Fundamental Street Lighting Course

Our training is available as an online, flexible learning course.

We also schedule in-person courses. Enquire below.

An Essential Course

A course for street lighting engineers filled with information, practical advice and descriptions of the issues with details of the options available. Everything you wanted to know about street lighting but may have been afraid to ask.

You may not have had the opportunity for formal training on these subjects – we aim to ensure you have the practical knowledge and experience you need to enhance your competency in four key areas.

Subjects covered on this trainng course:

Lighting and the law, risk management and lighting units
Electrical supplies, unmetered energy and switch regimes
Equipment specification, lighting design and electrical design
Inventories, inspection and testing and lighting policy development

For more information, please contact Ange Davies on +44 1788 576492 or [email protected]

Tutor Profile

Experience

With over 35 years in the street lighting industry, mainly as a local authority engineer and manager, Peter has a wide range of experience. Peter is a Director of Harrison Lighting Limited acting as an independent consultant in the exterior lighting industry before becoming ILP Technical Director in 2019. Prior to that, he was Head of Lighting Design and Additional Revenue at Balfour Beatty Living Places, responsible for the delivery of the lighting designs for the Core Investment Period (CIP) lighting replacements at Coventry, Northamptonshire and Cambridgeshire street lighting PFI projects.

The role also involved providing advice on invest to save schemes, energy reduction strategies, highway improvement schemes and public realm improvements at PFI projects in Derby, South Tyneside and Sunderland where CIP has been completed. He was involved in the procurement of the Birmingham Street Services PFI and before that was part of the core team that delivered the Staffordshire street lighting PFI.

He has experience of the maintenance and refurbishment of tunnel lighting and management systems. He has experience in developing city beautification policies and strategies, has extensive lighting design experience and working with Planning Authorities carrying out lighting impact assessments. Peter is experienced in developing street lighting policies, strategies and development plans to assist local authorities to achieve long term savings through Invest to Save strategies, developing carbon management plans and energy reduction strategies.

He is a past Chairman of the Midlands Region Institution of Lighting Professionals (ILP) and represents the ILP Midlands region at national level, has been a tutor and project leader on the ILP Exterior Lighting Diploma since 2003. He was chair of the panel that produced the Code of Practice for Seasonal Decorations, having been author of the original document and was a panel member that produced the ILP Technical report 23: Lighting of cycle tracks. More recently he managed the production of ATOMS, the document replacing Technical Report 22 on the risk management of lighting supports.