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Lighting Design + Application July 2002

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SPORTS LIGHTING Keeping Her Eye on the Ball 17 For Bonny Ann Whitehouse, sports lighting is more than illuminance values and uniformity ratios. It’s a blend of architectural and theatrical techniques

Fanfare Off the Field 20 In every arena, the event is the star, but lighting also plays a key role in the wings

Daylight Savings Time 24 Maximizing daylight was key to Glumac International’s design for the Washington State University’s Student Recreation Center

An Odds-On Favorite 28 It was a photo finish for Ewing Cole’s design team, but deadlines were met for the tracks at the Singapore Turf Club, where lighting creates dramatic and compelling imagery within a tropical garden setting

FEATURES

DEPARTMENTS 3 Beardsley’s Beat 6 Essay by Invitation

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8 Energy Concerns

Computers are an integral part of modern lighting design. LD+A brings you the cream of the software crop.

9 President’s Points

Interpreting Outdoor Luminaire Cutoff Classification 44 LRC’s John Bullough proposes a supplemental classification for quantifying a luminaire upward luminous flux

10 Scanning the Spectrum 13 IES News 47 Light Products 51 Scheduled Events 55 Classified Advertisements 55 Ad Offices 56 Ad Index

ON THE COVER: Bonny Ann Whitehouse's goal was to create a jewel within the Cincinnati skyline. The Paul Brown Stadium showcases the NFL's Cincinnati Bengals. The Flack + Kurtz Lighting Design Group was an integral part of the design team. Photo: Glenn Hartong/Cincinnatti Enquirer 2

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2002-2003 Board of Directors IESNA President Randy Reid Senior Director Telemics, Inc. Past President Pamela K. Horner, LC Manager, Technical Training OSRAM SYLVANIA Senior Vice-President Ronnie Farrar, LC Lighting Specialist Duke Power Executive Vice-President William Hanley, CAE Vice-President—-Design & Application John R. Selander, LC Regional Sales Manager The Kirlin Company Vice-President—Educational Activities Fred Oberkircher, LC Director TCU Center for Lighting Education Texas Christian University Vice-President—-Member Activities Jeff Martin, LC Lighting Specialist Tampa Electric Company Vice-President—-Technical & Research Ronald Gibbons Lighting Research Scientist, Advanced Product Test and Evaluation Group Virginia Tech Transportation Institute Treasurer Boyd Corbett Belfer Lighting Directors Jean Black PPL Services Corp. Anthony J. Denami, LC Gresham Smith & Partners Donald Newquist, LC Professional Design Associates, Inc.

omdex, the computer show held every fall in Las Vegas, was called the Computer Dealer Expo. The chemical process show known as the Pittsburgh Conference hasn’t been held in Pittsburgh in years. What’s in a name? “Scanning the Spectrum,” the design column that debuted in LD+A last month was originally to be named “Out of the Shadows.” But we decided it implied many designs were still in a state of stygian darkness. (It also sounded like a bad soap opera.) SOMA, Engineering for the Human Body, was a magazine I once

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To move the cabin, push for wishing floor. If the cabin should enter more persons, each one should press a number of wishing floor.

Earl Print, LC Lightolier Joel Siegel, LC Edison Price Lighting James Sultan, LC Studio Lux RVP/Directors Kevin Flynn Kiku Obata & Company Russ Owens, LC West Coast Design Group

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edited. Soma, of Greek derivation, means body. Shortly after its debut, I discovered a nudist magazine with the same name, but its publisher had failed to register the name. Today, I believe SOMA refers to a district in San Francisco south of Market Street. Associations have it easy in the naming game compared with automakers. The poet Marianne Moore was asked by Ford Motor to pick a name for a then-experimental car. Her offerings included Silver Sword, Resilient Bullet, Andante con Moto, Varsity Stroke, and Utopian Turtletop. Ford rejected her suggestions

and some 6000 others in favor of Edsel. The automotive name game offers other items of interest. The name Columbia was scrapped for Mercury’s new minivan when consumer research suggested a link

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BEAT with drugs. Taurus was the astrological sign of the wife of Ford’s vice president of product development. Even global communications can be misinterpreted. In Taiwan, Pepsi Cola bottlers used the “come alive with Pepsi” slogan until marketers realized the phrase translated literally as “Pepsi brings your ancestors back to life.” Tortured English translations abound. “Please leave your values at the front desk,” read a sign at a French hotel. In a Norwegian cocktail lounge, ladies were requested not to have children at the bar. In a Leipzig elevator: “Don’t enter the lift backwards and only when lit up.” In a Belgrade elevator: “To move the cabin, push for wishing floor. If the cabin should enter more persons, each one should press a number of wishing floor. Driving is then going alphabetically by national order.” As a kid, I won a bicycle from Rice Krispies by naming the twowheeler “Roama.” I was recently looking for a contest in which I could recycle my prize-winning moniker. But now that I’ve shared this name with the readers of LD+A, I will have to look for a new name and game. Gotta go. The engine’s idling in my Utopian Turtletop.

Charles Beardsley, Editor

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his is my version of ‘Penny Wise and Dollar Foolish.’ It is frustrating when customers use shortest payback or lowest initial cost as their main criterion for retrofits, remodels or new construction. This frustration, teaching the

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economics section for a local IESNA ED150 class, and recently seeing a showcase remodel/expansion project with generic electronic ballasts and basic grade T8 lamps, motivated me to write this. Basing decisions mainly on the shortest payback is very short sighted. It is a challenge getting people to realize that the logic behind policies, like a maximum two-year simple payback requirement, is flawed. Often the shortest payback leaves substantial savings on the table. I put myself in the customer’s shoes and ask myself if it was my money, would I want the shortest payback? Or would I want to spend extra initial money to provide higher savings and better long term benefits, resulting in more money in my pocket in 5, 10 or 15 years? First of all let’s look at generic low-power electronic ballasts for T8s compared to the new-generation extra-efficient low-power ballasts. For example, project X has 4000 hour annual burn time and blended $0.15 blended kilowatthour rate. The payback retrofitting the existing fixtures that have F40T12 lamps and magnetic ballasts with generic low-power ballasts and F32T8 lamps is 1.7 years. Each extra-efficient low power ballast may cost the end customer $2 to $6 more than the generic ballasts, so $4 is an average. Each extra-efficient ballast saves 3 to 6 W, to be conservative 3 W is used. That is an additional annual savings of $1.80, which provides a 2.2 year payback compared to the generic ballast. Electronic ballasts can eas-

ily last 15 years. Using first level analysis methods, over that span, each extra-efficient ballast will save $27 more than a generic low-power ballast. But there is a monetary cost. A dollar today is not equal to dollar a year from now, when interest rates are considered. The following equation from Chapter 25 in the 9th Edition of the IESNA Handbook is very helpful in revealing present worth with regard to annual energy savings. It is my understanding that this equation is widely accepted in the financial community. P = present worth, or amount of at present dollars A = annual savings y = number of years i = opportunity or interest rate (for this case we will use 6%) P = A x [(1+i)y-1]/[i(1+i)y] P= 1.80 x[(1+.06)15-1]/[.06(1+.06)15] P = $17.48 Based on this equation, the annual savings of $1.80 each year over the next 15 years, based on an interest rate of 6 percent, is worth $17.48 in present dollars. So spending an extra $4 now provides a 437 percent ROI (return on investment) over 15 years ($17.48/$4 x 100). Often an asset will not be held that long. The 10 year ROI would be 331 percent. For five years it would be a 190 percent ROI, and for three years, it would be 120 percent. The extra $4 now is a very good investment if the asset will be held at least three years or even if it will be sold before then, because of the increased value of the asset. It may not be a good investment for a tenant with a lease expiring in less than three years and the owner is unwilling to help to subsidize the lighting project. You can do ballast ROIs on your own projects based on your appropriate burn time, kilowatthour rate, annual savings, number of years and opportunity or interest rate. Outside California most kilowatthour rates are probably lower than $.15. You could compare generic and extra-efficient lowpower ballasts or generic and extra-

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efficient standard-power ballasts. Shortest payback vs. long term benefit analysis can also be done with T8 lamps. Typically the benefits of the more expensive extended-life lamps are not included in payback, because the payback time occurs even before standard-life lamps burn out. Standard T8 lamps are rated for 20,000 hours. Extended-life lamps are rated for 24,000 hours, which is 20 percent longer. Each extended-life lamp costs about $.40 more than equivalent type standard-life lamp, which is about 20 percent more. So the cost/life pricing is about the same. The benefits of the longer life lamps follow. Maintenance labor is reduced, because lamps will not have to be replaced as often. In California and other states, all fluorescent lamps will have to be recycled which costs about $.40 for a 4 ft lamp. With longer life lamps, fewer lamps have to be recycled over time. Adding all of the benefits of the extended life lamps, they are typically a 30 percent better total value than equivalent type standard life lamps. As I stated in “Why Should The Customer Have To Pay Twice?” in LD+A, September 2001, highlumen extended-life lamps save additional electricity because fewer lamps or lower ballast factor ballasts are required. Following is an example of how these lamps and extra-efficient ballasts can work together. Instead of simply recommending T8 group relamping we also provide an option with extra-efficient ballasts and high-lumen universal-type (24,000-hour-rated-life even based on instant start ballasts at threehour starts) T8s. For example, consider an office building with 2x4 troffers that have two basic-grade 15,000-hour-rated-life (based on three-hour starts with instant start ballasts) T8s and generic standardoutput instant start ballast. Each fixture consumes 58 W. Each fixture can be retrofitted with two premium T8s and extra-efficient lowpower ballast. Not only would there be a 10 W reduction, but the group relamping schedule would be increased from four to six years, and there would also be a brand new five to seven year parts and www.iesna.org

labor ballast warranty. The retrofit option is often very cost effective when the parts and labor cost of the existing group relamping is ‘deducted’ from the retrofit parts and labor cost. Pardon me, but it would not be one of my articles, if I did not state that additional savings may also be achieved by using scotopically enhanced lamps, especially highlumen extended-life F32T8 850s. So far the before and after feedback from workers at PG&E facilities has been good with dimming down further with 850 lamps. It will be interesting to see the results of the ongoing and upcoming DOE research projects with scotopically enhanced lamps. Sometimes lighting retrofitters and end customers go too far trying to get a short payback or a high ROI. An example is retrofitting three lamp 18 cell parabolic 2x4s with a reflector and two lamps. The electrical savings can be substantial with a relatively low installation cost. But the repositioned lamps ruin proper cut-off angles, resulting in excess direct and indirect glare. Quantifying glare problems and other bad lighting problems to worker productivity is very difficult. But check if office workers are wearing baseball hats, covering their modules with cardboard or turning off the ceiling fixtures and bringing in their own floor or table fixtures. Two extra breaks per week, one extra sick day per year or frequent headaches or eyestrain may equate to reducing worker productivity just one half of 1 percent. That could total an annual loss of $250 for each worker making $50,000 per year. The comprehensive payback or ROI would be very bad with this type of retrofit. On the other hand a new suspended indirect lighting system may increase worker productivity by .05 percent. Again this is difficult to quantify, but check the number of sick days and talk with the workers. This $250 annual benefit plus electrical savings can provide a very good payback and ROI even if the installed price in each office is $400. The ‘people factor,’ which includes worker productivity in offices and retail sales volume, should be factored into the financial analysis of lighting projects.

These same life cycle and people factor issues also apply for new construction. Often in lighting, the products and systems that can save the most electricity tend to cost more initially. So the payback is often not the lowest. But after the payback period, the substantial yearly savings, year after year, allows the extra initial cost option to provide the best total solution. Often a customer would like to have a very effective and efficient lighting system, but cannot afford it. There are several firms that provide positive cash flow financing. The interest rates are usually very reasonable. With no out-of-pocket money the customer’s monthly savings are greater than the monthly finance charge. Afterword I highly recommend reading “Energy Efficiency Boosts Property Values” by Mark Jewell in the April 2002 edition of Energy User News. I read it right after I wrote my article and Mark Jewell discusses a much more sophisticated level of economics. If you do not get Energy User News, this article is available on their website w w w. energyusernews.com Stan Walerczyk is director of lighting at Sun Industries, the largest design and build lighting retrofit contractor in California, serving the western states. He is a member of IESNA’s Energy Management Committee and chair of its Retrofit/Upgrade Subcommittee. For additional information p l e a s e e m a i l swaler czyk@ sunindustriesinc.com

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y now, you’ve been to LIGHTFAIR INTERNATIONAL and attended one or more of the five sessions presented on energy conservation in lighting. The mystery of how the California energy supply shortage was manipulated by brokers like Enron to their advantage has been revealed. The presi-

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dent has signed the energy bill and we have some indication that energy conservation is back in the nation’s best interest. In the meantime, our focus should still be on providing more efficient autos and green buildings and reducing our dependence on Middle East oil. Missing from these obviously desirable goals is the human factor. How much more visually energy efficient can we become? There used to be an old rule of thumb that an increase of one percent in task contrast was worth a 15 percent increase in the task illumination level. After research done by Mark Rea and Michael Ouellette, we learned that the relationship between contrast and illuminance depends upon where you are on the curves of task performance vs. task contrast, illumination level and task size (and of course, how much time you have to perform a specific visual task). The visual task performance rises swiftly when the variables of task contrast, task size and illuminance increase after starting from low levels, but when conditions improve so that the three factors are much higher; increasing any one, or all of them, does not result in much improvement in visual task performance. At that point, the steep curves developed by Rea become plateaus. In short, more light does not help much when you’re reading headlines in dim light, but it does when you try to read small text at low levels of light. Even knowing all this, we face the problem of persuading building owners and managers to invest in

better quality lighting and controls. Last month I pointed out that salaries cost 10 times more per square foot than real estate costs. A dollar per square foot improvement in lighting quality and task contrast is worth $10 per square foot in employee task performanceor more, depending on where you are on the Rea curves. We must be carefull not to take credit for all the increases in task performance if the tasks are not all visual. There are many products made by sightless persons that are on sale in Lighthouse for the Blind shops, and there are many sightless profes-

