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The interior lighting of our projects has 3 zones for dorm rooms, but has dimming with manual on/ automatic off controls. There are also daylight zones. Can the dimming meet the 3 lighting levels required?
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Glenn Heinmiller
PrincipalLam Partners
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March 3, 2021 - 6:54 pm
By "zone" I assume you mean a fixture or group of fixtures within the space that can be separately controlled. If each zone can be separately controlled by the occupant(s), then in my opinion that would meet the requirement
Summer Gorder
OwnerecoREAL
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June 9, 2021 - 2:54 pm
Just a double check that "dimming" can count as the three lighting level option?
Denise Bevilaqua
HIGHLAND ASSOCIATES28 thumbs up
June 9, 2021 - 4:51 pm
Summer, Yes. The three levels are denoted in the Reference Guide as "on, off, and "midlevel" with "midlevel" defined as 30% to 70% of the max. illumnation level, so dimming satisfies this requirement. Regardless of whether your dorms are single occupants or mutioccupant spaces it seems that you have met the criteria.