Wattstopper Events & Webinars
Attend Lighting Control Education Events with Wattstopper Products
It’s more than just a well-lit room. Lighting controls today include the integration of energy-saving, code-complying technology that transforms the space and keeps the well-being of the space’s occupants a top priority.
Wattstopper offers a variety of webinars and events throughout the year to keep you informed of the latest developments in lighting control technology, and provides you with the resources to integrate these solutions into your building system. Our offering includes topics like commercial lighting controls, human centric lighting, automated shading, energy code, WELL building standards, and more.
Some of our featured courses are AIA CES-approved and are valid for 1 LU|HSW credit.
Previous events and webinars:
Presented by Bill Blackley, Dave Kohlman, and Harold Jepsen
With occupants spending 90% of their time indoors, the need to design the lighting, lighting controls, and electrical infrastructure to positively impact nutrition, fitness, mood, sleep, comfort, and performance has never been more important. The WELL Building Standard marries best practices in design and construction with scientific based health and wellness interventions and is the first standard to focus solely on the health and wellness of building occupants. This course provides and an overview of the standard and additional details on the lighting and lighting control elements. Join us for a panel discussion on how the WELL Building Standard is achieved through implementing strategies to encourage healthy and more active lifestyles and reduce exposure to harmful chemicals, lighting conditions and pollutants.
AIA Course #: BCS303-1
Credit: 1 LU|HSW
Presented by Harold Jepsen
Developments in lighting and lighting control technology continue to expose new opportunities for the design, installation and use of lighting and control systems. These advances in technology enable the control of light at the individual fixture level via Luminaire Level Lighting Controls or LLLCs. In this course we will define what LLLCs are, how their use is advantageous to installing contractors, building users, and owners, and how LLLCs satisfy design, code, operational, and program requirements. Gain an understanding on how to select, design and specify successful lighting control projects using LLLC products and systems, and recognize the longer-term benefits of LLLCs and best practices of their use.
AIA Course #: BCS105
Credit: 1 LU
Presented by Charles Knuffke
Addressing occupant comfort and desires within a well-lit commercial space has been shown to directly impact their health and wellness. This course highlights best practices for design and commissioning of lighting controls to make spaces occupant friendly using occupant-centric design of dimmers, sensors, and daylight controls. You will gain an understanding of the balance between energy savings goals for the facility and occupant preferences through the selection of devices and sequence of operation.
AIA Course #: BCS102-1
Credit: 1 LU
Presented by Dawn Stuckey
Explore how the management of natural and artificial light in a space opens the question of when and how to implement stand-alone vs. interoperable light control systems. This course provides an overview of how to best utilize the benefits of natural light with proper daylighting strategies in conjunction with integrated control systems, the importance of properly daylighting a space and how shades play an important role.
AIA Course #: SF102
Credit: 1 LU|HSW
Presented by Charles Knuffke
Energy codes are updated regularly to push buildings further down the path to Zero Net Energy. Acceptance testing and commissioning are part of most medium and large size projects and integration with other systems happens more often. This course will explore why including a Lighting Control "Sequence of Operation" or SOO is important and how to justify the need to add SOO documentation to every project, like all the other contract documents. Without documents that clearly define the interactions between all the Lighting Control Devices it's quite possible that the last contractor or technician on the project will be making the decisions about how the controls will operate.
AIA Course #: BCS301
Credit: 1 LU
Presented by Patrick Ford, Rene Parrinello, and J.P. Bruner
Product transparency has moved from the sidelines to the mainstream in recent years. Our panel of experts will review the importance of product transparency and why project teams should seek out products with documentation. Learn the differences between EPDs, HPDs, and Declare Labels and what each document can tell you about the product and discuss how the industry is collaborating to advance product transparency through efforts such as the Living Product 50 and A&D Materials Pledge, and databases such as mindful MATERIALS.
Presented by Harold Jepsen
Covering the commercial building lighting control and some electrical sections, this course introduces the importance of energy efficiency standards and presents the IECC scope for both new construction and building alterations. Using application emphasis, it steps through the major interior lighting control provisions and highlights exterior lighting control provisions through core requirements, applicability to specific building space types, and requirement key exceptions.
Presented by Dawn Stuckey
Explore how the management of natural and artificial light in a space opens the question of when and how to implement stand-alone vs. interoperable light control systems. This course provides an overview of how to best utilize the benefits of natural light with proper daylighting strategies in conjunction with integrated control systems, the importance of properly daylighting a space and how shades play an important role.
Presented by Harold Jepsen
This course provides an overview of the LEED v4.1 Beta New Building Design and Construction (LEED BD&C) rating system. It defines and reviews sustainable lighting and control practices found within the rating system, addresses how designers can execute these credits, and explores how to meet and exceed the lighting and lighting control requirements in ASHRAE 90.1-2016 to achieve the energy efficiency performance requirements.
Presented By Shana Longo & J.P. Bruner
Understand how nature is a resource for design strategies and obtain a high-level knowledge of the 6 Life’s Principles that are true for 99% of living things. This session identifies examples of how manufacturers have embraced biomimicry and circularity and made business strategies changes to ensure their long-term survival and how these concepts can be used to improve product design, reduce environmental impacts, elevate the occupant experience, and develop more sustainably.
Join Legrand at the PDC Summit, hosted by ASHE. The PDC Summit is the premiere event for over 3,200 health care and hospital facility senior leadership. No other conference brings health care planning, design and construction decision-makers together like the PDC Summit.
