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Lighting levels |
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Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) |
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| Building | Lux |
| Areas common to most buildings | |
| Entrance hall, lobby, waiting room | 200 |
| Enquiry desk | 500 |
| Corridor, passageway, stairs | 100 |
| Atria | 50-200 |
| Changing room, cloakroom, lavatory | 100 |
| Rest room | 150 |
| Canteen, cafeteria, dining room | 200 |
| Kitchen | 300 |
| Commercial offices | |
| General offices | 500 |
| Computer workstations | 300-500 |
| Conference rooms, executive offices | 500 |
| Computer and data preparation rooms | 500 |
| Filing room | 300 |
| Banks and building societies | |
| Counter, office area | 500 |
| Public area | 300 |
| Hotels | |
| Entrance halls | 100 |
| Reception, cashiers and porters’ desks | 300 |
| Bars, coffee bars, dining rooms, grill rooms, restaurants, lounges | 50-200 |
| Cloakrooms, baggage, rooms | 100 |
| Bedrooms | 50-100 |
| Bathrooms | 150 |
| Kitchen | 150-300 |
| Retailing | |
| Small retail outlets | 500 |
| Grocery/vegetable stores | 500 |
| Showrooms | 1000 |
| Covered arcades and malls | 500-700 |
| Fashion | 500-750 |
| Supermarket | 750 |
| Restaurant | 200 |
| Bookshop, chemist, jeweler | 500 |
| Superstore | 1000 |
| Electrical/furniture store | 750 |
| Arcades and malls | 50-300 |
| Places of public assembly | |
| Cinema and theatre foyer | 200 |
| Booking office | 300 |
| Auditoria | 100-150 |
| Library | 150-300 |
| Museum art gallery | 50-300 |
| Lecture theatre | 300 |
| Church | 100-300 |
| School and College | |
| Computer Room | 300 |
| Classroom and Tuition Centre | 350 |
| Technical Drawing Room | 750 |
| Museum and Science Centre | |
| General Area and Corridor | 150 |
| Common Toilet and Restroom | 200 |
| Special Lighting for Paintings | 300 |
| Special Lighting for Sculptures | 750 |
| Retail Shop and Outlet | |
| Sales Area and Premises | 400 |
| Gift Wrap Station | 450 |
| Cash Register Counter | 500 |
| Commercial Space and Office | |
| Lift Lobby | 200 |
| Corridor | 300 |
| Toilet and Restroom | 150 |
| Cafeteria | 350 |
| Plant Room (AHU, Genset etc.) | 150 |
| Store Room | 180 |
| Hospital | |
| Lift Lobby | 200 |
| Corridor | 250 |
| Waiting Area and Lobby | 300 |
| Common Toilet and Restroom | 250 |
| Waiting rooms | 200 |
| Counseling Room | 200 |
| Breast-Feeding Room | 200 |
| Intensive Care Unit | 300 |
| High Dependency Unit | 300 |
| Isolation Room | 300 |
| Isolation Room – Ante Room | 300 |
| Delivery Suite – Labor Room | 300 |
| Simple examination room | 300 |
| Operating Theatre – Air-Lock | 300 |
| CSSD/TSSU – Sterilization Area | 300 |
| CSSD/TSSU – Packing Area | 500 |
| Patient Ward – Room | 300 |
| Patient Ward – Toilet | 150 |
| Operating theatre | 1000 |
| Conference Room | 400 |
| Catering Dept – Main Kitchen | 400 |
| Catering Dept – Beverage Kitchen | 300 |
| Catering Dept – Refuse Holding | 150 |
| Nursing Homes | |
| Entrance lobbies | 200 |
| Lounges (communal) | 300 |
| Kitchens | 300 |
| Bathrooms | 150 |
| Toilets | 100 |
| Corridors | 100 |
| Staircases | 100 |
| Quiet / rest rooms | 100 |
| Dining rooms | 200 |
| Stores | 100 |
| Hotel and Restaurant | |
| Lift Lobby | 150 |
| Corridor | 150 |
| Common Toilet and Restroom | 150 |
| Bar | 150 |
| Bedroom | 200 |
| Conference Room | 400 |
| Exhibition Hall | 500 |
| Cinema, Concert Hall and Theatre | |
