PEOPLE

Joel Loveland
As the Director of the Integrated Design Lab, in collaboration with the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington, Joel has delivered the daylighting consulting on over 150 projects per year across the states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana as well as the province of British Columbia.

Professor Loveland continues to travel widely, consulting on projects throughout the lab’s territory as well as lecturing and teaching nation-wide. In this effort, he is revisiting the major cities of the region to report on the lab’s recent daylighting work, renewing acquaintances made at Daylighting Consultant Seminars and looking for the best way to expand and support the “Daylighting Network” of professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest.

 

  
 

Christopher Meek is a Research Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Washington and a registered architect in the State of Washington. He serves as the primary daylighting consultant at the Integrated Design Lab (IDL). In this role, he consults with design teams in the Pacific Northwest and nationally with a focus on the integration of daylight with architectural form and electric lighting. He teaches courses on light, design, and architecture at the University of Washington, Department of Architecture.

 

  
 

Edward Bartholomew IALD, LC, LEED™ AP
For over fifteen years Edward has designed lighting for architectural projects.  During this time he has worked on a range of project types and collaborated with a diverse list of clients.  Edward has a MFA from the Parsons School of Design in Architectural Lighting. He has won numerous lighting design awards and has written several articles on lighting. He is the Electric Lighting lecturer for the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Washington.  He is the Research Associate specializing in Electric Lighting for the IDL.

 

  
  f Heather Burpee is a Research Associate and Health Design Specialist at the Integrated Design Lab.  She consults leading health design firms in the Puget Sound Region on best practices for high quality, energy efficient design for hospitals.  As part of her consultation, she has established thorough research on energy efficiency of hospitals, working with leading mechanical engineers to establish goals to radically reduce energy consumption in this building typology.  In the past two years, she has traveled extensively in Northern Europe studying innovative hospital design and its applicability to design practice in the US.