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Live Release of the
Annual Lighting Forum
Seeing UGR Clearly
Join the National Lighting Bureau’s Executive Director, Randy Reid as he moderates four 2023 Annual Lighting Forum panels. The NLB welcomes Harold Jepsen, Jeremy Yon, Jim Gaines, and Melissa Ricketts as a complete panel on the discussion of “Seeing UGR clearly” followed by a Q&A session.
The virtual event is Friday, March 24 at 12 Noon Eastern Time
This event is an AIA CES course | Earn 1 AIA LU credit when you attend the full presentation.
The course number is LA2023NLB01 | The provider number is 502111380
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The National Lighting Bureau (NLB) exists to create demand for High-Benefit Lighting— efficient lighting designed to optimize human performance, health, safety, and commerce — by educating those who make and influence decisions about lighting. The NLB educational materials to help nontechnical, lighting decision-makers understand lighting and the lighting issues and choices facing them. Also available free are videos from the Bureau’s Annual Lighting Forum, feature articles, and member’s links to new and exciting high benefit lighting.
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Karen Willis

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Ruby Jadwet

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Glen Gracia

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