| Entrance Foyer | 200 |
| Auditorium | 150 |
| Toilet and Restroom | 200 |
| Dress Change | 300 |
| Make-Up Room | 400 |
| Residential Buildings | |
| Living Room | 200 |
| Dining Room | 250 |
| Kitchen | 250 |
| Bedroom | 180 |
| Bathroom | 150 |
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Lighting Levels |
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Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) |
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| Area | Illuminance (lux) |
| Lifts | 100 |
| Corridors and stairs | 100 |
| Toilets | 100 |
| Canteens | 300 |
| Mess rooms | 150 – 300 |
| Plant rooms | 150 – 300 |
| Store rooms | 100 |
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Recommended Lighting Levels |
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Singapore Standards SS 531-1 : 2006 (2013) |
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| Type of area, task or activity | Lux |
| Shipyards & Docks | |
| Shipyard area, storage areas | 20 |
| Short term handling of large units | 20 |
| Ship hull cleaning | 50 |
| Ship hull painting and welding | 100 |
| Mounting of electrical and mechanical components | 200 |
| Building Sites | |
| Clearance, excavation and loading | 20 |
| Construction areas, drain pipes mounting, auxiliary and storage tasks | 50 |
| Framework element mounting, light reinforcement work, wooden mould and framework mounting, electric piping and cabling | 100 |
| Element jointing, electrical machine and pipe mountings | 200 |
| Very Low Risk: Storage areas with occasional traffic in industrial outdoor | 5 |
| Low Risk: Occasionally used platforms and stairs in petrochemical industries | 10 |
| Medium Risk: Pre-Fabrication yards, Vehicle storage, Fuel storage | 20 |
| High Risk: Areas with pits / excavations, Valves, compressors area, regularly used staircase and platforms | 50 |
| Office Interior | |
| Filing, copying | 300 |
| Writing, reading, Data processing | 500 |
| Technical drawings | 750 |
| CAD work stations | 500 |
| Conf& Meeting rooms | 500 |
| Reception desk | 300 |
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Recommended Lighting Levels |
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SAUDI STANDARD-4520 |
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| Area | Lux |
| General Area | |
| Entrance halls | 100 |
| Lounges | 200 |
| Circulation area and corridors | 100 |
| Stairs, escalators, travelators | 150 |
| Loading ramps/bays | 150 |
| Canteens | 200 |
| Rest rooms | 100 |
| Rooms for physical exercise | 300 |
| Cloakrooms, washrooms, bathrooms, toilets | 200 |
| Sick bay | 500 |
| Rooms for medical attention | 500 |
| Plant rooms, switch gear rooms | 500 |
| Dispatch packing handling areas | 300 |
| Control station | 150 |
| Agriculture building | |
| Loading and operating of goods handling equipment and machinery | 200 |
| Building for livestock | 50 |
| Sick animal pens, calving stalls | 200 |
| Feed preparation, dairy, utensil washing | 200 |
| Bakeries | |
| Preparation and baking | 300 |
| Finishing, glazing,decorating | 500 |
| Cement, concrete, & bricks industry | |
| Drying | 50 |
| Preparation of materials,work on kilns and mixers | 200 |
| General machine work | 300 |
| Rough forms | 300 |
| Ceramics and glass industry | |
| Drying | 50 |
| Preparation, general machine work | 300 |
| Enameling, rolling, pressing, shaping simple parts, glazing | 300 |
| Grinding, engraving, glass polishing, shaping precision parts, manufacture of glass instruments | 750 |
