CIBSE Affiliate’s Day Briefing Session – April 11th 2008

Affiliate’s Day Briefing Session – April 11th 2008

Following the success of the launch of CIBSE’s Low Carbon Energy Assessor Register, this years Affiliate’s Day will be linked with a talk on how to become an LCEA registrant.

If you are seeking help in upgrading your Affiliate membership or to fulfil the competence criteria in order to become a Low Carbon Energy Assessor then this is a day for you!

CIBSE membership is now open to all competent Building Services Engineers for the three corporate grades of membership, Fellow, Member and Associate, as well as to those entering at Licentiate level, the key to becoming a member lies in the ability to demonstrate competence, regardless of academic background.

Affiliate members are now having the chance to consider transferring to another grade through experience and or qualifications.

CIBSE Information Director Jacqueline Balian will be giving a talk on the Low Carbon Energy Assessors Register followed by information-packed session on:

- How to become a Low Carbon Energy Assessor
- What are the benefits of upgrading your CIBSE membership and why
- How to gauge which grade is appropriate to you
- What is involved to make that step
- Find out if your present qualifications are the right ones for Registration with ECUK
- Plan of action

There will be two sessions available starting at 10.00 and 2.00 - at CIBSE headquarters on the 11th April 2008.

Don’t miss this valuable opportunity to find out about how to become a Low Carbon Energy Assessor and talk to senior members of CIBSE and staff about developing your career in upgrading your membership through CIBSE. There is no charge involved, but places are limited and will be booked on a first come first serve basis.

If you would like to book a place on either of the sessions please contact Fiona Torrance, on 0208 772 3624 or email ftorrance@cibse.org or book online at www.cibse.org

Young Lighters of the Year 2008

Andrew McNeil SLL (Arup)
Vasiliki Malakasi SLL (Arup)
Sean Halpin SLL (DIT)
Matt Emery SLL (Urbis Lighting)
Daniel Lin SLL (NDY Light)
Emrah Ulas (Steenson Varming) and Martin Gratte



The ARC08 exhibition at the Business Design Centre in London played host to this year’s Society of Light & Lighting Young Lighters of the Year event.

The prestigious competition is open to anyone under the age of 30 to write and present a paper on a lighting subject of their choice. With a record number of entrants, six finalists were selected to present their papers to members of the industry together with interested guests attending the exhibition.

Arup’s Vasiliki Malakasi introduced her paper on “Urban Scene and Luminance Patterns”, exploring a method of assessing pathway lighting in an urban setting with emphasis given to the luminance patterns and the possibility of luminance becoming a vehicle for the evaluation of the lit urban environment.

This presentation was followed by Daniel Lin of NDY Light presenting his paper on “Light, Shadow and Ambiguity” comprising an intriguing mix of the use of light and shadow in architecture together with examples of the use of shadow in creating ambiguous effects and scenes.

Andrew McNeil, also from Arup, then took the stage to present his paper on “Using useful daylight illuminance to assess external louvre systems”, explaining the method of using Useful Daylight Illuminance to assess the value of external shading systems, a technique which eliminates the time during which an over abundance of daylight in a space causes additional shading such as blinds to be used by occupants, rendering the louvers irrelevant.

The fourth paper was presented by Urbis Lighting’s Matt Emery on the subject of “The effect of street lighting on bats”. Bats are a protected species in the UK and although universally recognized as nocturnal creatures, little is known of the level of sensitivity to light they possess. Whilst street lighting gives obvious benefits to humans, the very existence of bats is threatened by even a low lighting level in their habitat.

The final two papers were from international entrants, Emrah Ulas from Steenson Varming in Australia, and a little closer to home, Sean Halpin, a student at the Dublin Institute of Technology.

Emrah presented a paper on “Light and Modes of Appearance in architectural contexts”. Six visual attributes and their relationship with architectural contexts were explored with the view that lighting designers can use the parameters of the visual perception to break the constancies of the viewers and create intentionally designed illusions and experiences of the reality.

Last, but by no means least, Sean Halpin presented his paper on “Life Lighting”, an in depth analysis of the appropriate integration of natural and artificial lighting systems and the effect of daylight both on the energy performance of the building concerned, but also the well-being of the occupants of a space.

The Society of Light and Lighting’s president, Tony Ownsworth, then presented each of the finalists with their finalists’ certificates and prizes, commenting:

“This had been an exceptional year of entries and each and every one of the finalists
should be congratulated upon their achievements and I look forward to hearing more
from these fantastic young people in years to come”

Paddy Craven, President of the Institute of Lighting Engineers, presented the ILE award for the best written paper to Daniel Lin for his paper on Light, Shadow and Ambiguity.

The Worshipful Company of Lightmongers presented their prize for the best presentation on the day and this was awarded to Emrah Ulas for his presentation on “Light and Modes of Appearance in Architectural contexts” Martin Gratte, Master Lightmonger was on hand to present the prize.

Vice President of the Society, Stephen Lisk, brought the afternoon to a close by thanking the finalists and congratulating them all for the high quality of work submitted. He reflected upon the diversity of the 2008 awards, not only in terms of the papers that were presented, but also the multi-national representation of the speakers in the final.

Anyone interested in participating in the 2009 competition should contact Liz Peck on 020 8772 3622 or email her at lpeck@cibse.org for more information.