Commercial Lighting
(1) Offices, (2) Schools, (3) Hotels, (4) shopping centers, (5) cinema halls fall in the category of commercial group.
(1) Offices, (2) Schools, (3) Hotels, (4) shopping centers, (5) cinema halls fall in the category of commercial group.
(A) Office Lighting lumens level
(B) Requirements of Lighting in Office for Different Activities
- Lighting of locations where meetings are held should provide good modeling of the human face particularly reveling the eyes and mouth areas. The places of meeting shall be provided with flexibility so it can adjust to the main task.
- Managerial offices often include a discussion and the lighting of this should be separate from that for the normal desk or key board task areas.
- Paperless office is newly though idea but not yet came in play. Old systems of ledgers, files, papers type writers are replaced by computers for viewing self illuminated screens, Visual Display Terminals (VDTs). Thus illumination level in comparison with old system is reduced.
- Old paper base task was conveniently horizontal but visual display screens represents-self illuminate and is usually close to the vertical plane illumination required is
General offices : 500 Lux.
Conference room : 300 to 500 Lux.
Computer work stations : 300 to 500 Lux.
VDT area : 300 to 500 Lux.
(C) General Rules for Office Interior Lighting
(D) Office Buildings Lighting
(E) Lighting Provisions and Luminaires used