| Decorative work | 500 |
| Grinding of optical glass, crystal hand grinding and engraving, work on average goods | 750 |
| Precision work e.g decorative grinding, hand painting | 1000 |
| Manufacture of synthetic stones precious | 1500 |
| Chemicals, plastics and rubber industry | |
| Remote operated processing installations | 50 |
| Processing installations with limited manual intervention | 150 |
| Constantly manned work places in processing installations | 300 |
| Precision measuring rooms, laboratories | 500 |
| Pharmaceutical production | 500 |
| Tire production | 500 |
| Color inspection | 1000 |
| Cutting, finishing, inspection | 750 |
| Electrical industry | |
| Cable and wire manufacture | 300 |
| Wending -large coils | 300 |
| Wending-medium-sized coils | 500 |
| Wending-small Coils | 750 |
| Coil impregnating | 300 |
| Galvanizing | 300 |
| Assembly work-rough e.g. large transformers | 300 |
| Assembly work- medium e.g. switchboards | 500 |
| Assembly work- fine e.g. telephones | 750 |
| Assembly work-precision e.g. measuring equip. | 1000 |
| Assembly work-Electronic workshops, testing, adjusting | 1500 |
| Mosques | |
| Prayer Area, Mosques | 300 |
| Airports | |
| Arrival and departure halls, baggage claim areas | 200 |
| Connecting areas, escalators, travelators | 150 |
| Information desks, check in desks | 500 |
| Customs and passport control desks | 500 |
| Waiting areas | 200 |
| Luggage store rooms | 200 |
| Security check areas | 300 |
| Air traffic control tower | 500 |
| Air traffic rooms | 500 |
| Testing and repair hangars | 500 |
| Engine test areas | 500 |
| Measuring areas in hangars | 500 |
| Platforms and passenger subways (underpasses) | 50 |
| Ticket hall and concourse | 200 |
| Ticket and luggage offices and counters | 300 |
| Waiting rooms | 200 |
| Health care premises | |
| Waiting rooms | 200 |
| Corridors: during the day | 200 |
| Corridors: during the night | 50 |
| Day rooms | 200 |
| Staff office | 500 |
| Staff rooms | 300 |
| Wards-General lighting | 100 |
| Wards-Reading lighting | 300 |
| Wards-Simple examination | 300 |
| Examination and treatment | 1000 |
| Night lighting, observation lighting | 5 |
| Bathrooms and toilets for patients | 200 |
| Examination room general | 500 |
| Ear and eye examination | 1000 |
| Reading and Color vision test with vision charts | 500 |
| Scanners with image enhancers and television systems | 50 |
| Dialysis rooms | 500 |
| Dermatology rooms | 500 |
| Endoscopy rooms | 300 |
| Plaster rooms | 500 |
| Medical baths | 300 |
| Massage and radiotherapy | 300 |
| Pre-operation and recovery rooms | 500 |
| Operating theatre | 1000 |
| Intensive care- General lighting | 100 |
| Intensive care- Simple examinations | 300 |
| Intensive care-Examination and treatment | 1000 |
| Intensive care– Night watch | 20 |
| Dentists- General lighting | 500 |
| Dentists- At the patient | 1000 |
| Dentists- Operating cavity | 5000 |
| Dentists- White teeth matching | 5000 |
| Color inspection (laboratories) | 1000 |
| Sterilization rooms | 300 |
| Disinfection rooms | 300 |
| Autopsy rooms and mortuaries | 500 |
| Autopsy table and dissecting table | 5000 |
| Educational buildings | |
| Play school room | 300 |
| Nursery class | 300 |
| Nursery craft room | 300 |
| Classrooms, tutorial rooms | 300 |
| Classroom for evening classes and adults education | 500 |
| Lecture hall | 500 |
| Black board | 500 |
| Demonstration table | 500 |
| Art and craft rooms | 500 |
