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IESNA Medal Award
Sponsor: Illuminating
Engineering Society of North America
Description: The IESNA Medal
provides recognition for meritorious technical achievement
that has conspicuously furthered the profession, art or
knowledge of illuminating engineering. Accomplishments shall
be in the field of engineering, design, applied
illumination, optics, ophthalmology, lighting research or
education. Candidates need not be members of the
IESNA.
Deadline: January 31
Contact: info@iesna.org
SOURCE Award
Sponsor: Cooper Lighting
Description: The SOURCE Awards is sponsored annually by Cooper Lighting, focusing on furthering the understanding, knowledge and function of lighting as a primary element of design. The competition is open to all lighting desgners, architects, engineers, professional designers and consultants who have used Coopper Lighting fixtures in a completed interior or exterior lighting design project. Professional winner(s) receive $2000 (student winner(s) $1500) plus a crystal trophy and local and national recognition through publicity and advertising. Winner(s) also receive an invitation to attend a CEU lighting seminar of choice at The SOURCE-Cooper Lighting Center.
Deadline: January 31
Requirements & Entry form: SOURCE Awards
International Illumination Design
Awards (IIDA)
Sponsor: Illuminating
Engineering Society of North America
Description: The IIDA
program provides a unique opportunity for public recognition
of professionalism, ingenuity and originality in lighting
design, based upon the individual merit of each entry,
judged against specific criteria. The awards consist of: The
Edwin F. Guth Memorial Award for Interior Lighting Design;
The Paul Waterbury Award for Outdoor Lighting, The Aileen
Page Cutler Memorial Award for Residential Lighting Design
and the Award for Energy Efficiency in Lighting for
Commercial Buildings.
Deadline: February 28
Contact: Nomination forms
are printed in the October and November issues of LD+A
magazine and are available from the IESNA.
IALD Lighting Design
Awards
Sponsor: International
Association of Lighting Designers
Description: The
International Association of Lighting Designers launches its
20th Annual International Lighting Design Awards competition
featuring a revised and refocused format. The awards program
continues its mission to acknowledge superior architectural
lighting design. New to the process is its category focus:
entries are submitted into one of seven categories, and
projects are judged and recognized within those categories
with Awards of Excellence, Awards of Merit and Special
Citations. The project accumulating the highest point score
among all the categories earns the new IALD Radiance Award
for Excellence in Lighting Design.
The seven new judging
categories into which entrants submit their projects
are:
- CorporateHospitalityResidentialAcademic/InstitutionalRetail/EntertainmentMonumental
Structures/Public Spaces
- Site/Façade
Projects within a category
will be considered on their own merit and not judged against
other categories.
Also new to this year's IALD
awards call for entries is the format in which submissions
are made. In a nod to technology, projects will need to be
submitted digitally in high resolution, jpeg images.
Specific requirements are posted on the IALD website at
www.iald.org
and they can be requested via phone at +1.312.527.3677 and
via facsimile at 1.312.527.3680.
Deadline: February 1
Contact: awards@iald.org
National Lighting Fixture Design
Competition
Sponsor: Multiple
Sponsors
Description: The purpose of
Lighting for Tomorrow is to increase the market presence of
energy-efficient lighting fixtures for the home. Currently,
it is difficult to find high-quality, beautiful light
fixtures that are also energy efficient. The competition
aims to encourage fixture manufacturers to produce a range
of new lighting fixtures that will complement home
décor, provide high-quality light, and save consumers
money by using less electricity. The competition is open to
lighting fixture manufacturers and professional lighting
designers. Students are eligible to participate only in
partnership with a manufacturer or lighting designer.
Louis B. Marks Award
Sponsor: Illuminating
Engineering Society of North America
Description: Named in honor
of the first President of the IESNA, the award shall be
presented to a member of the Society in recognition of
exceptional service to the Society of a non-technical
nature. Candidates must be members of the IESNA
Deadline: January 31
Contact: Robert A. McCully,
bobmcl@aol.com
High Benefit Lighting
Award
Sponsor: National
Lighting Bureau
(NLB)
Description: Established by
the National Lighting Bureau in 1980, the High-Benefit
Lighting Awards Program recognizes lighting achievements
that demonstrate electric illumination's ability to enhance
human performance and well-being; i.e., to provide
High-Benefit Lighting. Submissions to the National Lighting
Awards Program are brief descriptions of lighting projects
and the benefits they provide. Everyone who enters receives
a hand-inscribed Certificate of Participation. Those who
submit information about particularly noteworthy projects
receive more. The submitter of a noteworthy project works
directly with the National Lighting Bureau's staff to
develop a comprehensive case history that is published in
one or more national trade or professional journals.
Contact: NLB,
info@nlb.org
Howard Brandston Student Lighting
Design Education Grant
Administrator:
Illuminating
Engineering Society of North America
Description: Established to
encourage and recognize students who have evidenced high
professional promise through the presentation of an original
and ingenious solution to a supplied lighting design
problem. To be eligible to enter a solution in this
competition, an applicant must be enrolled as a full-time
student in an approved academic degree program. Award
amount: $1000.
Deadline: May 1
Contact: Applicant forms are
printed in the September issue of LD+A magazine and are
available from the IESNA.
Richard Kelly Grant
Administrator:
Illuminating
Engineering Society of North America
Description: Established by
the New York Section of the IESNA in memory of Richard
Kelly, who was a pioneer in the lighting design profession.
Applicants must be 35 years of age or younger, working or
studying in the United States, Canada or Mexico. New and
innovative work in the conceptual or applied use of light
should be submitted. Award amount: $500 to $1500.
Deadline: June 3
Contact: Applicant forms are
available from the IESNA.
Robert E. Thunen Memorial
Scholarships
Administrator: IESNA Golden
State Section
Description: Applications
for the Thunen Memorial Scholarship may be submitted by
full-time students who desire to study illumination as a
career. Applications may be made by those who will be a
junior, senior or graduate student in an accredited four
year college or university located in Northern California,
Nevada, Oregon or Washington. Scholarship amount: two grants
of $2500 each.
Deadline: March 25
Contact: Heide Kawahata,
riverfield@juno.com;
or the IESNA.
IESNA / LEDALITE Award
Administrator:
Illuminating
Engineering Society of North America
Description: Award
encourages and recognizes strong lighting research projects
and papers by students in undergraduate illumination
programs. Qualified candidates must be enrolled as a
full-time undergraduate student in an approved academic
degree program. Award amount: $1000.
Deadline: March 31
Contact: Applicant forms are
available from the IESNA.
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