AOLP Announces Awards Winners

Bernie Granier, Starshine of Texas, received four AOLP awards for the McCurdy Home project.

The Association of Outdoor Lighting Professionals (AOLP) recently held its annual awards banquet to honor professional excellence in outdoor lighting design as part of the 2011 Annual Conference & Expo.

In this year’s competition, there were five category winners, a Best of Show winner, and world renowned lighting expert and LASN Associate Editor Janet Lennox Moyer was also on-hand to present her annual Janet Lennox Moyer Award for distinguished work in the lighting industry.

Keith Rosser of Sandy, Utah earned two awards including Best Outdoor Living Lighting for the Diamond Project at the AOLP banquet held recently in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Bernie Granier of Cypress, Texas was the big winner at the Association of Outdoor Lighting Professionals awards banquet, receiving four awards on the evening for work on the McCurdy Home. Oscar Welch and Keith Rosser also received awards for their lighting projects.

Oscar Welch received the award for Best Commercial Lighting for the UCF Memorial project during the AOLP awards banquet.

The award winners are as follows:

Award of Merit – Best Rookie Lighting
Bernie Granier, Starshine of Texas, Cypress, Texas. Project: McCurdy Home

Award of Merit – Best Residential Lighting
Bernie Granier, Starshine of Texas, Cypress, Texas. Project: McCurdy Home

Award of Merit – Best Commercial Lighting
Oscar Welch, Welch Creative Lighting, Windermere, Fla. Project: UCF Memorial Site

Award of Merit – Best Outdoor Living Lighting
Keith Rosser, Landscape Lighting Pro of Utah, Sandy, Utah. Project: Diamond

Award of Merit – Best Water Features/Statuary Lighting
Bernie Granier, Starshine of Texas, Cypress, Texas. Project: McCurdy Home

Award of Merit – Best of Show Lighting
(As voted by the AOLP Membership)
Bernie Granier, Starshine of Texas, Cypress, Texas. Project: McCurdy Home

Janet Lennox Moyer Award
Keith Rosser, Landscape Lighting Pro of Utah, Sandy, Utah. Project: Diamond