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    This document provides recommendations for lighting levels and brightness ratios in various school areas including classrooms, laboratories, gymnasiums, and corridors. Table 10-10 recommends illumination levels between 5 to 50 footcandles for different school areas. Table 10-11 recommends brightness ratio range limits between tasks, backgrounds, and light sources between 1 to 3, 3 to 1, 1 to 10, 10 to 1, 1 to 20, and 20 to 1 respectively. The document provides guidelines for proper lighting in schools.

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    This document provides recommendations for lighting levels and brightness ratios in various school areas including classrooms, laboratories, gymnasiums, and corridors. Table 10-10 recommends illumination levels between 5 to 50 footcandles for different school areas. Table 10-11 recommends brightness ratio range limits between tasks, backgrounds, and light sources between 1 to 3, 3 to 1, 1 to 10, 10 to 1, 1 to 20, and 20 to 1 respectively. The document provides guidelines for proper lighting in schools.

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    10-76 I E S LIGHTING HANDBOOK

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    FIG. 10-52. A sight-saving classroom.
    Table 10-10. Recommended Illumination Levels for Classrooms and
    Other School Areas
    AREA
    Classrooms, including study halls, libraries, shops, lecture
    rooms, laboratories, etc
    Sight-saving classrooms, drafting rooms, and sewing rooms
    Gymnasiums and swimming pools
    Auditoriums, cafeterias, and similar rooms not used for study..
    Reception rooms, locker rooms, washrooms, stairways, and cor-
    ridors containing lockers
    Corridors and storerooms
    FOOTCANDLES
    MAINTAINED
    IN SERVICE
    30
    50
    20
    10
    10
    5
    Table 10-11. Recommended Brightness-Ratio Range Limits for
    Classrooms and Other School Areas
    AREAS
    Task and immediate background such as desk top, wall,
    etc
    Task and more remote parts of room
    Light source (luminaire or sky) and adjacent ceiling or
    wall
    In no case should the ratio be combined to suggest the
    acceptability of a range greater than
    RECOMMENDED BRIGHT-
    NESS RATIO RANGE
    LIMITS IN NORMAL
    FIELD OF VIEW
    1 to
    3
    3 to 1
    1 to 1010 to 1
    1 to 2020 to 1
    1 to 3030 to 1

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