Speaker:  James Benya, PE, FIES, FIALD, LC

                 Principal

                 Benya Lighting Design

                 Member of International Lighting Alliance

                 Professor of Environmental Design -- University of California at Davis

 Meeting Topic:  Title 24  2008:  Behind the Scenes 

Date:  May 15, 2008

Time:  7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. talk

         social hour with refreshments 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Location:  Pacific Energy Center

              851 Howard Street

            San Francisco CA 94103

Cost:  $10 IES members,  $15 non-IES members

RSVP:  Gary Smith, LC

          tel (408) 725-0320
 

Mr. James Benya will be returning to our area to pull back the curtain on the process behind making the Title 24 Standards. Among Jim's professional qualifications, he was previously a member of the IESNA Board of Directors serving as both Director of Education and Director of External Affairs. Jim also serves on the Board of the International Dark Sky Association, the Board and Test Committee for the NCQLP, and the California Energy Commission Advanced Lighting Advisory Group (ALAC) where he provides technical research and writing for California's Title 24 Energy Code for Lighting.  As one of the few Lighting Designers involved in the group that guides the process of Title 24, he will relate his experience of trying to defend good lighting design practices, while working within this very complex framework of politics, engineering and lobbying.  The topic for evening talk, therefore, should be quite lively.