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About LDI

Lighting design is a specialty that requires vision, sensitivity, flexibility, and technical expertise. It is both an art and a science. Expertise in both enables a designer to seamlessly incorporate lighting into a project.

Lighting Design Innovations (LDI) was established to provide lighting design expertise to Owners, Architects, Interior Designers, Engineers, and to those responsible for maintaining the environment affected by electric light sources.

Our mission is to incorporate lighting into architecture, in a way that both humanizes and complements the space and environment. LDI believes that understanding the owner’s needs and vision, and our dedication to a team approach, will lead to a successful project.

Firm Overview
Lighting Design Innovations was founded by the partnership of Paul and Kimberly Mercier. Since 2000 LDI has participated in and completed numerous interior, exterior, and artistic lighting projects across the United States and Canada. Our US-based headquarters opened in 2008 and serves as design studio, demonstration space, and lighting education facility.

Our commitment to environmental sustainability compels our project approach to minimize the impact of lighting energy consumption. LDI accomplishes this objective by promoting appropriate lighting technologies and application solutions to create high quality and functional spaces and environments for life and living.

Selected Staff Biographies


Paul D. Mercier MS, LC, IALD
Principal

 


Kim Mercier PE, P.Eng., LEED AP
Principal

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Awards and Affiliations

Lighting Design Awards (selected)

District of North Van Public Art Award   Lynne Valley

GE Edison Award of Merit   Chateau Lake Louise Formal Gardens – Banff, Alberta

Royal Astronomical Society Award   Valentine Volvo Exterior Lighting

IESNA International Illumination Design Awards

Anderson Hall, University of Lethbridge – Lethbridge, Alberta
South Fish Creek Library – Calgary, Alberta
South Fish Creek Education and Recreation Center – Calgary, Alberta
Shaw Tower – Vancouver, British Columbia
Heritage Gateway Train – Calgary, Alberta
Catch Restaurant – Calgary, Alberta
Canadian Pacific Railways Intermodal Facility Site Lighting – Calgary, Alberta
Corus Entertainment SHAW – Calgary, Alberta
Sunridge Sportchek – Calgary, Alberta
TransAlta On Call – Calgary, Alberta
Prospect Point Observation Tower – Niagara Falls, New York
Castiglione Residence – Okotoks, Alberta
First Alliance Church – Calgary, Alberta
Chateau Lake Louise Formal Gardens – Banff, Alberta
The Grand Hall, Levesque Beaubien Geofrion – Montreal, Quebec
Historic Prest-Watson Residence – Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
Richardson Lodge – Canmore, Alberta
Reader Rock Garden – Calgary, Alberta
SUNY at Buffalo Alumni Arena (Interior Lighting) – Buffalo, New York
SUNY at Buffalo Alumni Arena (Controls) – Buffalo, New York

Affiliations
LDI believes strongly in the role of education and has consistently taken a leadership position in various industry associations and organizations.

IALD • IES • APEGA • WBE • AEE • LEED

Why you need to hire a professional lighting designer

Chateau Lake Louise

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Recent LDI Projects

300 West Block - Stephen Avenue Mall Calgary, Alberta, Canada Welcoming 10,000 pedestrians per hour, the three-block walk along Stephen Avenue is an urban immersion with live performances, festivals, shopping, and dining. …
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1st Street SW Underpass Calgary, Alberta, Canada 1st Street SW Underpass, the busiest in a city of 1.2MM people, is the primary corridor between the Beltline Community and Downtown welcoming nearly 10,000 pedestrians …
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CUNY Brooklyn College - Whitehead Hall Brooklyn, NY They said it couldn’t be done. City University of New York Whitehead Hall had undergone a 1990’s-era lamp and ballast replacement, to T8 and electronic ballasts. When …
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