Owners can be convinced of the virtues of better lighting for their buildings sionals such as doctors and lawyers, so it is important to filter out the mechanical aspects of task performance and only measure the visual component for our purposes and claims. Instinctively, we know that better lighting helps save workers’ time and effort, but how do we prove it to business owners? The biggest motivator in the real estate business is Return on Investment (ROI). Most buildings are owned by syndicates of investors, with a principal owner who controls the management of the property. The investors’ objective is to put up as little cash as possible and still get an outrageous return, which in turn increases the value of the property, enabling them to charge higher rents, increase the mortgage, and take out some of their money, with which to invest in other new properties. Ten years ago when utilities were

strapped for peak capacity, they were throwing money around as incentives to reduce peak demand. They provided a rebate shopping list for lamps, reflectors, electronic ballasts and occupancy sensors. Even with the cash incentives, many building owners still did not take advantage of the programs. As I have repeatedly said, those retrofit measures didn’t do much to improve the quality of the lighting systems, because nobody did the retrofits for the right reason, namely, to improve visual performance rates and employee comfort. Not only weren’t those lighting retros done with the help of a lighting consultant, but many didn’t even comply with prevailing electric codes. Today, lighting retros are being done by ESCOs (Energy Service Companies) who are busier than ever, but the big challenge is not the public spaces (corridors, stairways and utility areas) in the building which account for 20 percent of the space, but the tenant’s spaces, comprising 80 percent of the building’s square footage. Mark Jewell of RealWinWin, Inc. insists that owners can be convinced of the virtues of better lighting for their buildings, if it improves their Net Operating Income (NOI). What better way to do that, than to provide tenants with space that improves their employee’s productivity? To hear that side of the story, I urge you to attend the August 6 session at the IESNA Annual Conference in Salt Lake City, when Terry McGowan of EPRI, Carol Jones of Battelle Laboratories, Guy Newsham of the Canadian Research Institute and Peter Boyce of LRC and co-editor of EPRI’s technical report, “Lighting and Human Performance II,” present a panel discussion on visibility and worker performance. Wouldn’t you like to approach a business owner and say that the latest research indicates that quality lighting and controls can improve the performance of your employees by 10 percent or more?. That’s the future of lighting energy conservation, more so than just green buildings, though I do like buildings that are the same color as money. www.iesna.org

love IESNA; you love IESNA; we’re a happy family… OK, enough of Barney. The fact is, I do love the IESNA, but there are some things I do not like either. You probably love the Society as well, but there have to be things you don’t like as well. We are one big family— a very diverse, complex, yet interdependent family that must find better ways and capitalize on our legacy to advance {expand or improve } the Society for ourselves and future generations. While the IESNA has grown significantly over the years, we may be victims of our own success. Because we have a strong membership coupled with a talented and efficient home office, occasionally certain areas of our Society run on autopilot. For many of our activities, we simply look at the prior document or the prior year’s plan, tweak it, and the process usually works. We have been lucky. It’s time for us to take a hard look at our Society. The current recession, coupled with the trend of consolidations, demands that IESNA turn off the autopilot and really evaluate its documents, its educational programs, and its events, to begin a real campaign to not only improve our society—but more importantly, improve our industry. In March, your Board approved a five year strategic plan that is posted on our site (www.iesna.org) under the “What’s new” section. The plan is multi-faceted, and I will focus this article on two critical areas: the IESNA Annual Conference and education. The IESNA Annual Conference continues to be successful and is regarded by many as the dominant conference in our industry. The Progress Report is probably the most informative two hours many of us spend each year. Stakeholders from presidents on down will make better decisions throughout the year having knowledge of the industries’ (and their competitors’) newest products. In many cases, you can actually talk to the person who developed the product. With help from several members, we are trying to make next month’s conference even greater: 1) Wesson Brown, Group VP of Hubbell Lighting is our keynote speaker. 2) The Papers Committee, Conference Committee, Conference Site Selection Committee, Educational Seminars Committee, and IIDA Committee have all done a superb job! 3) The President’s banquet will focus more on you, the member, and less on speeches. 4) Marketing of the conference has been enhanced; you may have noticed the promotional flyers at LIGHTFAIR. 5) Salt Lake City is one of the nicest cities you will ever visit. Our hotel, the Great America, was home to NBC during the 2002 Olympics and is simply world-class. Another area that has been on autopilot is education, one of our most important core competencies. It is who we are. We must never lose sight of this responsibility and we have an obligation to the industry to constant-

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ly enhance the quality and the delivery of that education. Last fall I had the privilege of teaching the ballast portion of ED-150 to my local section and found it in need of revision. The good news is that ED-150 has

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POINTS been totally re-engineered and will be available soon. Your leadership is considering utilizing different tools to deliver a more customer-friendly education package. However, as the quality and delivery are enhanced, it is imperative that we work closely with the local sections. While others can offer online education, they can only envy the strength and legacy of the IESNA sections. Our sections must always be involved with education. As we go forward this year, I ask you to step up and get involved in at least one activity. When you retire, make sure you can tell your children and grandchildren that you helped leave your industry a better place than you found it. If you have ideas of how we can improve, please send them to me at [email protected] Your help, your ideas, and your leadership will complete our plan and turn off the autopilot.

Randy Reid

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Opened in 2000 with a total seating capacity of 1800, the Spartan Center is the Milton Hershey School’s new performance gymnasium. Located in Hershey, PA, the gymnasium has three full-length basketball courts and includes areas for physical education classes, recreation, athletic contests, and intramural games. The center features a three-story entrance stair tower that stands like a trophy case against the simple design of the facility. The design concept for this tall, transparent space was to create a lantern-like effect without weakening its bold external form, while offering visual comfort for its users and maintainability for its staff. The height of the space required extra care in locating fixtures within easy access. These fixtures also had to be positioned to eliminate offensive direct glare, or reflected glare from the many glass facets. The lighting design included a custom stainless steel structure mounted to a central column supporting the staircase with twelve 100 W metal halide fixtures carefully aimed upward for indirect lighting. This structure locates the fixtures at a maintainable height above an intermediate stair landing. The exposed lighting and software complement the industrial appearance of the cables and pulleys that compose the stair railing. Limiting the design to 100 W metal halide sources allowed use of color-consistent high CRI lamps. Additional compact fluorescent downlights mounted within the stair structure were provided at landings for highlights and emergency purposes. The paper-thin exterior canopy, which cuts throught the façade and extends the industrial design to the outside, was uplighted from low-wattage, in-ground well lights to highlight the tower’s entrance. Lighting designers were Keith Yancey, IESNA, Larry Cronin, IESNA, and Shawn Good, IESNA, of Brinjac Engineering, Harrisburg, PA.

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Lighting for the Arena at Harbor Yard was a combined effort of the Kasper Group Bridgeport, CT, and Musco Engineering Associates, West Haven, CT. Patrick Rose, AIA and Michael V. Musco, P.E. led the design teams from the respective companies. A close-knit team was developed, incorporating engineering assistance and major input from Sterner Lighting to the structural engineering design team for specific mounting locations for all arena lighting. The lighting design system, along with the dimming and control system, was over six months in development. The Arena at Harbor Yard project is the phase II development of a sports and entertainment district in the city of Bridgeport, CT. The Arena is the companion to the Ballpark at Harbor Yard (1998), home to the Bridgeport Bluefish of the Atlantic League. The Arena at Harbor Yard is located between the Ballpark and the intermodal transit Garage, allowing the garage to also serve the Arena and Ballpark for spectator parking. The arena is designed to house a minor league AHL Hockey team, the Bridgeport “Sound Tigers” and to serve as a multi-purpose sports and entertainment venue for Southeastern Connecticut. The Arena features a single tiered 24-row spectator bowl accessed via a “U” shaped concourse and vomitories. Food outlets and toilet facilities are at this main level concourse under the seating bowl. Seating capacity of the arena is 8500 for hockey, 9000 for basketball or 10,500 for events/shows. The seating bowl is designed with a variable rise in the seating platforms resulting in excellent sight lines. Thirty-four suites, with space for an additional nine, and three hospitality suites are located at the upper level. The perimeter walkway at the top of the seating tiers allows for circulation to bars, concessions, restrooms, and exits and for standee positions. The flat end of the “U” shaped bowl to the East contains the “Goal Club Bar” on the second level with its own seating section, the “Standing Room Only Bar” on the third level with bar seating, and the loges, small partitioned boxes for four to six persons, located on the Suite level. Lighting of the seating bowl is accomplished by sports event lighting hung at the catwalk running the length of the bowl on each side. The sports lighting has a shade and shutter system to go from complete blackout to event lighting with the flick of a switch. The third and fourth floor perimeter walkways and Suite lighting are fully dimmable. All lighting in the facility is controlled though computerized panels located in the lighting booth on the fourth floor and building control center on the ground floor. The walls and soffits are painted in three colors to emphasize the signage band from 8 to 12 ft above finish floor, de-emphasize the walls and ceiling above 12 ft and provide a color to accent the carpet and provide for easy maintenance below 8 ft. The concourse lights are hung at 12 ft, to visually cutting off the space above. Large areas of glass at the main entry on the west, and the clerestory area to the north provide views of the city. Signage is designed to integrate with the facility and the overall Harbor Yard complex. At the northeast end of the “U” shaped concourse is the entry to the locker room facilities. The Hockey Team Locker room size and finishes rival most NHL facilities. At the Southeast end of the “U” shaped concourse is the entry to the loading dock and staging area for events. Included within this “Back of House” area is a Storage Area, Catering Facility, Media Room, and Production Offices. George B. Webster, III senior vice-president of Sterner Lighting, stated, ”Given the difficulty of the existing site conditions I find this facility ‘big league’ in every way. The Infranor Para II products by Sterner are equipped with 1000 W BT37 lamps which are fully serviceable from the catwalk and do not require re-aiming for maintenance. The illumination levels certainly are major league providing 150 vertical footcandles tilted 15 degrees to the TV camera with a 1.3 to 1 max to min uniformity ratio for either ice hockey or basketball sporting events. The addition of our shade system provides a full theatrical house with full on to light off in less than three seconds.” —Michael V. Musco, P.E. and Patrick M. Rose, AIA

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ILLUMINATING ENGINEERING Section News Mid South Section A presentation on the 2002 International Illumination Design Award entries was given on April 1 at the Mikhail’s Northgate restaurant, Jackson, MS. Guest speakers included Jesse Browning, CDFL; David Roederer, Oxford Lighting Consultants; and Cal Franco, JH&H, who provided examples from individual projects, explaining how the lighting designs enhanced the interior design. Miami Valley Section On May 20, the Miami Valley Section held its 2002 golf outing at the Sugar Isle Golf Course, New Carlisle, OH. Alabama Section A presentation on low-voltage control panels was given on April 17 at the Alabama Power Co. Building, Birmingham, AL. Golden Gate Section David Finn, an international lighting designer explored theatrical lighting for architectural applications on May 14 at the Pacific Energy Center, San Francisco, CA. Mother Lode Section Representatives from the “Big Three” (General Electric, OSRAM Sylvania and Phillips Lighting) gave a presentation on May 15 and provided literature on lamp updates . Las Vegas Section Matt Bindel, MUSCO Lighting, gave a presentation on sports lighting on March 19. Los Angeles Section A discussion on current issues regarding professional liability was given on March 21 at the TAIX French Restaurant, Los Angeles, CA. Guest speaker, Michael Zarrow of Brobeck, Phleger and Harrison, specialists in construction law, discussed indemnification, “paid when paid,” what happens when you get a contract, arbitration versus litigation, ownership of documents and professional errors and omissions coverage. West Texas Section Lighting software was reviewed on www.iesna.org

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April 25 at the TCU Campus, Fort Worth, TX. Speakers Mark Tresp and Mill McCain provided a demonstration, showcasing the program’s tools.

Member News The Cooper Union, New York, NY, appointed alumnus and LD+A magazine columnist Willard L. Warren, P.E., to the Cooper Union Research Foundation (CURF) board of directors. Joseph Consigli has joined Philips Lighting Company, Somerset, NJ, as the Washington DC and Northern Virginia I/C Sales Representative. He is responsible for lamp sales through distributors in this market. Joseph has been a member of the IESNA since 1995, has served on the Board of Managers for the North New Jersey Section, and has been an active and contributing participant in IESNA functions and activities.

IESNA Calendar of Events August 4-7, 2002 2002 IESNA Annual Conference Salt Lake City, UT Contact: Valerie Landers 212-248-5000, ext. 117 www.iesna.org

October 6-9, 2002 IESNA Street & Area Lighting Conference Scottsdale, AZ Contact: Valerie Landers 212-248-5000, ext. 117 www.iesna.org

October 20-24, 2002 IESNA Aviation Lighting Seminar Nashville, TN Contact: Wes Hazelton 207-775-3211 [email protected] www.iesalc.org

Melissa Conchilla has been named as associate in charge of the new Denver, CO, office for Robert Singer & Associates, Basalt, CO. Worldwide automated lighting manufacturer High End Systems Inc, Austin, continued on following page

NCQLP Offers Career Brochure The National Council on Qualifications for the Lighting Professions (NCQLP) is pleased to announce the availability of information on careers in lighting in the building and construction industry. Careers in Lighting is available on www.ncqlp.org The web-based brochure covers some of the many areas in which lighting personnel work. The document stresses that the lighting industry offers careers for almost everyone, whatever one’s basic education and personal strengths. Joseph M. Good, III, IESNA, IALD, LC, president of NCQLP, stated that “the lighting industry has needed this material for a long time; the NCQLP is appreciative of those who made it possible: James Benya for his initial draft, and the IESNA Golden Gate Section, Lutron Electronics Co., Inc. and the Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education, who, through their financial contributions, underwrote the program.” The LC Candidate Handbook is now available from NCQLP (703-518-4370). The handbook provides important information and application forms for those who wish to sit for the November 2, 2002, LC examination. The deadline for early submittal of the application is August 16; the deadline for final submittal is September 27. LD+A/July 2002

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TX, announced the addition of two new key positions to its executive management team based in Austin, Texas. David Parks joins High End in the role of senior vice president product development and Mike Wood takes on a new role as chief technology officer, focusing on the strategic planning, advanced engineering and selection of all new products and technology platforms. W.A.C. Lighting Company, Garden City, NY, has appointed Dave Lobardo and John Pilato as the newest members of its product support department and customer sales and service.

