The Fundamentals of Landscape Lighting Design & Installation

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Rob Littlepage

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1. Introduction

1. Welcome To The Course.mp4

01:43

2. A History of Landscape Lighting.mp4

05:47

3. Why Light the Landscape.mp4

05:27

4. Lighting Techniques - a Photo Gallery.mp4

04:15

5. Section Wrap Up.mp4

01:01

2. The Properties of Light

1. Section Overview.mp4

01:38

2.1 AMP RATINGS FOR WIRE.pdf

2.2 OVERVIEW OF ELECTRICAL CODES.pdf

2. Lighting Codes.mp4

07:01

3. Guidelines for Designing your System..mp4

07:34

4. Foot-candles, Lux and Illuminance.mp4

05:55

5. Beam Angles.mp4

07:22

6. Lamps.mp4

06:34

7. Section Wrap Up.mp4

01:25

3. The Temperature of Light

1. Section Overview.mp4

01:00

2. Color Temperature.mp4

07:19

3. Lighting Examples and Demo Kit.mp4

06:57

4. CRI - Color Rendering Index.mp4

04:18

5. Section Wrap Up.mp4

02:51

4. Lighting as Art

1. Section Overview.mp4

01:03

2. Fixtures - An Overview.mp4

08:34

3. Lighting As Art.mp4

06:08

4. Design Opportunities.mp4

04:09

5. Site Assessment.mp4

06:48

6. Section Wrap Up.mp4

01:57

5. Designing Your Lighting System

1. Section Overview.mp4

02:27

2. Transformers - An Overview.mp4

04:58

3. Wiring - the Daisy Chain, Loop and T-Methods.mp4

04:32

4. Wiring - The Loop and T-Methods.mp4

04:52

5.1 Hub Method - Wiring Example.pdf

5. Wiring - the Hub Method.mp4

07:26

6. Drawing Your Design.mp4

06:52

7.1 CALCULATING VOLTAGE DROP IMPERIAL FORMULA.pdf

7.2 voltage Drop Table Imperial.xlsx

7. Calculating Voltage Drop - Imperial Formula.mp4

07:47

8.1 CALCULATING VOLTAGE DROP METRIC FORMULA.pdf

8.2 Voltage Drop Table Metric.xlsx

8. Calculating Voltage Drop - Metric Formula.mp4

09:26

9. Calculating Voltage Drop Using Imperial Values.html

10. Calculating Voltage Drop using Metric Values.html

11. Section Wrap-Up.mp4

01:36

6. From Design to Construction - Installing the System

1. Section Overview.mp4

02:26

2. Locating and Wiring at the Transformer.mp4

06:45

3.1 Hub Method - Wiring Example.pdf

3. Wiring in the Field.mp4

03:28

4. Choosing Your Wire Connections - Part One.mp4

06:30

5. Choosing Your Wire Connections - Part Two.mp4

04:07

6. Section Wrap Up.mp4

00:58

7. Course Wrap Up

1. Course Review.mp4

03:51

2. Thank You.mp4

01:01

3. Additional Resources.mp4

01:11

Description

An Introduction to Low Voltage Garden Lighting Design and Installation

What You'll Learn?

Understand the properties of light
understand how to use photometric charts in selecting lights
understand layering lighting to add depth
understand the basics of installing a landscape lighting design

Who is this for?

This course is intended for both homeowners and landscape contractors who would like to learn the basics of low-voltage landscape lighting design and installation.

What You Need to Know?

There are no requirements to access this course

More details

Description
This course is intended for those who have little or no experience in the art of landscape lighting - either in design or the engineering aspects of installation.Â Overall, this course is a GUIDE for lighting design and installation - not Step-by-Step instructions.Â A well-designed garden can be enjoyed easily through the day, but at night we have the opportunity to create scenes and focus our client's eye on the beauty of the garden much as a lighting designer will do for a play or movie.Â In lighting design, we have complete control of what is seen and what is not seen.Â My intention for this course is to demonstrate different ways to light a garden artistically and to explain the various elements that should be understood in order to accomplish this goal.Â Having an understanding of electricity, photometrics and color temperature will give you the tools necessary to do just this. Also, one should know how to read a manufacturers catalog and the specifications contained so as to select the best possible fixture for the desired effect - this course will give you this knowledge.
Where necessary, calculations and formulas are provided in both Imperial and Metric values.
At its most basic, lighting design consists of two methods - uplighting and downlighting.Â Lighting manufacturers have created a wide range of fixtures to expand on these two methods utilizing different beam spreads, light color, and fixture style.Â This course is not an endorsement of any one product or manufacturer; every company will have similar products and fixtures and I will draw on many different companies throughout this class to demonstrate what is being presented in each lesson.Â
Section One will include photo gallery showing different lighting techniques and how they were created.Â I'll also cover a brief history of landscape lighting and why we do it.
Section Two will dive into the some of the aspects of lighting design, meaning bulbs, the properties of light, color temperature, reading photometric charts, and some of the different fixtures available to us.
Section Three will discuss the temperature of light and how temperature will affect how we view objects within our design.
Section Four will look at the process of developing a lighting plan.Â Design considerations, site assessment and an overview of fixtures.
Section Five will jump into installation methods, wiring, and transformers.Â Two different wiring techniques will be covered - Daisy Chain and the Hub method.Â I will leave it to you, the student, to decide which method you find the most reliable or worthy of your time.Â Â Finally, I'll cover voltage drop calculations - in both Imperial and Metric values.
Section Six will cover some basic installation procedures.
Section Seven will be a course review and wrap up.
Resources will be provided to reinforce the lessons being presented.Â
Remember, you have a 30-day, money-back guarantee, so you have nothing to lose if you find this is not the course for you.Â Thank you for your interest and I look forward to seeing you in our first lesson.
Who this course is for:
This course is intended for both homeowners and landscape contractors who would like to learn the basics of low-voltage landscape lighting design and installation.

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Robert Littlepage, as his many former students can attest, is a dynamic instructor who brings real-world experience and a touch of humor to his teaching style. His love of teaching and enthusiasm for his topic is a source of inspiration to his students. Mr. Littlepage founded the California School of Garden Design in 1998 to fill a much-needed void. He discovered that other than two-year junior college programs and a few correspondence courses, there was no place in the United States where someone interested in becoming a garden designer could learn these skills quickly and at minimum expense. Rob created the School to provide an opportunity for those individuals to learn necessary skills and to become proficient in Garden Design in a short but intensive period of time. This has lead to his now offering on-line classes through Udemy. Rob began his career as a forester and a licensed landscape contractor and has had his own design practice for over 34 years, creating gardens for clients throughout California and the surrounding states. His designs have been featured in garden design books and won awards at numerous shows. He studied garden design in England in 1994. Rob previously taught landscape and irrigation design at Sierra College in Rocklin, California and at the Placer Adult School in Auburn, but decided to open his own garden design school. Landscape designer David Stevens, of David Stevens International has collaborated with Rob to present design classes in the United States and wrote the forward to Rob's latest book "Fundamentals of Garden Design" which is a complement to his course on landscape design. He is a licensed landscape architect in California (#5674) and Louisiana (L-249 - retired). He is a Qualified Water Efficient Landscaper (QWEL) an EPA WaterSense Partner and is a certified landscape irrigation auditor.

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