Leveraging Lighting and Sustainable Design with Mark Loeffler

<p><strong>Mark Loeffler</strong> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">is a professional member of the International Association of Lighting Designers and a LEED Fellow and has practiced lighting and sustainable design consulting for more than 30 years. Based in the New Haven area, Mark enjoys working with innumerable architects, engineers, organizations, and institutions across the Northeast US on a wide range of ambitious and notable projects of every type and scale.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mark collaborates with architects, engineers, planners, and facility managers to help them better leverage their own lighting and sustainable design talents and resources to deliver inspired and vital buildings. From hourly consulting on individual project challenges to more comprehensive involvement in strategic planning, Mark assists with architectural lighting, day lighting, and sustainable design workshops, concept development, performance criteria, analytical requirements, peer review, and benchmarking readiness.</span></p> <p> </p> <h3><strong>Mark Loeffler - Get To Know Mark</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mark grew up in Austin, Texas in the 1960s and 1970s. He started off at the University of Texas as a novelist but became an assistant lighting designer of Austin Ballet Theater.  He then finished his degree in Humanities but focused on lighting as a career. In 1987, Mark and his wife moved to New Haven, Connecticut and finished with an MFA in Agricultural Lighting. Very quickly, Mark started integrated lighting and agricultural lighting, then got involved with energy efficiency and design.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I went to work for a woman who started her own firm that started integrated lighting and agricultural lighting and that’s where I really got involved with energy efficiency and sustainable lighting design in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, well before LEED.” - Mark Loeffler</span></p> <p><span style= "font-weight: 400;">    </span></p> <h3><strong>Earl