Corporate educator, lighting designer, and advocate for sustainability, Derry Berrigan lectures worldwide on lighting’s role as an important solution in the world’s energy and climate crises. She shares the latest techniques, product solutions, and strategies to achieve sustainable lighting. Berrigan is one of America’s leading authorities on why the rapid adoption of solid-state lighting and light-emitting diodes (LEDs) is critical in solving humanity’s greatest challenge - sustaining our future on Planet Earth. 

Derry Berrigan is the principal lighting designer for DBLD.

She is one of the nation’s leaders in practicing and promoting sustainable lighting design.  Berrigan set high standards and benchmarks with her sustainable lighting design for Chicago’s Center for Green Technology. Leading the LEED standards, DBLD achieved 45% below ASHRAE  2004 90.1 exceeding LEED Platinum requirements by 10% without any aesthetic or lighting quality compromises. This project was the first in the United States to utilize high-performance, environmentally friendly LED lighting for 90% of all electric  ighting requirements and to implement daylight harvesting with LED light sources. 

Derry Berrigan has built a solid reputation as a problem solver and innovator. She consults for Fortune 500 companies including Wal-Mart, YUM! Brands, McDonald’s Corporation, and Chick-fil-A, for prominent institutions:  Notre Dame University, U.S. Green Building Council, and Chicago Department of Environment, for government entities such as the City of Chicago and Village of Niles. Berrigan also advises Cree, a leader in LED lighting technology on the facets of green building and sustainability. 

She holds several copyrights for specialty lighting fixtures. Berrigan was the first lighting designer in the southwest region to be certified by both Lutron and Crestron. She has been featured in many prestigious periodicals including Building Design + Construction, Environmental Design + Construction, Architectural Solid State Lighting, Interiors & Sources, The Lighting Bible, and others. 

Berrigan is a member of the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD), The Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA), and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). She serves on the IALD’s Energy and Sustainability Committee. Berrigan is committed to design excellence and to collaborating with other like- minded professionals to create beautiful, yet functional works of art, sustainably.