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Iara Santos

Lighting designer and design team lead

I'm an architect and lighting designer with seven years in architectural lighting. My work covers photometric calculation, fixture and control specification, and the drawing sets contractors build from: RCPs, fixture schedules, control layouts and specification packages.

I lead a six-person design team that handles about 250 projects a year, and I develop around 60 complete lighting sets a year myself. I'm most useful to studios that have more projects than documentation capacity.

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7Years in architectural lighting

60Complete lighting sets a year, my own

250Projects a year, team I lead

6Designers coordinated

2019Working remotely since

Photometric design

DIALux Evo (advanced) · AGi32 · Relux · lighting calculations · point-by-point calculations · false-color analysis · IES and EULUMDAT files · illuminance by zone · UGR and glare control · uniformity · LPD compliance

Documentation

AutoCAD (advanced) · photometric layouts · reflected ceiling plans · circuiting and control zoning · fixture schedules · cut sheets · specification packages · quantity takeoffs · submittal review · SketchUp + LayOut · Enscape · Revit (in progress)

Controls

DALI · 0–10V · Casambi · Lutron · remote driver coordination · scene design · tunable white · dimming and switching coordinated with the electrical scope

Standards

EN 12464-1 and -2 · ISO/CIE 8995-1 · IES Lighting Handbook and RP series · healthcare lighting equivalent to RP-29 · ADA · IBC · LEED-targeted calculations

Imperial and metric

Feet-and-inches with AFF, or millimeters to finished floor. Footcandles or lux. ARCH/ANSI sheets at 1/4" = 1'-0", or ISO A-series at 1:50.

Project phases

Schematic design through construction documents · construction administration support · RFIs and field queries · coordination with architects, electrical engineers and MEP consultants

Available for remote lighting work across U.S. and European time zones.

I have worked remotely since 2019. I run full project phases on my own, from brief to construction close-out, and coordinate with architects, contractors and MEP consultants in other time zones.

Open to contract, freelance and long-term roles. Email is the fastest way to reach me.

U.S.ET · CT · MT · PT

EuropeCET · 7–8h overlap

Async-firstWritten, documented

Email [email protected]

LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/arqiarassantos Sample specification book Primary suite · full spec set