Martin to Establish Asian Manufacturing Facility Martin Professional continues to expand its production capability with the establishment of a manufacturing facility in China. Production is expected to begin by the start of the year 2003. As an important part of the company’s strategy to maintain its competitiveness in the lower priced lighting segments, the new Martin facility will be geared toward the production of Martin’s DJ range of lighting products. The facility will be located in the Chinese city of Zhuhai in the southern part of the country.

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SUSTAINING MEMBERS The following companies have elected to support the Society as Sustaining Members which allows the IESNA to fund programs that benefit all segments of the membership and pursue new endeavors, including education projects, lighting research and recommended practices. The level of support is classified by the amount of annual dues, based on a company’s annual lighting revenues: Copper: $500 annual dues Lighting revenues to $4 million (Copper Sustaining Members are listed in the March issue of LD+A, as well as in the IESNA Annual Report. There are currently 233 Copper Sustaining Members).

Silver: $1,000 annual dues Lighting revenues to $10 million Gold: $2,500 annual dues Lighting revenues to $50 million Platinum: $5,000 annual dues Lighting revenues to $200 million Emerald: $10,000 annual dues Lighting revenues to $500 million Diamond: $15,000 annual dues Lighting revenues over $500 million

DIAMOND Cooper Lighting General Electric Co. Lithonia Lighting OSRAM SYLVANIA Products, Inc. Philips Lighting Co.

EMERALD Holophane Corporation

PLATINUM Day-Brite Capri Omega Lightolier Lutron Electronics Co, Inc. Ruud Lighting, Inc.

GOLD ALP Lighting Components Co. Altman Lighting, Inc. Barth Electric Co., Inc. BLV Licht und Vakuumtechnik GmbH The Bodine Company Daeyang Electric Co., Ltd. Edison Price Lighting, Inc. Finelite, Inc. Florida Power Lighting Solutions Gardco Lighting Indy Lighting, Inc. Kurt Versen Co. LexaLite Int’l Corp Lighting Services, Inc. Lightron of Cornwall, Inc. LiteTouch, Inc. Louis Poulsen Lighting LSI Industries, Inc. Martin Professional, Inc. Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd. Musco Sports Lighting, Inc. Niagara Mohawk Power Corp Prudential Lighting Corp San Diego Gas & Electric The Kirlin Company United Illuminating Co. Zumtobel Staff Lighting, Inc.

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SILVER Ardron-Mackie Limited Associated Lighting Atofina Chemicals, Inc. Axis Lighting, Inc. Bartco Lighting, Inc. BJB Electric Corporation Canlyte, Inc. Carinci Burt Roger Eng, Inc. City of San Francisco Con Edison Co. of New York Con-Tech Lighting Custom Lighting Services LLC Custom Lights, Inc. Day Lite Maintenance Co. Defense Supply Center Delta Power Supply, Inc. Elko Ltd Elliptipar ENMAX Enterprise Lighting Sales ETC Architectural Eye Lighting Industries Eye Lighting International of North America Factory Sales Agency Fiberstars Focal Point Gammalux Systems H E Williams, Inc. HAWA Incorporated High End Systems, Inc. Hubbell Lighting, Inc. InfraSource Kenall Mfg Co. Lee Filters Legion Lighting Co. Leviton Mfg Co, Inc. Linear Lighting LiteTech Litecontrol Corp Litelab Corp Lowel Light Manufacturing Lucifer Lighting Co. Metalumen Manufacturing, Inc. Northern Illumination Co., Inc. Optical Research Associates Optima Engineering PA Paramount Industries, Inc. Portland General Electric Prescolite, Inc. PSE & G R A Manning Co, Inc. Reflex Lighting Group, Inc. Sentry Electric Corporation Shakespeare Composites & Electronics Division Southern California Edison Stage Front Presentation Sys. Stebnicki Robertson & Associates Strand Lighting, Inc. Sternberg Vintage Lighting Sterner Lighting Systems. Inc. StressCrete Sun Industries TXU Electric & Gas Utility Metals W J Whatley, Inc. WAC Lighting, Co. Winnipeg Hydro Wisconsin Public Service Corp Xenon Light, Inc.

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New Members Membership Committee Chair Jim Sultan announced the IESNA gained one Sustaining Member and 121 Members (M), associate and student members in May. SUSTAINING MEMBER ETC Architectural, Middleton, WI INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS Canadian Region Ellen Godson, H.H. Angus & Associates, Don Mills, ON Jeff J. Laurin, OSRAM SYLVANIA, Winnipeg, MB Rob Niess, McGregor Allsop Limited, Stouffville, ON Ken Smith, Litemor Distributors, Limited, Ottawa, ON Robert Villemaire (M), BPR GroupeConseil, Montreal, ON Concordia University Athanassios G. Tzempelikos East Central Region Christipher Bentz, Alfred Benerch & Company, Pottorville, PA Daniel S. Berger (M), Solar Light Co., Inc., Philadelphia, PA Thomas C. Evans (M), PMH Associates, Inc., Moorestown, NJ Rachael S. Granico, SmithGroup, Inc., Washington, DC James R. Hawkins, E.T.Boggess, Architect, Inc., Princeton, WV Geralyn A. Jacobs, Diversified Lighting Associates, Allentown, PA Michael L. Riebling, Hadco, Littlestown, PA Adam Serra, Spears/Votta & Associates, Baltimore, MD Walter Zaharchuk (M), Lutron Electronics Co., Inc., Macungie, PA New Jersey Institute of Technology Craig DeFelice Pennsylvania State University Rebecca Ho Great Lakes Region Roger M. Bresnahan (M), King Lighting, Inc., Oregon, OH Steve M. Clark, Holophane, Carmel, IN Patrick Davis, Graybar Electric Co., Inc., Rochester, NY Peter R. Gorman, King Luminaire Company, Inc., Jefferson, OH Aydan Ilter, Southfiels, NJ Amy L. Laughead, Federated Department Stores, Cincinnati, OH Brent J. Lehmkuhl (M), Mechanical Design Associates, Inc., Maumee, OH Daniel O’Brien (M), Price Williams, Columbia City, IN Lawrence Poturalski (M), University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY Robert R. Rudolph, Saturn Electric, Inc., Dayton, OH Joe F. Ryan (M), Reliable Electric, Centerville, OH Gerrit Van Straten (M), WD Partners, Columbus, OH

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University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Aaron Leppanen South Pacific Coast Region Chris Abrahamsen (M), PACE Civil, Inc., Redding, CA Randall D. Block (M), The Gamut Technology Group, Salt Lake City, UT Mike Bloomquist, St. Mark’s Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT Douglas Collinson, Architecture Design Studiom Honolulu, HI Lloyd P. Diehl (M), Weco Electrical Engineering, Concord, CA Randy Edwards (M), Arizona Public Service, Phoenix, AZ Mark J. Fosbury, HLA Lighting Sales, Concord, CA Fredrick Gregoryan, Southwest Electrical Supply, Inc., Glendale, CA Tim R. Guion, ETC Architectural, Hollywood, CA Rick Hunsaker (M), GC Wallace, Inc., Las Vegas, NV Philip E. Incikaya, Gammalux Systems, San Dimas, CA Gregory K. Lee, Integrated Design Associates, Santa Clara, CA Meenam Lee, Lumenworks, Inc., Oakland, CA Thomas K. Lew (M), RPM Engineers, Inc., Irvine, CA Chris Mortensen, Anytech Electric, Inc., Orem, UT Nancy Mui (M), Cupertino Electric, San Jose, CA Jet Patel (M), Varad Corporation, Carson, CA Jody C. Salsig, JS Nolan & Associates Lighting Design, San Francisco, CA Wade Schramm, Nevada Sources, Las Vegas, NV David G. Watson (M), SW Engineering, Inc., Tempe, AZ Randy R. Wepking, Marriott, Scottsdale, AZ Robert R. Willett, AZTEC Engineering, Phoenix, AZ Stephen K. Younger (M), Stichler Group, Phoenix, AZ City College of Long Beach Eric M. Wynkoop Midwest Region Erik H. Caylor, Teng & Associates, Inc., Chicago, IL Michael T. Fitzpatrick, Bonestroo, Rosene, Anderlik & Associates, Inc., St. Paul, MN Ramesh C. Gupta (M), Illinois Department of Transportation, Schaumburg, IL Bill Layman (M), Ranken Technical College, St. Louis, MO Jerome F. Onik, Heartland Scenic Studio, Inc., Omaha, NE Jim M. Pederson, Illum A Nation Outdoor Architectural Lighting, Forest Lake, MN Mary Pelikan (M), Architectural Lighting Consultants, Wauwatosa, WI Don L. Provencher (M), MKEC Engineering Consultants, Inc., Wichita, KS

Brent Streck (M), Creative Lighting and Associated Systems, Inc., Elkhorn, NE Stephen G. Surratt, ETC Architectural, Middleton, WI Johnson County Community College Sally L. Williams Milwaukee School of Engineering Marie Rieger Southeastern Region Scott C. Gilbert, OSRAM SYLVANIA, Jacksonville, FL Jean F. Hocquard (M), Luxam, Miami, FL Ravi Koil (M), Acuity Lighting Group, Inc., Conyers, GA Larry E. Law (M), Lorillard Tobacco Company, Greensboro, NC Frank T. Liles Jr., Yacht Lighting and Accessories, Inc., Beaufort, NC William G. Lundy (M), Raleigh, NC T. Jerry McDonell (M), EDI, Marietta, GA Timothy R. Moore, Advantage Lighting & Equipment Sales, Statesboro, GA Walter J. Qualmann, Illume Lighting Design, Inc., Naples, FL David Rainey, Navaid Lighting Associates, Inc., Olive Branch, MS Dedra Rainey, Navaid Lighting Associates, Inc., Olive Branch, MS Patrick Rose (M), Clark-Nexsen A&E, Charlotte, NC

Sharon M. Schutz, Neel-Schaffer, Inc., Nashville, TN Pedro L. Trevin (M), Post Buckley Schuh & Jernigan, Miami, FL University of Florida Eric R. Ketchum Northeastern Region William Bissell (M), Jericho, VT Laura A. Black (M), Dufresne-Henry, North Springfield, VT Daniel W. Carroll, Specialty Store Lighting, Hoboken, NJ Andrew M. Gross, Pyramid Lighting Group, Inc., New York, NY Thomas Lapointe (M), Thomas J. Lapointe Associates, Westport, MA Larry M. Morehouse (M), URS Corporation, Rocky Hill, CT Joseph Rosa (M), Baker Engineering, Elmsford, NY Brian Stacy (M), ArupLighting, New York, NY Myron Walter (M), Thomas Associates, Ithaca, NY Parsons School of Design John W. Newman Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Janani Ramanath Northwest Region Kareem Greiss, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Seattle, WA continued on following page

New Members M.T. MacPhee (M), Richard McDonald & Associates Ltd., Calgary, AB Mark W. Martin Jr., Interface Engineering, Milwaukie, OR Kenneth E. Murphy, R.J. Rouse Electric, Inc., Tualatin, OR Bahadurali K. Sarangi (M), SRC Engineering Consultants Ltd., Burnaby, BC Rick Thibault, City of Coquitlam, Coquitlam, BC Bellevue Community College Clara H. Simon

continued from previous page Southwestern Region Alberto C. Adame Sr., Electroiluminacion de Occidente, Mexico Brent Arnold, Humphrey & Associates, Inc., Dallas, TX Tom Mendoza, HLM Design USA, Inc., Dallas, TX Antonio Mora Neave, Grupo Lite, Mexico Charles E. Nicholson, Wells-Keown Associates, Harahan, LA Mitzi Perritt (M), Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX Mark Williams, Sempra Energy Solutions, Houston, TX

Joseph A. Way Jr., St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office, Covington, LA Chris Wyatt, High End Systems, Austin, TX Southwest Texas State University Deena R. Dail University of Colorado at Boulder Jared Britton, John Hamilton University of Houston Stephen R. Gist Foreign Oskar O. Birgisson, Oxygen, Iceland Koh Kian Chuan (M), Urban Redevelopment Authority, Singapore

Hicks, Dentist Who Ran Lamp Museum, Dies Dr. Hugh Francis Hicks, the dentist whose office was home to what is thought to be the world’s foremost collection of electric light bulbs, died at the age of 79 in May. Considered one of the largest collections in the world, the Incandescent Lighting Museum was located in Baltimore, MD. The museum opened in 1964 and his collection would eventually grow to 75,000 total lamps. About 10,000 bulbs were labeled and on display in the basement museum of his office at 717 Washington Place. A subcategory of the collection includes lighting fixtures, from sconces to street lights and chandeliers. Over the years his collection would include a lamp from the original torch of the Statue of Liberty and headlamps from the Mercedes-Benz limousines of Nazi leaders Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler. Dr. Hicks regularly told visitors to his free, private museum that his was the only collection in the world containing an uninterrupted history of the light bulb, including 15 or 20 bulbs that Thomas Alva Edison probably held in his hands 122 years ago. The largest bulb in his collection dates to 1926 – 4 feet high and requires 50,000 watts of electricity to glow. The most diminutive is a pin light that was produced in the 1960s and used in missile wiring. It is only visible under a microscope. Other historical pieces include a 3-foot-long tubular bulb used during the 1930s to illuminate the ill-fated French liner Normandie; a dashboard light from the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945; an Edison bulb from the now-demolished Vanderbilt mansion in New York; and a 15 W fluorescent bulb that illuminated the table on which the Japanese signed the surrender in World War II aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay in 1945. In 2000, many lighting professionals who attended the IESNA annual convention in Washington D.C. saw some of Dr. Hicks’ bulbs.

Don’t be caught on the outside looking in Exterior lighting techniques have undergone major changes, as shown in Chapter 21 of the 9th Edition of the IESNA Lighting Handbook.

