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Exterior Lighting?

CS-2009 SSc8: Light Pollution Reduction
posted by Hrvoje Kvasnicka on Jul 19, 2012, 8:25 am

I'm working on an office project that has a retail element on the ground floor. The retail area features a corridor connecting individual retail units which is open at its ends, ie. no doors will...

Facade Lighting installed inside the building

CS-2009 SSc8: Light Pollution Reduction
posted by Katherine Ann Resurreccion on Sep 4, 2012, 11:45 pm

We have a CS project that proposes a facade lighting that will be installed inside the building (which is at tenant office space areas). This lighting system will be provided and controlled by...

Exterior signage

CS-2009 SSc8: Light Pollution Reduction
posted by Mathilda Jonsson on Oct 5, 2012, 2:17 am

Hi,

I recall that I've read that lighted exterior facade signs are excluded from this credit. Am I right? Since we are building a CS building we can't know for now who the tenants will be...

Strategy

CS-2009 SSc8: Light Pollution Reduction
posted by Alicia Villanueva on Oct 16, 2012, 12:27 pm

We are trying a new strategy to achieve this credit: we will turn off all exterior lighting from 11pm to 5am with a timer. Is this a valid strategy instead of uploading a photometric plan?

Is facade advertising included in illuminance simultions?

CS-2009 SSc8: Light Pollution Reduction
posted by Adam Targowski on Nov 15, 2012, 5:42 am

1. Is any advertising lighting installed on a facade included in...

Existing Ornamental Low-Pole sidewalk lighting (City owned)

CS-2009 SSc8: Light Pollution Reduction
posted by Michael Esposito on Nov 20, 2012, 7:03 am

I am working on a CS project which is in an urban setting located on a city block where my LEED boundary is established as edge of curb. The city has ornamental sidewalk lights which were already...

School Crosswalk

CS-2009 SSc8: Light Pollution Reduction
posted by Carol Liebst on Dec 15, 2012, 10:21 am

Working on a site plan for Leed Silver School. I see criteria for using the centerline of the roadway as the project boundary for twice the width of a driveway, but what about a school crosswalk...

Exterior pool lighting

CS-2009 SSc8: Light Pollution Reduction
posted by Natalie Tan on Mar 17, 2013, 11:39 am

Is exterior pool lighting exempt from this credit? IES (2011) states that "underwater lighting in swimming pools and other water features" are not regulated by this Ordinance.
Thanks!

Scope of SSc8 for Interior lighting

CS-2009 SSc8: Light Pollution Reduction
posted by Ron Dean on Mar 26, 2013, 1:09 pm

Hello,

I just want to make sure I’m right about complying with this credit. Our building doesn’t have C&S areas that have a direct line of sight to opening in the building envelope. To...

Facada sign

CS-2009 SSc8: Light Pollution Reduction
posted by Florinda Garcia on Jul 14, 2013, 2:24 am

After Reading the comments, that an internally illuminated advertising signs are exempt, Can I say that if I have an internally illuminated advertising sign on a facade, it doesn't affect the...