Bats and Artificial Lighting Course
Our training is available as an online, flexible learning course.
We also schedule in-person courses. Enquire below.
Understanding Guidance Note 08 - Bats and Artificial Lighting
A one-day course from the Institution of Lighting Professionals for Architectural Lighting Designers.
Our friendly expert trainer will demystify this subject, teaching in a small group and providing the opportunity to ask questions with total confidence before, during, and after the course. This short course is ideal for lighting designers, planners and environmental officers and is based on the ILP Guidance Note 08, which was written in collaboration with the Bats Conservation Trust in 2023.
The short course has been developed to provide lighting designers, planners and environmental officers a better understanding and further explanations. As with all our courses, our friendly expert trainer will demystify this subject, teaching in a small group and with the opportunity to ask questions in total confidence before, during and after the course.
Venue
The ILP Fundamental Lighting Electrical Course is held at The ILP, Regent House, Regent Place, Rugby CV21 2PN.
This course can also be held at your company's premises, if you have several employees to train.
For more information, please get in touch with Ange Davies on +44 1788 576492 or [email protected]
Tutor Profile
Tutor: Guy Harding
Current Position: Technical Manager, ILP
Professional Qualifications: Chartered Engineer, European Engineer, Fellow ILP, Fellow SLL
Academic Qualifications: BSc (Hons) Metallurgy
Experience
Guy completed a BSc (Hons) in Metallurgy at Brunel University in 1985 and has over 34 years of experience in lighting and electrical design, working in both manufacturing and consulting.
Guy started his lighting journey at Urbis Lighting as an Applications Engineer and was promoted first to Senior Development Engineer, then to Product Development Manager, with responsibility for managing the Product Development team. Guy then became the Manager
of R-Tech Basingstoke.
After a year in consultancy with Jacobs Babtie, Guy joined Woodhouse (Now Marshalls) as Lighting Development Manager in 2006, developing specialist decorative luminaires. Guy has also written and presented many RIBA-accredited CPD sessions for clients. Joining Sill Lighting in 2016 as Technical Manager, Guy gained experience in architectural lighting and gained extensive knowledge of RELUX software for façade and sports lighting.
Guy joined Designs for Lighting in 2020 and spent two years as Design Manager before being appointed Technical Manager at the ILP in 2022. Guy has appeared as an expert witness in a design rights case at the Patents County Court and also holds two patents in lighting. He has served as both Vice President Membership and Vice President Engineering Council for the ILP and is a membership assessor and chair of the Membership Committee. He has lectured on the ELD for over 25 years and has presented papers at the ILP conference and at regional events.
Guy has also served on the Executive Board as Assistant Honorary Treasurer. More recently, Guy gave in-person evidence to the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee on Light pollution in the UK.