2015 HUMAN CENTRIC LIGHTING SOCIETY CONFERENCE

Gary Chittim spent the last 25 years building a nationally recognized journalism career. He served as environmental reporter for the NBC television affiliates in Seattle and Portland, OR. His coverage included stories ranging from the BP Gulf oil disaster to the capture and documentation the first wolves to re-establish packs in Washington State. HIs trophy case contains three Emmys, an Edward R Murrow Award and dozens of nominations. He is instantly recognized by government and business leaders at all levels and is widely respected as a master story teller and communicator.

Joe is in his seventh year with the Mariners, his second since being promoted to VP of Ballpark Operations on Feb. 26th, 2014. He oversees all Safeco Field maintenance, operations, and capital projects, as well as security, non-baseball events, game day staff, grounds keeping and sustainability operations. Joe was previously Sr. Director, Engineering and Maintenance after being originally hired as Director, Engineering and Maintenance by the Mariners in 2008. Myhra is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy. He was active duty Air Force for five years and attained the rank of Captain during that time. His service also included a tour of duty in Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Myhra was stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, where he was Chief of Maintenance Engineering prior to joining the Mariners. Myhra, a native of La Crosse, WI, lives in Seattle with his wife Kaci, daughter Reese and son Sawyer. He also serves on the board of the USO Northwest and Seattle Police Foundation.

Dr Steven Lockley is a Neuroscientist in the Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a Professor in the School of Psychological Sciences at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He received a BSc in Biology from the University of Manchester, and a PhD from the University of Surrey in 1997.
Dr Lockley has 20 years experience on sleep and circadian rhythm research, and is a specialist in the effects of light on the circadian pacemaker and other ‘non-visual’ responses to light in sighted and blind individuals. He has studied the role of light timing, duration, intensity, wavelength and history and most notably to date, the wavelength sensitivity of the circadian photoreception system, helping to confirm the remarkable earlier discovery of a novel non-rod, non-cone short-wavelength sensitive photoreceptor in ganglion cell layer of the human eye. He is currently ground testing tunable LED lighting on behalf of NASA for installation on the International Space Station. He has published more than 100 original reports, reviews, chapters and editorials on sleep and circadian rhythms and his research is funded by the NIH, NASA and others. He recently co-authored ‘Sleep: A Very Short Introduction’ from Oxford University Press.

The eye has dual roles in detecting light to allow us to see, and to stimulate a number of non-visual effects of light including resetting the circadian clock, suppressing the pineal hormone melatonin, and directing alerting the brain. These visual and non-visual effects of light utilize functionally and anatomically distinct photoreception systems, including different photoreceptors and the independence of these two systems means that light properties, including intensity, spectrum, and pattern, can be manipulated to differentially stimulate either, or both, sets of responses. In practice, lighting should be designed to optimize both visual and non-visual effects and this can be achieved by using tunable lighting systems that can vary the spectrum, intensity and timing of light output. Dr Lockley will review the neuroscience of light detection, the biological impact of light and example applications of the non-visual benefits of light.

Stan Walerczyk is chair of the Human Centric Lighting Society and Committee and is also principal of Lighting Wizards. His 26 years lighting experience includes education, distribution, maintenance, retrofit contracting, 3rd party review, consulting, design, luminaire design, rebate planning, policy making and research. He assisted the DOE research on spectrally enhanced lighting. He has written over 100 white papers and published articles and presented close to 1000 seminars, including five times at Lightfairs, three IES Conferences, three AEE World Energy Engineering Congresses and one Strategies In Light. In 2014 he wrote ‘Lighting and Controls: Transitioning to the Future’ book. Also in 2014, he allowed his LC to expire. He is a CLEP and is on the Review Board. He is a Human Centric Lighting Professional.

This introductory talk includes:
∙ Why the HCLS was started
∙ How it evolved over the last 3+ years
∙ Officers and advisors
∙ Communication
∙ Its mission, including
∙ Increasing number of HCL projects
∙ Information clearing house
∙ Setting and defining terms
∙ Evaluating how various types of LEDs can be used for tunability
∙ What does the future look like?

