Recommended Practice: Lighting Sports and Recreational Areas
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ANSI/IES RP-6-24
Document Type: Recommended Practice (RP)
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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 for all classes sports facilities except professional. Changes include adding the IES-DSI Five Principles for Outdoor Lighting, updates on color temperature recommendations, special event lighting, stairway & aisle lighting guidance, removal of legacy light sources used, clarification for the classification of play, addition of Futsal sport, enhancement for pickleball, running tracks, deletion of dog racing.
Purchase includes RP-10-20+E1: Lighting Common Applications
Page count: 110 pages
Publisher: Illuminating Engineering Society (2025)
SKU: ANSI/IES RP-6-24
ISBN-13: 978-0-87995-487-1
Previous edition: ANSI/IES RP-6-22
Chapters:
- 1.0 Introduction and Scope
2.0 Lighting Fundamentals and Principles
3.0 Design Considerations – General
4.0 Design Considerations – Sports Specific
5.0 Indoor Lighting Applications
6.0 Lighting for Outdoor Sports - Annex A – Illuminance Recommendations
- Annex B – Calculations by Computer
- Annex C – Design Considerations and Floodlight Aiming
- Annex D – Floodlight Aiming Methods
- Annex E – Field Measurements
- Annex F – Uniformity Metrics
- Annex G – Lighting for Sports Broadcast Applications
Citation Format:
Illuminating Engineering Society. ANSI/IES RP-6-24, Recommended Practice: Lighting Sports and Recreational Areas. New York: IES; 2025.