WEBCAST: Understand the BUG rating and MLO and RP-8 ramifications in outdoor lighting

July 10, 2012
The Webcast will cover the BUG (backlight, uplight, and glare) rating system for outdoor lighting that is increasingly used to specify maximum backlight, uplight, and glare levels for applications ranging from lighting on private property to roadways.
Title: Understand the BUG rating and MLO and RP-8 ramifications in outdoor lighting

Date: Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Time: 8:00 am PDT | 10:00 am CDT | 11:00 am EDT | 4:00 pm UK

Presenter: Nancy Clanton, President, Clanton & Associates

Sponsor:Cooper Lighting

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Overview: The Webcast will cover the backlight, uplight and glare (BUG) rating system for outdoor lighting that is increasingly used to specify maximum backlight, uplight, and glare levels for applications ranging from lighting on private property to roadways. Learn how LED luminaires can be designed and specified with compliant beam distributions. The presentation will cover the background and details of BUG ratings as well as how BUG ratings are applied in different application scenarios.

For outdoor area lighting on public and private property, the presentation will cover the BUG implementation specified in the Model Lighting Ordinance (MLO) that was published jointly by the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) and the International Dark-sky Association (IDA). For street and roadway applications, the presentation will cover the implementation of BUG ratings in the IES RP-8 standard for roadway lighting.

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SPONSOR

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A leading provider of world-class lighting fixtures and controls, Cooper Lighting’s dedication to sustainable product solutions is the core of its business. As lighting technologies have advanced, Cooper has been at the forefront of the industry in helping businesses and communities leverage the latest technologies to improve efficiency, reduce costs and enrich the quality of the environment. In 2009, the company opened a 60,000 sq. ft. Innovation Center, home to the research, design, validation and manufacturing of proprietary LED and other advanced lighting technologies. Innovation you can rely on.

Cooper Lighting offers a range of indoor and outdoor sustainable lighting and controls solutions, specifically designed to maximize energy and cost savings.

Cooper Lighting’s effective outdoor lighting solutions include innovative designs that consider the optimum combination of performance and architecturally relevant aesthetics, while remaining sensitive to the growing environmental demands of light control.

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PRESENTER

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Nancy E. Clanton is founder and President of Clanton & Associates, a lighting design firm specializing in sustainable design. Her firm’s lighting design projects reflect her philosophy of sustainable design, and ten of their projects have been named to the AIA Committee on the Environment Earth Day Top Ten List. Many projects for which Clanton & Associates designed the lighting are LEED platinum rated. Nancy speaks throughout the nation on topics relating to sustainable design, energy efficiency, and light pollution.