Advances in lighting, controls, codes, operations, IoT, integration, and other building factors have increased the capability, options and complexity with designing and implementing building lighting and controls. This course highlights a new IES Lighting Practice document which articulates how to create lighting Control Intent Narratives and Sequences of Operation that makes sense of complexity, clarifies owner and operational intent and produces contractually viable documentation to stand behind.

Learning Objectives

• From a new IES Lighting Practice, review and understand why lighting control intent narratives and sequence of operations will document an owner’s operational intent, a designers specification requirements and how it can deliver clear guidance to contractors, integrators and commissioning agents.
• Apply documentation tools, control matrixes and guiding questionnaires from the Lighting Practice that assist a designer in creating solid, contractually enforceable language that gives an owner what they want, specifies what a contractor installs, directs integrators what to program and identifies what a commissioning agent must verify.
• Know the difference between Control Intent Narratives and Sequence of Operations and break specification “writers block” by reviewing ready-made application examples inside the Lighting Practice document.
• Learn the role each professional discipline plays in correctly creating, documenting and implementing lighting control operation including the deliverables needed in each phase of the construction documentation process.