Brian Liebel is the CEO of The Lighting Partnership in West Palm Beach Florida. Over the course of his 30-year career in lighting, he has challenged industry norms and broken barriers in lighting design, control strategies, and lighting education facility designs. Over the last 20 years, he has participated in the Department of Energy’s investigation of how spectrum affects vision and from 2010-2014 chaired the IES Committee that passed TM-24, the first IES consensus document to accept the premise of light spectrum-induced visual acuity benefits for interior lighting applications. Brian will speak briefly to the HCLS to share some history, some insights, and some essential lessons for the HCLS as this organization moves forward in its mission to better understand and communicate new scientific evidence of lighting revolving around human health and well-being.

∙ Brief history of how lighting and vision science led to the SEL concept.
∙ The role of LBNL, and then our firm, in further developing the science behind SEL.
∙ The trials and tribulations of advancing contentious issues through the IES
∙ The final outcome of TM-24
∙ Lessons learned, and ways in which the HCLS can benefit from these lessons

John Hwang is the founder and CEO of PlanLED (http://planled.com) and the Executive Director of the Human Centric Lighting organization (HCL). (https://humancentriclighting.org) John emerged from the world of investment banking and finance in the late 2000′s to become one of the primary thought leaders and culture shapers of the rapidly advancing global LED lighting movement. Mr. Hwang was instrumental in convening the HCL by building bridges for meaningful and catalytic relationships between educators, researchers, developers, manufacturers and business leaders who are also significant thought leaders and practitioners within the LED lighting movement. John is a tireless and compelling educator and advocate for delivering the sustainability, quality of life increases and creative solutions of LED lighting to the globe through standardized and affordable applications.

∙ Convergent innovations that advance the human centric lighting implementations.
∙ Research applied designs in key verticals.
∙ Publication of Lighting Playbook with Green Sports Alliance
∙ Production of “Ending the Dark Age”

Douglas Steel, Ph.D. is the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of PhotoKinetics Inc. (www.photo-kinetics.com), an El Paso TX-based company that is developing novel phototherapies for treating a range of mental conditions including PTSD, sleep and circadian disruptions, migraine headache, and emotional and stress-related conditions.
Doug has over 30 years of experience in pharmaceutical drug design and discovery, and research project management and implementation. He has formal training in theoretical and applied biotechnology, integrative neuroscience, and brain-environment interactions. He is the author of over 20 publications in scientific journals and books in the areas of drug design, drug discovery, and marine biochemistry. He has also written over 30 technology articles in the popular press.
Dr. Steel received his PhD in Biomedical Sciences from Columbia University P&S. He also held pharmaceutical research positions at The Upjohn Company, CIBA-Geigy, and Syntex Pharmaceuticals.

Much of illumination design and science are concerned with the delivery of optimal lighting conditions to the human eye. But what happens after light enters the eye? There are many more effects than those involving vision, sleep, and circadian rhythms. This presentation will use an “inside-out” approach to consideration of effects of light, by taking a look at how the human nervous system works, and how light is involved in non-visual responses.

Light exposure through the eye is known to exert a powerful effect on the brain and body, comparable to that of many drugs. Yet most forms of light exposure are not regulated as medical devices or therapies. However, new LED illumination and control technologies are starting to reach the market which more accurately replicate daylight exposure. Scientists, doctors, designers, and engineers need to be aware of the unexpected effects of illumination from these lighting systems in order to anticipate beneficial and detrimental effects upon patients and staff.

Jonathan Stine is currently the program manager for the District Energy Management Office at the Renton School District. Jonathan manages numerous energy service company (ESCO) contracts worth over $25 M. These funds are being utilized mainly to upgrade mechanical systems, controls, building envelopes, interior and exterior lighting, and extensive retro-commissioning district wide. As a member of the Capital Projects team, Jonathan has recommended numerous energy upgrades in mechanical systems, controls, building envelopes, and interior and exterior lighting at five new school construction projects in the district. Jonathan also crafted winning proposals for $4.6 M in OSPI and Department of Commerce energy grants, which along with utility incentives and leveraged construction bond funds have resulted in guaranteed energy savings over the useful life of numerous installed energy conservation measures. With specialized degrees in Energy Management, Energy Controls, years working as an Energy Specialist at the Washington State Energy Office, and years as an account executive and a senior energy consultant with the Clinton White House Climate Change Action Plan “DOE Motor Challenge” Program, Jonathan has a very diverse energy management portfolio.

