Berg Lighting Design

FIRM DESCRIPTION

Berg Lighting Design offers a full spectrum of lighting consulting services to enhance architecture, landscape and fine art.

Jeffrey T. Berg, AIA, LC brings over 28 years of experience designing lighting to complement institutional, commercial and residential interiors as well as building facades and landscapes. Formerly a principal of Berg/Howland Associates, he has directed daylighting analysis and design, including physical model testing, computer modeling, and LEED credit documentation; custom fixture design and documentation; landscape lighting, with LEED credit documentation; and illuminating of exhibits and public artwork.

Among the many projects Mr. Berg has completed are lighting design for renovated and new case study classrooms for the advanced management program at Harvard Business School; consulting on illuminating a major renovation of the Bank of Boston (now Bank of America) headquarters lobby and plaza; design of exhibit lighting for three acres of horticultural displays at Callaway Gardens, Pine Mountain, GA; consulting on new courthouses for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in Lawrence and Boston, including assisting in design of custom fixtures for courtrooms; and designing lighting to meet modern needs, inside and out, at the historic Woburn Library, Woburn, MA, a National Historic Landmark. Jeff Berg’s lighting design work has received awards from the Illuminating Engineering Society, the Designers' Lighting Forum, the International Association of Lighting Designers, and the US Department of Energy.

Consulting on a team or directly with an owner, the firm offers the flexibility and responsiveness of personal service. Working with architects, landscape architects, artists and owners, BLD develops lighting strategies that reinforce their goals. With sensitivity and experience Berg Lighting Design brings ideas to light.

Jeffrey T. Berg is a registered architect and formerly a principal of Berg/Howland Associates Incorporated, architects and lighting designers in Cambridge, MA. Previously he was an associate and designer at William Lam Associates, Inc., lighting consultants in Cambridge, MA from 1978-1983. As a lighting consultant since 1978 he has worked on designs for a variety of commercial, institutional and residential projects across the United States and abroad. Berg Lighting Design's current projects include consulting on illuminating the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, art installations at MIT and Harvard, and an 18th century imperial lodge in Beijing for the World Monuments Fund.

Mr. Berg was a Critic in Lighting Design at the Yale University School of Architecture from 1987 to1998, after teaching architectural lighting at the Rhode Island School of Design and Roger Williams College. He organized or spoke at workshops at the Build Boston conference from 1990 to 1999 and again in 2003.

His work has been published in Architectural Record Lighting, Architectural Lighting, Design Times, and the Boston Globe. He has written articles for The Interiors Handbook for Historic Buildings, the Construction Specifier, the Association for Preservation Technology Bulletin, and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design News. Mr. Berg holds the Certificate of Technical Knowledge from the Illuminating Engineering Society, and is Lighting Certified by the National Council on Qualifications for the Lighting Professions. Berg/Howland projects have won awards from the International Association of Lighting Designers, the Illuminating Engineering Society, the Designers' Lighting Forum, and the U.S. Department of Energy.