Day-Brite Capri Omega Lighting Institute Releases 2008 Education Seminar Series Schedule.

Seminars Will Provide Lighting Information on Sustainability, Retail Spaces, Educational Facilities and Office Spaces.

TUPELO, Miss. -- Day-Brite Capri Omega (DCO) Lighting Institute has announced its 2008 seminar schedule to be held at its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Certified facility (LEED-CI), which is designed to educate visitors about the importance of good lighting and highlight the importance of energy conservation. The seminars will provide lighting education on sustainability, retail spaces, educational facilities and office spaces.

The Sustainability Seminar is designed for owners, facility or energy managers, architects, engineers, lighting designers, end-users and others in the lighting industry involved in supporting energy initiatives. The Sustainability Seminar will cover cutting edge ideas in design, new technology developments in luminaires, the use of alternative lighting systems, and improvements in development and manufacturing techniques that offer continuous improvement in energy performance. The energy initiatives that drive lighting design and specification will be reviewed such as ASHRAE/IESNA 90.1, LEED and EPACT 2005, as well as a good understanding of how to best match user needs with technology options. The Sustainability Seminar is scheduled for January 30 and 31 and February 1.

The Retail Spaces Seminar was developed to educate specifiers, store owners, merchandisers and facility managers. The seminar will provide information about how to apply lighting as a critical and effective merchandising tool in order to save money and reduce energy costs, while improving the retail environment. In depth technical reviews in the form of recommended guidelines or protocols to consider when addressing lighting retail spaces will provide focus on merchandising effectiveness, store image and brand promotion, customer comfort and safety and operating cost. The Retail Spaces Seminar is schedule for March 27 and 28.

This Office Space Seminar will focus on lighting issues and their solutions for development and creation of the most sustainable and efficient workplace lighting environment. Issues include cause and solution of glare problems, factors and considerations affecting task visibility, psychological effects of lighting in offices, creating the most energy efficient and economical lighting system, and the importance of composition and color in the luminous environment. The Office Space Seminar is scheduled for June 19 and 20.

The Education Facilities Seminar is designed to be a guide for lighting educational spaces, focusing on providing a visual environment that is supportive of learning processes. Emphasis will be on critical design factors including daylighting and controls, direct glare, horizontal and vertical illuminance and light distribution on surfaces and task planes. The Educational Facilities Seminar is schedule for September 18 and 19.

The Lighting Institute will accommodate 40 visitors for each seminar. Participants will receive 8.0 AIA/CES education credits for each seminar. The cost of each seminar is $350.

About DCO

Day-Brite Capri Omega (DCO) is dedicated exclusively to the design, manufacture and marketing of lighting fixtures in the fluorescent, emergency, HID indoor, HID outdoor, track lighting, down lighting, and commercial decorative lighting businesses serving the commercial, industrial and niche markets through the most recognized and respected sales organizations in the industry. DCO is a division of the Genlyte Group Incorporated, the largest company in North America dedicated solely to lighting.