Typical recommended minimum daylight factors for rooms with side lighting only

Building type
Dwellings

Offices and banks

Drawing offices

Location

Daylight Factor %

Living rooms (over depth, but for minimum area 8 m2)

Bedrooms (over~- depth, but for minimum area 6 m2)
Kitchens (over -~- depth, but for minimum area 5 m2)

General offices, counters, accounting book areas, public areas

2
Typing tables, business machines, manually operated computers
General
2

Drawing boards
Assembly and concert halls

Body of church

Foyers, auditoriums, stairs (on treads)

Corridors (on floors)

Churches

1
0.5

1
0.5

1
Chancel, choir, pulpit
1.5
Altars, communion tables (depending on lighting emphasis req.)
Vestries

Shelves (on vertical surfaces of book spines), reading tables

(additional lighting on book stacks)
1
Art galleries & museums
General
1
On pictures (but special provision for conservation where required)
Schools and colleges
Assembly and teaching areas
2
Art rooms
4
Laboratories (benches)
Staff rooms, common rooms
3

3-6
2

Libraries

Hospitals

Wards

1
Reception rooms, waiting rooms
Pharmacies

2
3

Sports halls

General

Swimming pools

Pool surfaces
Surrounding floor areas