| Art rooms in art schools | 750 |
| Technical drawing rooms | 750 |
| Practical rooms and laboratories | 500 |
| Teaching workshop | 500 |
| Music practice rooms | 300 |
| Computer practice rooms | 500 |
| Language laboratory | 300 |
| Preparation rooms and workshops | 500 |
| Student common rooms and assembly halls | 200 |
| Teachers rooms | 300 |
| Sports halls, gymnasiums and swimming pools | 300 |
| Public car parks (indoor) | |
| In/out ramps | 300 |
| In/out ramps (at night) | 75 |
| Traffic lanes | 75 |
| Parking areas | 75 |
| Ticket office | 300 |
| Libraries | |
| Bookshelves | 200 |
| Reading area | 500 |
| Counters | 500 |
| Places of entertainment | |
| Theatres & concert halls | 200 |
| Multipurpose halls | 300 |
| Practice rooms, dressing rooms | 300 |
| Museums (general) | 300 |
| Restaurants and hotels | |
| Reception/cashier desk, porters desk | 300 |
| Kitchen | 500 |
| Restaurant, dining room, function room | 200 |
| Self-service restaurant | 200 |
| Buffet | 300 |
| Conference rooms | 500 |
| Corridors | 100 |
| Retailing | |
| Sales area small | 300 |
| Sales area large | 500 |
| Till area | 500 |
| Wrapper table | 500 |
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Illuminance values |
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As per IES |
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| Area Type | Lux |
| CIRCULATION AREA | |
| Corridors, Passageway | 100 |
| Lift | 150 |
| Stairs | 150 |
| Escalator | 150 |
| External Covered Ways | 30 |
| ENTRANCES | |
| Entrance halls, lobbies, waiting rooms | 150 |
| Enquiry desk | 500 |
| Gate houses | 300 |
| KITCHENS | |
| Foods stores | 150 |
| General | 500 |
| OUTDOOR | |
| Controlled entrance halls or exit gate | 150 |
| Entrance and exit car park | 30 |
| Stores, stockyards | 30 |
| Industrial covered ways | 50 |
| STAFF RESTAURANTS | |
| Centre cafeterias, dining room | 300 |
| MEDICAL AND FIRST AIDS CENTRES | |
| Consultant room, treatment areas | 500 |
| Medical stores | 100 |
| Rest room | 150 |
| STAFF ROOM | |
| Changing locker and cleaner’s room, cloakrooms lavatories | 150 |
| Rest rooms | 150 |
| STORE AND STOCK ROOMS | 150 |
| Telecommunication board,switchboard rooms | 500 |
| Cordless switchboard | 300 |
| Apparatus rooms | 150 |
| Teteprinter rooms | 500 |
| AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE HANGERS | |
| Aircraft engine testing | 750 |
| Inspection and repairs (hanger) | 500 |
| GARAGES | |
| External apron general | 50 |
| Pumps | 300 |
| Parking areas (interior) general repairs servicing | 30 |
| Greasing, pits washing, polishing | 500 |
| GAS WORKS | |
| Exterior walkways and platforms | 50 |
| Exterior stairs and ladders | 100 |
| Retort house, oil gas plants, watergas plant purifier, indoor coke | 100 |
| Booster and exhauster houses | 150 |
| GAUGE TOOLS ROOMS | |
| General | 1000 |
| INSPECTION & TESTING SHOP | |
| Rough work e.g. counting rough Checking of stock parts | 300 |
| sub-assemblies | 500 |
| Fine work e.g. radio and telecommunication equipment, calibrated scales, precision mechanism, instruments | 1000 |
| Very fine work e.g. gauging and inspections of small intricate parts | 1500 |
| Minute work e.g. very small instruments | 3000 |
| HOMES | |
| Living rooms general | 50 |
| Casual reading | 150 |
| Sewing darningsrudies desk and protuged | 300 |
| Bedroom general | 50 |
| Bed lead kitchen | 150 |
| Bathrooms | 100 |
| Halls and landings | 150 |
| Stairs | 100 |
| Workshops | 300 |
