Butler Harwell

CPD overview

Effective lighting design completely transforms a room's ambience and directly impacts individual wellbeing. This CPD explores the importance of natural and artificial lighting in an interior space. Understand how lighting techniques including colour, intensity, placement and creative layering can enhance a room and improve welfare. Appreciate the difference between meeting industry standards and achieving high-end, luxury lighting design. Learn how, with the help of a technology specialist, bespoke lighting solutions can illuminate different spaces and can be effortlessly and intuitively controlled through professional integration.

About Butler Harwell:
We believe home comforts enrich lives, and our obsession with technology inspires us to enhance homes for customised comfort and control. Our company’s raison d’être is to combine the worlds of technology and interior design. We specialise in lighting design, whole-home automation, cinema and media rooms, multi-room AV, climate control, outdoor technology, and security.

Butler Harwell’s Managing Director Tom Butler served on CEDIA’s board of directors from 2013 - 2017 and he, with his Outreach Team, continues to educate on behalf of CEDIA as an Outreach Instructor. Butler Harwell Directors Roy Ashby and Tom Butler are lifelong contributors to the Technology Industry and have a valued partnership with CEDIA. They are advocate’s to CEDIA’s industry standards, and are committed to educate and assist Design and Build professionals in technology integration, without compromising aesthetics.
 

Learning objectives

Gain a greater understanding of:
 

• The various types of lighting
• How to differentiate between different lighting techniques
• The processes of integrated lighting design and how it fits into the wider design process
• The role light quality plays in lighting design
• Design considerations for integrated lighting
• When a technology professional should be involved in the design process
   

To book this CPD, please contact Joanna Richards on E: cpd@butlerharwell.com T: 080 0030 2999
 

CPD overview

More homeowners than ever are optimising their living spaces for shared family experiences, whether it’s with dedicated blackout, immersive home cinemas, or multi-purpose media rooms which transition from bright and airy daytime living spaces to atmospheric snugs with cinema quality evening entertainment. Learn the foundations to design luxurious home entertainment rooms that rival the audio-visual quality and immersive experience of commercial cinema. This BIID and RIBA accredited CEDIA CPD clarifies the difference between home cinemas and media rooms and exemplifies how varying components can be tailored to suit individual briefs.

The Shared Experience:
Cinema is about the shared experience, and we want to share the magic behind the scenes of home cinema with you. Join us for an exclusive showroom tour with one of our specialist partners for this specialist CPD, and if you have time, enjoy a private screening of your choice from the Kaleidescape library. We love to host immersive CPD experiences at specialist, luxury demonstration facilities, where guests can appreciate the benefits of luxury technology integrated with design first hand. However, if you prefer to book a standard CPD session we will be happy to accommodate your request.

Home Cinema Specialists:
Butler Harwell are proud to represent CEDIA as one of the limited CPD providers to meet the strict criteria to deliver this specialist course on ‘Designing Home Cinemas and Media Rooms.’ Our team has spent decades designing, crafting and installing breath-taking home cinema rooms and media rooms, featuring the same technological innovations as the most luxurious multiplexes around the world – including 4K projection, custom acoustic panelling and 3D audio surround-sound.

About Butler Harwell:

We believe home comforts enrich lives, and our obsession with technology inspires us to enhance homes for customised comfort and control. Our company’s raison d’être is to combine the worlds of technology and interior design. We specialise in cinema and media rooms, multi-room AV, lighting design, whole-home automation, climate control, outdoor technology, intercom and security, and residential connectivity.

Butler Harwell’s Managing Director Tom Butler served on CEDIA’s board of directors from 2013 - 2017 and he, with his Outreach Team, continues to educate on behalf of CEDIA as an Outreach Instructor. Butler Harwell Directors Roy Ashby and Tom Butler are lifelong contributors to the Technology Industry and have a valued partnership with CEDIA. They are advocate’s to CEDIA’s industry standards, and are committed to educate and assist Design and Build professionals in technology integration, without compromising aesthetics.
 

Learning Objectives

Gain a greater understanding of:

•    The difference between a home cinema and a media room and the basic vocabulary used
•    How to raise awareness of home cinemas and media rooms
•    How to help clients choose and specify rooms and raise the standard of the rooms
•    The components that make a good home cinema room and media room
•    The design principles of sound and vision
•    How to work with a system designer and look at requirements 
 

To book this CPD, please contact Joanna Richards on E: cpd@butlerharwell.com T: 0800 030 2999