Recommended Practice: Lighting Educational Facilities

Lighting Educational Facilities

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ANSI/IES RP-3-20
Document Type: Recommended Practice (RP)

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Approved American National StandardIn a school environment, lighting can influence behavior, satisfaction, psychological responses to a space, task performance, communication and interest, visual comfort, and safety and security, while defining space and architecture. This document was developed to enable architects, engineers, lighting designers, and other lighting decision makers to ensure that their lighting criteria are consistent with good current practice; to assist school and university staff in understanding the importance of the role that lighting plays in educational environments; and to facilitate conversations about lighting between school and university staff, architects, engineers, lighting designers and other designers. It addresses all levels of education, from preschool to university facilities. The scope of this document is restricted to learning and study activities and associated circulation areas.

Purchase includes RP-10-20+E1: Lighting Common Applications

Page count: 30 pages
Publisher: Illuminating Engineering Society (2020)
SKU: ANSI/IES RP-3-20
ISBN-13: 978-0-87995-386-7

Chapters:

  • 1.0 Introduction and Scope
    2.0 Principles of Quality Lighting
    3.0 Visibility
    4.0 Daylighting
    5.0 Lighting Equipment
    6.0 Luminaire Classification, Selection, and Considerations for Educational Facilities
    7.0 Energy, Maintenance, and Economics
    8.0 General Considerations for Lighting Educational Facilities
    9.0 Lighting Criteria
    10.0 Lighting Design Guidance by Area or Application

Citation Format:
Illuminating Engineering Society. ANSI/IES RP-3-20, Recommended Practice: Lighting Educational Facilities. New York: IES; 2020.

CONTENTS

  • 1.0 Introduction and Scope
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Scope
  • 2.0 Principles of Quality Lighting
  • 2.1 Color
  • 2.2 Modeling
  • 2.3 Glare
    2.3.1 Luminaire Light Distribution for Glare Control
  • 3.0 Visibility
  • 4.0 Daylighting
  • 4.1 Daylighting Considerations
  • 4.2 Daylight Controls
  • 5.0 Lighting Equipment
  • 5.1 Light Sources
  • 5.2 Luminaires
    5.2.1 Lighting System Efficiency
    5.2.2 Luminaire Optical Systems
    5.2.3 Task Lighting Luminaires
  • 5.3 Controls
  • 6.0 Luminaire Classification, Selection, and Considerations for Educational Facilities
  • 6.1 Quantity and Spacing of Luminaires
  • 6.2 Determining Orientation of Luminaires
  • 6.3 Layered Lighting Techniques
    6.3.1 General Lighting
    6.3.2 Task Lighting
    6.3.3 Wall Washing
    6.3.4 Accent Lighting
  • 7.0 Energy, Maintenance, and Economics
  • 7.1 Energy and Sustainability for Educational Facilities
  • 7.2 Lighting System Maintenance
  • 7.3 Lighting Economics
  • 8.0 General Considerations for Lighting Educational Facilities
  • 8.1 Communication
  • 8.2 Wall-Mounted Teaching Boards
  • 8.3 Projected Images
  • 8.4 Light Distribution on Surfaces
  • 8.5 Visual Comfort
  • 8.6 Lighting for Safety and Security
  • 9.0 Lighting Criteria
  • 9.1 Illuminance
  • 9.2 Illuminance Recommendations and Measurements
  • 9.3 Known Task Locations
    9.3.1 Tasks Located over Large Areas
    9.3.2 Multiple Tasks
  • 9.4 Visual Age of Occupants
  • 9.5 Uniformity
  • 9.6 Luminance, Brightness and Adaptation
    9.6.1 Room Surface Luminances
    9.6.2 Luminance Ratio Limits
  • 9.7 Wayfinding
  • 10.0 Lighting Design Guidance by Area or Application
  • 10.1 General Purpose Classrooms
    10.1.1 Dimensions and Layout
    10.1.2 General Lighting
    10.1.3 Special Needs Classrooms and Considerations
    10.1.4 Distance Education Rooms
    10.1.5 Art Rooms
    10.1.6 Drafting Rooms
    10.1.7 Science Laboratories
    10.1.8 Sewing Rooms
    10.1.9 Shops (Industrial Crafts Rooms)
  • 10.2 Multipurpose Spaces
  • 10.3 Large Teaching Spaces
    10.3.1 Lecture Halls
    10.3.2 Auditoriums
    10.3.3 Cafetoriums and Gymnatoriums
    10.3.4 Gymnasiums and Field Houses
    10.3.5 Locker Rooms
  • 10.4 Resource and Study Areas
  • 10.5 Circulation
  • 10.6 Outdoor Lighting
  • 10.7 Emergency Lighting
  • Annex A – Recommended Illuminance Criteria
  • Annex B – Measurement of Lighting Performance
  • References