CEU COURSES

Course Description:
Learn about current trends in Healthcare and how your lighting design for critical spaces can optimize patient outcomes. Each session is limited in size, facilitating dynamic exchange of ideas for superior lighting design throughout all areas of the global healthcare delivery system. Case studies provide hands on applications of concepts and current IES standards. MRI, ICU/NICU and birthing suite installations provide practical lighting layout examples.

Duration:
1.5 Days

In-Person Seminar and Tour:
Detroit, MI

Course Description:
Major trends in healthcare lighting. Importance of infection control. Deep dive into the lighting needs of 10 critical areas of the hospital. IES recommended practice for healthcare facilities. Clinical benefits of recessed exam lighting.

Duration:
60 Minutes

Live Virtual Course

Course Description:
Environments that require or benefit from remote-mounted LED power supplies. Best practices for system design and configuration. Control options for dimming, color-changing, and scene synchronization. Radio frequency filtering in the MRI suite and laboratory spaces. Frequently forgotten questions

Duration:
60 Minutes

Live Virtual Course

Course Description:
What is Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and how does it work? Special requirements of the MRI suite. Three necessary components for successful MRI lighting. Popular design techniques in the MRI suite. Frequently forgotten questions.

Duration:
60 Minutes

Live Virtual Course

Course Description:
Measuring color rendition with TM-30 and extended CRI. An intro to color science and the black body curve. Ideal CCT specification for various healthcare applications. Control options for tunable white and circadian systems. Color tuning vs. intensity tuning vs. stimulus tuning vs. circadian supporting static color.

Duration:
60 Minutes

Live Virtual Course

Course Description:
Introduce the WELL Building Standard. Identify the 10 concepts that comprise the WELL approach to occupant wellness. Three levels of certification: Silver, Gold, & Platinum. Deep dive into WELL’s pre-conditions and optimizations associated with “Light”.

Duration:
60 Minutes

Live Virtual Course

Course Description:
Major trends in Behavioral Health design. Specific requirements for light fixtures in these facilities. Best practices for lighting various spaces in Behavioral Health projects. The psychological impact lighting has on mental health. 

Course Description:
The term “human-centric lighting” has been controversial since it first appeared years ago. It begs the question, “Haven’t designers been striving to create beneficial human experiences before the term was coined?” With the emergence of new research and technology around lighting for circadian entrainment, “Are we expected to prescribe light as a doctor would prescribe medicine?” This course clarifies the misconceptions about light’s impact on human health and well-being. By examining the WELL Building Standard, research from the Lighting Research Center, philosophies of pioneering designers, and new lighting technology, attendees of this presentation will be poised to improve lives with light.

Duration:
60 Minutes

Live Virtual Course

Course Description:
During the course of human evolution, exposure to natural lighting conditions has conditioned neurological stimuli that regulate numerous biological functions. Circadian Rhythm, rooted in the Latin for “around the day”, is a term describing the entrained cyclical processes used to sustain most living organisms. The changing spectral distribution characteristics of the sun and the onset of night have been a key influence on how the retina has evolved to become a primary source of sensory stimulus effecting the production and inhibition of hormones essential to Circadian balance. Disruption of Circadian Rhythm (our natural cycles) can have deleterious effects on our health and wellbeing, particularly our patterns of sleep. Many of our built environments have created unnatural conditions for its occupants. Research has shown that poor illumination, of the spaces we occupy, can contribute to the disruption of our natural cycles. With the advent of Solid State Lighting (LED) and “nature emulating design” we can transform the environments that we occupy. This course explores ways of applying Circadian Balanced Illumination™, Biophilic Design, and WELL Building lighting principles to invigorate the human condition and benefit our cognition, health and wellbeing.

Duration:
60 Minutes

Live Virtual Course

Course Description:
Helps designers cut through the noise and focus on two key frameworks for evaluating architectural product sustainability. First, the International Living Future Institute has provided a framework for evaluating the toxicity of products with its Declare Label. Second, Environmental Product Declarations have become the gold standard in measuring the carbon footprint of products. Attendees will learn how to everage these frameworks to design healthier and more environmentally friendly spaces.

