Recommended Practice: Lighting for Interior and Exterior Residential Environments

Product Description

Intended Audience: Designers, architects, engineers, users, general public, environmentalists, utilities.
Intended Interest Categories: Specifier (US), Affected (UA), Public Interest (UP), Academic, Research (GAR), Government, Regulatory (GGR), General SME (GSME), Organizational (OM).
Description: Lighting design objectives, criteria for quantity and quality of illuminance, lighting methods, types and uses of equipment, energy use, and electrical code considerations for residential lighting. Various solutions that address residential lighting problems are also presented.

Page count: 128 pages
Publisher: Illuminating Engineering Society (2026)
SKU: ANSI/IES/ALA RP-11-26
ISBN: 978-0-87995-510-6
Previous edition: RP-11-20

Chapters:

• 1.0 Introduction and Scope
• 2.0 Factors Affecting the Lighting Plan
• 3.0 Lighting Criteria
• 4.0 Light and Color
• 5.0 Quantity of Light
• 6.0 Light Sources
• 7.0 Lighting Equipment and Applications
• 8.0 Basic Lighting Techniques
• 9.0 Design Techniques for Specific Rooms, Spaces, and/or Objectives
• 10.0 Lighting Controls
• 11.0 Codes and Standards
• 12.0 Documentation and Specification
• Annex A – Illuminance Recommendations
• Annex B – Exterior Lighting Zones
• Annex C – Legacy Light Source Technology
• Annex D – Glossary of Lighting Controls Terms
• Annex E – Flicker: Summary of ANSI/IES TM-39-25, Technical Memorandum: Quantification and Specification of Visual Responses to Temporal Light Modulation (a.k.a. Flicker)
• Annex F – Summary of ANSI/IES RP-46-25, Recommended Practice: Physiological and Behavioral Effects of Lighting in Interior Daytime Environments

Citation Format:
Illuminating Engineering Society. ANSI/IES/ALA RP-11-26, Recommended Practice: Lighting for Interior and Exterior Residential Environments. New York: IES; 2026.