IESIllumination Awards
Lighting design and controls — interior, outdoor, energy & environmental, and control innovation.
- Reach
- Section → international
- Run by
- IES
- Disciplines
- MEP
Who enters
Lighting designers, architects and engineers submit completed installations.
Categories include
A sample, not the full list — these programs restructure their categories between years. IES publishes the current one.
- Interior Lighting Design
- Outdoor Lighting Design
- Energy and Environmental Design
- Control Innovation
The route, start to finish
- 01Enter through an IES section
- 02Section-level judging
- 03Awards of Merit advance to international judging for the Award of Distinction and the Edwin F. Guth Memorial Awards
What it signals when you’re hiring
Metro Associates’ own read, not IES’s.
Lighting design sits between the electrical engineer and the architect, and few CVs make clear which side of that line someone actually works on. An Illumination Award does — it is given for design intent, not for the electrical installation.
Roles whose work ends up in an entry like this
- Lighting Designer
- Electrical Engineer
- MEP Design Lead
We staff the firms that enter. We don’t enter.
Metro Associates is a recruiting firm, and a recruiting firm is not eligible for an engineering award. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or a winner of the Illumination Awards. The IES name and mark belong to IES, shown here to identify the program it runs. What we do is place the engineers whose work goes into entries like it.