Duration:
60 Minutes

Live Virtual Course

Course Description:
Course features new technologies, materials and shapes and sizes, as well as new electronics developed for LED Luminaires including new driver technology, dimming and control capabilities, upgraded LEDs, usage and better output. Also reviewed are new standards for LED luminaires such as certifications, compliance and local laws and ordinances, as well as decorative and layered lighting techniques such as task, accent and ambient lighting.

Duration:
30-45 Minutes

Live Presentation:
Virtual (or in-person by trained presenter)

Live Presentation:
Virtual (or in-person by trained presenter)

Course Description:

This course examines lighting requirements, and the appropriate testing required for luminaires that allow safety for the occupants in institutional settings such as healthcare, behavioral health, cleanroom, schools, correctional, and transportation settings.

Prerequisite Knowledge:
The audience should have a working knowledge of designing institutional buildings and transportation applications and understand the requirements of those spaces for the health and safety of the occupants.

HSW Justification:
The testing and listings required for institutional settings were developed with the safety of the occupants in mind. In these environments, protecting the end user is the primary concern, whether to address infection control in healthcare, safe lighting in surgical suites or MRIs for both the caretaker and patient alike, lighting for safe egress for students in schools, or the appropriate lighting and listings required for tunnels and underpasses so the driver can safely enter and exit a tunnel or underpass in a transportation setting. This course will examine each institutional application and the appropriate luminaire listings and standards required to ensure the health, safety and welfare for the public users of these built environments.

Duration:
1 Hour

Course Description:

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.

Course Description:
Learn how functional lighting can be achieved using decorative luminaires. Understand different uses of light from focal, ambient and other sources. Learn how to balance daylight, electric and brightness in different environment settings. Discover the impact on a space of task lighting and making placement choices. Learn how to use lighting to direct the eye and create physical flow in your interiors.

Learning Objectives:
1. Why is there a new LCS? What happened to the Cutoff system that we were used to?
2. What is a BUG rating actually telling me?
3. How are the B, U, and G ratings determined?
4. How do I properly utilize a BUG rating

Duration:
60 Minutes

Live Presentation by RSM:
In-Person/Virtual

Learning Objectives:
1. The goals and challenges of today’s city managers and tomorrow’s city planners
2. The integration of sensor technology with lighting infrastructure in common areas
3. The changing landscape of lighting design messaging, security, and sustainability
4. Where the FHA and automotive industry are headed with street & roadway sensors

Duration:
60 Minutes

Live Presentation by RSM:
In-Person/Virtual

Learning Objectives
1. The pros, cons, and challenges of LED technology
2. LED terminology, standards, and best practices
3. How to properly compare LED performance and costs
4. LED as a gateway to adaptive lighting and controls

Duration:
60 Minutes

Live Presentation by RSM:
In-Person/Virtual

Course Description:
Brand new, this LA CE accredited course on catenary system designs will offer a unique and comprehensive understanding of the use of lighting within catenary systems. The presentation includes examples of lighting installations from around the world. A catenary is a curve that is found throughout nature and the built world. This course presents the history of catenaries in architectural and landscape design and examines the relationship between catenary systems and lighting in urban site planning. We discuss engineering and environmental factors, types, of catenary lighting layouts, and real examples of catenary lighting installations around the world.

Duration:
50 Minutes

Live Presentation:
In-Person

Course Description:
This presentation reviews the standards being developed for measuring sustainability in the lighting industry and focuses on what designers should be looking for on specification sheets and what questions they should ask vendors about their sustainability initiatives.

Live Presentation:
In-Person/Virtual

Learning Objectives:
This presentation summarizes the federal requirements for both programs and how they impact specifications.

Live Presentation:
In-Person/Virtual

Learning Objectives:
This presentation reviews the best practices specifiers can use to collaborate between manufacturers and contracts when working with complex ceiling integrations.

Live Presentation:
In-Person/Virtual

Course Description:
UGR stands for Unified Glare Rating and is a numerical measure of how much glare is emitted by luminaires. Glare can adversely affect well-being 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.

Learning Objectives:

Course Description:
A comprehensive AIA accredited course developed by USAI on Lighting and Wellness. This course focuses on the science and design criteria essential for proper implementation of circadian based design. Topics covered include a) evolution of circadian rhythm, b) health implications of circadian disruption, c) how light impacts the circadian system, d) evidence based metrics, e) design considerations, and f) conceptual discussion of applications.

Duration:
45 Minutes

Live Presentation by RSM:
In-Person/Virtual