Grand Designs Live CPD

Designing Home Cinemas and Media Rooms

Join us at Grand Designs Live in ExCeL London on Friday 2 May for the RIBA and BIID accredited CPD, ‘Designing Home Cinemas and Media Rooms.

Access to the inspirational home and garden design event is on us for our registered CPD attendees.* Explore the show, speak with our team, and gain value-adding, time-saving insight for your next project, all the while earning valuable CPD points.

During your visit, be sure to explore Buter Harwell’s Cinema Room in the Grand House, a unique townhouse built in ExCeL London that “beautifully blends traditional elegance with modern innovation.”

*Tickets are subject to availability and approval.

Overview

More homeowners than ever are optimising their living spaces for shared family experiences, whether it’s with dedicated blackout, immersive home cinemas, or multi-purpose media rooms which transition from bright and airy daytime living spaces to atmospheric snugs with cinema quality evening entertainment. Learn the foundations to design luxurious home entertainment rooms that rival the audio-visual quality and immersive experience of commercial cinema. This BIID and RIBA accredited CEDIA CPD clarifies the difference between home cinemas and media rooms and exemplifies how varying components can be tailored to suit individual briefs.

Gain a greater understanding of:

•    The difference between a home cinema and a media room and the basic vocabulary used
•    How to raise awareness of home cinemas and media rooms
•    How to help clients choose and specify rooms and raise the standard of the rooms
•    The components that make a good home cinema room and media room
•    The design principles of sound and vision
•    How to work with a system designer and look at requirements 

Speakers

Tom Butler | Founding Director

Founding Director of the lifestyle technology concierge, Butler Harwell, and long-standing CEDIA member, Tom Butler comes from a diverse career working for both installers and suppliers in the AV and custom installation world. His contribution to the technology industry is highlighted by a four year stretch on the CEDIA board of directors (2013-2017). Tom’s expertise in lifestyle technology, qualify him as an industry veteran and innovator, as recognised by the CEDIA 2023 ‘Best Media Room Finalist’ accolade.

Grand Designs Live CPD

Introduction to Integrated Lighting Design

Join us at Grand Designs Live in ExCel London on Friday 2 May for the RIBA and BIID accredited CPD,

‘Introduction to Integrated Lighting Design’.

Access to the inspirational home and garden design event is on us for our registered CPD attendees.* Explore the show, speak with our team, and gain value-adding, time-saving insight for your next project, all the while earning valuable CPD points.

During your visit, be sure to explore luxury technology integrated with interior design in the Grand House, a unique townhouse built in ExCeL London that “beautifully blends traditional elegance with modern innovation.”

*Tickets are subject to availability and approval.

RIBA & BIID Accredited CEDIA CPD: Introduction to Integrated Lighting Design

Date: Friday 2 May 2025

Time: 16:00 - 17:00 (1 hour including Q&A)

Venue: ExCeL London, London E16 1XL

Room: Grand Designs Live, Kitchen Theatre

Overview

Effective lighting design completely transforms a room's ambience and directly impacts individual wellbeing. This CPD explores the importance of natural and artificial lighting in an interior space. Understand how lighting techniques including colour, intensity, placement and creative layering can enhance a room and improve welfare. Appreciate the difference between meeting industry standards and achieving high-end, luxury lighting design. Learn how, with the help of a technology specialist, bespoke lighting solutions can illuminate different spaces and can be effortlessly and intuitively controlled through professional integration.

Gain a greater understanding of:  

- The various types of lighting   

- How to differentiate between different lighting design techniques   

- The processes of integrated lighting design and how it fits into the wider design process   

- The role light quality plays in lighting design   

- Design considerations for integrated lighting   

- When a technology professional should be involved in the design process

Speakers

Adam Kraemer-Dent | Lighting Design Specialist

With an enduring passion for lighting, Adam adds value to projects through lighting design and control. With a nineteen-year tenure in the custom-installation industry, he has spent the last twelve dedicated to lighting. His portfolio covers mainly residential projects, but many commercial, hospitality and retail sites. As a CEDIA member, he invests significant time in educating Design and Build professionals about emerging technologies

Grant Goodall | Head of Sales

Grant brings a ‘humanistic’ understanding to Butler Harwell’s clients in an otherwise techno jargon saturated world. He oversees the suite of product offerings from world leading brands and translates complex technical ‘solutions’ into what this means for individual homeowners’ and design and build professionals’ unique requirements.

Our Commitment

We believe home comforts enrich lives, and our obsession with technology inspires us to enhance homes for customised comfort and control. Our company’s raison d’être is to combine the worlds of technology and interior design.. Butler Harwell’s Managing Director Tom Butler served on CEDIA’s board of directors from 2013 - 2017 and he, with his Outreach Team, continues to educate on behalf of CEDIA as an Outreach Instructor. Butler Harwell Directors Roy Ashby and Tom Butler are lifelong contributors to the Technology Industry and have a valued partnership with CEDIA. They are advocate’s to CEDIA’s industry standards, and are committed to educate and assist Design and Build professionals in technology integration, without compromising aesthetics.