This course provides an overview of current lighting trends, energy management requirements, and current legislation affecting lighting design considerations for healthcare facilities.

This e-learning class will help you to identify current trends in the lighting industry with an emphasis on light sources. Conventional lamp technology will be discussed with new products examined for their significance. Optoelectronics light sources including LED's, LEC's and OLED's will be discussed in terms of advantages and disadvantages. Exciting new ways to generate light that will change how we light our environments over the next two to ten years are explored.

This introduction will help you understand the approach and techniques that the lighting designer takes when involved in the illumination of residential interiors. Residential lighting is a combination of electrical engineering and theatrical lighting. Lighting can stimulate feelings, set moods and dramatically alter the appearance of your residential space. Come take the first step by looking through the eyes of the designer at the drama, excitement and mood that only lighting can create when layered correctly.

This e-learning course offers an overview of the Metal Halide legislation that becomes effective January 1, 2009. It provides information on the new minimum efficiency standards for Metal Halide ballasts as well as an analysis of the benefits of Pulse Start Metal Halide systems. This course shows the different aspects of the law and how it will effectively transition/convert the lighting industry from Probe Start systems to more energy efficient Pulse Start systems.