Basics of Architectural Lighting

Primary Audience

Architects

Instructor: Mohamed Boubekri

7 HSW LUs in the AIA/CES program

The way a space is lighted can affect our moods, our energy levels, and our ability to perform tasks effectively. Light is something most people take for granted until they find themselves in a poorly lighted space. It’s your job as an architect to ensure that the spaces you design are well lighted and energy efficient. It’s your privilege as a designer to use light to enhance the aesthetic qualities of each space.
This one-day seminar focuses on teaching architects the basic techniques and principles for successfully executing an architectural lighting design project. By the end of the course, you will have a better knowledge of both the quantitative and qualitative aspects of light and lighting:
• Properties of light
• Color theory
• Lamp properties
• Energy efficiency aspects
• Basic hand calculation and graphical techniques for estimating light levels
• Estimation of lighting power budget
• Lighting standards and regulation issues
The seminar incorporates lectures, class discussions, and hands-on exercises.

Course Topics
• Terminology and basic concepts
• Introduction to light sources
• IES illuminance selection criteria
• Illuminance calculation methods
• Estimating the electrical lighting power budget
• Sample exercise

Beyond Code: Designing Energy Efficient Commercial Buildings

Primary Audience

Architects, Engineers, Contractors, Designers, Small business owners.

Instructor: Donald Fournier
3 AIA HSW CEUs

Guidance and techniques for reducing energy usage in commercial buildings (both new designs and retrofits). Integrated design, modeling, and methods will be covered. Code implications will also be discussed.

Building Life-Cycle Cost Estimation

Primary Audience

Architects

Instructor: Mohamed Boubekri

7 HSW LUs in the AIA/CES program

The costs of a building involve much more than initial construction expenses—and estimating the end dollar amount that a new building will cost can sometimes be a daunting task. This course clarifies the process for architects. You’ll learn three different methods for estimating life-cycle costs, so the next time you need to ascertain costs you’ll feel confident that you’re addressing every important facet that affects life-cycle costs.
This one-day seminar teaches the principles and techniques used in building life-cycle cost (LCC) estimation. Through case studies, group exercises and discussion, interactive computer software, question and answer periods, hands-on activities, and problem-solving exercises, you will learn about various cost concepts:
• Compounding effects of interest rates
• Time-value of money
• Discounted cash flow analyses
• Inflation considerations
• Taxes
• Depreciation

You’ll learn to estimate building life-cycle costs using three different methods: the Present Worth Method, the Annual Worth Method, and computer simulations.

Course Topics
• Introduction
• Cost concepts
• Definition of interest rate
• Time value of money
• LCC estimation using Present Worth Method
• LCC estimation using Annual Worth Method
• Consideration of inflation
• Taxes
• Depreciation techniques
• Before-tax and after-tax cash flow analysis
• Case studies
• LCC estimation using computer simulations

Energy Basics for Small Business

Primary Audience

Small business owners, contractors, professionals.

Instructor: Ben Sliwinski
3 CEUs

Energy plays a vital role in business. We rely on it for such things as lighting,
heating, cooling, computing, communicating, and a multitude of manufacturing
processes; energy, with labor, is what gets the job done for American small
businesses. This course provides an introduction to energy basics for small
business owners, operators, and anyone else who would like to understand
energy from the ground up. The course takes a very simplified approach to the
study of energy.
The objective of this course is to enable small business owners to understand
energy terminology, to do simple calculations of energy quantities, to complete
a simple energy audit for their business, and to understand the basics of technologies available for saving energy.

BRING A CALCULATOR

Energy Efficiency Tax Benefits of EPAct 2005

Primary Audience

Architects, Engineers, Contractors, Designers, Small business owners.

Instructor: Donald Fournier
2 AIA HSW CEUs

Guidance and methods on the tax benefits available for commercial buildings and the quantification and certification of energy savings for commercial buildings to meet the requirements for tax credits and deductions under the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

Natural Flows and Pressures

Primary Audience

Small business owners, contractors, professionals.

Instructor: Paul Francisco
5 AIA HSW CEUs

This course discusses different mechanical ventilation and conditioning systems and their influence on building flows and pressures, as well as energy implications of different options. An introduction to natural infiltration is provided. Both of ASHRAE’s ventilation standards, 62.1 (commercial buildings) and 62.2 (low-rise residential) are discussed. The technical material is presented from a residential perspective, with discussion of how it applies to commercial buildings. Ventilation options include exhaust systems, supply-based systems, and balanced systems. The discussion of conditioning systems focuses on the role that duct location, design, and leakage play in building flows and pressures, with additional discussion of the effects of conditioning system air flow rate on system performance. The ways in which mechanically-induced airflows interact with naturally-occurring flows are highlighted.