Sustainable Lighting Design

Gayathri Unnikrishnan is a lighting Designer and Vice President of the WELL standard development and Concept Lead for light at IWBI. In this Podcast we will be getting some insights into the Light feature in the WELL certification system and discuss some of the challenges that come up when working with it in practice. As well as how we can better integrate daylight and electric light in the lighting design process.

This podcast is part of a research-in-practice project on sustainable lighting design by Maha Shalaby & Isabel Villar.

Marie- Claude is an associate professor at the Department of Architecture and the Built Environment at Lund university in Sweden and an expert on sustainable design at White Arkitekter.  She recently published the book ‘Daylighting and lighting under a Nordic Sky’ a student’s literature book that touches on qualitative and quantitative aspects of light. In this interview, we will start by discussing some of the sections in the book that are connected to light quality and then further dive into energy efficient strategies for optimizing light in buildings.

This podcast is part of a research-in-practice project on sustainable lighting design by Maha Shalaby & Isabel Villar.