Sessions
Welcome to Dallas - Great things about Dallas
8:15 AM - 8:30 AM Tue
Jill Klores, is the founding partner of Essential Light Design Studio, an independent architectural lighting and daylighting consultancy in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. She received her undergraduate degree at the University of Colorado in Illumination Engineering and Environmental Design. She began her career as an applications manager for Ledalite, became a consultant to BC Hydro, an electric utility promoting energy-efficient lighting design, and finally, as a lighting designer in Vancouver, British Columbia, then Dallas, Texas.
Jill has won Illumination Awards on the local, regional and international levels, as well as the celebrated Craig Roeder Memorial Award for exceptional use of color in light, for the Parkland Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit where she used color and intensity of light to assist in entraining infant circadian rhythm in the year 2000, when this field of work was in its infancy.
Jill is a Fellow of the IES, a Professional Member of the IALD, is CLD Certified, and is an active member in the North Texas section of the IES.