This document discusses interior lighting design and considerations. It covers factors like glare and brightness standards. It also discusses selecting appropriate light sources and luminaires based on characteristics like lifetime, power supply, and appearance. Different types of luminaire layouts are described, including individual electric outlet plans and linear fluorescent plans. Overall luminaire selection and layout depends on illumination levels, lighting requirements, and cost considerations.
This document discusses interior lighting design and considerations. It covers factors like glare and brightness standards. It also discusses selecting appropriate light sources and luminaires based on characteristics like lifetime, power supply, and appearance. Different types of luminaire layouts are described, including individual electric outlet plans and linear fluorescent plans. Overall luminaire selection and layout depends on illumination levels, lighting requirements, and cost considerations.
This document discusses interior lighting design and considerations. It covers factors like glare and brightness standards. It also discusses selecting appropriate light sources and luminaires based on characteristics like lifetime, power supply, and appearance. Different types of luminaire layouts are described, including individual electric outlet plans and linear fluorescent plans. Overall luminaire selection and layout depends on illumination levels, lighting requirements, and cost considerations.
ows" are manifestations of these factors. A popular definition of glare is
"light out of place." The Illuminating Engineering Society has established Brightness Standards for schools, homes, and offices based on the best data presently available. These standards are described on pages 10-52 and 10-76. The theories are discussed in Section 2. Data regarding calculation procedures are given in Section 8. Light Source Selection The characteristics of applicable light sources are important factors in lighting design and influence luminaire selection. Usually there are several light sources which can be applied in each lighting field. In some cases, however, a particular characteristic may be so important that a source strong in that capacity may meet the requirements best, despite other limitations. For example, a long-life lamp may be absolutely neces- sary for those places where replacement problems are very difficult. When there is a limited power supply or wiring capacity or very high power costs, a light source having a high over-all lumen-per-watt rating is particularly desirable. Luminaire Selection Before lighting calculations are made, a type of luminaire should be selected for preliminary consideration. The characteristics of different types of luminaires are described on pages 10-5 to 10-8. Luminaires are classified according to their light distribution characteristics and also according to their principal field of application, e.g., the industrial unit. This latter classification usually depends on the appearance, mechanical construction, and installation method and sometimes upon the electrical characteristics of the luminaire. In many cases, several types are available and the final selection may be made on the basis of overall cost and appearance. Luminaire Layout The determination of the illumination level and the type of luminaire permits consideration of the luminaire layout. Lighting levels (both high and low) and other factors occasionally restrict the type of equipment which may be chosen and its installation arrangement, but in most cases the advantages of a general, local, localized-general, or a general-plus- supplementary plan should be weighed. (See page 10-3.) The individual electric outlet layout plan is a basic method with incande- scent-lamp luminaires because of the symmetrical lateral light distribution characteristic of most equipment of this type and because of the economy and practicality of concentrating lamps of high rated wattages in single units. The most common plan consists of a symmetrical arrangement of one to four luminaires in a bay (or room). To a large extent, early fluores- cent installations followed this same technique. However, the present trend is to emphasize their linear characteristic and the result is a growing number of light patterns based on straight line elements.