Lighting Design

This document is intended to be a supplement to IES RP-6-15, Recommended Practice for Sports and Recreational Area Lighting, presenting light sources that are relatively new to the lighting industry and are currently being used or considered for use in sports and recreational lighting applications.

The Illuminating Engineering Society recently announced a total of 14 projects receiving the highest honors at the 2018 IES Illumination Awards. More than 200 projects were recognized with Awards of Merit.

The Lighting Systems Division of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) recently published a white paper, “Outdoor Lighting and Human/Animal Factors: An Industry Evaluation,” available for download at the National Lighting Bureau.

One of my contributions to the August issue of tED Magazine is an application story about how to light patient rooms in healthcare buildings.

In a recent newsletter, the Northwest Lighting Network published a table suggesting good, better, best approaches to common lighting retrofits: 4-lamp troffer, 4-lamp strip, and HID luminaire.

To help the lighting industry develop and implement new color-rendering methods and metrics that address the shortcomings of the commonly used CRI metric, the U.S. Department of Energy conducts research to enhance understanding of color rendition. An article based on this research, “Chroma Shift and Gamut Shape: Going Beyond Average Color Fidelity and Gamut Area,” was recently published in the journal LEUKOS.

In this video presentation created as part of the Illuminating Engineering Society’s Indispensable Lighting Series, a group of industry leaders discussed the lighting design process, how best to improve the process, how best to interact with the other trades, and other pertinent lighting industry topics. Click to check out the archived presentation.

This article describes considerations and techniques for designing book stack lighting, based on the Illuminating Engineering Society’s (IES) RP-4-13, Recommended Practice for Library Lighting.

In “How to Light a Place of Worship,” Bruce Kirk, Light Perceptions talks about about how to balance modern technique and tradition in the lighting of a house of worship.