Outdoor Lighting—Beautiful, Biologically Appropriate, and Ecologically Responsible - 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW) / 1.0 GBCI SITES-Specific CE

Recorded On: 10/08/2024

Biodiversity is not exclusive to land and water. The night sky supports significant biological functions for people, plants, and pollinators. This workshop will provide the latest insights you need to implement responsible lighting at night, making beautiful nighttime environments more understood while minimizing biological disruption and damage to nocturnal ecosystems.

Learning objectives:

Understand the biological and ecological needs of darkness for people, plants, and pollinators.
Understand the Five Principles for Responsible Outdoor Lighting.
Understand how successful urbanism transforms the value of outdoor space and challenges environmental responsibility.
Understand how exterior lighting design can make the nighttime environment more inviting and coherent, thereby supporting reassurance, equity, and engagement without wasting light.

The GBCI course ID for this course is 920030849, providing SITES-specific CE hours required to maintain SITES AP credentials. Participants will need to pass the exam at the end of the presentation in order to receive a certificate of completion. Participants will need to self-report CE hours through their credentials account on https://sitesonline.usgbc.org.

Rick Utting, IES

Policy Advisor

DarkSky International

Rick Utting serves as a policy advisor for DarkSky international, Committee Vice Chair of the Outdoor Nighttime Environment for the Illuminating Engineering Society, and an Outdoor Lighting Specialist for Clanton & Associates, an award-winning lighting design and engineering firm based in Boulder, Colorado. Focused on pedestrian vision and the environmental sustainability of outdoor lighting, Rick consults with counties, municipalities, legislators, and other organizations regarding their outdoor lighting guidelines, ordinances, and state statutes. Rick previously served as the Director of Lighting for Landscape Forms, an industry leader in the design and manufacture of site furniture and outdoor lighting.

Nancy Clanton, PE, FIES, FIALD, LC, LEED Fellow

CEO

Visibility Innovations, LLC

Nancy Clanton is CEO of Visibility Innovations, LLC a consulting firm specializing in sustainable and regenerative design. Nancy is a registered Professional Engineer. Nancy is a member of the National Academy of Science committee on the assessment of solid state lighting. Nancy is International Standards Organization (ISO) 205 WG 7,USA delegate. Nancy received the 2018 Edison Report Lifetime Achievement Award, 2014 ACEC Colorado Outstanding Woman Engineer Award, the International CleanDesign, 2021 CU Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award and the 2023 DarkSky International Lifetime Acheivement Award.

Randy Burkett, FIALD, FIES

Design Principal

Reed Burkett Lighting Design

Randy Burkett is Design Principal of RBLD, responsible for establishing design direction and overseeing the management of projects. Since beginning professional practice in 1978, Randy has provided lighting designs for numerous national and international projects including: the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial, Washington DC; Tom Lee Park, Memphis TN and the Gateway Arch Park, St Louis MO. Randy is a former board member and past president of the International Association of Lighting Designers. He has served as AE faculty member at the University of Colorado, and as an adjunct faculty member at Washington University’s Graduate School of Architecture.