BEAM Plus New Building V2.0 – Interior Lighting

Interior lighting is presented as HWB 10 Artificial Lighting under 7 Health and Wellbeing (HWB). It applies to all types of new buildings. The objective is to promote indoor lighting design which is comfortable for occupants’ indoor activities.

2nos. Credits

1 credit – Artificial lighting in normally occupied spaces

  • Achieving the prescribed lighting performance in normally
    occupied spaces

1 credit – Artificial lighting in not normally occupied spaces and
unoccupied spaces

  • Achieving the prescribed lighting performance in not normally occupied spaces and unoccupied spaces
Artificial Lighting Assessment

The BEAM Plus assessment involves reviewing the following submissions.

The lighting report shall demonstrate the interior lighting design complies with the requirements provided by “The SLL Code for Lighting 2012” of the Society of Light and Lighting (SLL) from the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) in terms of illumination level, Unified Glare Rating and uniformity etc.

1.
Room Data Sheet

Show the height, surface materials and functions etc. of all the rooms

2.
Lighting Plan

Provide lighting layout to show the design

3.
Luminaire Specification

Show the specification of all the light fittings

4.
Lighting Guideline

Refer to SLL lighting guidelines for the requirements on various lighting parameters

5.
Lighting Simulation

Demonstrate the lighting design complies with the SLL requirements e.g. illumination, UGR and uniformity

6.
Report Submission

Compile a lighting report as submission

The SLL Code for Lighting 2012

SLL Code for Lighting is a lighting bible for us to have a better understanding of the appropriate application of lighting in various environment, architectural building and workplaces etc.

 

The latest version of SLL Code for Lighting provides information on three fundamental matters of relevance to lighting practice. These matters are:

  • A summary of what is known about the effects of lighting on task performance, behavior, safety, perception and health as well as its financial and environmental costs.
  • A compendium of all the lighting recommendations relevant to the United Kingdom both interior and exterior with suggestions as to how these should be interpreted. 
  • A detailed description of all the calculations required for quantitative lighting design. 
Lighting Quality

As mentioned in the SLL Code of Lighting, the objective of anyone concerned with providing lighting should be to produce good quality lighting. BEAM Plus HWB10 focuses on delivering a built environment with good interior lighting quality.

  • Bad quality lighting is lighting that does not allow you to see what you need to see, quickly and easily and/or causes visual discomfort.
  • Indifferent quality lighting is lighting that does allow you to see what you need to see quickly and easily and does not cause visual discomfort but does nothing to lift the spirit.
  • Good quality lighting is lighting that allows you to see what you need to see quickly and easily and does not cause visual discomfort but does raise the human spirit.