Michael Mehl

LC, LEED AP BD+C

Director, LightBox Studios

Michael Mehl serves as Director of LightBox Studios, a lighting design studio affiliated with JB&B. With over 32 years’ experience, Michael has functioned as the creative, sustainability and administrative leader of the LightBox team, collaborating on numerous private, public, interior and exterior projects both within the United States and abroad. His experience as a lighting designer for numerous commercial, institutional, educational and healthcare projects ranges from corporate interiors, facade illumination and trading floors to surgical suites, lab design and art projects.

Michael earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Montclair State University. He is a U.S. Green Building Council LEED Accredited Professional and a Lighting Certified (LC) Professional. He also serves as full committee member on the ASHRAE 90.1 subcommittee. He has chaired and served as technical advisor for the Urban Green Council (NY Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council) and the New York City Energy Advisory Committee.

Michael is also a recipient of the Lumen Award of Merit, the Public Art Fund Project of the Year Citation, and has served on multiple committees for the New York Section of IESNY and is one of the founding members of its NYC Lighting Council. He has been an adjunct professor at the New York School of Interior Design as well as guest speaker for local chapters of the AIA, IESNA, DLFNY and USGBC.