allowed to receive fees. This must change to allow the full design team to funciton. The discussion mus t begin between the Architects and Interior Designers and their clients. As professional lighting designers, our CAD drawings are averaging a minimum of 15 C or D full-size sheets per project that detail the architectural lighting, decorative lighting, full product specifications, lighting controls, motorized drapery and controls, power and connectivity, etc. These drawings are all coordinated around the architectural design and structure,furniture plans, cabinetry, art locations and decorations, finish colurs and surfaces, speaker locations, mechanical vents and ducting, sprinkler systems and not to mention local and national electrical codes. How can this possibly be done without charging professional fees? I will tell you how. You have all experienced it and it is perhaps the scariest process known to man. It's called sub-contractor design by default. Thsi usually boils down to whoever gets in the structure first,wins. Shoehorning in products after the fact, arm waving,guessork and a prayer that the end result will be successful. And guess what? At the end of the day there is no one to take responsibility for perhaps the most complex design elements of today's modern projects. As design professionals, let's stop that old process and give our clients what they deserve. I have developed over the years and trademarked a thoughtful method that helps our clients understand the process we go throught in designing their lighting into their projects. I call it The ADAPTIVE Method. This process, coordinated with the design team, walks the clients layer by layer through their project's illumination needs. Let me show you what I mean. Let's look at our approach to lighting design as eight individual layers of illumination applied to a fiven room or space: Layer 1- Architectrual Layer 2- Decorative Layer 3- Art Layer 4- Path Layer 5- Task Layer 6- Interior Decoration Layer 7- View Layer 8- Exterior Of course this is only a peek into our world of lighting design. In addition to thinking through the layers, one must know the complex products and applications, which will maximize the process and be able to methodically apply the control technology for simplicity of function. Look into your local area for lighting professionals by contacting the International Association of Lighting Designers at www.iald.org, and interview, interview, interview just as you would in selecting your Architect and Interior Designers. Glenn Johnson is a principle lighting designer of Glenn Johnson LLC based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Glenn has been practising lighting design for 27 years and has literally written the book on the subject. The Art of Illumination: Residential Lighting Design, published by McGraw-Hill (1999) has been utilized in the course study of 18 colleges and universities. Glenn can be reached at glenn.johnson@adaptivedg.com or 7.801.274.9600 ext.103