| Garages | 50 |
| INDOOR SPORTS AND RECREATIONAL BUILDING | |
| MULTIPURPOSE SPORTS HALLS | |
| Athletics, basketball, bowls, judo | 300 |
| Hockey | 700 |
| BADMINTON COURTS | 300 |
| BILLIARD ROOMS | |
| General Table special lighting | 100 |
| CARD ROOMS | 300 |
| GYMNASIA GENERAL | 500 |
| SWIMMING POOL | |
| Top pool | 500 |
| Spectator areas | 150 |
| Club recreational | 300 |
| Changing rooms showers, lookers rooms | 150 |
| TABLE TENNIS | |
| Club | 300 |
| Recreational | 200 |
| HOSPITAL | |
| Ward unit bed heads general | 30 |
| General | 150 |
| Nurse station evening | 300 |
| Pharmacies dispensing bench | 500 |
| Shelves | 150 |
| Reception general | 300 |
| Enquiry desk | 500 |
| Laboratories | 500 |
| Operating theatre suits general | 400 |
| Operating area | 30-50 |
| X-ray department radio diagnostic and rooms fluoroscopy | 500 |
| TRANSPORTS TERMINAL BUILDING | |
| Airport coach and railway station | |
| Reception areas (desk),customs and immigration halls | 500 |
| Railway stations booking offices | 500 |
| Railway station parcel and left luggage offices counters | 300 |
| Circulation area | 150 |
| Waiting area | 300 |
| SCHOOL | |
| Assembly halls general | 300 |
| Teaching spaces general | 300 |
| Teaching spaces general | 300 |
| General where also used for further education | 500 |
| Chalkboard | 500 |
| Beedlework rooms | 500 |
| Laboratories | 500 |
| Workshop | 300 |
| Gymnasium | 300 |
| Music practice rooms | 300 |
| MUSEUM AND ART GALLERIES GENERAL | |
| Exhibits insensitive to light | 300 |
| Light sensitive exhibits | 150 |
| Specially light sensitive exhibit | 50 |
| LIBRARIES | |
| Shelves, book stack | 150 |
| Reading table | 300 |
| Reading rooms, newspaper and magazines | 300 |
| Reference libraries | 500 |
| Counters | 500 |
| Cataloging and sorting | 500 |
| Binding | 500 |
| Closed book store | 100 |
| PUBLIC BUILDING ASSEMBLY AND CONCERT HALLS | |
| Theatre and concert halls | 100 |
| Cinemas | 50 |
| Multipurpose | 500 |
| SHOP | |
| Conventional with counters | 500 |
| Conventional with wall display | 500 |
| Conventional with wall display | 500 |
| SHOP | |
| Self service | 500 |
| Supermarkets | 500 |
| Hypermarkets | 500 |
| General | 500 |
| OFFICES AND SHOPS | |
| Executive office | 500 |
| Computer rooms | 500 |
| Punch card rooms | 750 |
| Drawing offices drawing boards | 750 |
| Reference table and general | 500 |
| Print room | 300 |
| OFFICE | |
| General office with mainly clerical task and typing office | 500 |
| Deep plan general offices | 750 |
| Business machine and typing | 750 |
| Filling room | 300 |
| Conference rooms | 750 |
| Aircraft Industry | |
| Maintenance area | 750 |
| Inspection area | 1000 |
| Paint Shop | 1000 |
| Testing area | 750 |
| Instruments assembly | 1500 |
| Electrical assembly | 1500 |
| Explosives Manufacturing | |
| Furnaces, Boiling Tanks, Driers | 200 |
| Mechanical furnaces, mechanical driers, generators | 500 |
| Paint Shop | |
| Simple spraying | 200 |
| Fine finishing | 500 |
| Extra fine finishing | 2000 |
| Paint Manufacturing | |
| Processing | 200-500 |
| Mix comparison | 1000-2000 |
| Electricity generating station | |
| Boilers area | 50 |
| Cooling towers | 50 |
| Fuel handling | 50 |
| Storage tanks | 10 |
| Transformer yards | 50 |
| Turbine areas | 50 |
| Petroleum, Chemical and Petrochemical Industry | |
| Process areas | |
| General process units | |
| Pump rows, valves, manifolds | 50 |
| Heat exchangers | 30 |
| Maintenance platforms | 10 |
