New in 2025!
MILWAUKEE IES SUBMITTERS!
As an added benefit to our chapter members, Amanda Busalacchi and Kristin Raduenz, your IES Milwaukee Chapter IA Chairpersons, are offering their services for a QC review of your award submissions prior to completing the application. We will look for items that may violate the rules procedures and note scored items that may not be covered in your submissions. We will not be reviewing word counts or massaging your narratives however, if we have suggestions, we will offer them for you to take or leave as you please.
If you wish to take us up on this offer, please email us the following in a PDF format.
- Your 300 word narrative
- Your photos with associated narratives in the order that they will be included in the submission
- A video, if you are using one. Make sure the narrative for this is included with the photos and indicate that this is to accompany the video.
Please allow 5 business days to turn around comments and plan appropriately!
1. Impact Statement:
During the awards submission process, a new Impact Statement will be asked and included in judging of the project. Submitters will be asked to explain “How does this project positively enhance or impact the community it is serving?” in their submission. This additional scored question replaces the discretionary points judges could award to projects. The impact statement should highlight how the project makes a difference in the community where it is located. A few examples are ensuring the lighting for an outdoor project doesn’t negatively impact or shine into an adjacent community, designing with the understanding of local customs and abilities, using an equitable process of community engagement and collaboration, or building community through light. It can also be used to identify how your designed empowered spaces that serve historically under resourced, neglected, and/or marginal communities with quality lighting designs.
2. New Category:
The Illumination Award for Experiential Lighting Design, sponsored by ETC, Inc. recognizes those projects that use the design of lighting as art or for effect. The projects submitted in this category are themed or immersive environments, whether temporary, permanent, or seasonal. The Experiential Lighting Design award encompasses interior and exterior projects and permanent, temporary, or seasonal installations. This can be a park with interactive elements for visitors, a spectacular holiday display, or an amusement park ride, to name a few examples.
Illumination Award for Control Innovation, sponsored by the Lighting Controls Association, a Council within NEMA
Advanced lighting control solutions can provide significant energy savings, flexibility and other benefits in buildings. This prestigious award recognizes good lighting projects that exemplify the effective use of lighting controls in nonresidential applications.
*The LCA will have permission to publish the award recipient and any other entrants on its website as education content, including photography, giving all appropriate credits, including IES Illumination Awards Program and the manufacturer(s).
Illumination Award for Interior Lighting Design, sponsored by Edwin F. Guth
In 1902 Edwin F. Guth founded the St. Louis Brass Company and later renamed it the Edwin F. Guth Company. Mr. Guth’s profound creativity, entrepreneurialism and focus to improve interior lighting are partially represented through 147 patents awarded to him prior to his passing in 1962. This award recognizes exceptional interior lighting projects that balance the functional illumination of space with the artistic application of light to enhance the occupant’s experience.
Illumination Award for Outdoor Lighting Design
The Illumination Award for Outdoor Lighting Design recognizes excellence in lighting design and application in all aspects of exterior lighting. The program celebrates achievements in aesthetics, applied technical acumen, creative solutions to demanding site conditions and advancements to the industry in outdoor lighting applications. The goal of the program is to further the understanding, knowledge and function of outdoor lighting as a critical aspect of the built environment.
Illumination Award for Energy and Environmental Design
The Energy and Environmental Design Award recognizes quality lighting installations in commercial and industrial buildings that incorporate advanced energy-saving strategies and environmentally responsible solutions into the overall design.
Illumination Award for Experiential Lighting Design, sponsored by ETC, Inc.
The Experiential Design Award recognizes those projects that use the design of lighting as art or for effect. This category recognizes themed or immersive environments, whether temporary, permanent, or seasonal.
Applicant Resources
Please contact our IA Co-Chairs, Amanda Busalacchi and Kristin Raduenz with any questions.
Amanda Busalacchi
