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CPD Training - Skills Upgrading Series for Green Building Practitioners - (5) Lighting Engineering

CPD Training | 17 Dec 2022

CPD Training - Skills Upgrading Series for Green Building Practitioners - (5) Lighting Engineering

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Organised by Hong Kong Green Building Council (HKGBC) and co-organised by BEAM Society Limited (BSL), Skills Upgrading Series for Green Building Practitioners - (5) Lighting Engineering is designed for persons who have not received formal and structured training on lighting engineering. The course details are as follows.
 
Date: 17 & 31 Dec 2022 (Saturdays)
Time: 9:00am - 12:30pm (Registration starts at 8:45am)
Training Format: Zoom
Language: Cantonese with English materials
6 CPD hours for BEAM Pro / BEAM Affiliate

Fee:
BEAM Pro / BEAM Affiliate / BSL Members
HK$430
HKGBC Members HK$430
BSL / HKGBC Non-Members HK$650
 
Online Registration:
BEAM Pro / BEAM Affiliate
Register Here
BSL Members who are NOT BEAM Pro / BEAM Affiliate Register Here
HKGBC Members Register Here
BSL / HKGBC Non-Members
Register Here
 
The two half-day lectures totalling 6 hours will cover the following topics:
- Nature of light, human perception and eye vision
- How to quantify light, including the use of parameters - lumen, lux, candela and degrees in colour temperature
- History of development of lighting, common types of lighting in use today
- Energy consumption aspects of lighting, energy labels in HK and EU, how to calculate energy and related cost savings
- Technical concepts including illuminance, luminous efficacy, luminous flux, solid angle, luminous intensity, polar graph, brightness, luminance reflectance, contrast, colour temperature
- How to measure illuminance, effect of orientation, lux meter on cell phones
- How to design lighting, average illuminance method, maintenance factor, utilisation factor, space-height ratio (SHR), light uniformity, unified glare rating
- Technical details and working principles of common types of lamps
- Automatic control methods, motion sensors, daylight sensors
- Daylighting using light pipes, working principles and example applications
- Introduction to lighting and daylighting simulation, software, simulation inputs and outputs
- Credits in BEAM Plus New Buildings that are related to lighting 
 

BEAM Society Limited - CPD Training

BEAM Society Limited - CPD Training

 

BEAM Society Limited - CPD Training


Trainers:
Dr Denis YU Yau-wai
Associate Professor
School of Energy and Environment
City University of Hong Kong
 
Ir Emily WONG
Manager - Project Assessment
BEAM Society Limited
 
For enquiries, please contact Ms Chloe SHIU at 3994-8890 or email [email protected].