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Mario T. Fernandez Sr. (M), Dar Al-Raiyadh Consultants, Saudi Arabia Sungnam Park, Yooshin Engineering co., Seoul, Korea Alex D. Szterenlicht (M), Orot Architectural Lighting, Israel Alessio Urso, Iluminacion-X, Honduras Wilfredo Valentin Jr., Americal Distributors, Puerto Rico Escola Panamericana de Arte Fabio K. Nagata Kyung Hee University, Korea Ki Hoon Moon

Philips Lighting Launches TradeLink Customer Web Portal Philips Lighting Company recently launched TradeLink; an Internet based portal providing customers with real time, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year personalized self-service access to order/account management and instantaneous product availability information. In addition, an enhanced publicly available digitized online product catalog with advanced search features has been introduced. The new catalog includes high-resolution photos and product marketing information. The TradeLink site was piloted to 28 industrial customer branches in October 2001 and complete customer rollout is now underway. TradeLink customers will be able to determine status and tracking for current and past orders from the moment of placement. With this secure site, customers have 24 hour a day realtime access to detailed order status information, including credit status, applicable block information, and confirmed ordered product quantities and delivery dates. Additionally, links to freight carriers are enabled for online shipment tracking. For customers with multiple branches, the site can deliver information down to the local branch level. Straightforward and easy to use, users with minimal web experience will not need training before accessing TradeLink, but online and customer service representative assistance is available for users with questions.

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For Bonny Ann Whitehouse, sports lighting is more than illuminance values and uniformity ratios. It’s a blend of architectural and theatrical techniques

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onny Ann Whitehouse is a senior lighting designer for Flack + Kurtz Inc., an international consulting engineering company based in New York City. In addition to her rich background in architectural and theatrical lighting, her experience includes an impressive list of major sports facilities—like Miller Park, Milwaukee, and American Airlines Center, Dallas. “I approach sports lighting as a multitude of diverse systems for event and architectural lighting that must be melded and

(top) F+K Lighting Group provided event lighting for 42,500-seat Miller Park with a fan-shaped retractable roof by integrating the location of the lighting structures using state-of-the-art technology for field illumination and control. (left) The designers accentuated the facade of Cincinnati's Paul Brown Stadium, providing sparkle to the surfaces of the building, highlighting an instant landmark along the Ohio River.

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At the Portland, OR, Rose Garden arena, lighting design encompassed the suites, concourses, restaurant, and exterior facade, as well as illumination for the events.

controlled as one,” she told Chuck Beardsley, Editor of LD+A. “It’s lighting for restaurants and clubs. It’s television lighting for events. All of these areas add to the ‘game’ experience. “Event lighting should be designed with metal halide fixtures—1000 or 1500 W—because of their color temperature and color rendering index, both of which plays an important part in meeting both the leagues and television broadcasters’ requirements.”

Polk and Portland Perspectives Polk County Iowa Events Center—now under construction—presented significant design challenges for Bonny. The lighting design considered the needs of an arena and an exhibition hall, as well as a total building lighting control system. The arena caters to basketball, indoor football and hockey events. Aside from the main events, the design of the lighting controls allows for the versatility required by events such as trade shows, car shows, graduations, large-scale meetings and concerts. Metal halide floodlights with ‘instant on’ shades will permit instant blackouts for visual effects. The versatility required by the exhibit hall will be addressed with two lighting systems: metal halide floods with stepped “on-off” dimming for flexibility and dimmable quartz to provide a more intimate setting for dining. “It’s more than event lighting,” says

Ms. Whitehouse. “It’s the total integration of the lighting in the facility, including the suites, clubs, concourses, restaurants, and exterior facades. The requirements of each facility need to be considered separately. Each has unique features that present new and different lighting challenges. For example, Flack+ Kurtz’s Lighting Design Group has implemented an indirect lighting approach at the Portland, OR, Rose Garden arena, home to the NBA Portland Trailblazers. “By nature, arenas are energetic frenetic places,” Ms. Whitehouse observes. “The lighting designer seeks a calming, soothing and organized atmosphere to help with crowd control.” At the Rose Garden, the main concourse general lighting is provided by illumination of the underside of the seating rake, offering subdued ambient lighting. The event lighting was designed to meet the needs of both the players and the NBA without causing glare to the spectator.

Manchester Magic At the Manchester, NH, Verizon Wireless Arena, which opened in November 2001, F+K provided an integrated design solution for the event and architectural lighting. Manchester is located on the Merrimack River and a nautical influence can be found in most of its architecture. This

The challenges of lighting Seattle's Safeco Field were a combination of meeting the stringent requirements of both major league baseball and ESPN broadcast standards. An acceptable max/min ratio was achieved while maintaining a low glare level within the seating.

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theme was applied to the arena, which is located at a major intersection and set back from the curb. At the entry, four columns, shaped to resemble smokestacks from old ocean liners, are grazed with a tight beam metal halide downlight. The main entrance lobby has a front façade wall of 40-ft-tall glass structures with few mullions. The space is lighted with indirect metal halide fixtures reflecting off large mirrors suspended from the ceiling. The mirrors provide diffused downlighting, and the mirrors’ shadows along the ceiling plane give a celestial appearance. The indirect metal halide fixtures graze various walls as they reach upward toward the ceiling mirrors, adding to the constellation appearance of the lobby. On the main concourse levels, along both sides of the arena, oversize indirect fixtures are mounted along the interior columns, uplighting the double-height space. The exterior is glass, offering passersby a view of the interior suite space. The arena lighting used ESPN design criteria to provide lighting levels for hockey and basketball. A building control system provides lighting controls from a central location, which allows one to easily adjust arena lighting levels for a variety of events. Catwalk-mounted aisle lighting forms the egress stairs of the arena seating area.

Cincinnati Jewel Built as a showcase for the NFL’s Cincinnati Bengals, the Paul Brown Stadium features a European-style cantilevered roof over the upper seating. Quartz uplight fixtures accentuate the elegant flowing features of the roof. F+K’s goal was to create a jewel within the city’s skyline. Metal halide floodlights add sparkle to the metal finishes of the exterior façade. High pressure sodium lamped fixtures flood the underside of the seating rake on all upper concourses, giving a wash to the stadium that accented the façade. To meet the stringent requirements of ESPN broadcast standards, over six hundred 200 W metal halide sports lights were used. The unique lighting concepts added sparkle to the facade of the building, highlighting an instant landmark along the Ohio River.

Miller Time F+K designed the event lighting for Milwaukee’s Miller Park. Among the challenges of the design were stringent guidelines from major league baseball and the television networks, as well as the need to minimize lighting glare for the players. “Baseball is a multi-directional aerial spot,” notes Ms. Whitehouse. “So the possibility of lighting glare increases. Careful consideration to the players’ perspectives is critical, as is minimizing glare to the spectators. At the same time, shadows of the players on the field must be minimized to not distract the television viewer.” Miller Park—home of the 2002 All-Star Game—was particularly challenging because the lighting levels had to be sufficient for indoor conditions, when the convertible roof is closed, and outdoor conditions, when the roof is retracted. The heights of the fixtures are fixed and the locations had to be closely coordinated around the mechanics of the roof. www.iesna.org

Undoubtedly, Miller Park’s most unique feature is the roof. The only fan-shaped convertible roof in North America, the 12,000 ton, seven-panel structure opens and closes silently in just 10 minutes. Metal halide floodlights were used for both event and emergency lighting. Hot restrike lamps were specified to overcome the long restrike time of standard metal halide lamps. “My theatrical training helped in hands-on aiming of the fixtures at Miller Park,” says Ms. Whitehouse. “Lighting was initially skimming the scoreboard, creating a mammoth shadow. Working all night, for three consecutive nights, we re-aimed the adjacent fixtures to increase the lighting levels at the trouble spot without jeopardizing the vertical footcandle levels at the original aimed location of the fixtures. In arenas, banners and speaker clusters can also create shadows that can cause aiming challeneges.” More than a decade of planning and four and a half years of construction went into building the $400 million park, home to the Milwaukee Brewers. From its statues of Hank Aaron and Robin Yount to its brick and stone façade and towering steel arches, the 42,500 seat stadium resembles the ballparks of the 20s and 30s.

URI Traditional The University of Rhode Island’s Convocation Center is a 7500 seat, 200,000 sq ft multi-use center with accommodations for basketball, concerts, and public shows. It contains all of the amenities of a professional arena, including six luxury boxes. F+K worked with the design team to maintain a traditional style with a modern undertone. Red brick with green tint metal trim was used, and large 400 W metal halide pendant fixtures with a green patina metal finish were specified for the concourses. The main features of the lighting design include energy efficient fixtures and a total building lighting control system, which uses occupancy sensors in all major pubic spaces. Compact fluorescent high-bay fixtures were used in the arena for house and emergency lighting. By tying the energy efficient emergency lighting into a separate generator, URI earned significant rebates from Narragansett Electric. “I sculpt with light,” says Bonny. “Multi-directional aerial sports like baseball demand critical vertical illuminance over the height of the playing area, as well as horizontal illuminance at ground level. “But I also design for every other conceivable event—from dog shows to graduations—by carefully designing a flexible, user-friendly lighting control system. There’s no single way to best light these activities. Each multiuse sports facility— whether an arena or a stadium—presents unique design challenges.” The designer: Bonny Ann Whitehouse, IESNA, IALD, has a wide range of lighting experience, both in architecture and theater. Her theatrical background has led to a variety of different consulting opportunities with architectural firms and architectural lighting designers. She is a senior lighting designer at Flack + Kurtz, Inc., New York, and has been a member of the IESNA for three years. LD+A/July 2002

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FANFARE OFF THE FIELD In every arena, the event is the star, but lighting also plays a key role in the wings

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Key Club The interior lighting for the Seattle Key Arena Courtside Club was designed by Denise Fong, LC, IALD, and Megan Strawn, LC, IALD, both of 20

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(right) At Anaheim’s Edison International Field, general lighting is provided by floodlight clusters atop 30-ft poles. Direct burial uplights illuminate 45-ft-long canopy structural supports shaped as giant baseball bats. (opposite, top) At Seattle’s Key Arena Courtside Club, creating a warm, rich atmosphere was a priority when a 7000-sq-ft storage room was converted to a high-end season-ticket-holders’ club. The owner requested a completely flexible lighting solution to work successfully with the complex AV component. The architect requested an unobtrusive, integrated installation. (opposite, bottom) At the Courtside Club, custom picture lights incorporate xenon lamps. Dimmable fluorescent strip fixtures illuminate art glass in the banquette dividers.

Candela Architectural Lighting, Seattle. The goal of the lighting design for the conversion of a storage room into a high-end season-ticket holders’ club was to offer a completely flexible, integrated lighting solution—one that would work successfully with the facility’s complex audiovisual component. At the bar, sound and lighting is programmed with presets for pre game, half time, and post game. Two 7-ft-tall rear projection screens dominate the room, ensuring that fans never miss a minute of the action. Track-mounted halogen PAR30 lamps are used throughout. Track heads, integrated into the wood grid ceiling with egg crate louvers, eliminate glare and stray light while providing ambient light. Art glass at the entry to the bar is internally illuminated by dimmable linear wallwashers placed at top and bottom. Adjustable fixtures concealed behind the suspended wood grid ceiling illuminate walls and tabletops. In the bar area, 40-in. flat screen televisions suspended from a curved pipe supplement the main AV screens. Bar lighting was coordinated with screen locations to eliminate stray lighting. Internally illuminated art glass in the center bar area uses low-voltage strip lighting with 20,000-hour xenon lamps for ease of maintenance. The design meets the Washington State Energy Code.

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year-old structure to a baseball-only facility. The project was completed in time for the Anaheim Angels opening day. The entry plaza mimics a life-size baseball diamond, with green and brown pavers representing grass and dirt base paths. Bases, made of textured glass, are internally lit with long-life compact fluorescent sources. General lighting, provided by floodlight clusters atop 30-ft poles, mimics sports lighting. Ceramic metal halide was chosen for its high color rendering, energy efficiency, and long life. Elsewhere, 3000K metal halide illuminates 60-ft tall curving colonnades; 4000K metal halide accents green palm tree canopies. Floodlights mounted atop 30-ft poles wash exterior food court facades. Cutoff luminaires mounted just above banner arms on these poles illuminate banners, seat walls, and condiment tables. All use ceramic metal halide sources to accurately render colorful graphics, pavers, food, and people. “Our value engineering compromise was to change most tree uplights from metal halide to halogen PAR38,” said designer Powell. “Ground-mounted fixtures are easily accessed, so the LD+A/July 2002

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Milwaukee Harp luminaires from Holophane complement the retro look of Milwaukee’s Miller Park Stadium. When the $400 million park was designed, the owners wanted it to stir memories of the days when baseball was king.

shorter lamp life was deemed acceptable. These graze palm tree trunks, bringing out rich texture and color.” The life-size statue of long-time Angels’ owner Gene Autry is accented by metal halide spots mounted high in nearby palm trees. After sundown, lighting gives the sculpture added prominence in the open plaza.

Miller Light At Milwaukee’s Miller Park, lighting for the stadium’s plaza area had to complement the structure’s architecture. According to Robert D. Cooper, principal, Eppstein Uhen Architects, Inc., Milwaukee, when the stadium was designed, the owners wanted a facility that would stir memories of the days when baseball was king. “The stadium has a retro look,” said Cooper. “The architecture evokes images of the industrial of the industrial facilities that were once the heart of Milwaukee’s economy.” For lighting designer Greg Sadowski, P.E., IESNA, the exterior lighting system had to look good and provide sufficient illumination so fans could see where they were going. The exterior lighting at the former stadium was laid out in a sporadic pattern. “Miller Park has a different configuration than fans were accustomed to with the old stadium,” said Sadowki, president, Powrtek Engineering, Inc., Waukesha, WI. “While we wanted 22

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enough light to ensure safety and security, we also wanted to keep the area open and uncluttered.” Milwaukee Harp luminaires from Holophane were installed in and along the concrete walkways that wrap around the stadium and extend into the parking lots. The prismatic glass luminaires resemble the first harp-shaped fixtures used to light Milwaukee’s streets at the turn of the century. They use 150-W pulse-start metal halide lamps. The units are mounted on 15-ft metal ornamental poles painted dark green to match the stadium. Spacing is 60 ft on center. Two pedestrian bridges link the plaza area with outlying parking lots. Harp luminaires were mounted on 11-ft poles along the bridge 4-ft walls. Illumination levels on the walkways and bridges average 2 fc, with a minimum of 0.9 fc. Esplanade luminaires—also from Holophane—illuminate the parking lots. Mounted on 40-ft concrete poles, the fixtures use 400-W metal halide lamps, with illumination levels averaging 2 fc.

