Integrated Lighting
Good lighting requires more than an electrical layout. It must balance the specific needs and schedules of the occupants with a building's use of daylight and interaction with the building's mechanical systems. This is designated as "advanced" because it goes beyond business-as-usual lighting design. Quality electric lighting varies by task and by source, and creates an attractive and effective environment while using the minimum amount of energy necessary. This section provides guidelines as well as tools to achieve it.
Advanced Lighting Guidelines (ALG)
ALG Online contains a suite of resources covering lighting theory, technologies, design applications, best practices, case studies and more. This content will be helpful for lighting designers & engineers, architects & buildings, and students & educators.
Commercial Lighting Solutions
The Commercial Lighting Solutions provide actionable "how to" guidance on ways to improve your building interior lighting efficiency and reduce your energy consumption, without compromising quality design criteria. Strategies include the use of high performance commercially available produces, daylighting, and lighting controls, all within the context of integrated designs supported by performance specifications.
Daylighting Overview
Here you'll find strategies for using daylight to reduce costs, improve productivity and enhance the comfort of buildings. This section describes real-world examples of buildings that employ effective daylighting designs.
Daylight Dialect - Architectural Lighting, March 2008
Daylighting is a common 'high performance building' strategy and is an essential element of integrated design. However, even the experts have a hard time explaining what a well daylit space is. This makes it challenging for integrated teams to have a meaningful conversation about daylight in buildings and even more challenging to design daylit spaces. This article by Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg, Director of the Integrated Design Lab in Boise, appeared in Architectural Lighting. It outlines the problem and proposes important definitions to develop a pathway toward a common daylighting language, or daylighting dialect.
Integrated Lighting - Architectural Lighting April 2008
Integrating daylighting and electric lighting is an important part of full building integrated design-some would say it is the most important part. However, it is not without its challenges. This paper outlines the concept of holistic lighting design comprised by both daylighting and electric lighting sources. It presents some of the road blocks to holistic lighting design and highlights several important aspects for designing the lit environment.
BetterBricks Integrated Design Lab Network
Northwest architects and engineers have advisory resources close to home to help them incorporate high performance building practices into their commercial building designs.
Daylight Dividends Website
Case studies, technical and project reports, research reviews, design guides, and other publications primarily developed through the Capturing the Daylight Dividends program.
Advanced Lighting Guidelines and Others Lighting Resources
Links New Buildings Institute's Advanced Lighting Guidelines and other resources like downloads of photometric files on skylights and light wells, SkyCalc, EnergyStar Target Finder and Illuminating Engineering Society, Lighting Power Density Models.
Daylighting 101
Quick overview of the basics of daylighting design. By Joel Loveland and the New Buildings Institute.
Daylighting and Productivity
BetterBricks article on the affects of daylighting on improved learning in schools and increased sales in stores. By Lisa Heschong
Energy Smart DesignTM - Office Sample Lighting Layouts
Energy Smart Design layouts for high performance lighting and lighting controls.
Resources for Daylighting Design
Energy Design Resources is a resource center for information on energy efficient design practices.
National Lighting Product Information Program (NLPIP)
NLPIP, the National Lighting Product Information Program, helps lighting professionals, contractors, designers, building managers, homeowners, and other consumers find and effectively use efficient, quality products that meet their lighting needs.
Daylighting Hospital Patient Rooms
A brief summary of conclusions from a study jointly undertaken by the Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory, Department of Architecture, University of Oregon and Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects. A daylit patient room uses light from the sky for daytime illumination, effectively reducing the need for electric light. The study analyzed room area, loacation and configuration, as well as window shape, location glazing area and type to determine an optimum design.
Daylighting in Supermarkets
How can grocery retailers successfully incorporate daylight into their stores-and, perhaps more importantly, why should they? Researchers over the past several years have studied the benefits of retail skylighting, and retailers currently employing these strategies are reaping the benefits. This article appeared in Architectural Lighting Magazine.
