Often referred to as, "the best factory tour in the lighting industry," another educational and innovative B-K University has come to a close.

Sixty-three lighting designers, architects, landscape architects, engineers and industry related peers arrived in Central California on Thursday, March 15, 2018 for an intense and fun day of CEU-eligible courses at our Madera, California factory on March 16th, 2018. Attendees and instructors met up at Tenaya Lodge in Fish Camp on the evening of the 15th, and B-K Lighting + TEKA Illumination hosted a relaxing meet n’ greet where attendees played our new "TEKA Toddy" trivia game.

On Friday, students spent the day learning the “B-K Way” as they assembled, packed and shipped their very own Nite Star™ flood light, powder coated in Tiger Red!

From machining the body to gluing the cap, nothing was left out. In fact, our Nuva-sil lens adhesive is quite pricey and we’d like to give a special shout-out to our gluemaster, Liz Farrell of Liz Farrell Landscape Architecture, for her complete and utter disregard of $1,977.94 worth of Nuva-sil while gluing a single cap! Thanks a lot Liz!

Following an amazing day at the factory, our guests were treated to an incredible tour of the outdoors in our own backyard… Yosemite National Park. California's unpredictable weather made for an amazing adventure! Dusted with a fresh coating of snow, Yosemite amazed attendees as always!  And after a gorgeous day in the Park, the Class of Spring 2018 returned to Tenaya Lodge for our semi-annual Grad-Nite, where we celebrated the accomplishments and new-found knowledge of our BKU friends.

BKU is jointly produced and coordinated through the efforts of the staff of five companies that include: B-K Lighting, TEKA Illumination, Star Finishes, Blue Dolphin Design and Engineering and Etendue Cafe. Since its inception in 2002, more than 1,600 lighting professionals have graduated from this one of a kind program and earned the title of "BKU Alumnus."

You can review past semesters along with events, courses and seminars at our dedicated B-K University website www.b-kuniversity.com

Be sure to click through the photo album below!