Barton’s Lighting Studio receives Two IES Illumination Lighting Awards at the Philament Awards 2025!

Barton’s Lighting Studio is honored to have received two lighting awards at the Philament Awards 2025! The evening of celebration was hosted by the Philadelphia Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society to recognize the local lighting community. The Nemours Children’s Health and Lebanon County Department of Emergency Services projects both received recognition for interior lighting design excellence!

IES Philadelphia Section: 2025 Certificate of Merit for Interior Lighting Design
Nemours Children’s Health, Malvern Specialty Care & Ambulatory Surgery Center – Malvern, PA
This project includes roughly 43,000 square-feet of shell space fit-out in a new two-story building to create a state-of-the-art specialty care and ambulatory surgery center with a focus on pediatric patient care. The new site has been designed with children’s comfort in mind, providing a welcoming, calm environment to enhance the overall health care experience. The program includes 18 medical and surgical specialties including a concussion center, audiology booth, onsite imaging, developmental medicine specialists, a sleep center, and a surgery center.

Luminaires were strategically provided to compliment and draw attention to interior design elements throughout the facility resulting in a cohesive aesthetic while creating a warm atmosphere with visual interest for patients, visitors, and staff. Groupings of large, circular pendants were utilized along with architectural ceiling details to define seating areas within large, open waiting areas. Small, decorative pendant clusters mounted at varying heights providing visual cues identifying all reception/registration desks throughout for consistency. Linear slots were provided to emphasize art and branding walls while also playfully mirroring linear accents within the flooring materials in similar orientation and rhythm assisting occupant wayfinding.

IES Philadelphia Section: 2025 Certificate of Merit for Interior Lighting Design
Lebanon County Department of Emergency Services, New Public Safety Facilities – Lebanon, PA
This new single-story 41,600 square-foot mission critical facility was designed with a focus on serving the numerous needs of a county-level department of emergency services (DES) to enhance their ability to perform core emergency management responsibilities for the surrounding community. Project features include the county 9-1-1 communications center, emergency operations center (EOC), data center, multiple large multipurpose spaces for training and public communications, and other support spaces such as administrative offices, sleeping rooms, and kitchen.

Select areas of the building, such as the 911 call center, EOC and training rooms, consisted of increased floor to ceiling heights open to structure above providing access to natural light and introducing several types of floating acoustic tile ceiling systems at different mounting heights, sizes, and configurations. Luminaires and lighting controls were strategically integrated with these architectural elements throughout the facility resulting in a cohesive aesthetic that efficiently balanced visual interest, functionality, flexibility and comfort; in particular, for the staff that will spend long, intense durations inside this built environment.