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IDeAs ’ Zack Rogers Leads Workshop on Daylighting at Pacific Energy Center
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November 3, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Zack Rogers, recognized innovator in daylighting design and associate at Integrated Design Associates, Inc., led the Daylighting Design Strategies and Products workshop today at the Pacific Energy Center (PEC) in San Francisco for a class that was subscribed beyond capacity. Since opening in late 1991, PG&E’s PEC has established itself as one of the leading energy centers in the United States and a mecca for energy efficiency stakeholders, particularly design professionals. The workshop was designed to provide practical information about a topic that has garnered significant buzz in architectural, building engineering and facilities management circles. PEC enlisted Zack Rogers to present on the topic based on his many accomplishments in the field of daylighting design. These include owning the patent for the optical design of the award winning LightLouver daylighting system and serving as head developer of the award winning Sensor Placement + Optimization Tool (SPOT™). SPOT Version 4.0 software won the top award for the Most Innovative Product of the Year at the 2008 LightFair International trade show.
The first half of the day-long workshop focused on the daylighting design process and daylighting design strategies to consider as a project’s design unfolds. The second half covered the various daylighting products currently on the market. The goal was to convey both an appreciation for the challenges of incorporating daylighting design into the overall project design process and an understanding of the luminous and energy performance capabilities of specific systems.
As Zack Rogers explains in the course description, “The design of successfully daylit spaces can be a challenging task given the complex, dynamic nature of our daylight resources (sun and sky). It is important to start thinking about daylighting availability and solar control early in the design and then revisit daylighting performance often as the design progresses into final construction documents. Most of the greatest daylit spaces have treated daylighting as a forethought rather than an afterthought, thoroughly integrating the addition of natural lighting with the architectural form, structural, mechanical, and electrical systems. There are a variety of strategies to consider when looking to introduce daylight into a project. It is important to understand the constraints of the various spaces to be daylit and to identify, early on, the strategies that will be most successful.”
Regarding the daylighting products, Zack comments, “The daylighting product industry has expanded drastically over the last decade with many new manufacturers offering a wide variety of daylighting, solar control, and electric lighting control products. It can be a challenge determining which products truly perform and the best way to make use of these products. There are currently few rating systems focused specifically on daylighting products which makes wading through the industry even more challenging.”
About Zack Rogers
Zack Rogers has been involved in sustainable design for over 10 years and actively involved in the daylighting design community for over 8 years. He is a professional engineer in Colorado, and a LEED® Accredited Professional. He is a co-founder of LightLouver LLC and continues to lead SPOT software programming and development. Zack has provided sustainable design and daylighting design assistance on over 100 projects nationally and internationally with a focus on sustainable school design. He is a current member of several ISENA Daylighting committees and has published work on daylighting simulation techniques and daylighting metrics and speaks regularly on sustainability, daylighting design and photosensor lighting controls.
About IDeAs
Integrated Design Associates (IDeAs) provides expertise in advanced sustainable electrical concepts and lighting technologies in the design of high-performance environmentally sound buildings.
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For More Information:
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408 448 6300
ntindall@ideasi.com
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