LIGHTING DESIGN

DIN EN 12464-1/CIE/SASO
 CONTENT:
1-Layered Lighting
2-Lighting Concept for
Activities Area
3-DIALux Evo Practice

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 LAYERED
LIGHTING

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 THREE MAIN LIGHTING
LAYERS:
• General Lighting
- also known as ambient
lighting, provides an area with
overall, non-specific illumination. its
purpose is to ensure safe and easy
traffic, as well as to create an
overview of the room.
- Types of fixtures: Chandelier ,
Ceiling mounted or recessed fixture,
Wall-mounted fixture.
- Wide Beam Angle
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• Accent Lighting
- used mainly to focus on a
specific point of interest or to
achieve a desired effect. This
type of lighting gives the
impression of a larger room. • Task Lighting
It is more frequently used to - Task lighting illuminates the tasks a
highlight an architectural person carries out in a given space
feature, a plant (in outdoor such as reading, cooking, computer
layout), a sculpture, or a work. A brighter light is required in a
collection of objects. smaller focal point of the room for
these sorts of tasks.
- As a general rule, effective
accent lighting requires the - Types of fixtures: Portable or desk
installation of three times lamp, Pendant lighting , surface and
more light on the focal point recessed lighting fixtures.
than ambient lighting - Narrow Beam Angle - Wide Beam
generally provides. Angle
- Types of fixtures: Track fixture
, Directional recessed fixture,
Wall-mounted fixtures.
- Narrow Beam Angle
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 ACCENT LIGHTING

TASK LIGHTING TASKTASK

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GENERAL LIGHTING

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TASK LIGHTING

GENERAL LIGHTING

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 LIGHTING
CONCEPT FOR
ACTIVITIES AREA

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 Area which contains one or more visual tasks:

- Visual tasks can be different in type and/or position.

- A room may contain one or more activity areas.

- An activity area is usually a horizontal area. Otherwise the

orientation needs to be specified by the designer.

The required maintained illuminance may be decreased

when:

- task details are of an unusually large size or high contrast;

the task is undertaken for an unusually short time.

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 The size and position of the task or the activity area should be stated
and documented,

For work stations where the size and/or location of the task or
activity area(s) is/are unknown, either:

- the whole area is treated as the task area, or

- the whole area is uniformly (Uo ≥ 0,40) lit to an illuminance

level specified by the designer; if the task area becomes known,
the lighting scheme shall be re-designed to provide the required
illuminances.

If the type of the task is not known the designer has to make
assumptions about the likely tasks and state task requirements.

When multiple tasks take place in the area, requirements for all
these tasks shall be complied with.

This applies also to an activity area.

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 • Illuminance on the
background area
In indoor work places, particularly those
devoid of daylight, a large area outside the
immediate surrounding area needs to be
illuminated. The area known as the
“background area” should be a band
adjacent to the immediate surrounding area
within the limits of the space and shall be
illuminated with a maintained illuminance
of 1/3 of the value of the immediate
surrounding area. For larger rooms the band
should be at least 3 m wide. The background
area is a horizontal area on floor level.
The size and position of the background area
should be stated and documented.
Figure 1 illustrates the minimum dimension
of background area in relation to task and
immediate surrounding area.

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 ROOM BOUNDRY
Back Surrounding
0.5 WALL ZONE
Area:
- UO > 0.1
- LUX = 33% of
Required for Task.
- WSH = GR LVL

Immediate Surrounding
0.5 – 1 m Area:
- UO > 0.4 -0.5
- LUX = 66% of Required
for Task.
- WSH = 0.8 – 0.76 m

Task Area:
- UO > 0.6 -0.7
- LUX = As Required Per
SASO & DIN EN tables .
- WSH = 0.8 – 0.76 m

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 • illuminance on
surfaces
minimum requirements for the
illuminance on walls (Ēm,wall) and
ceiling (Ēm,ceiling) depending on the
tasks and/or activities being performed
in the space. Uniformity for walls and
ceiling shall be Uo ≥ 0,10.

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 ILLUMINANCE REQUIREMENTS AND
RECOMMENDATIONS
• To allow for a larger variety in application requirements , table below provides both
the required illuminance values which shall be met at all times (Ēm,r ) but also a
recommended value providing a more adequate lighting level for more strenuous
working conditions.

• Determine the appropriate task or activity which is executed in the area. Note that
the task or activity area may be horizontal, vertical or inclined, and multiple tasks or
activities may take place in the same area.

• Select the "task or activity related requirements” from the table (Ēm,r, Uo, Ra,
RUGL). For areas with multiple tasks the most onerous requirements shall be used
for design.

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 ILLUMINANCE REQUIREMENTS AND
RECOMMENDATIONS
• It is recommended to design higher illuminances by up to two steps than the
minimum maintained value on the task area (Ēm,r) to allow adjustment of
the illuminance on the task to cater for higher visual performance and user
satisfaction during different times of operation. Dimmable lighting provides
flexibility. When the task or activity is not being performed, or an activity of
less visual difficulty is being performed, lower light levels can be employed
using dimming or switching if appropriate. Further information is contained in
CIE 222 and CIE 227.

• steps of illuminance

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 1. minimum maintained illuminance Ēm,r

2. upper maintained illuminance Ēm,u

3. minimum illuminance uniformity Uo

4. minimum colour rendering indices (Ra)

5. maximum UGR limits (Unified Glare Rating limit, RUGL)

6. minimum cylindrical illuminance ĒZ

7. minimum average illuminance on walls Ēm,wall

8. minimum average illuminance on ceilings Ēm,ceiling

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 PRACTICE

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 Task Work Area

Immediate Surrounding
Back Surrounding

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 REFERENCES

• EN 12464-1:2019
• SASO

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 Eng. Alhassan Mahmoud
ELECTRICAL DESIGN ENGINEER
ALHASSANMAHMOUD14@GMAIL.COM

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