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GE Announces Winners of Coveted 29th Annual GE Edison Award:
Heinmiller, Zaferiou, and Weissman of Lam Partners Win 2011 GE Edison Award
LAS VEGAS — May 9, 2012 — The 2011 GE Edison Award was presented to Glenn Heinmiller, Paul Zaferiou
and Dan Weissman of Lam Partners (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) for lighting the United States
Institute of Peace in Washington, DC, USA. A personalized Steuben crystal award for the 29th annual lighting
design competition was presented by GE Lighting on May 8, 2012, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The GE Edison
Award competition is open to those lighting professionals who creatively employ significant use of GE light
sources (lamps and/or LEDs) in a lighting design project completed during the previous calendar year.
The first permanent home of the United States Institute of Peace is prominently located near the Lincoln
Memorial in Washington, D.C. The translucent wing-like roofs that connect the building’s three curving
sections presented the most challenging lighting problem: to light the roofs with no visible sources so they
glow softly both inside and outside. A pervasive lighting theme, featuring GE T5 fluorescent lamps, is present
throughout the building. Light sources are fully concealed or designed to disappear, revealing and animating,
but never competing with the architecture.
The roofs are comprised of an outer diffusing glass and an inner white membrane, with structure
sandwiched between these two layers. Forward-throw cove fixtures, with GE 54-watt T5 3000 K fluorescent
lamps, are mounted in the tops of walls to light the roofs. This single lighting layer simultaneously provides
the interior ambient lighting and the exterior surface glow. Above the uppermost windows, necklaces of
matching adjustable monopoints with GE 37-watt Precise™ IR MR16 halogen lamps and 39-watt
ConstantColor® CMH® PAR20 lamps provide supplemental downlighting. In-grade ceramic metal halide
adjustable fixtures illuminate the roof’s overhang, seamlessly extending the glow outside to the roof’s lowest
point.
Perimeter offices are fully daylighted, and the clerestories bring daylight into the corridors. Inexpensive T5
fluorescent strips with GE 21-watt T5 3000 K lamps are integrated continuously into the curving base of the
clerestories to indirectly light both the offices and corridors. In addition, each office has a custom T5 pendant
with shielding, designed to block views into the fixtures from outside or from within the atria.
A central lighting control system employs occupancy sensing, daylight sensing scheduling, and local preset
scene control. The project is LEED® Gold certified.
A prestigious panel of five judges selected this year’s winning entry for its superiority in the following
categories: functional excellence; architectural compatibility; effective use of state-of-the-art lighting
products and techniques; appropriate color, form and texture revelation; energy effectiveness; and cost
effectiveness.
Judges for this 29th annual competition were:
 Tanas S. T. AlKhoury, Light Concept LLC, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
 Wendi Bertelsen, LC, LEED® GA, GE Lighting, Glen Allen, Virginia, USA
 Ross A. De Alessi, IALD, MIES, Ross De Alessi Lighting Design, Seattle, Washington, USA
 David Ghatan, IALD, MIES, LC, C. M. Kling & Associates, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia, USA
 Ion Luh, IALD Assoc., Consullux Lighting Consultants, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The winning project was one of three Awards of Excellence finalists. The other Awards of Excellence winners
were:
 Cornell University, Milstein Hall (Ithaca, New York, USA) designed by Suzan Tillotson and Christopher
Cheap of Tillotson Design Associates (New York, New York, USA)
 Museum of the Bavarian Kings (Hohenschwangau, Germany) designed by Andreas Schulz, Malte
Simon and Thomas Möritz of Licht Kunst Licht AG (Bonn, Germany & Berlin, Germany)
Also presented at the GE Edison Awards ceremony were five Awards of Merit, one Award for Environmental
Design, one Award for Residential Design and two Special Citations.
2011 GE Edison Awards of Merit
Confidential Trading Company
(Chicago, Illinois, USA)
Joe and Rika Mansueto Library
(Chicago, Illinois, USA)
Lighting Experience Center
(Budapest, Hungary)
University of Illinois at Chicago,
Daley Library
(Chicago, Illinois, USA)
University of Minnesota Amplatz
Children’s Hospital
(Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA)
2011 GE Edison Award for
Environmental Design
University of Arizona Likins and
Árbol de la Vida Residence Halls
(Tucson, Arizona, USA)
2011 GE Edison Award for
Residential Design
Toro Canyon Residence
(Santa Barbara, California, USA)
2011 GE Edison Award
Special Citations
Louisville Second Street
Transportation Project
(Louisville, Kentucky, USA)
Ogden High School
Auditorium Restoration
(Ogden, Utah, USA)
James Baney, Maureen Mahr, Jennifer Curtis and Kanis Glaewketgarn
Schuler Shook (Chicago, Illlinois, USA)
Michael F. Rohde, Dorit Anderle, Stephanie Rock, Alan Al-Salihi and
Magdalena Gomez
L-PLAN Lighting Design (Berlin, Germany)
Helmut Jahn
Murphy/Jahn (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
Andrea Cerquiglini, Laura Rossi, Simone Alberti, Valentina Strada,
Valeria Regazzetti and Arianna Amato
Cerquiglini & Rossi Architecture (Varedo (MB), Italy)
Emily Klingensmith, Miory Kanashiro, Kanis Glaewketgarn and Lindsay
Jonkers
Schuler Shook (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
Tao Ham
HGA Architects and Engineers (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA)
James R. Benya
Benya Lighting Design (West Linn, Oregon, USA)
Christian K. Monrad
Monrad Engineering (Tucson, Arizona, USA)
Ann L. Kale and Krista A. Rhodes
Ann Kale Associates (Santa Barbara, California, USA)
Leni Schwendinger, Eric Chenault and Joseph Legros
Leni Schwendinger Light Projects LTD (New York, New York, USA)
Joseph “Jody” M. Good, III
Spectrum Engineers (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA)
Visit www.GEEdisonAward.com to view all the award winners of the 2011 GE Edison Awards in more detail
and to find information related to the 2012 GE Edison Award call for entries.
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