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tudents at Washington State University in Pullman had sizeable aspirations for their Student Recreation Center. Their objective: to change the culture of the 17,000-student campus by providing a world-class fitness facility dedicated to drop-in recreation for everyone. And as long as they were at it, to create a new model for sustainable design in higher education using daylighting, energy efficiency and natural materials. Dedicated on February 22, 2001, the WSU Student Recreation Center provides 160,000 sq ft of space, making it the largest indoor community recreation center in Washington State and the largest student recreation center in the Pacific Northwest. The process of making the Student Recreation

(left and below) Diffuse skylights flood the natatorium with natural lighting from several locations. At night, the uplighting runs at full output; light levels are 30 fc at the pool edges.

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(left)The open spaces in the weight machine area allow deep daylight penetration. (right) In the gyms, skylights, clerestories, and fenestration provide daylighting from the north, south, and top of the building. Direct sunbeams never reach the floor.

Cannon Design was also brought on board to provide equipment consulting and recreation expertise.

Something for Everyone Nearly 25 different committees participated in the design process and more than 800 students gave direct input in open committee meetings, focus groups, interviews and telephone surveys. This high degree of participation meant that the building had to provide the widest possible array of active spaces. The state-of-the-art building contains the largest student weight and cardio room in a recreational facility in the nation, with a total of 17,000 sq ft and more than 150 individual workout stations. Seven courts in two gyms are lined for basketball, volleyball, badminton, and pickleball. Four racquetball courts are provided, two of which can easily be converted to squash courts. An elevated four-lane, eighth-mile track is also included. The natatorium accommodates a five-lane, 25-yard lap pool, and an adjoining leisure pool is equipped for water volleyball and basketball. A 10,000 gallon, 53-person spa, complete with re-circulating waterfall, is also included in the pool

Center dates back to 1995, when the Associated Students of Washington State University (ASWSU) began generating interest for the building among the student body. In 1996, funds were allocated to a committee to officially research student demand and generate a detailed feasibility study. In April 1997, Washington State University students were asked by the Student Referendum Committee of ASWSU to vote on the construction of the WSU Student Recreation Center. Students stepped up to the plate, voting to impose a $100-per-semester fee increase for each student to cover the costs of design and construction. An exceptionally high turnout of student voters indicated over 63 percent approval for the project. No state funds were used in the construction of the project.

The Design Team Following the successful student referendum, the campus set out to hire a design team to work closely with them to create the facility. WSU students selected our team, which was led by Yost Grube Hall Architecture of Portland, Oregon, because of the “chemistry factor.” Design team members responded to the students’ enthusiasm and demonstrated that they would be skilled at collaborating with the students to attain their lofty goals for an inspiring and sustainable building. Yost Grube Hall’s team included Rowley International (Aquatics Consultants), Glumac International (Mechanical, Electrical & Lighting Consultants) and KPFF (Structural Engineers). www.iesna.org

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(left) Gymnasiums are lighted with 8-lamp compact fluorescent sports lights. Controlled by photocells and low voltage relays, they offer four levels of lighting based upon the daylight available. (right) Lightshelves eliminate direct sunbeams in the gyms and natatorium. During the day, sports lights run at minimum output.

area. Three multipurpose rooms are designed for aerobics, martial arts, yoga, and dance. A single classroom is used for meetings and wellness courses.

Let the Sun Shine In… Merely pleasing all the students wasn’t enough. The WSU student body also wanted to create a new model for sustainability in recreation center design. Altogether, there are 25 specific areas that make use of sustainable design principles, such as a seasonal on-site stormwater retention pond, natural ventilation, and high recycled content interior materials. Maximizing daylight in the building was identified as a key design criterion because of the energy savings and because the students knew it would create a warm and inviting character for the building. But daylighting recreational spaces is easier said than done. Windows in gyms can put sun in the players’ eyes. And, as any pool operator can tell you, windows and water don’t mix: condensation, heat gain, reflection and glare are daily issues in most natatoriums. Some of these issues are merely annoying, such as the noise generated when voices ricochet off water and glass. Other issues create serious safety concerns, such as veiling reflections preventing a lifeguard from seeing someone in the pool. To make the daylighting strategies work, our team prepared a 3-D computer model that we could use to test light levels. At the time (June, 1998) we were evaluating both Lightscape and AccuRender, and decided to process the calculations in both 26

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software packages as a comparison. Although I was very happy with Accurender’s ease of use, it seemed that the radiosity calculations were more accurate in Lightscape. Calculations in AGI and conversations with other lighting designers confirmed this. The design team decided to calculate the daylighting at nine times throughout the year: morning, noon and evening for both solstices and the equinox. Calculations were made for the natatorium and gymnasia, resulting in long hours in front of the computer. The far north latitude of the project (46° 44') dictated careful attention to sun shading due to very flat solar angles in the winter and very steep angles in the summer.

…the Natatorium… The architect, Yost Grube Hall developed a digital model of the natatorium, and the appropriate textures, surfaces and materials were added. Objects at the bottom of the “digital pool” appeared from different angles at various times of the day, showing their visibility under different conditions. The model was also calculated and rendered with several electric lighting scenarios. In the end, the team was satisfied with the results of both the daylighting simulations and the indirect electric lighting scheme. In the actual space, photocells step the indirect lighting as the natural contribution changes. Final meter readings in the finished space varied by less than 5 percent compared to the predictions in the computer models in both daylit and electric-lit conditions. www.iesna.org

…the Gymnasia… After the natatorium digital modeling was complete, we moved on to the gymnasia. The building included two large spaces with a modified sawtooth roof design that incorporated clerestories and skylights, with large open frame trusses to support the roof above the courts. The smaller gym (three courts) was oriented parallel to the clerestories, while the larger gym (four courts and the elevated track) was perpendicular. Direct sunbeams were to be avoided to eliminate glare problems on the courts, so a large free-floating interior lightshelf was developed to diffuse the light and bounce it off the ceiling. The lightshelf consists of steel framing and an extruded Lexan sheet. The Lexan sheet, which is very light, is a double-chamber design, is painted with 1/8th in. wide stripes on one side to diffuse harsh light. The lightshelves are held about 24 in. from the wall to allow for easier access to the clerestory windows for cleaning. Since the gyms were expected to have about 50-75fc with daylight contribution alone, compact-fluorescent high-bay sports fixtures with four ballasts were specified, allowing for stepped control. Naturally, we would have preferred dimming over step, but the budget wouldn’t allow it. Digital photocells, each capable of 12 thresholds, controlled the lighting, based upon daylight contribution. At night, electric light provides about 40fc at the playing surface. Prismatic refractors provide extremely even lighting throughout the gyms and avoid a dark ceiling. Small MR-16 accent lights were installed below the track to highlight the structure, with custom shrouds fabricated from steel pipe to protect them. Like the natatorium model, the gymnasium models proved to be very accurate. Overall light levels measured in the actual space matched the digital models very well, and the team was very satisfied with the performance of the digital process.

…the Fitness Studio… Located along the side of the larger gym are two floors of fitness machines, freeweights, and aerobic machines. Like the natatorium and the gyms, this area is daylit and had its own challenges. The lower ceilings did not allow for the use of interior lightshelves, so the design team put them on the building exterior instead. Since Pullman gets a wide range of weather, from hot, dry summers to cold, snowy winters, the exterior shades had to be durable and allow snow and leaves to pass through. Yost Grube Hall selected a composite material, originally intended as a catwalk grating, which proved to be the perfect material: light, strong and unpainted (the color is in the resin). Its low profile has a minimum visual impact on the building’s façade.

…And Elsewhere A decorative highbay fixture with four compact fluorescent lamps was selected for the lobbies, which made a nice transition from the sports fixtures. Small, low voltage pendants were selected to match, looking like pocket-sized highbays over the equipment checkout counter. Photocells and timeclocks control circulation fixtures to reduce the connected load whenever possible. The downlights specified for the circulation areas can incorwww.iesna.org

porate a decorative glass disc to add a design element to the fixture. Major pathways throughout the space utilize the disc version of the fixture, while secondary areas use just the basic reflector. Universal ballasts were specified to allow a certain degree of lamp flexibility. Including the University-mandated high pressure sodium lamps in the parking and pedestrian area, only 11 lamp types were used in the entire facility, which thrilled the University’s maintenance department. (In fact, until in-cabinet lighting at the equipment counter was added, I had won a bet and was looking forward to a nice steak dinner). Exterior lighting was studied carefully to reduce light pollution for the adjacent residential neighborhood. The design team shifted from a glow-top pedestrian pole to a solid top version, which still incorporated campus standards for light levels and luminaires, but reduced the glow the building cast from its hilltop location. Limited uplights were used outside the natatorium, in locations where the roof overhang would reduce any stray uplight past the building.

Energy Savings More than a year after the building opened, the lighting loads for the Student Recreation Center have proven to be approximately 25 percent below those mandated by the Washington State Energy Code. Mechanical loads have been reduced as well. Overall, the project has been very well received by both the University and the community, with an average usage of just over 3000 visitors daily. The project received two IIDA Awards of Merit: one for interior lighting, and one for energy use (EPRI Award). It has been named a Facility of Merit by Athletic Business Magazine and received an Outstanding Indoor Sports Facility Award from NIRSA, an international recreational sports association. The designers: Aaron J. Humphrey, LC, was Glumac International’s lighting designer from 1998-2001. Currently, he is Senior Designer at Rising Sun Enterprises, in Basalt, CO. Aaron got his degree in theatre in order to fulfill a lifelong dream of wearing black and waiting on tables, but a tragic peppermill accident ended that, and he switched to architectural lighting. An avid skier and cyclist, he is also a ski coach in Aspen. He has won several awards for his lighting designs, and even a few awards for coaching, which is his ‘real job’. Kirk C. Davis, P.E., is electrical principal at Glumac International, a large M/E/P firm based in Portland, OR. A graduate of the University of Colorado Illumination and Power program, he has won numerous awards for projects throughout the west. Since moving to Oregon, Kirk has learned how to two-putt a wet green, but only on Thursdays. Robert Curry, AIA, has 21 years of experience as a project manager for educational projects. He is a LEED certified designer and an expert in sustainable strategies with an emphasis on daylighting. He’s currently the project manager for the North Mall Office Building, Oregon’s first sustainable public office building, as well as Chairman of the Portland AIA Committee on the Environment and a member of the Oregon Sustainable Products Purchasing Board. He hopes to find some time this summer to beat Kirk at golf.

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AN ODDS-ON FAVORITE (below) Photo-finish requirements of 4000 vertical lux are met at the finish line. A relay-based lighting control system controls all track lighting from the photo-finish line booth in the grandstand. (right) The Singapore Turf Club Racecourse is a premier horseracing facility, which includes a 2000 meter turf track, a 1800 meter all-weather track, a training track, stable facilities for 1,000 horses and grandstand for 30,000 patrons.

It was a photo finish for Ewing Cole’s design team, but deadlines were met for the tracks at the Singapore Turf Club, where lighting creates dramatic and compelling imagery within a tropical garden setting

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hen the Singapore government proposed a new thoroughbred racecourse, it held an international design competition and selected a United States firm with international sports expertise, Ewing Cole Cherry Brott, paired with Indeco, a firm in Singapore. The $450,000,000 project, which opened in March of 2000 includes a 2000-meter turf track; an 1800-meter all-weather track; a 1200-meter turf training track; stable and training facilities for 1000 horses; and a grandstand for 30,000 patrons, with public amenities set within a tropical garden. Since opening day, the club has attracted on average 25,000 to 30,000 patrons on each race day. Ewing Cole Cherry Brott’s in-house lighting designers worked hand in hand with US and Singapore architects and engineers to design the exterior architectural, entrance and garden, and sports lighting for the facility, and were awarded an IIDA 2001 Award of Merit for the project. The overall “night-racing” lighting design provides state-of-the-art sports lighting for the track, dramatic site lighting for a festive atmosphere at night racing events, and security lighting for pedestrian, vehicular and horse safety. The main site lighting goal determined at the start of the lighting design process was to create a festive theatrical ambiance. Indirect bright white lighting systems are used as a common theme throughout the site to enhance perception of the spaces and forms. A series of major and minor focal points were determined with the architects and served as a road-map to the site lighting design, being emphasized with bright white lighting. The main focal point of the site, only secondary to the sports lighting of the track, is the glowing parade ring canopy. In order to move the public through the site from focal point to focal point towards the parade ring canopy, transitional ‘theatrical’ lighting is provided. Backdrops to the transitional areas and focal points are created with lower levels of lighting, which also enlarged the perception of the site. Ambient lighting is provided in the non-event evening hours to attract attention to the site when the track is not 28

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ish, thereby saving a large potential loss in revenue. Along with the elaborate power distribution system, an intricate lighting control and monitoring system was designed. At the base of each pole, an integrated power and control panel is provided. This panel provides local branch power circuits to each luminaire and includes multi-function power monitoring with digital communications, surge protection and solid state relays, and prewired ballast and branch circuits to each lighting pole. The system is controlled through a computer network with distributed intelligent microprocessor based digital controllers, with computer control workstations located in the main facilities office and in the grandstand photo finish booth. Stringent lighting design criteria for the horseracing were

in use and energy saving security lighting is provided in the late night hours to provide for security systems.

