scholarly journals Standardised difference: Challenging uniform lighting through standards and regulation

Urban Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (9) ◽  
pp. 1957-1976 ◽  
Author(s):  
Casper Laing Ebbensgaard
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Lighting Design ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Artificial Lighting ◽  
Experimental Aesthetics ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
Standards And Regulations ◽  
Technical Specifications ◽  
Sustainable Transition

Artificial lighting has received increased attention from urban scholars and geographers in recent years. It is celebrated for its experimental aesthetics and experiential qualities and critiqued for its adverse effects on biological life and the environment. Yet scholars and practitioners unite in their disapproval of uniform and homogenous lighting that follows from standardised lighting technologies and design principles. Absent from debates in urban scholarship and geography, however, is any serious consideration of how lighting designers respond to such standardised measures and regulations. In this article, I address this lack of academic attention by exploring how designers overturn the restrictive challenges posed by the standards and regulations of the design and planning process. Drawing on interviews with designers involved in the lighting design of a mixed-use redevelopment project in Canning Town, East London, I demonstrate how the interpretation and translation of lighting standards and regulations resist the tendency to predetermine design aesthetics and functions. By drawing attention away from the technical specifications and numerical values that are prescribed in standards and regulations, and towards lighting’s experiential and performative effects, the article argues that lighting designers can play an important role in challenging how standards and regulations are measured, defined and maintained. Calling on urban scholars to play a more prominent role in foregrounding this process of translation, I suggest that standards and regulations can provide frameworks within which luminous differentiation and preservation of darkness can be achieved, playing a potentially crucial role in ensuring a socially and environmentally sustainable transition to energy efficient lighting.

Facile Generation of Thenil and Furil Based Blue Emitters for Fabrication of Non-Doped and Solution-Processed Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Archana Puthanveedu ◽  
Kanagaraj Shanmugasundaram ◽  
Sunghyun Yoon ◽  
Youngson Choe
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Sustainable Energy ◽  
Electrochemical Cells ◽  
Solution Processed ◽  
Light Emitting ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Artificial Lighting ◽  
Lighting Device ◽  
The Future ◽  
Blue Emitters

Environmentally sustainable, energy-efficient and economical devices have drawn great attention and are considered to be the future of artificial lighting device market. Taking this into account, we have designed and...

Lighting of Engineering Structures and Industrial Facilities New Aspects of the Topic

2018 ◽  
pp. 29-36
Author(s):  
Nikolai I. Shepetkov ◽  
George N. Cherkasov ◽  
Vladimir A. Novikov
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
Lighting Design ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Engineering Structures ◽  
Industrial Facilities ◽  
Artificial Lighting ◽  
Industrial Structures ◽  
Design Solutions ◽  
Architectural Lighting ◽  
The Aesthetic

This paper considers the fundamental problem of artificial lighting in various types and scales of industrial facilities, focusing on exterior lighting design solutions. There is a lack of interest from investors, customers and society in high­quality lighting design for industrial facilities in Russia, which in many cities are very imaginative structures, practically unused in the evening. Architectural lighting of various types of installations is illustrated with photographs. The purpose of the article is to draw attention to the aesthetic value of industrial structures, provided not only by the architectural, but also by a welldesigned lighting solution.

Errors of In Situ Illuminance Measurements

2016 ◽  
Vol 824 ◽  
pp. 676-683
Author(s):  
Michaela Hlásková ◽  
Lenka Gábrová ◽  
František Vajkay
Keyword(s):  
Measurement Errors ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Lighting Design ◽  
Public Health Authority ◽  
Construction Work ◽  
Measurement Instruments ◽  
Artificial Lighting ◽  
Lighting Conditions ◽  
Overcast Sky

Lighting conditions in buildings are verified by experts on a daily basis. Such verifications may be done at several phases in various ways. In the field of daylighting, it is common to make an assessment within the pre-design and in-design phases of a construction work throughout calculations, only rarely by measurements. This approach is the opposite of artificial lighting design, which is done within the in-design phase by calculations and is verified by measurements in post-realization phase. The verification of artificial lighting design is required by the building and public health authority otherwise buildings cannot be approved to use. In the field of daylighting, measurements could be performed as well, nevertheless those are often problematic because regulations usually require fulfilments of the daylight factor which can be determined only under CIE overcast sky. Howbeit, both artificial lighting and daylighting measurements are influenced by many errors, e.g. errors of light measurement instruments, measurement conditions, measurement methods and human factor. The paper is focused on this aspect of lighting design, more specifically on the daylighting measurement errors.

scholarly journals Researcher–Planner Dialogue on Environmental Justice and Its Knowledges—A Means to Encourage Social Learning Towards Sustainability

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 2601 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aino Rekola ◽  
Riikka Paloniemi
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Distribution Of Power ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Modes Of Interaction ◽  
Sustainable Transition

Societies aiming for a sustainable future need more effective and legitimate planning and decision making practices, in which various actors together find pathways towards a sustainable transition. In this paper, we approach sustainability and environmental justice as epistemological (and ontological) challenges for land-use planning, and empirically analyse how action research could support planners’ social learning and planning towards fair and sustainable development. We analysed qualitatively the evolution of the researcher–planner dialogue while co-designing and developing better methods, means and practices to improve environmental justice in regional scale planning in Kymenlaakso Region, South-East Finland. We found that researcher-planner dialogue developed during cooperation. While in the beginning, social learning related to approaching environmental justice as a fair distribution of power evolved incrementally, later, when dialogue became more focused, communicative and reflective as an outcome of mutual frames and trust, learning occurred in a more transformative way. Such transformative learning concerned recognising youth as a silent group in the planning process and the means to involve their perceptions in planning. In order to support sustainability transformation in the future, we conclude that it is essential to create opportunities for such incremental and transformative social learning through innovative modes of interaction in various contexts.

