Renowned Lighting Institute Announces First Half 2006 Conferences
New conference for residential contractors debuts in June
CLEVELAND - Lighting technology changes every day, and many innovative solutions for today's applications are presented at the renowned Lighting Institute, the world's foremost lighting training facility. Featuring full-scale demonstration centers and a staff of lighting experts, the Lighting Institute has served the industry for more than 70 years from GE's historic Nela Park campus in Cleveland. The conference schedule for the 1st and 2nd Quarters of 2006 includes the following:
FUNDAMENTALS OF COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL LIGHTING
Designed for newcomers to the lighting industry, this conference provides basic product and application training for commercial and industrial lighting. This program contains lectures and full-scale lighting demonstrations that create an interesting, fast-paced, comprehensive lighting conference. Topics include: lighting terminology; lighting measurements and color; an overview of major light source families and systems; and application modules for retail, office, industrial and outdoor lighting.
February 22-24, 2006
April 19-21, 2006
June 28-30, 2006
Cost: $500 / 2.0 CEU Credits
RETAIL LIGHTING
Professionals who specify retail lighting or supervise the maintenance of lighting in department, grocery, specialty or mass merchandise stores comprise the target audience for this conference. With presentations in full-scale retail settings and interactive sessions, participants experience effective demonstrations of state of the art lighting alternatives and learn about lighting solutions for their own applications. Topics include: energy efficient lighting system alternatives; light and color in the retail environment; current energy legislation; and retail lighting design strategies and detailing. Includes a hands-on workshop and optional post-conference off-site store tours.
May 2-3, 2006
Cost: $350 / 1.1 CEU Credits
HEALTHCARE LIGHTING
This conference is designed for facility managers, maintenance supervisors and other professionals who are involved in specifying or maintaining lighting systems in a healthcare setting. The content features energy and maintenance cost reduction strategies and the identification of high-quality lighting criteria for public spaces, patient rooms and more specialized medical treatment areas. Topics include: new developments in lighting systems and controls; outdoor lighting for safety and security; and energy legislation and lamp disposal updates. Discussions of light and health, and lighting for the aging eye are also included.
March 16-17, 2006
June 26-27, 2006
Cost: $350
RETROFITS & OTHER ENERGY SAVING STRATEGIES
This conference is designed to provide and compare solutions for a variety of lighting retrofit projects. Through lecture and hands-on workshops, this seminar will focus on the evaluation of simple lamp retrofits, lamp and ballast substitutions, luminaries retrofit kits, and energy-saving system add-on devices. Facility managers and engineers, specialists for energy services companies, and others who are involved with the specification and implementation of energy-saving strategies will benefit from this conference.
March 29-30, 2006
Cost: $350
HOSPITALITY LIGHTING
Directed toward hotel owners and operators, this conference discusses lighting design and room air-conditioning strategies with a special emphasis on meeting the key needs of guest comfort and financial performance through energy reduction strategies. Sessions include: industry trends, outdoor lighting for safety and security, national energy rebates and tax incentives, and lighting solutions for guest rooms, meeting rooms and common areas.
April 26-27, 2006
Cost: $350
RESIDENTIAL CONTRACTORS
This new conference is open to all trade area partners for the homebuilder industry, specifically residential contractors and electricians. Product updates for high quality and energy-efficient lighting, electrical distribution, structured wiring, security systems and more will be presented. In addition, tools and resources that can improve business for contractors and electricians will be reviewed: how to grow profitably; finding new sources of skilled labor; increasing employee retention; improving negotiating skills; and demonstrating "value added" to builders.
June 8-9, 2006
Cost: $350
Please visit www.gelighting.com/na/business_lighting/education_resources/conferences/ or contact the Lighting Institute at 800.255.1200 to learn more.
GE Consumer & Industrial spans the globe as an industry leader in major appliance, lighting and integrated industrial equipment, systems and services. Providing solutions for commercial, industrial and residential use in more than 100 countries, GE Consumer & Industrial uses innovative technologies and "ecomagination," a GE initiative to aggressively bring to market new technologies that help customers meet pressing environmental challenges and improve their operating performance, to deliver comfort, convenience and electrical protection and control. General Electric (NYSE: GE) brings imagination to work, selling products under the Monogram®, Profile(TM), GE®, Hotpoint®, SmartWater(TM), Reveal® and GE Edison(TM) consumer brands, and Entellisys(TM) industrial brand. For more information, consumers may visit www.ge.com.
For further information contact:
Kim Freeman via e-mail or at 502.452.7819.