Sports Lighting The sports lighting for night racing at the racecourse includes over 2000 metal halide, 1800 W sport lighting luminaires totaling over 4.32 mega watts of power. The sports lighting is designed and aimed for the 2000-meter turf track and 1800-meter all-weather track with additional accommodations for the 1200-meter turf-training track. All three tracks were lighted from a single row of poles along the track and from a custom designed frame structure along the entire trackside of the grandstand roof. There are 41 poles, 35 of which are 30-meter poles and six are 40-meter poles. The poles are located to light the race for the patrons and TV cam-

high definition television. Glare shields were required on all luminaires to limit the sky glow effect and spill lighting to the surrounding areas. Calculations were performed by the design team to determine the target design illumination levels, to limit the spill light at the property line and to limit the maximum glare ratings for observer positions around the track. The tender documents (construction documents) required the manufacturer to perform extensive calculations to show compliance with all the target illumination levels and uniformity ratios as spelled out on the documents. The manufacturer-submitted calculations were reviewed by the designers at the tender review and during the submittal phase of the project.

eras while minimizing obstructions to viewers. The polemounted luminaires are accessed for maintenance via portable motorized cages that attach to the poles and the grandstand luminaires are accessed via the roof. With the large power demand required for the sports lighting alone, an elaborate medium voltage power distribution system was designed. Included in this power distribution system is an emergency power system consisting of “on-line” uninterruptible power supply (UPS) units with generator back up. Emergency lighting is critical in night horseracing for safe cessation of a race in the event of a power outage. A momentary outage would be catastrophic during a race, and would put the horse and jockey in grave danger. The design incorporates a substantial number of luminaires on emergency not only for safety but to also ensure a race in progress will be able to fin-

(above) Metal halide floodlighting illuminates the grandstand profile, which derives form from a horse in motion. The glow of the parade ring is the focal point on the entrance façade. The MRT entrance can be seen in the forefront. (below) Over two thousand 1800 W metal halide sports lighting luminaires illuminate the tracks to international CIE standards. The luminaires are accessed via motorized cages integral to the poles.

The parade ring canopy is up-lighted with metal halide luminaires, and the illumination for the horse show is derived from metal halide sports lighting. The luminaires’ mountings are aesthetically integrated with the structure.

based on levels required not only for spectator viewing, but also for high definition television cameras and photo-finish requirements. The design criteria for the track illumination exceeded all published standards, including the international CIE standards, and as a result the racecourse has the highest illumination levels and strictest uniformity ratios designed for horseracing in the world to date. The illumination criteria of the track segments varies, due to the lighting distances involved and the relative importance of the track section to televised viewing. The Philips Arena Vision luminaire, with 1800 W metal halide lamp, was chosen because of its outstanding performance and the lamp’s high color rendering index of 90 and color temperature of 5600K, which is particularly suited for 30

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Commissioning of the sports lighting system was an extensive process that took over a month to finalize with the quantity of luminaires involved. The commissioning process was necessary to ensure the track lighting system met the design criteria. Throughout the submittal, construction and commissioning phases, communications between the design team and the manufacturer/contractor was pivotal. Credit should be given to Tay-Hooi Seng of Philips for the success of this project in meeting and exceeding the lighting design goals.

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nology melded with the excitement of the race. The roof of the grandstand evolved into an assemblage of complex, sleek curving forms symbolizing the thoroughbred racehorse in motion as it stretches to the finish. The bright stainless steel roof curves downward to the garden side of the grandstand where it terminates in a continuous covered parade ring terrace, extending across the entire garden side of the grandstand—nearly 300 meters in length—transforming at the center into a grand amphitheater overlooking the pre-race parade ring. Here, nearly three thousand patrons directly overlook the horses and jockeys as they prepare for the race. The sharp, flat planes of the canopy and its bright yellow structure create a dramatic contrast to the taut curves of the stainless steel roof. The glow of the parade ring canopy is the focal point on the entrance façade, and the major focal point on the site, only second to the glow of the sports lighting beyond. The parade ring canopy is uplighted with metal halide luminaires, transforming the translucent canopy into a glowing element. Also, the indirect light from the flood luminaires provides the general lighting for the terrace. The luminaire mountings are aesthetically

integrated with the structure. The illumination for horse show is derived from 1000 W metal halide sports lighting luminaires. To balance the glowing lighting effect of the parade ring canopy, and to complete the image of the grandstand at night, a soft fill light was used on the side elevations to bring out the building contour. Also, the front façade columns are softly illuminated with fill light to complete the form of the front façade.

Site and Garden Lighting The entrance areas and garden areas are the portion of the site, the public experiences pre and post racing, and the lighting in these areas create a festive and exciting ambiance. The public enters the site from three main entrance areas; the main entrance drive to the taxi drop-off pavilion or parking areas, the VIP entrance drive, and the commuter rail line MRT (mass rail transit) pavilion. The lighting systems emphasize the points of arrival and build excitement from the entry points through to the grandstand and parade ring terrace areas.

Main Entrance Drive Three roads bound the site of the racecourse. Both private automobiles and taxis arrive from the arterial road. A graciously wide entrance drive leads motorists through a bank of tollgates and onto the axis leading to the 5000 vehicle multistoried car park. The main entrance drive and open parking area lighting systems utilize a metal halide indirect concept, continuing the theme of indirect lighting systems throughout the site. A modern indirect 250 W metal halide street luminaire was chosen to illuminate the drive and open parking areas. Colorful banners are mounted on the poles creating a festive atmosphere. Selected trees at significant areas along the general entrance drive are uplighted with metal halide luminaires to build excitement as one approaches the taxi drop-off pavilion and parking areas.

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the grandstand. This entrance drive is lined with palm trees and allows for views into the garden and the most dramatic views of the grandstand itself. This entrance does not cross any of the other patron routes; therefore, it creates an atmosphere more associated with a small club than a major public facility. The VIP entrance drive is elegantly illuminated with 100 W metal halide bullet uplights on the royal palm trees and with a decorative modern indirect 175 W metal halide street luminaire. The glazing of the VIP entrance canopy is uplighted with 70 W metal halide well luminaires creating a glowing entrance pavilion.

MRT and Taxi Drop-off Pavilions The hills allow the grandstand to be situated on a slight rise from the MRT entrance pavilion, which is connected with the commuter rail line, the MRT. The MRT pavilion signifies a major entrance to the racecourse while the evening illumination scheme reflects the importance of the arrival event experienced by the public. Three large rain trees at the entry plaza are minor focal points at the entrance and are illuminated each by three 100 W metal halide well lights. Soft moonlighting is provided at the entry plaza from small 70 W metal halide bullet luminaires mounted within the rain trees, shining down on the plaza. The “moonlighting” from the trees creates a fantasy mood, while the uplighting from the well lights creates drama. The pavilion façade is a major focal point in the composition. The façade clerestory windows will also provide a soft glow from the interior luminaires. The horse artwork is internally illuminated creating depth to the artwork. The taxi drop-off pavilion and the MRT pavilion are similar in architecture and scale and are treated similarly in lighting design concept to produce the same entrance aesthetic at each pavilion.

Covered Walks and Gardens From the MRT line station, the parking garage and the taxi drop-off pavilion, the patrons may walk under a canopy that protects them from the intense tropical sun or sudden rain showers, through the garden areas to the grandstand. Garden lighting is incorporated in the landscape, including pathway lighting and tree lighting, with the focal point being the glowing parade ring. The covered walkways are another transitional space, which are evenly illuminated with a metal halide indirect lighting system, consistent with the indirect lighting theme of the site. Selected clusters of trees along the covered walks are uplighted with 100W metal halide well lights to create drama. The highlighted trees serve as minor focal points along the walkways guiding the public through the site to the major focal points. Background trees bordering the site are softly illuminated to create depth and for security purposes. The “Forest Walk” is a transitional path leading the public from the MRT pavilion to the parade ring and grandstand. A soft moonlighting effect, utilizing 35 to 50 W metal halide tree mounted bullet luminaires creates a theatrical mood and comfortable environment for transition between focal points. Selected clusters of trees along the path are uplighted with 100 W metal halide to create drama. The garden paths are transitional paths leading from the www.iesna.org

MRT pavilion to the parade ring and grandstand. Soft garden lighting is a vehicle for continuous movement along the paths. The star shaped flower and shrubbery beds are softly highlighted with compact fluorescent garden luminaires to create depth and emphasize the colorful foliage and flowers.

Cultural Experience While the late night and early morning conference calls and the 34-hour door to door travel time for site visits were at times difficult to manage, the Ewing Cole team really enjoyed the knowledge sharing and international cultural experience the project brought. The Singapore Turf Club portrays the design team’s dream of dramatic and compelling imagery set within a tropical garden and the creation of a first class World Racing Facility. The designers and authors: Mary Alcaraz, PE, LC (top, left) is currently a project manager, lighting designer and electrical engineer at Ewing Cole Cherry Brott in Philadelphia. She specializes in lighting design and energy analysis with an emphasis on entertainment, site, landscape and exterior lighting. An IESNA member for the past 5 years, she has received numerous awards for her lighting design work on several of Ewing Cole’s projects, including an IESNA IIDA Regional Award of Merit in 1996 for the Veterans Stadium lighting (May 1997, LD+A) and in 2001 for the Singapore Turf Club. Ms. Alcaraz is currently the IESNA Philadelphia Section President. Robert Ghisu (top, right) is an electrical engineer for Ewing Cole Cherry Brott in Philadelphia, PA. Mr. Ghisu played a key role in the building infrastructure upgrades and electrical design associated with the ongoing exhibit renovations at Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. (April 2002, LD+A) In addition, his most recent projects include; the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Mitchell Performing Arts Center in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania. Gary J. Golaszewski, PE, (middle, left) is a Project Engineer/Lighting Designer at Ballinger, Philadelphia. His previous experience included Project Engineering and Lighting Design at Ewing Cole Cherry Brott, Philadelphia. Gary has received an IESNA IIDA Regional Award of Merit. He has taught the architectural illumination course at Drexel University. Robert F. Cunningham (middle, right) is a lead electrical engineer at Ewing Cole Cherry Brott with 30 years of experience in electrical power, distribution systems engineering, and lighting design. He is responsible for developing performance specifications and planning documents for electrical systems. John F. Chase, AIA, (bottom, left) Director of Architecture, is a principal of Ewing Cole Cherry Brott. Mr. Chase served as the project designer and lighting designer for the Singapore Turf Club for which it received the 2000 AIA Honor Award and 2001 IESNA IIDA Regional Award, both from the Philadelphia Section. Richard Garman, PE, (bottom, right) is an electrical engineer and lighting designer for Ewing Cole Cherry Brott in Philadelphia, PA. Other projects he has worked on include New York Presbyterian Hospital, Children’s Hospital of New York, LaSalle University—Hayman Hall/Gola Arena and Veterans Stadium. Mr. Garman is currently a Project Engineer/Lighting Designer on the New Philadelphia Phillies Ballpark, responsible for the sports lighting design.

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IESNA LIGHTING DESIGN SOFTWARE SURVEY 2002 Computers are an integral part of modern lighting design. LD+A brings you the cream of the software crop.

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s members of the IESNA Computer Committee, we are often asked the question: “What is the best lighting design program?” Our answer is simple and invariant: it depends on your needs and requirements. Choosing a lighting design program is not an easy task. You first need to determine your lighting design requirements and establish a budget. Like any software product, the full cost of a lighting design program includes both training and expected productivity gains. Knowing what you want, you then need to determine which products meet your requirements and expectations. This is where the Web comes to the forefront. All of the companies listed in this survey have their own Web sites where you can download both current product literature and often (but not always) demo or evaluation programs. Lighting design software is an everchanging industry. While we do our best to track the constant ebb and flow of new and improved products and companies around the world, it is a definite challenge. Some of the information contained in this survey is already and

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inevitably out of date. Nevertheless, we offer this printed survey as a resource for answering the question: “What is the best lighting design program for you?”

LIGHTING DESIGN SOFTWARE SURVEY KEY Price Price (Base Package) – Price of the standard software package. Technical Support – User support is available via phone or fax. INCL – included with purchase, and/or ADD – additional service options available. Documentation – An O - online or P printed manual is provided. Demo Available – A demo illustrating the program features is available either free of charge or at a nominal cost. I – Interactive or N – Non-Interactive

General Interior – The program performs analysis for indoor projects. Exterior – The program performs analyses for outdoor projects. Roadway – The program performs analyses for roadway projects. Flood/Sports Lighting – The program performs analyses for floodlighting and sports lighting applications. Stage Lighting – The program performs analyses for stage lighting applications.

Specifications

Network Compatible – M – MultiUser, D – Data storage Max. Number of Calculation Areas – The maximum number of areas that can be calculated during a specific analysis. Max. Luminaire Types per Run – The maximum number of photometric tests for a specific analysis. Max. Luminaires per Run – The maximum number of luminaires the program allows in specific analysis. Units – The program supports the following units: E – English, M – Metric. Multilingual – The program provides provisions for multi-lingual support. Additional Software Required – The program operates inside of and requires another software package to function. If the program functions in this way, the other programs name will be indicated.

Types of Analysis Average Illuminance – Does the program provide an average illuminance value for indoor calculations using the Zonal Cavity Method or the Lumen Method. Point Illuminance Calculations – The program can calculate illuminances for user specified points with the indicated orientations. H – horizontal, V – vertical, and/or S – slanted (any orientation). Examples: H, HV, HVS. Plane Illuminance Calculations – The program can calculate illuminance on planes with the indicated orientations. H – horizontal, V – vertical, and/or S – slanted (flat surfaces with any orientation), and/or C – curved. Examples: H, HV, HVSC. Light Meters can be Tilted – The user can rotate the light meters in directions other than perpendicular to the plane of analysis. Direct Calculations – The program calculates direct illumination. Interreflected Calculations – The program calculates interreflected illumination. Non-Diffuse Calculations – The programs calculations can take into account non-diffuse reflective materials. Room Surface Luminance or Exitance – The program provides the luminance and or exitance values on room surfaces. continued on page 41 LD+A/July 2002

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Lighting Design Software Survey Price (Base Package)

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Specifications

Technical Support Documentation

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Columbia Lighting

Cooper Lighting

LightPro 2.0

Luxicon 2.3

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Independent Testing Laboratories.

