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entrance lighting

CS-2009 SSc8: Light Pollution Reduction
posted by Alicja Bieszyńska on May 30, 2012, 8:26 am

Can I consider entrance lighting (light fixtures above the building entrance) a safety and comfort lighting? And therefore not to include it in the calculations?

Building Facade/Landscape Lighting or Exterior Site Areas

CS-2009 SSc8: Light Pollution Reduction
posted by Alicja Bieszyńska on May 30, 2012, 8:20 am

In the version 2.0 of the Core and Shell system, and the old version of LEED Online, the template consists of two tables for EXTERIOR LIGHTING SYSTEMS:
1 - Lighting Power Density Tabulation...

Interior lighting

CS-2009 SSc8: Light Pollution Reduction
posted by Caroline Ma on Feb 20, 2012, 5:20 am

In our project, the interior lighting wiring is under tenant scope of work, however the provision of luminaires are under the project scope. So, do we still need to consider the interior lighting...

Facade lighting under a canopy or overhang

CS-2009 SSc8: Light Pollution Reduction
posted by James Chueh on Feb 15, 2012, 10:37 pm

The lighting designer of our project is asking if flood light under canopy or overhang, which shoots upward but they will make sure no upward light goes beyond the edge of the canopy/overhang,...

Event Lighting

CS-2009 SSc8: Light Pollution Reduction
posted by charles bell on Feb 7, 2012, 11:37 am

Our project is 3 CS buildings on a campus site in downtown Fort Worth, TX. Owner wants to erect a stage for periodic events which will occur after dark. These will be held in a central plaza on a...

Sky glow calculation

CS-2009 SSc8: Light Pollution Reduction
posted by Caroline Ma on Feb 7, 2012, 5:44 am

The definition of sky glow in LEED is including the reflected light that enters the atmosphere. But in our lighting model (DiaLUX), the reflected light is not considered into the sky glow...

Definition of vertical footcandles

CS-2009 SSc8: Light Pollution Reduction
posted by Caroline Ma on Feb 3, 2012, 3:48 am

Please advise the definition of vertical footcandles. When measuring the vertical footcandles of the site boundary, at what distance level shall the calculation point be?

Light trespass from pedestrian access routes

CS-2009 SSc8: Light Pollution Reduction
posted by Magnus Stagnäs on Jan 23, 2012, 9:39 am

In our project (LZ3) we have a separate pedestrian route accessing the site. The local government requires the route to be sufficiently illuminated, which means that the...

Tradable Surfaces

CS-2009 SSc8: Light Pollution Reduction
posted by Anna Korinkova on Dec 5, 2011, 5:42 am

Hi,
our project does not have any tradable surfaces and because of this the online pdf says that the SSc8 is not properly documented (data are missing in the tradable surfaces table)....

Light Trespass- Sidewalk and Streets

CS-2009 SSc8: Light Pollution Reduction
posted by Paola Figueiredo on Nov 23, 2011, 12:17 pm

Please,

In the project our project team is working there are some fixtures next to the site boundary which emit illumination for the sidewalk next to the property limits. The streets...