LEDs Magazine hands out Design Excellence Awards at LightSPEC West
On behalf of Endeavor Business Media and the LightSPEC West conference team, LEDs Magazine has announced the first LightSPEC Design Excellence Award winners.
Sponsored by the Lighting Controls Association, Design Excellence projects must have been completed from January 19, 2019 onward to be eligible. Judges considered the complexity of design, project objectives, and innovation in combining lighting and controls solutions for each submission.
After an opening keynote by renowned lighting design consultant Thomas Paterson at the inaugural LightSPEC West conference this morning, LEDs managing editor Carrie Meadows and editorial director Wanda Lau took the stage at the Magic Box @ The Reef in Los Angeles to recognize three integrated lighting and controls projects. These projects demonstrate quality lighting and advanced controls capabilities that achieve energy efficiency while delivering the right light at the right time for the intended applications.
Spring House Innovation Park
The project team combined McWong passive infrared (PIR) motion sensors and gateway controllers with Utopia Lighting pole-mounted LED fixtures. The networked devices report energy usage every 15 minutes and occupancy is reported daily per area, so the facilities owner can adequately bill tenants on a cost/sq. ft basis.
The IP67-rated luminaires, sensors, and enclosed gateways are demonstrating the robust potential of outdoor Bluetooth mesh networking that delivers responsive lighting, astronomical control scenarios, energy data reporting, and occupancy mapping.
Project submitted by McWong International, which provided the controls technology
Project Team Members
• MRA Group – Hank Merrill, VP Facilities Operations & Engineering
• Luminosity Lighting Associates – Jim Edmonds, Project Designer & Manager
• Mike Binder Associates – Mike Binder, Principal
• McWong International – Anthony Savalle, Eastern Regional Sales Manager
Crocs corporate headquarters
Footwear retailer Crocs chose an 88,000-sq. ft warehouse for its Broomfield, Colo. corporate facility and envisioned it equipped with flexible spaces, ingress for natural light, and living walls to help bring the outdoors inside — all while enabling the company to work toward net-zero objectives.
An array of SSL fixtures and emergency signage from ALW, Axo, EELP, Luceplan, Luminii, Kuzco, Muuto, Rayon Lighting, Rich Brilliant Willing (RBW), and Signify helped to achieve layered light and IESNA recommended light levels for individual space types, with a standard 3000K CCT and 80+ CRI delivered throughout the facility.
Incorporating Lutron Vive wireless controls with BACnet capabilities allows the facility to monitor its energy usage and control the wide variety of luminaires and linear light sources in a more granular fashion. The controls also support daylight harvesting functions, enabled via skylights and roll-up doors, as well as localized color tuning and dimming.
Project submitted by AE Design, which delivered the lighting & controls scheme
Project Team Members
• AE Design – Steph Powell, Senior Lighting Designer
• Venture Architecture – Architecture and Design
• 360 Engineering – Mechanical Engineers
• Tkach Photography & Design, Inc. – Photography
• JLL Denver – Project Management
• Officescapes – Furniture
• i2 Construction – Construction/GC
Serenity Residence
In an unusual case study, a California residence demonstrates a luxury interior/exterior lighting and controls design that is near seamless, creating an oasis of comfort for the homeowners and visitors.
The aptly named Serenity Residence leverages a full-color, DMX-controlled, whole-home lighting solution by ASCENTI Lighting that supports circadian rhythms, provides pleasing illumination for the residents, and highlights the full breadth of architecture and ambience on this estate.
A mix of ASCENTI, Elite Lighting, and MINIMIS linear luminaires, accents, and downlights can be individually controlled and tuned from 2700 to 5600K. Carefully programmed control schemes can also deliver a change of mood with attention to the weather, time of day, and season at the press of a button. Hevi Lite landscape luminaires, MINIMIS exterior lights, and ASCENTI exterior luminaires smooth the transition between indoors and out. Illumination self-adjusts in various spaces throughout the day and based on the occupancy purpose, with a circadian protection mode for evening providing soft amber light.
Project submitted by ASCENTI Lighting, which delivered the lighting & controls scheme
Project Team Members
• Marc Whipple AIA, Whipple Russell Architects – Architect
• Lisa Park and Whipple Russell Architects – Interior Design
• Ty Harrison – Project Manager
• Michael Robinson, RAM Development – General Contractor
• Delta Engineering – Structural Engineer
• Jeff Williams, Inc. – Audio/video
• John Fox, Fox and Fox Design – Lighting Design
• Randy Purnel – Landscape Design
• William Maccollum – Photographer
“We’re pleased with the quality of these Design Excellence Awards projects and the uniqueness of their combination of illumination, aesthetics, and systems approach,” said Lau. “The projects demonstrate that efficient lighting can be beautiful and functional when implemented with the right controls strategies to help manage energy resources, deliver appropriate light levels and color quality, and minimize wasted light.”
LightSPEC West runs from Sept. 21–22, 2022. There is still an opportunity to register to attend day 2 conference programming and the exhibit floor if you are in the Los Angeles area.
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Carrie Meadows | Editor-in-Chief, LEDs Magazine
Carrie Meadows has more than 20 years of experience in the publishing and media industry. She worked with the PennWell Technology Group for more than 17 years, having been part of the editorial staff at Solid State Technology, Microlithography World, Lightwave, Portable Design, CleanRooms, Laser Focus World, and Vision Systems Design before the group was acquired by current parent company Endeavor Business Media.
Meadows has received finalist recognition for LEDs Magazine in the FOLIO Eddie Awards, and has volunteered as a judge on several B2B editorial awards committees. She received a BA in English literature from Saint Anselm College, and earned thesis honors in the college's Geisel Library. Without the patience to sit down and write a book of her own, she has gladly undertaken the role of editor for the writings of friends and family.
Meadows enjoys living in the beautiful but sometimes unpredictable four seasons of the New England region, volunteering with an animal shelter, reading (of course), and walking with friends and extended "dog family" in her spare time.