AutoLUX v6

AutoLUX v7

Integra Juno Lighting Inspire Lighting Lumen Essentials Design

$200

CD Rom 15 Euro✦✦

CD Rom 15 Euro✦✦

CD Rom 15 Euro✦✦

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M 100 100 Unlimited E/M

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Special Features

DiaLux Ext

Glamox OptiWin

$250

Interior Exterior Roadway Flood/Sports Lighting Stage Lighting

Automatic Layout Generate Schedules Import CAD Files Export CAD Files Obstruction Calculation Insertable Objects Room Geometry (plan view) Room Geometry (section view) Batch Processing Aiming Diagrams Any Shape Printout or Masking Tabular Entry/Edit Graphical Entry/Edit Input Device Context Sensitive Help Point-by-Point Isocontours 3-D Model View Rendering Rendering Presentation Color Printing/Plotting Scaled Output Templates Other Output Plotter Output Photometric Data Manager Photometric Graphic Viewer Photometric Formats

DiaLux 2.5 (12/01)

GE Lighting Aladan

INCL O/P

Multilingual

Types of Analysis

Dial Gmbh

INCL O I

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DiaLux 2.0

Dial Gmbh

Consult Factory

Demo Available

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Y G ST Y Y Y Y

IESNA

Y IESNA

Y All ✦✦ = free download

Y Y Y Y Y Y Y

Y Y Y

Y Y Y Y Y RECT RECT

Y Y Y D/K/M Y Y

Y Y Y

Y Y Y

M Any Any Any M

Any Any Any M 2

8

8

IE 5.5

IE 5.5

Y HVS HVS N Y Y N Y N N N N UGR

Y HVS HVS N Y Y N Y Y N N N UGR

Y Y DXF Y Y Any Any Any

Y Y DXF DXF Y Y Any Any Any

Y Y K/M N Y Y Y C WT Y Y Y

Y Y K/M Y Y Y Y C WT Y Y Y

Y Y K/M N Y Y N N N Y N

Y N Y All

Y N Y All

Y N Y EU

Y Y Y Y

E/M

8 Y HS HVS

HV HV

Y Y

Y

Y

Y

N G/L/UO/UL

Y

Y UGR

Y Y DXF

Y

Y N

Y Y Any (Area Shape)

DXF/DWG DXF/DWG Y Y RECT/ORTH/CUR RECT/ORTH/CUR

www.iesna.org

Y Direct Direct

Y Direct Direct Y

RECT RECT

Any

Y N K Y Y N N N N N Y

Y K/M Y Y Y Y C/P ST Y

N N IESNA/Other

Y IESNA/EULUM

E/M

Y Y Y D/K/M Y Y Y N Y Y DWG/DXF Y

IESNA

Acrobat Reader3.0+ N

X

HVSC Y Y Y Y Y LUM Y

HV

Y

Y

Y

Y X

Y Y

UL CV/UG/TV

Y

PDF

www.iesna.org

HVS HVSC Y Y

LUM

CV

N N N N ORTH

4 4

2

Y HVS HVS Y Y Y N Y LUM/TLUM

HVS HVS N Y N N

Y

Y Y Y D/K/M Y Y Y Y N Y Y Y DWG/DXF Y

IESNA/CIE/CIBSE

IGES/VRML DXF/IGES/VRML Y Y Any Any Y Y Y Y K/M

RECT/ORTH RECT/ORTH

Y Y K/M

Y Y Y C/P ST/WT Y Y

Y Y

Within Y IESNA

Within Y IESNA

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Lighting Design Software Survey Price (Base Package)

Package

General

Specifications

Technical Support

Lighting Reality Lighting Reality Ltd. Ltd. REALity Roadway REALity Outdoor & Outdoor

Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory Desktop Radiance

Lighting Analysts, Inc.

Free with Registration

$895.00

$490.00

AGI32

User Interaction

Types of Output

Photometry

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Lighting Technologies Simply Outdoor 2000

Lighting Technologies Simply Photometrics

Lighting Technologies Lithonia Lighting Group Simply Roadway Visual 2000

Optical & Photometric Technology Pty Ltd EasyLUX

$780.00

$150.00

$595.00

$199.00

$199.00

$199.00

$199.00

$199.00

$100.00

$3,500.00

Y

INCL/ADD

INCL

INCL

INCL

INCL/ADD

INCL/ADD

INCL/ADD

INCL/ADD

INCL/ADD

INCL/ADD

INCL

INCL

Documentation

O/P

O/P

O

O

P

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

O/P

Demo Available

N

I

I

I

I

I

I

I

I

I

I

N

I

Interior Exterior Roadway Flood/Sports Lighting Stage Lighting

Y Y Y Y Y

Y Y Y Y Y

Y Y

Y

Y Y Y

Y Y Y Y Y

Y

Y Y Y

Y Y Y Y Y

Y

Y Y Y Y

D ★ ★ ★ E/M

M/D Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited E/M

1 4 200 E/M

1 4 200 E/M

N/A 1 1 1 E/M

D Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited E/M

D 4 4 Unlimited E/M

D 7 4 Unlimited E/M

D Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited E/M

E/M

D 2 4 5 cycles E/M

N Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited E/M

M/D 1 4 1000 M

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y HVS HVS Y Y Y

Y HV HV

H H

H H

H H

Y

Y

Y

Y LUM/STV Y VCP/RVP Y Y F/UG/OPT/ TV/PR/PP

Y

Network Compatible Max. Number of Calculation Areas Max. Luminaire Types per Run Max. Luminaires per Run Units Additional Software Required

Special Features

Lighting Technologies Simply Indoor 2000

Light Trespass Software

Y

Multilingual

Types of Analysis

Lighting Technologies Simply Economics

Lighting Technologies LumenMicro 2000

Lighting Sciences, Inc.

Y Y Y

Y Y Y

D 1 1

English, French

AutoCAD R14+

Average Illuminance Point Illuminance Calculations Plane Illuminance Calculations Light Meters can be Tilted Direct Calculations Interreflected Calculations Non-Diffuse Calculations Room Surface Luminance or Exitance Roadway Calculations Daylighting VCP/RVP Economic Analysis CIE Calculations Other Analyses Automatic Layout Generate Schedules Import CAD Files Export CAD Files Obstruction Calculation Insertable Objects Room Geometry (plan view) Room Geometry (section view) Batch Processing Aiming Diagrams Any Shape Printout or Masking Tabular Entry/Edit Graphical Entry/Edit Input Device Context Sensitive Help Point-by-Point Isocontours 3-D Model View Rendering Rendering Presentation Color Printing/Plotting Scaled Output Templates Other Output Plotter Output Photometric Data Manager Photometric Graphic Viewer Photometric Formats

N H/HV/HVS Y Y Y Y Y Y LUM Y

Y Y Any/CUR Any/CUR Y

Y K/M Y Y Y Y GCP ST Y

Y Y

IESNA

Y HV H

Y HV H

Y

Y

Y Y Y Y

Y LUM/STV

G/GM/LUO/UL F/CV/UG/OPT/TV/PR/PP

Y

★ = Hardware Dependent

Y HVS HVSC Y Y Y

Y Y DXF DXF Y Y Any/CUR Any/CUR Y Y Y Y Y D/K/M Y Y Y Y GCP ST/SL/WT Y Y Y

G/L/UO/UL MF Y DXF

G/L/UO/UL MF Y DXF

Y Y Y Y K/M

Y Y Y Y K/M

Y Y Y G

Y Y Y G

Y

Y

Y External Within Y Y IESNA/CIBSE/EU Other IESNA/CIBSE/Other

Y

Within Y IESNA/CIBSE/Other

www.iesna.org

Y

Y

Y Y DXF/DWG/Direct DXF/DWG/Direct Y Y ORTH ORTH Y Y Y Y Y K/M Y Y Y Y GC ST Y Y Y HTML/PDF Y Within Y All

www.iesna.org

Y Y

Y HVS HVS Y Y Y Y Y

Y H H

CV/UG

PR/PP/Utilance

Y Y

LUM/STV

Y

Y MF/OPT/PR

MF/OPT

Y Y MF/OPT

Y

Y

Y

DXF/DWG/Direct DXF/DWG/Direct

RECT RECT

Y

Y

K/M

K/M Y Y Y Y G

Y

Y Y PDF

Within All

Within y All

Y Y Y K/M Y Y Y Y G Y Y Y PDF Y Within y All

Y

Y

K/M

K/M Y Y Y Y G

Y

Y Y Y

Y Y

Y Y Y DWG (Blocks & Xrefs)/DXF DXY Y Y Any/CUR RECT/ORTH Any/CUR RECT/ORTH

Y Y Y K/M Y Y Y N Y Y Y

Y Y K/M Y Y Y Y G ST Y

PDF Y Within Y All

Within Y All

External Y IESNA/CIBSE/EU IESNA/(All Option) LD+A/July 2002

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Lighting Design Software Survey Price (Base Package)

Package

General

Specifications

OxyTech LITESTAR 4.0 Lic B Full

OxyTech LITE

OxyTech LITESTAR 4.0 4.1 B base

PYTHA v16.1

RELUX Professional 2.4

Robert McNeel AccuRender

1490.00 Euro/$1260.00 US

Free

260.00 Euro/$220.00 US

$3700.00

Open

$495.00

User Interaction

Types of Output

Photometry

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$600.00

Free

Free

INCL

ADD

INCL

INCL

INCL

INCL

INCL

Documentation

O/P

O/P

O/P

O/P

O

P

O

O

O

Demo Available

I/N

I/N

I/N

I

Y

Y

I

Y Y Y Y

Y Y Y Y

Y Y Y Y

Y Y

Y Y Y Y N

Y Y Y Y Y

Y Y Y Y Y

Y Y Y Y

Y

D Unlimited** Unlimited** Unlimited** E/M

D Unlimited** Unlimited** Unlimited** E/M

D Unlimited** Unlimited** Unlimited** E/M

D Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited M

Windows NA NA NA M/Imperial

D Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited M

M 3 Unlimited Unlimited M

D Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited E/M

Y

Y

Y

Y

6

•••

N

N

Y HV HV N Y Y N Y LUM/ILUM Y N N GR/GL/UO/ULG MF/OPT

Y H H

Interior Exterior Roadway Flood/Sports Lighting Stage Lighting Network Compatible Max. Number of Calculation Areas Max. Luminaire Types per Run Max. Luminaires per Run Units

Y Unlimited

M Y

Additional Software Required

Special Features

Zumtobel Staff Lighting Cophos

Technical Support

Multilingual

Types of Analysis

Thorn Lighting Vision 3.0

Scorch Rayfront

Average Illuminance Point Illuminance Calculations Plane Illuminance Calculations Light Meters can be Tilted Direct Calculations Interreflected Calculations Non-Diffuse Calculations Room Surface Luminance or Exitance Roadway Calculations Daylighting VCP/RVP Economic Analysis CIE Calculations Other Analyses Automatic Layout Generate Schedules Import CAD Files Export CAD Files Obstruction Calculation Insertable Objects Room Geometry (plan view) Room Geometry (section view) Batch Processing Aiming Diagrams Any Shape Printout or Masking Tabular Entry/Edit Graphical Entry/Edit Input Device Context Sensitive Help Point-by-Point Isocontours 3-D Model View Rendering Rendering Presentation Color Printing/Plotting Scaled Output Templates Other Output Plotter Output Photometric Data Manager Photometric Graphic Viewer Photometric Formats ** = Depends on PC Memory

8

Y

N

AutoCAD N Y N N N Y N Y N Y N N N N N N Y Y Y Y Y Y Y N Y N Y Mouse Y N N Y Y Y Y N Y

Y HVS HVSC Y Y Y

Y HV HV Y Y Y

Y HVS HVSC Y Y Y

Y LUM/TLUM

Y LUM

Y LUM/TLUM

VCP Y UGR/G/L/UO/UL MF/TV/PR

G/L/UO/UL MF/PR

VCP Y UGR/G/L/UO/UL MF/TV/PR

Y Y Y Y Y Y N Y LUM/STV Y N Y G/UO/UL TV/PR

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y Y

Y (single rooms)

DXF/DWG DXF/DWG Y Y Any/CUR Any/CUR Y

DXF

Y

Any/CUR

Y Y Any/CUR Any/CUR Y

Y Y Any Any

Y Y Y K/M

Y Y Y K/M

Y Y Y K/M

Y Y Y C ST Y Y Y PDF

Y Y Y

Y Y Y PDF

Y Y Y C ST Y Y Y PDF

Within INCL

Within INCL

Within INCL

All + FDB Oxytech

All + FDB Oxytech

All + FDB Oxytech

DXF (single rooms) DXF (single rooms)

Y G/P/C WT Y

Y Y Any Any N Y Y Y Y K/M Y Y Y Y CP ST Y Y (Automatic)

EU

www.iesna.org

N Y Y External Y IESNA/EU

Y N Y IESNA

HVS HVS Y Y Y Y LUM Y VCP UGR

Y

Y Y ••••• N DXF Y Y Depends on CAD Data Source Y Any/CUR RECT/ORTH Any/CUR RECT Y N N Y Y ★★ Y K/M K/M Y Y Y Y N Y Y C N ST N N N ★★★

Y IESNA/EU/CIBSE

N Y OTHER

••• = Geometry Source (DXF, Direct Connection to AutoCAD/IntelliCAD) ••••• = DXF/Direct with AutoCAD/IntelliCAD/3DSolar

Y Y Y

MF Y Y

RECT RECT Y

Y Y K/M Y Y Y Y

Y

Y External External IESNA/CIBSE/EU

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Roadway Calculations – The program performs roadway calculations. LUM – Luminance, STV – Small Target Visibility, TLUM – Tunnel Luminance Daylighting – The program performs daylighting calculations. VCP/RVP – The program can calculate Visual Comfort Probability (VCP) or Relative Visual Performance (RVP) for indoor projects. Examples: VCP, VCP/RVP. Economic Analysis – The program will calculate the cost considerations for the lighting system. CIE Calculations – The program provides international calculation capabilities (CIE calculations): UGR – unified glare rating, G – threshold increment, GM – discomfort glare mark, L – roadway luminance, UO – global luminance uniformity, UL – longitudinal luminance uniformity. Other Analyses – The program will do other types of analysis, MF – maintenance factor, CV – coefficient of variance, UG – uniformity gradient, OPT – optimization, TV – television illuminance, PR – Lighting Power Density (Room), PP – Lighting Power Density (Project).

Special Features Automatic Layout – The program will suggest a layout of the luminaires. Generate Schedules – The program will produce a luminaire schedule for the building. Import CAD Files – The program can import geometry that is in the specified format. Examples: DXF, DWG, IGES or DIRECT (the program utilizes graphical data directly within the CAD environment without translation). Export CAD Files – The program can export geometry that is in the specified format. Examples: DXF, DWG, IGES or DIRECT (the program can produce graphical data directly within the CAD environment without translation). Obstruction Calculated – The calculations take into account the shadowing effects of obstructions in the analyses. Insertable Objects – The software has provisions for the user to insert objects of varying size and shape, and include them as reflective objects in the analyses. Room Geometry (Plan View) – The program accepts rooms with plan views of the following shapes: RECT – room must be rectangular in plan view, ORTH – the room can be orthogonal (all walls must be 90 degrees to one another), ANY – surfaces may be at any angle, or CUR – the room shape can include curves. Room Geometry (Section View) – The program accepts rooms sections of the following shapes: RECT – room must be rectangular in plan view, ORTH – the room can be orthogonal (all walls must be 90 degrees to one another), ANY – surfaces may be at any angle, or CUR – the room shape can include curves.

