EE-312
Electrical Systems & Lighting
Lecture 20:
Lighting Design
By: Abdurahman Alrobaie
Date: April 10th , 2023
Objectives and Constraints
Lecture Content
Design Approach Resources
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Objectives and Constraints
A. Design Consideration
• Ideally, these objectives are determined by the client and
the designer in collaboration and cover both outcomes
and costs
• The most common objective for a lighting installation is to
allow the users of a space to carry out their work quickly
and accurately, without discomfort.
• As for constraints, an important aspect of lighting design is
the need to minimize the amount of electricity consumed,
for both financial and environmental reasons.
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Objectives and Constraints
A. Design Consideration
• More formally, nine distinct aspects of lighting need to be
considered.
• Legal requirements
• Visual function
• Visual amenity
• Architectural integration
• Energy efficiency and sustainability
• Maintenance
• Costs
• Photopic or mesopic vision
• Light trespass and sky glow.
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Objectives and Constraints
B. Legal requirements
• Emergency lighting is a legal requirement in almost
all premises.
• An open area is defined as an area of at least 60 m2
which people have to move through before reaching
an escape route.
• A high-risk area is defined as one where a hazardous
activity occurs that has to be made safe or
terminated before leaving or where people passing
by may be exposed to the hazard.
• In areas or places where a continuous operation is
required during the failure of the supply to the
normal lighting
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Objectives and Constraints
C. Visual Function and Amenity
• Visual function is related to the lighting required for
doing tasks without discomfort.
• There is no doubt that lighting can add visual
amenity to a space which can give pleasure to the
occupants but whether this provides a more tangible
performance benefit is uncertain.
• Studies have shown that people respond to the lit
appearance of a room on two independent
dimensions:
• Visual lightness
• Visual interest
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Objectives and Constraints
D. Lighting and architectural integration
• All elements of a lighting installation contribute to
the architecture or the interior design of a
building.
• A good place to start is with the daylighting since
the windows and roof lights are a fundamental
element of the fabric of the building.
• Once the daylighting has been determined then
the electric lighting can be planned.
• the appearance of the luminaires and controls
and the way they are incorporated into the fabric
of the building, as well as the lighting effect
produced.
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Objectives and Constraints
E. Energy efficiency and sustainability
• Light can be considered a form of pollution.
• Complaints about light pollution from exterior lighting
can be divided into two categories:
• Light trespass
• Skyglow
• The classic case of light trespass is a complaint about
light from a road lighting luminaire entering a bedroom
window and keeping the occupant awake.
• Sky glow is more diffuse than light trespass in that it
can affect people over great distances. Sky glow is
caused by the multiple scattering of light in the
atmosphere
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Objectives and Constraints
E. Energy efficiency and sustainability
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Objectives and Constraints
G. Holistic Design Approach
Task Analysis
• the needs of the project relative to the various visual
tasks.
Design Stages
• Select a lighting system.
• Select the type of light source and the distribution
characteristic of the fixture(s)
• Calculate the lighting requirements.
• Design the supplemental decorative and architectural
Evaluation
• Review the resultant design. Check the design for
quality, quantity, aesthetic effect, and originality.
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Design Approach Resources
A. The SLL Lighting Handbook
PART 3: APPLICATIONS
• Chapter 6: Lighting design
• Chapter 8: Emergency lighting
• Chapter 9: Office lighting
• Chapter 10: Industrial lighting
• Chapter 11: Lighting for educational premises
• Chapter 12: Retail lighting
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Design Approach Resources
B. Handbook of Lighting Design
4.0 Examples of lighting concepts
• 4.1 Foyers
• 4.2 Lift lobbies
• 4.3 Corridors
• 4.4 Staircases
• 4.5 Team offices
• 4.6 Cellular offices
• 4.7 Executive offices
• 4.8 Conference rooms
• 4.9 Auditoriums
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