1st Edition

Quality Lighting for High Performance Buildings

By Michael Stiller Copyright 2012
    252 Pages
    by River Publishers

    This book provides an overview of the basic concepts of quality, indoor lighting, and explains concepts like visual comfort, visual interest, and integrated design as they relate to the practice of lighting design. Energy-efficient lighting technologies, including LED lighting and digital control systems, and design strategies that increase visual comfort and productivity are discussed in plain language, and examined in a straightforward way to give the reader, whether an architect, interior designer, engineer, building trades professional, or student a broad understanding of the art and science of energy-efficient quality lighting.

    QUALITY LIGHTING
    What is Lighting Design
    Understanding Light (Luminance, Illuminance, & Lumens)
    Glare & Contrast
    Visual Comfort & Visual Interest
    Color & Light

    HOW MUCH LIGHT DO WE NEED & WHERE DO WE NEED IT?
    Lighting + Space: Calculating the Results
    Target Illuminance Levels
    Task Lighting

    SUSTAINABILITY & ELECTRIC LIGHTING SOURCES
    Choosing Lamp Types & Sonrces
    Lamps, Source Types & Relative Photometry
    LED (SSL) Lighting

    SUSTAINABLE APPLICATIONS: DAYLIGHTING & LIGHTING CONTROLS
    Daylighting
    Lighting Controls

    BUILDING GREEN
    Model Codes, Code-Language Standards & Energy Codes
    Paths to High Performance Green Buildings: Advocacy Groups, Advanced Energy Design Guides, Green Construction Codes & Green Building Rating Systems

    Appendix A-Color IlIustrations
    Appendix B-Lighting Calculations &
    Calculation Software
    Appendix C-Resources
    Index

    Biography

    Michael Stiller (Author)