| Operating platforms | 50 |
| Cooling towers (equipment areas) | 50 |
| Furnaces | 30 |
| Ladders and stairs (inactive) | 10 |
| Ladders and stairs (active) | 50 |
| Gauge glassed | 50 |
| Instruments (on process units) | 50 |
| Compressor house | 200 |
| Separators | 50 |
| General area | 10 |
| Control rooms and houses | |
| Ordinary control house | 300 |
| Instrument panel | 300 |
| Console | 300 |
| Back of panel | 100 |
| Central control house | 500 |
| Instrument panel | 500 |
| Console | 500 |
| Back of panel | 100 |
| Specialty process units | |
| Electrolytic cell room | 50 |
| Electric furnace | 50 |
| Conveyors | 20 |
| Conveyor transfer points Change house | 50 |
| Locker room, shower | 100 |
| Lavatory | 100 |
| Clock house and entrance gatehouse Card rack and clock area | 100 |
| Entrance gate, inspection | 150 |
| General | 50 |
| Cafeteria | |
| Eating | 300 |
| Serving area | 300 |
| Food preparation | 300 |
| General, halls, etc. | 100 |
| Garage and firehouse | |
| Storage and minor repairs | 100 |
| First aid room | 700 |
| Iron and Steel Industry | |
| Open hearth | |
| Stock yard | 100 |
| Charging floor, Pouring side , Slag pits | 200 |
| Control platforms | 300 |
| Mold yard | 50 |
| Kilns (operating area) | 50 |
| Extruders and mixers | 200 |
| Non process areas | |
| Loading, unloading, and cooling | |
| water pump houses | |
| Pump area | 50 |
| General control area | 150 |
| Control panel | 200 |
| Boiler and air compressor plants | |
| Indoor equipments | 200 |
| Outdoor equipments | 50 |
| Tank fields (where lighting is required) | |
| Ladders and stairs | 5 |
| Gauging area | 10 |
| Manifold area | 5 |
| Loading racks | |
| General area | 50 |
| Tank car | 100 |
| Tank trucks, loading point | 100 |
| Electrical substations and switch yards | |
| Outdoor switch yards | 20 |
| General substation outdoor | 20 |
| Substation operating aisles | 150 |
| General substation indoor | 50 |
| Switch racks | 50 |
| Plant road lighting (where lighting is Required) | |
| Frequent use (trucking) | 4 |
| Infrequent use | 2 |
| Plant parking lots Aircraft obstruction lighting | 1 |
| Buildings | |
| Laboratories Qualitative, quantitative and physical test | 500 |
| Research, experimental | 500 |
| Pilot plant, process and specialty | 300 |
| ASTM equipment knock test | 300 |
| Glassware, washrooms | 300 |
| Fume hoods | 300 |
| Stock rooms | 150 |
| Warehouse and stock rooms | |
| Indoor bulk storage | 50 |
| Outdoor bulk storage | 5 |
| Large bin storage | 50 |
| Small bin storage | 100 |
| Small parts storage | 200 |
| Counter tops | 300 |
| Repair shop | |
| Large fabrication | 200 |
| Bench and machine work | 500 |
| Craneway, aisles | 150 |
| Small machine | 300 |
| Sheet metal | 200 |
| Electrical | 200 |
| Instrument | 300 |
| Hot top | 300 |
| Hot top storage | 100 |
| Checker cellar | 100 |
| Buggy and door repair | 300 |
| Stripping yard | 200 |
| Scrap stockyard | 100 |
| Mixer building | 300 |
| Calcining building | 100 |
| Skull cracker | 100 |
| Rolling mills | |
| Blooming, scabbing, hot strip Hot sheet | 300 |
| Cold strip, plate | 300 |
| Pipe, rod, tube, wire drawing | 500 |
| Merchant and sheared plate | 300 |
| Tin plate mills Tinning and galvanizing | 500 |
| Cold strip rolling | 500 |
| Motor room, machine room Inspection | 1000 |
| Black plate, bloom and billet chipping Tin plate and other bright surfaces | 2000 |
January 16, 2019 at 08:08AM by Department of EEE, ADBU: http://bit.ly/2AyIRVT
