27 April 2004
Buro Happold Trainee Engineer is Young Lighter of the Year
CIBSE (Society of Light and Lighting) has awarded the Young Lighter of the Year Award 2004 to Kenneth Winters, a trainee engineer at Buro Happold, for his paper on lighting design in galleries.
The well-researched paper covered the design of artificial lighting, daylighting, daylighting controls and the prevention and decay of lighting in galleries, drawing on Kenneth’s experience in being part of the design team on Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin.
Kenneth, based in Buro Happold’s Dublin office, is the first student from Ireland to be short listed for this award, which was presented on the 6th April in London. A graduate of DIT’s Certificate/Diploma in Electrical Services Engineering , Ken was the winner the Lighting Design Award at the Inaugural DIT/ Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) Student Award Ceremony last October.
Edith Blennerhassett, director, comments “Kenneth has worked very hard and this is a great achievement for him. It’s good to see students considering the wider design issues like daylighting and not just the artificial lighting design.”
Background information for editors:
The Society of Light and Lighting is the senior and largest professional body in the UK representing the interests of those involved in the art, science and engineering of light and lighting in their widest definition.
The Young Lighter if the Year Award is open to young engineers under the age of 30
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