The best recessed light in the world is useless unless it is put in the right location…so true!  You can’t fix a basic thing like fixture placement once they have been installed and sheetrock goes up.  How confident are you that what you’ve put on paper will actually work?  And lighting design is SO MUCH more than just where you put recessed lights…are you thinking like a designer? Or are you just blindly drawing an array of circles on a plan without considering the effects?  This seminar is critical for anyone who wants to make sure they are not making a mistake in their design process.

This course introduces the five critical areas of professional landscape lighting installation, equipping participants with the knowledge and skills to deliver efficient, reliable, and high-performing systems. Topics include streamlined installation workflows, power management and system design, best practices for cables and connections, fixture placement and pre-aiming techniques, and final documentation for long-term serviceability. By combining technical expertise with practical application, this program empowers contractors and designers to elevate their craftsmanship and provide clients with durable, beautifully executed lighting solutions. 

Second only to recessed lights, linear LED fixtures are a huge aspect of architectural lighting that have to be fully understood.  How important are the extrusion choices and how do they work into the millwork details?  How important are things like color rendering, lumen output per foot, dimming range, etc?  How do you pair up linear fixtures with tunable white recessed lights?  These are just some of the difficulties with linear fixtures that will be covered.

Analyzing recessed lights is an important thing that even experienced lighting design professionals need to do on a consistent basis.  If you don’t have a deep understanding of the most basic building block of architectural lighting design, then you need to learn more!  Fixture options change constantly…how do you know what to choose for your projects?  It’s not just about what you can sell, it’s about what solves the particular problems of a project.  Reading spec sheets, understanding lumen output, and how to compare fixtures to each other is critical information that will be covered.

We always think about new construction, but what about a renovation?  What are the challenges of trying to make a client’s lighting better when you can’t start from scratch?  Can changing lamps (bulbs), adding lenses, aiming and similar techniques be enough?  How do you analyze what is needed (not as easy as just saying “more light”)?  How do you explain and defend your design suggestions?  And how do you look ahead to what the challenges to implementing those design improvements would be?