Government and Public Affairs Committee
The LIA Government and Public Affairs Committee (GPAC) advises and informs the LIA Policy team, both with the message the LIA wishes to get across, and the strategy and plan as to how that communication and outreach should happen.
Some of the topics that GPAC is currently working on are:
- Minimum Energy Performance Standards – the communication strategy.
- UK - European Union relationship – now 8 years since the Brexit vote, we need to take new choices whether to continue our pursuit of full regulatory alignment with the EU, or a nuanced, low friction compatibility.
- Gov. UK. – How to communicate with Government, whether via a reinvigorated All Party Parliamentary Lighting Group (APPLG), allegiance with other APPGs in the net zero, electrotechnical, building performance and manufacturing spaces or other routes.
- The LIA’s Lighting Manifesto – final approvals and communication strategy including pre and post elections plans.
- Better together – inputting and advising on our outreach and working with the multiple other organisations in the net zero, electrotechnical, building performance and manufacturing spaces.
- LightingEurope – Guiding our strategy with our trusted friends and colleagues in Brussels.
Committee Chair
Bob Bohannon
Bob has thirty-five years of experience designing and delivering lighting schemes, teaching lighting from new entrants to governments and empowering people on their value of light and sustainability journey.
Bob is a leading member of the UK lighting community as a past President of the Society of Light and Lighting, as well as an Executive Board member of LightingEurope.
Trained originally with the LIF (now LIA Knowledge) he went on to gain the UCL master's degree in Light, Lighting and Architecture.
Bob’s technical, design and project management skills helped deliver many major projects from St. Pancras to Heathrow via the Royal Albert Hall. He was co-designer for the Iron Bridge at Telford, which won both a Lux Award and an international [d]arc award and was the lighting designer for White Hart Lane Station, Tottenham, which won an IES Award of Merit in 2021.
A strong believer in sustainability, Bob led the team that created the CIBSE/SLL TM66 Circular Economy initiative, which won both Platinum and Green at the Build Back Better Awards and was recognised with the SLL Lighting Award.
- Email:
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- LinkedIn:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobbohannon/