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September 21, 2009 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
About the presenter:
Tony Grice is a Senior Engineer with Applied Engineering Solutions who specializes in sustainable buildings, day lighting and electric lighting design. Some of his interesting lighting projects include: Alberta Pavilion at Expo 86, Canterra Office Tower, Sunlife Office Towers, Head Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Interpretive Centre ( a world class heritage site in Alberta) , Jasper Train Station, Calgary Olympic Saddledome and many more. Tony was elected as one of the top ten leaders in the Alberta Construction Industry in 2005 by Alberta Construction Magazine and he’s one of the original founders of the Alberta Sustainable Building Symposium 1999-2005. His Lighting Design Awards include: 1983 – Grant Mac Ewan College; 1990 – Parkland Library; 1991 – Lago Lindo School; 1992 – St. Mathews Lutheran Church – Special Citation. He has prepared a number of lighting courses and is currently preparing “Day lighting and Electric lighting†sections of the Syllabus course for the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.
About the Topic:
Today’s building designs are often required to conform to an increasing number of performance levels and standards for providing energy efficiency, controlling air and water migration, avoiding condensation, and providing good lighting through the optimized use of artificial and natural day-lighting. Windows that were selected for their water tightness and thermal resistance ratings are also being selected (or rejected) on the basis of the amount of daylight they will admit into the living space. There are limitations to how much of the natural daylight can be successfully admitted into our interior spaces, so we need to employ methods that optimize the utilization of the available light, and artificial lighting methods that will properly compliment the daylight throughout the year. To tackle these issues requires both a theoretical approach and great amount of experience to achieve the desired results. Tony is well versed on this subject and has a wealth of experience from an impressive project record. Please join the members and guests of the Vancouver Island B C Building Envelope Council and take in this informative presentation on fulfilling today’s diverse and sometimes, competing requirements for day lighting design