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Advanced Residential Lighting INTR 3160

Residential Interiors Course

International Fees

International fees are typically three times the amount of domestic fees. Exact cost will be calculated upon completion of registration.

Course details

This course encourages students to produce creative, detailed lighting design solutions for residential spaces. Emphasis will be on concepts for lighting, practical applications, specifications and methods to enhance the experience of interior environments. Students will create reflected ceiling plans that incorporates advanced lighting solutions and ceiling details. Photometry will be examined and applied to interior spaces for evaluation, discussion and implementation.

Prerequisite(s)

Credits

3.0

Domestic fees

$831.63

Course offerings

Spring/Summer 2024

Below is one offering of INTR 3160 for the Spring/Summer 2024 term.

CRN 64184

Duration

Thu Apr 18 - Thu Jul 04 (12 weeks)

  • 12 weeks
  • CRN 64184
  • Domestic fees $831.63
    International fees are typically three times the amount of domestic fees.
Class meeting times
Dates Days Times Locations
Apr 18 - Jul 04 Thu 18:00 - 21:00 Burnaby NE01 Rm. 351
Instructor

Izabela Pudlak

Course outline

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Domestic fees

$831.63

Important information
  1. International fees are typically three times the amount of domestic fees. Exact cost will be calculated upon completion of registration.
  2. If you wish to be placed on the INTD department maintained waitlist for this course, please email INTD_Waitlist@bcit.ca with the following information: Your name, student number, course number, and CRN. Waitlist requests are only accepted after 9:30am on registration day.
Status

In Progress

This course offering is in progress. Please check back next term or subscribe to receive email updates.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

  • Recognize the environmental impacts of lighting and consider lighting in a sustainability context.
  • Develop a reflected ceiling plan and specifications applicable to a residential project, appropriate for a set of construction drawings.
  • Implement effective lighting solutions that support the design concept of interior environments.
  • Evaluate the lighting requirements of various interior spaces from a functional, aesthetic and psychological perspective.
  • Evaluate and implement appropriate brightness contrast into design solutions.
  • Develop lighting concepts through implementation of the visible characteristics of lighting, including light layering, visual discrimination, and luminous elements.
  • Recognize age-related eye disease and recommend lighting techniques that compensate for age-related changes.
  • Implement the principles of various light sources such as incandescent, fluorescent, HID, LED through their appropriate uses.
  • Apply photometric principles such as beam spread, spacing criteria and lighting distribution when designing lighting layouts.
  • Identify appropriate illuminance levels as required by jurisdictions having authority.
  • Recognize the impact of current applicable codes and standards.

Effective as of Winter 2016

Related Programs

Advanced Residential Lighting (INTR 3160) is offered as a part of the following programs:

  • Indicates programs accepting international students.
  • Indicates programs with a co-op option.

School of Construction and the Environment

  1. Kitchen & Bath Design
    Associate Certificate Part-time
  2. Residential Interiors
    Diploma Part-time

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