Michael P Totten is founder and Principal of AssetsforLife.net, Senior Fellow at the Rocky Mountain Institute, Senior Energy Advisor for the Green Sports Alliance, and Presidio Fellow in Sustainability and Sports, Presidio Graduate School, San Francisco. His 40 years of professional work have focused on promoting high performance energy efficiency technologies through innovative public policies and market-driven practices at the city, county, state, federal and international levels. He served as Executive Director of President Carter’s Clearinghouse for Energy Efficiency, authored the USHR legislation Global Warming Prevention Act of 1989, was recipient of the ADPSR’s 1999 Lewis Mumford Prize for pioneering digital media tools and Internet sites for sustainable development, co-led the footprint analysis of Walmart’s operations, leading to the launch of their Sustainability Initiative in 2004, and lead co-author of Climate for Life.

Exponential growth rates in Solid State innovations are transforming global economic processes, through the computerization, digitization, informationalization, communication and illumination of products and services – referred to as the Internet of Everything (IoE). SSLs embedded with intelligence capabilities are a key gateway to the multi-trillion dollar market of a new asset class – IoEE, Internet of Energy Efficiency – highlighted in this presentation. (Michael Totten’s description)

Ian Ashdown is a consultant with forty years’ experience in lighting design, research and development, and software engineering. He is currently Chief Scientist for Lighting Analysts Incorporated (Littleton, CO), and President of byHeart Consultants and SunTracker Technologies (West Vancouver, BC).
He is an Illuminating Engineering Society Fellow and an International Lighting Commission (CIE) Advisory member. With a Bachelor’s degree in electric engineering and a Master’s degree in computer science, he holds more than 120 patents and patents pending, mostly with Philips and Cooledge Lighting. He has written 42 academic papers, 91 articles, 6 book chapters, and a book – Radiosity: A Programmer’s Perspective – that today is the foundation of Lighting Analysts’ AGi32 and ElumTools lighting design and analysis software.
His current research interests include circadian-based lighting design and analysis. In particular, the capabilities of today’s software tools for architectural lighting design need to be extended to encompass spectral power distributions, non-visual spatial responsivity of the human eye, and temporal aspects related to human-centric lighting.

Melanopic illuminance is a key concept of circadian-based lighting. While it is conceptually simple – basically photopic illuminance with a different spectral weighting –- it poses a number of unique design challenges for today’s architectural lighting design software. In this workshop, we explore four design requirements for a virtual melanopic illuminance meter:

1) Spectral and spatial responsivity;
2) Spectral power and reflectance distributions;
3) Temporal response; and
4) Climate-based daylight integration.

These requirements in turn will necessarily redefine how architectural lighting design is performed using software tools.

Mike Lambert is the senior lighting designer for KCL Engineering and has 39 years of electrical industry experience, including 16 years in electrical contracting, 10 years as a lighting manufacturer’s representative and 13 years as lighting designer. He has worked on lighting design projects in Hawaii, China, Las Vegas and other locations throughout the U.S. He is Lighting Certified by the National Council on Qualifications for the Lighting Professions. He is on the IES Spectral Effects committee and served as a judge for the 2012 and 2013 US DOE / PNNL Next Generation Luminaries Outdoor Design Competition. Mr. Lambert also currently sits as the vice chair of the Human Centric Lighting organization (HCL) – the market-leading think tank that is setting the industry standard and shaping the culture and conversation regarding the global LED lighting movement. This educational organization advocates for the practical and creative applications of LED lighting that results in various proven ecological and humanitarian benefits.