Schonour Earns Full Lighting Certification From NCQLP

Boston, MA – Cannon Design, an internationally ranked architectural, engineering and planning firm, is pleased to announce Sara Schonour, LC, IESNA, LEED AP, has earned her full Lighting Certification (LC) from the National Council on Qualifications for the Lighting Professions (NCQLP).

Boston, MA – Cannon Design, an internationally ranked architectural, engineering and planning firm, is pleased to announce Sara Schonour, LC, IESNA, LEED AP, has earned her full Lighting Certification (LC) from the National Council on Qualifications for the Lighting Professions (NCQLP).

The NCQLP confers the LC as the leading professional accreditation for a lighting designer, earned though career focus on the study and practice of lighting design.

“This is a major accomplishment,” said Cannon Design Associate Principal James Bones, PE, LEED AP, CDT. “Sara completed her LC in record time, which reflects her passion for lighting design, and her extraordinary work ethic.”

Schonour has offered her lighting expertise to several key Cannon Design projects including Tufts University Arnold Laboratory, South Shore Hospital Emerson expansion, the Blue City, New City projects in Oman and the basketball practice facility at Virginia Tech University.

Schonour has delivered several presentations on various topics within the lighting genre and is an active member of both the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America and the Massachusetts Affiliate of the United States Green Building Council (USGBC). She graduated from Penn State University as an architectural engineer with a focus in lighting design. Schonour is a resident of Jamaica Plain, Mass.