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The annual competition, which began in 1977, focuses on furthering the understanding, knowledge and function of lighting as a primary element in design and requires the predominant use of lighting and controls products from Eaton’s lighting solutions. Entries are judged on aesthetics, creativity and technical performance to address specific lighting needs while meeting project constraints and design concept goals.

“We congratulate the talented winners of this year’s SOURCE Awards competition, our 40^th year of celebrating lighting design,” said Kraig Kasler, president, Eaton’s Lighting Division. “The outstanding quality of work from the professional winners features a diverse group of architectural projects including a dynamic library, a historical museum, a beautiful private residence and the successful energy-efficient upgrades of a college hall; an operations and maintenance facility; and a city’s underpass. For our winning students, we hope their impressive work will inspire them towards a career in lighting.”

The 2017 winners include:

Professional Category

Winners:

-Tec Studio Inc., Columbus, Ohio, and designer Ardra Paige Zinkon, CLD, IALD, for the lighting of the Columbus Metropolitan Library-Main Branch, Columbus, Ohio.

Tec Studio Inc. was named the overall Commercial Category winner for the lighting of the Columbus Metropolitan Library-Main Branch in Ohio.

-Robert Singer and Associates, Inc., Basalt, Colorado, and the design team of Robert Singer, IES, IALD, and Kim Quint, LEED AP,IALD, for the lighting design of the private residence.

Honorable Mentions:

-Karpinski Engineering, Cleveland, Ohio, and designer Marian K. Perez, LC, MIES, for the lighting design of the Erie County Historical Society, Watson-Curtze Mansion and Carriage House in Erie, Pennsylvania.

-Receiving two awards, Lighting Design Innovations, Batavia, New York, and the design team of Paul D. Mercier, MS, LC, IALD, MIES and Kimberly R. Mercier, MBA, PE, P.Eng., LEED AP, MIES, for the lighting upgrade at Whitehead Hall at the City of New York Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York, and for the lighting design of the 1st Street SW Underpass in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

-RNL, Denver, Colorado, and designers Rachel Fitzgerald, MIES, IALD, LC, LEED AP BD+C and Jeanette Zagone, LC, for the lighting design of the Metro Division 14 Expo Light Rail Operations and Maintenance Facility in Santa Monica, California.

Student Category

Winner:

-Hazel Chang from Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, for her conceptual lighting design of a music recording company’s sports stadium skybox, titled Sonata Music Classical Skybox. A past winner in 2014 and honorable mention winner in 2015, Chang was under the instruction of Jeanne Mercer-Ballard, M.A., associate professor in the Department of Applied Design, Interior Design program and D. Jason Miller, AIA, NCARB, assistant professor in the Department of Sustainable Technology and the Built Environment.

Honorable Mentions:

-Elizabeth Hundley from Appalachian State University for her conceptual lighting design office building project, titled Incandescent. Hundley was the winner of last year’s competition and was under the direction of Hessam Ghamari, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Applied Design, Interior Design program, as well as Jeanne Mercer-Ballard.

-Emma Morris, also from Appalachian State University, for her conceptual lighting design restaurant project, titled "Bloom" a Turkish-American Restaurant. Morris was under the direction of Mercer-Ballard.

-Marissa Sexton from University of Missouri-St. Louis and Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, for her healthcare facility project, titled Healing Light - The Green Health Center. Sexton was under the direction of Thomas P. Collins, P.E., adjunct professor of Electrical Engineering.

-Emily Miller from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, for her conceptual eatery project, titled Element. Miller was under the direction of Amanda Gale, Ph.D., assistant professor of the Interior Architecture program at the university.

-Kassondra Hauck from Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, for her project, titled The Community Teen Center. Hauck was under the instruction of Julie Qun Zuo, associate professor of Interior Design in the Department of Human Environmental Studies at the university.

Award of Recognition:

-Abigail Chin, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, for her restaurant project, titled Gourmasia. Chin was under the direction of Kevin Woolley, Ph.D., assistant professor of Interior Design in the Department of Art and Design at Purdue University.

The professional winning firms, Tec Studio Inc. and Robert Singer and Associates, Inc., each received a $5,000 monetary award. Student winner Chang received $2,000 and each of the Honorable Mention professionals and students was awarded $500. All winners were presented with a crystal trophy and offered an invitation to attend a complimentary class at the SOURCE, Eaton’s state-of-the-art lighting educational center located in Peachtree City, Georgia. The students’ instructors are also invited to attend a class.

For information about this year’s 41st Annual SOURCE Awards competition, please visit TheLightingResouce.Eaton.com.

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