IEQ 6.1 Task Lighting

Samuel Nation

PE, LEED AP B D + C

DVPE

LEEDuser Basic Member

2 thumbs up

February 6, 2014

The owner has committed to providing desk lamps to open office areas to meet individual control at work stations. The work stations however, are not officially part of the project. They will purchased our of another fund. Do we need to submit a written statement from the owner indicating intent? Or do we have to purchase the task lighting as part of the project? Also, I assume portable desk lamps are acceptable as task lights? There are no over the desk cabinets/shelves to mount to.

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Lauren Sparandara

Sustainability Manager

Google

LEEDuser Expert

700 thumbs up

Wed, 06/11/2014 - 19:19

Hi Samuel, Portable Desk lamps are acceptable as task lamps. You've reached a pretty good example of a grey area. Is this a LEED-CI project (as you've filed the question)? My general inclination is to suggest that you would need to purchase the lamps because there are so many unknowns about the lamps actually getting purchased by the owner. When will people be occupying the desks? I would use that as a potentially helpful indicator of when the lamps should be set up.