scholarly journals Energy Efficient Lighting Design Criteria: Cost-Effective Solutions in an Industrial Environment

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank J. Agraz ◽  
John Maneri
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Return On Investment ◽  
Energy Savings ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Lighting Design ◽  
Design Criteria ◽  
Lighting System ◽  
Light Levels

The continual rising cost of energy, existing outdated lighting technology, and inefficient lighting designs have given property owners the opportunity to improve their facilities by retrofitting their existing luminaires with an energy efficient lighting system. A lighting retrofit uses the existing electrical infrastructure to replace, relocate, or convert existing luminaires with the latest generation of cost-effective components. New lighting technology has emerged within the last 6 years that generates energy savings of 40% to 50% while maintaining existing light levels. These upgraded and field-tested solutions lower energy consumption, generate a healthy financial return on investment, and can improve both the quality and quantity of light in the task area. As with any other solution, a cost-effective lighting system must be designed and engineered carefully to accommodate the needs of each work space. Simply installing a new lamp into an existing luminaire will not necessarily guarantee substantial energy savings or an improved lighting environment. In any space that uses electric lighting, the lighting designer must evaluate potential solutions for energy consumption, maintenance concerns, delivered light levels, hostile environments, and the overall economic impact of installing and long-term operation of the new system. In this paper, the author will discuss energy efficient lighting design criteria and how a lighting designer properly engineers a retrofit project to deliver energy savings without sacrificing light levels. The discussion includes a summary of both traditional and emerging technologies, and the long-term impact on energy consumption, maintenance, return on investment, lighting quality, and delivered light levels. Paper published with permission.

scholarly journals An approach to energy efficient lighting design for economic residential flats

2021 ◽  
Vol 850 (1) ◽  
pp. 012013
Author(s):  
Subhasish Das ◽  
Anubrata Mondal ◽  
Kamalika Ghosh
Keyword(s):  
Power Consumption ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Residential Building ◽  
Light Level ◽  
Lighting Design ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Standard Values ◽  
Lighting Systems

Abstract The lighting design in a residential building now-a-days is not only limited to general lighting but also it is focused to provide quality lighting with the help of wide range of available luminaire with different orientations as well as colours with efficient use of energy, that opens up accurate characteristics of specific areas in any room of the building. The affordable housings in many states are some of the examples of residential building where most of the flats in a typical floor are using conventional lighting systems which are not energy efficient and light level is low compared to standards. This paper is mainly focused to provide a budget friendly as well as energy efficient lighting design with the help of new and energy efficient lamps using DIALux Software, which can be proposed to renovate the existing conventional lighting systems. In this paper effort has been made to reduce the power consumption in all rooms and lux levels has been achieved as per standard values along with good amount of energy saving with the use of newer technologies.

scholarly journals Artificial Lighting Environment Evaluation of the Japan Museum of Art Based on the Emotional Response of Observers

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 1121
Author(s):  
Zhisheng Wang ◽  
Yukari Nagai ◽  
Jiahui Liu ◽  
Nianyu Zou ◽  
Jing Liang
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Response ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Lighting Design ◽  
Lighting Condition ◽  
Colour Temperature ◽  
Artificial Lighting ◽  
Lighting Environment ◽  
Environment Parameters ◽  
The Relationship

This paper mainly studies the effect of artificial lighting environmental factors on the psychological emotions of observers in the large and practical space of the museums. The purpose is to reveal the relationship between the observers’ response and the artificial lighting condition in the actual art museum space. Field research regarding three art museums in Japan was carried out and the optical environment parameters applied in those museums were quantified. The innovation method is to define the artificial lighting environment space in the way of classified lighting design. Thirty one observers were invited to evaluate the three art museum’s lighting environment. In addition, this paper analyzes and discusses the influence of the actual spatial lighting parameters of museum buildings on observers’ psychological emotions (comfort, clarity, preference and warmth), under three modes of illuminance and correlated colour temperature (CCT) combination. Using one-way analysis of variance and correlation analysis, through analysis get the correlation of the four evaluation and three lighting environments indexes are less than 0.05, the observer in an environment with high illuminance and a high CCT had higher psychological evaluation of the art museum.

The Dividing Area Control of Lighting System

2013 ◽  
Vol 330 ◽  
pp. 587-591
Author(s):  
Qing Wei ◽  
Hong Yan Ma
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
Lighting Design ◽  
Lighting System ◽  
Artificial Lighting ◽  
Lighting Control ◽  
Energy Issues

The lighting system is an integral part of the whole building. Lighting control system is an important part of the lighting system and lighting design. As increasingly severe of the energy issues, energy saving has become one of the problems to be solved in the lighting control system. This paper takes a normally used office as an example. Control the blinds and the lamps in the office reasonably. On the premise of the full use of daylight, make the office achieve the most comfortable illumination by using artificial lighting supplies.

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