JETS Spotlight — Illuminating Engineering Society of North America

What do you want to know about lighting? Design criteria for sports lighting? Classification definitions for roadway lighting? Minimum requirements for energy efficient design? Light and color issues?

What do you expect from an association? Timely materials? Responsiveness? Technologically innovative programs?

Answer yes to all of the above and you have the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America. The IESNA recently celebrated its 100th birthday, but there is nothing old or old-fashioned about it.

The IESNA seeks to improve the lighted environment by bringing together those with lighting knowledge and by translating that knowledge into actions that benefit the public.

The IESNA is a not-for-profit membership organization of 9,000 lighting professionals (engineers, architects, lighting designers, electrical contractors, students, utility personnel, etc.), and almost 400 corporations.

The IESNA produces world-renowned publications: The IESNA Lighting Handbook is the definitive text on the science of lighting, lighting engineering, the elements of design, lighting applications, and other special topics, and Lighting Design + Application magazine (LD+A), the industry's most authoritative and informative monthly publication.

IESNA also develops technical documents: recommended practices (many of which are ANSI standards); design guides; lighting measurement documents; technical memorandums; energy measurement documents. IESNA co-sponsors ASHRAE/IESNA 90.1 — Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings, and publishes the LEUKOS, the Journal of the IESNA, an on-line technical journal.

Check out www.iesna.org. Take a free course "Discover Lighting" or view "The Power of Lighting" (both under Educational Opportunities). "The Power of Lighting" focuses on the importance of light in our everyday lives - from shopping to dinning, from security needs in an urban society to psychological needs. You'll enjoy it.