Organized by the Designers Lighting Forum of New York, LEDucation is the ultimate marketplace for solid-state lighting innovations, giving industry professionals a chance to experience new technologies as well as continue their education through a wide range of accredited seminars. LEDucation is a non-profit event, and its proceeds help stimulate future LED advancements by supporting a variety of grants, scholarships and lighting programs. Legrand will be an exhibitor with Wattstopper products.
Environmental objectives pursued through Green Globes lead to lower energy and water bills, reduced emissions, optimized health and wellness benefits, increases in efficiency with energy and water use, and minimized waste. In this one-hour session, our building rating expert Joe Gohn introduces the rating system and concepts covering new construction assessments with an emphasis on energy and lighting controls as well as energy codes as they relate to the program.
Description: Known as the most ambitious and stringent certification available to the built environment, the Living Building Challenge can seem out of reach. In this 1-hour session, our building rating system expert, Joe Gohn, provides an easy-to-understand look at the LBC and its lighting control opportunities.
Lighting and shading go hand in hand, but how do you design the best integrated system to take advantage of natural daylight? In this 1-hour session, shading expert Dawn Stuckey will speak to the variety of options for lighting control and shade systems and tie it all together to design the best possible daylighting strategy.
ASHRAE 90.1-2019 is the latest federal standard for commercial building energy efficiency. Harold Jepsen, a member of the ASHRAE 90.1 lighting subcommittee and code expert, presents the lighting and electrical power control requirements. Using application emphasis, he discusses the major interior and exterior lighting control provisions, applicability to specific space types and highlights key requirement revisions.
First it was occupant productivity and now, more than ever, designers are considering occupant health and well-being. In this 1-hour session, building rating system expert, Joe Gohn, will present an overview of the WELL Building Standard, with a focus on lighting control strategies. This revolutionary building standard will provide you with ideas on how to optimize well-being in buildings as we all look to head safely back into the office.
A networked lighting control system is a communications network between devices that are becoming more intelligent as they are increasingly built around microprocessors. As such, it is vulnerable to the same hackers who attack corporate networks. With security a growing concern for Networked Lighting Control (NLC) Systems, Charles Knuffke, 35+ year educator on lighting controls and Chairperson for the Lighting Controls Association, walks through the evolution of security, explains the most common terms regarding security, and reviews how to address your clients’ security questions.
How do you know networked lighting controls meet IoT cybersecurity standards? Gain a baseline understanding of networked lighting control security measures that will help you ensure your specified networked lighting controls meet your client’s security requirements. As IoT devices, networked lighting controls can carry security risks and vulnerabilities that expose networks to hackers. Take the first step in building your knowledge of cybersecurity standards for NLCs with this Networked Lighting Control Security Basics AIA while earning one continuing education credit (1 LU/HSW). Join us on Tuesday, October 19th at 1 p.m. CST as we discuss the current IoT cybersecurity vulnerabilities and how networked lighting controls are protected.
How do you know networked lighting controls meet IoT cybersecurity standards? Gain a baseline understanding of networked lighting control security measures that will help you ensure your specified networked lighting controls meet your client’s security requirements. As IoT devices, networked lighting controls can carry security risks and vulnerabilities that expose networks to hackers. Take the first step in building your knowledge of cybersecurity standards for NLCs with this Networked Lighting Control Security Basics AIA while earning one continuing education credit (1 LU/HSW). Join us on Tuesday, June 15th at 1 p.m. CST as we discuss the current IoT cybersecurity vulnerabilities and how networked lighting controls are protected.
The International Energy Conservation Code (IECC 2018) is one of the most widely adopted energy codes in the US. In this 1-hour session, one of Legrand's energy code experts, Harold Jepsen, will review the lighting control requirements of this important energy efficiency standard. Each provision is presented with the core requirements, applicability to specific building space types and requirement key exceptions. He will also address the upcoming release of IECC 2021.
Tunable white lighting technology is defined as the ability to control a light source’s color temperature output. It is also referred to as variable white, dim to white, hybrid white, or custom temperature lighting and is referenced as a key aspect to human-centric lighting design. In this 1-hour course, Christian Groom, Product Manager for Wattstopper’s Human-Centric Lighting offering, will walk the audience through several aspects of this new technology including: current solutions in the market, practical applications and “how to” info in the specification of tunable light projects, pairing of tunable Lighting with Controls, and creating an energy-code compliant sequence of operations.
How do we make buildings healthier and move beyond simply “less bad” in the built environment construction projects? In this 1-hour course, Joe Gohn, National Sales Director, will review the Fitwel Certification System developed by the GSA and CDC and administered by the Center for Active Design. Fitwel is organized around specific incremental changes that will foster a healthier workplace. In the built environment today, this rating system can be applied to Multi-Tenant, Single-Tenant, or Commercial spaces. Lighting and Lighting Controls play a key role in any Fitwel project.
Lighting and shading go hand in hand, but how do you design the best integrated system to take advantage of natural daylight? In this 1-hour session, shading expert Dawn Stuckey will speak to the variety of options for lighting control and shade systems and tie it all together to design the best possible daylighting strategy.
Product transparency has moved from the sidelines to the mainstream in recent years, with manufacturers across a wide selection of product categories publishing Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), Health Product Declarations (HPDs), Declare Labels, and other forms of transparency documentation. In this one-hour moderated panel, we will review why project teams should be seeking out product transparency documentation for high performance buildings, provide an overview of EPDs, HPDs, and Declare Labels and how manufacturers can use them to improve products. We will also discuss how the industry is collaborating to advance product transparency through efforts such as the Living Product 50 and A&D Materials Pledge, and databases such as mindful MATERIALS.