Emlyn Altman, DLR Group
Virtual
ThursdayMarch 13, 2025
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EST
Credits TBD
Intermediate
Working from home during the pandemic highlighted the need for new digital applications to facilitate communications, fully vet lighting design concepts, and streamline the installation management process in a socially distanced world. This session demonstrates several of the latest lighting digital design tools available for designers to set them apart from their competitors.
Basic knowledge of Revit can enhance the attendees’ learning experience of this topic.
Learning Objectives
- Expand the lighting designer palette of tools through new digital technologies.
- Evaluate lighting design capabilities of several Revit inherent capabilities and supplementary plug-ins that can be used to enhance the design process.
- Explore project collaboration tools to facilitate the communication process between multiple design disciplines.
- Discover digital tools enabling designers to document existing conditions quickly and accurately – ultimately reducing project costs by minimizing the frequency and streamlining the efficiency of in-person site visits.
Speaker
Emlyn Altman
Senior Lighting Designer
DLR Group
Emlyn Altman is a Senior Lighting Designer at the integrated design firm DLR Group. With over 28 years of experience working on interior and exterior lighting projects, she incorporates a unique, combined background in lighting, architectural design, sculpture, and 3D visualization throughout her work. Her portfolio includes a diverse range of designs such as Hospitality, Culture & Performing Arts, Education (K-12 and Higher-Ed), Corporate, Civic, Healthcare, Retail, Residential, Sports & Recreation, Research Laboratories, and even large-scale art installations. Hospitality lighting is her passion and specialty, especially after having been a Senior Lighting Designer at Wynn Design & Development where she designed lighting solutions for multiple Encore and Wynn Casino Resort projects in Boston, Las Vegas, Macau, and Cotai - including the notable Delilah’s supper club.
Throughout Emlyn’s career, her work and insights and have been published in periodicals such as Lodging Hospitality, Architectural Lighting, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, in addition to seven years as a regular columnist for LD+A magazine, where she wrote about digital design topics for the lighting industry. In 2006, she was one of the first recipients of Building Design and Construction magazine’s “40 Under 40” hotshot designers award. Beyond Emlyn’s regular work responsibilities, she is a member of the Lightfair International Attendee Advisory Committee and serves as Chair of the national Illuminating Engineering Society’s Hospitality Design committee where she helped develop the original “Hotel Lighting Design” Guidelines manual (DG-25) that was later expanded to become the current ANSI/IES RP manual “Lighting Hospitality Spaces” (ANSI/IES RP-9-23). Since 1999, Emlyn has presented as a guest lecturer at universities and professional conferences around the country including the IES Annual Conference, Lightfair, Lightshow West, HD Expo, and Autodesk University. For her, success as an instructor is revealed at the “aha” moment when the students’ eyes light up (pun intended) as they begin to understand the concepts being taught.