others. She founded The International Landscape Lighting Institute, ILLI, a 501(C)(3) educational non-profit still providing landscape lighting education classes in the U.S. and abroad. Jan met George Gruel, graphic designer and photographer, during the last month of revisions for the second edition book in 2004. They married in 2005 and George produced a book of Jan’s lighting projects called “She Paints with Light” to help people visualize landscape lighting. Currently Jan is finishing the last of 20 videos for a new educational platform that Garden Light LED is producing with the IESNA called Learn•Night•Light. Jan and George live in Rio Verde, Arizona. Jan remains committed to sharing her knowledge and striving to raise the bar for the landscape lighting industry, as she would love everyone to be able to enjoy our planet’s garden spaces after dark.

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Fundamentals of Lighting (FOL)
Apr
12
to Apr 30

Fundamentals of Lighting (FOL)

Our annual Fundamentals of Lighting course is back! This ten-module course provides participants with an introduction to the fundamentals of illumination. It gives a comprehensive overview of basic lighting principles, lamp and luminaire types, lighting calculations, and controls, as well as functional and aesthetic applications best practices. This course is ideal for architects, engineers, designers, contractors, sales reps, customer service reps, manufacturers, distributors, and students. A description of each module is below:

Module 1: History, Definition of Light & Physics, Vision, Color, Light & Health

Module 2: Sources

Module 3: Daylighting

Module 4: Luminaires

Module 5: Controls

Module 6: Photometry & Calculations

Module 7: Codes, Standards & Economics

Module 8: Lighting Design Process, Sustainability, Commissioning

Module 9: Lighting for Interiors

Module 10: Lighting for Exteriors

FOL 2022 will be a hybrid format with both in-person and online sessions. Tuesday and Thursday sessions will be taught virtually and the final Saturday session will be taught in-person for hands-on learning. Attendance with audio and video is required for online sessions. A recurring Zoom link will be sent out to registrants before the first session. The in-person session will be taught in Denver with the final location to be determined.

Pre-registration is required and registration fees must be paid in advance. Your registration fee includes all course materials, which are electronic and will be emailed to you prior to the start of the course.

Note - The IES FUNDAMENTALS OF LIGHTING ED-100 course is pass/fail. Students must attend a minimum of 80% of classes, participate in weekly quizzes and score 70% or better on a 40-question Final Exam.

Meet Your Instructors!

Erik Yamashiro

Carl Canfield

Bob Hawkins

Lisa Bartlett

Chris Slaughter

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