★★ = Geometry Modifications Rely on CAD Source ★★★ = Image Files for External Processing,Tabular Illuminance

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Participating Companies Scott Davidson Robert McNeel & Associates Accu Render 3670 Woodland Park Ave N Seattle, WA 98103 206-545-7000 206-545-7321 [email protected] www.accurender.com David Speer Lighting Analysts, Inc. AGI32 10394 West Chatfield Ave. Suite 100 Littleton, CO 80127 303-972-8852 303-972-8851 [email protected] www.agi32.com Bill Freytag GE Lighting Systems Aladan 3010 Spartanburg Hwy Hendersonville, NC 28791 828-693-2176 828-693-2103 www.ge-lightingsystems.com Debbie Berger ITL, Inc. AutoLux v6 3386 Longhorn Rd. Boulder, CO 80302 303-442-1255 303-449-5274 [email protected] www.itlboulder.com Oliver Zelzer ZumtobelStaff Cohpos Phoenix Schweizerstr.30 Dornbirn, Austria 6830 05572-390368 [email protected] www.zumtobelstaff.com Konstantinos Papamichael Lawrence Berkeley Lab Desktop Radiance 1 Cyclotron Rd., MS90-3111 Berkeley, CA 94720 510-486-6854 510-486-4089 [email protected] http://gaia.lbl.gov/bda/

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F.W. Bremecker DIAL GmbH Dialux Gustav Adolf Str. 4 58507 Lüdenscheid Germany +49-0-2351 1064 360 +49-0-2351 1064 361 [email protected] www.dial.de

Steve Borsani OxyTech Srl Light Star 4.1 / Photocoin PO Box 1 Rho Italy 20017 + 39 02 93563258 + 39 02 93563235 [email protected] www.oxytech.it

Tony Bergen Optical & Photometric Technology Pty Ltd EasyLux 25 Richards Road Hoppers Crossing Vic, Australia 3029 +61 3 9369 7000 +61 3 9369 7100 [email protected] www.opt.au.com

Ian Lewin Lighting Sciences Inc. Light Tresspass/Raymaster 6.0 7830 E. Evans Road Scottsdale, AZ 85260 480-991-9260 480-991-0375 [email protected] lightingsciences.com

Karen Moffett Juno Lighting Essentials 1300 S Wolf Rd Des Plaines, IL 60017 847-827-9880 847-296-4056 www.junolighting.com www.junolighting.com Genlyte-USA/Canlyte-Canada Genesys II v1.1 160 Pears Ave., Suite 300 Toronto, Ontario Canada M5R 3P8 416-960-1400 416-960-3450 [email protected] www.genesysii.com Galina Sytnik Integra, Inc. Inspirer v5.72 201 Iroha-kan 2-10-1 Koishikawa, Bunkyo-ku Tokyo Japan 112-0002 81 3 3818 5173 81 3 3818 5175 [email protected] www.integra.jp Columbia Lighting Light Pro 2.0 N 3808 Sullivan Road Spokane, WA 99216 509-924-7000 509-921-7552 [email protected] www.columbialighting.com

Lance K. Livingston Lighting Technologies, Inc. Lumen Micro / Photopia 1630 Welton, Suite 400 Denver, CO 80202 720-891-0030 720-891-0031 [email protected] www.lighting-technologies.com Debbie Millican Cooper Lighting Luxicon 2.3 121 Hwy. 74 South Peachtree City, GA 30269 770-486-441 770-486-4599 [email protected] www.cooperlighting.com Torgeir Lunde Glamox ASA OptiWin Østre Rosten 84 Trondheim, Norway, N-7075 Tiller 4772894939 4772894250 [email protected] www.glamox.com Georg Mischler Rayfront Schulstrasse 29 Muenchen, Germany 80634 +49-89-13 93 85 95 +49-89-13 93 85 96 [email protected] http://www.schorsch.com/

Tim Bosher Lighting Reality Ltd Reality Roadway + Outdoor Somerville House 20-22 Harborne Road Birmingham B15 3AA England 44 121 693 2011 44 121 693 2012 [email protected] www.lightingreality.com Hotline Relux Informatik AG Relux Professional 2.4 Dornacherstrasse 377 Basel, BS/Switzerland 4018 41-61-3330770 41-61-3330772 [email protected] www.relux.ch Uschi Flassig PYTHA Lab GmbH V16.1 Inselstr. 3 63741 Aschaffenburg, Germany +49 6021 37060 +49 6021 48455 [email protected] www.pytha.com Chris Watts Thorn Lighting Limited Vision 3.0 Lighting Technology Centre Spennymoor County Durham UK DL16 7UR 44 1388 420042 44 191 301 3042 [email protected] www.thornlighting.com Randall King Lithonia Lighting Group Visual One Lithonia Way, Building 3 Conyers, GA 30012 800-279-8043 770-929-3625 [email protected] www. lithonialightinggroup.com/visual

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Batch Processing – The program can run several analyses while the computer is unattended. Aiming Diagrams – The program can generate diagrams illustrating the aiming direction of the luminaires. Any Shape Printout or Masking – The analysis area can be designed to be any shape or a masking technique can be used to simulate any shape.

User Interaction Tabular Entry – Edit Data can be entered and edited from tables on the screen. Graphical Entry – Edit Input can be entered and edited graphically using the mouse, cursor keys or digitizer. Input Device – The program accepts input using the indicated devices: D – digitizer, K – keyboard, M – mouse, P – pen and V – voice. Examples: DKM, KM, M. Context Sensitive Help – The user can press a key to seek help that pertains to the specific section of the program in which the user is currently located.

Types of Output Point-by-Point – A point-by-point listing of illuminances can be generated. Isocontours – The program can generate contour plots of illuminance levels. 3-D Model View – The program provides a 3-D view printout. Rendering – The program will display the results on screen using G – gray scale, C – color, P –pseudo color, N – none. Rendering Presentation – The program will generate an on-screen image of the way the space will look. ST – generates still images, SL – generates multiple image slide shows, and WT – generates continuous motion walk-thrus. Color Printing/Plotting – The program supports a color printer and prints out color output. Scaled Output – The output can be printed to scale. Templates – The program can generate iso-illuminance contours for use as a template. Plotter Output – The program can use a plotter for output. Other Output – Examples include but are not limited to - VRML, PDF, HTML, etc.

Photometry Photometric Data Manager – A photometric data manager allows viewing, editing and creating of photometric data files. Within – The photometric data manager is part of the main program. External – The photometric data manager is separate from the main program. Photometric Graphic Viewer – Allows the user to view graphs of photometric distributions on the screen. Photometric Formats – The program can utilize photometric data in the following formats: IES – conforms to IESNA LM-63, CIE – conforms to CIE 102, CIBSE – conforms to CIBSE format, EU – conforms to EULUMDAT, OTHER – restricted or proprietary format, ALL – conforms to IESNA, CIE, CIBSE, and EU.

INTERPRETING OUTDOOR LUMINAIRE CUTOFF

CLASSIFICATION

LRC’s John Bullough proposes a supplemental classification for quantifying a luminaire upward luminous flux

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utdoor lighting is used by many different stakeholders for many different purposes. Government transportation agencies, for example, want to increase safety for drivers and pedestrians along roadways. Business improvement districts might want to bring in shoppers and tourists to a historic downtown in order to stimulate economic development. Landlords often want to enhance the perceptions of safety and security on their properties. Outdoor lighting can be a potent tool in helping these various stakeholders achieve their

goals. More light is not necessarily better light, and there is also increasing awareness of ways that outdoor lighting can detract from enjoyment of the nighttime environment through light pollution, light directed upward that contributes to sky glow and impairs our ability to see celestial objects in the sky, and through light trespass, the distribution of light in directions leading to areas where it is unwanted. The Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA) defines several outdoor luminaire cutoff classifica-

tions, each with differing photometric requirements. For these classifications, two relevant zones are defined with respect to the nadir of a luminaire (the nadir is defined as the angle that points directly downward, or 0 degrees, from the luminaire): one zone covers angles between 80 and 90 degrees above nadir, and the second zone covers all angles greater than 90 degrees above nadir, or above the horizontal plane of the luminaire (see Figure 1). Light emitted in the 80-90 degrees zone is more likely to contribute to glare and light trespass, and light emitted in the above horizontal is more likely to contribute to light pollution. The four IESNA classifications are defined as follows: full cutoff: the luminous intensity (in candelas) anywhere at or above 90 degrees from nadir is zero, and the lumi-

Figure 1. Angles referenced by luminaire cutoff classifications.

Figure 2 (left) Hypothetical luminous intensity distribution for a cutoff luminaire containing a 1000-lumen lamp (units are in candelas). Figure 3 (right) Hypothetical luminous intensity distribution for a luminaire containing a 1000-lumen lamp (units are in candelas), failing to meet the cutoff classification. 44

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nous intensity (in candelas) anywhere between 80 degrees and 90 degrees from nadir does not numerically exceed 10 percent of the luminous flux (in lumens) of the lamp or lamps in the luminaire cutoff: the luminous intensity (in candelas) anywhere at or above 90 degrees from nadir does not numerically exceed 2.5 percent of the luminous flux (in lumens) of the lamp or lamps in the

There is increasing awareness of ways that outdoor lighting can detract from enjoyment of the nighttime environment through light pollution luminaire, and the luminous intensity (in candelas) anywhere between 80 and 90 degrees from nadir does not numerically exceed 10 percent of the luminous flux (in lumens) of the lamp or lamps in the luminaire semicutoff: the luminous intensity (in candelas) anywhere at or above 90 degrees from nadir does not numerically exceed five percent of the luminous flux (in lumens) of the lamp or lamps in the luminaire, and the luminous intensity www.iesna.org

(in candelas) anywhere between 80 and 90 degrees from nadir does not numerically exceed 20 percent of the luminous flux (in lumens) of the lamp or lamps in the luminaire noncutoff: there is no limitation of luminous intensity in the zone above the luminaire’s maximum luminous intensity Careful consideration of these classification definitions is very important when evaluating outdoor luminaires for their potential to cause light trespass or light pollution. The definitions are in terms of luminous intensity (candelas), but the values are made with reference to luminous flux (lumens). Casual skimming of these definitions could lead one to assume that for a cutoff luminaire, no more than 10 percent of the lamp luminous flux is emitted between 80 and 90 degrees from nadir, or that no more than 2.5 percent of the lamp luminous flux is emitted above 90 degrees from nadir. In fact, neither of these assumptions is correct. Consider the hypothetical luminous intensity distribution shown in Figure 2, for a luminaire equipped with a 1000lumen lamp. The luminous intensity at any angle between and including 80 and 90 degrees from nadir is 100 candelas, which is 10 percent of the numerical value of the lamp lumens. The luminous intensity 90 degrees from nadir and at any angle above is 25 candelas, which is 2.5 percent of the numerical value of the lamp lumens. This hypothetical luminaire can be classified as a cutoff luminaire. Interestingly, a luminaire with this distribution would emit 11 percent of the lamp lumens between 80 and 90 degrees from nadir, and nearly 16 percent of the lamp lumens above 90 degrees from nadir. (The distribution of the remaining 73 percent of lamp lumens, at angles below 80 degrees from nadir, do not in any way affect the cutoff classification of the luminaire.) Conversely, consider another hypothetical luminous intensity distribution, shown in Figure 3, also for a luminaire equipped with a 1000-lumen lamp. The luminous intensity at one angle between 80 and 90 degrees from nadir is 125 candelas, exceeding 10 percent (100 candelas) of the numerical value

of the lamp lumens. The luminous intensity at one angle above 90 degrees from nadir is 40 candelas, exceeding 2.5 percent (25 candelas) of the numerical value of the lamp lumens. Such a luminaire would emit only three percent of the lamp lumens between 80 and 90 degrees from nadir, and about one percent of the lamp lumens above 90 degrees from nadir. (As with the example above, the distribution of the remaining 96 percent of lamp lumens at angles below 80 degrees from nadir do not impact the luminaire’s cutoff classification.) Because of its luminous intensity values, this luminaire cannot be classified as a cutoff luminaire even though it emits significantly less light upward than the hypothetical luminaire in Figure 2. Indeed, even if this same luminaire were fully shielded so that it emitted no light above 90 degrees, it could not be considered a full-cutoff or even a cutoff luminaire, because of its higher-than permitted intensity at one angle between 80 and 90 degrees. Certainly, these luminous intensity distribution examples represent extreme cases. They do, however, serve to emphasize the caution that is required when interpreting the various cutoff classifications. If, for example, one is concerned about minimizing direct uplight from a luminaire, it is not necessarily true that a cutoff luminaire will emit a smaller proportion of its luminous flux upward than a semicutoff (or even a noncutoff) luminaire, even if the luminaires are equipped with the same lamp. A full cutoff luminaire, on the other hand, will always emit no direct uplight. To estimate the luminous flux emitted directly upward by a particular luminaire, consult a zonal luminous flux summary prepared by the luminaire’s manufacturer. This is not to say that the classification definitions are not useful. Knowing the luminous intensity from a luminaire in a particular direction is a key step in estimating the illuminance on a surface from that luminaire in that direction, and illuminance often relates directly to issues of light trespass. If an outdoor lighting system should not exceed a particular illuminance on adjacent property, for example, the current IESNA cutoff classifications can be very helpful in selecting 46

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luminaires that will meet such requirements. Perhaps, though, a supplemental classification for quantifying the total upward luminous flux (rather than the maximum upward luminous intensity) would be helpful in characterizing outdoor luminaires for their potential to contribute to light pollution. A proposed classification is offered below:

Of course, this proposed system of classification is just a starting point for a conversation about these issues. Class 0: the luminaire emits no luminous flux directly upward (above 90 degrees) Class 1: the luminaire emits no more than 5 percent of its luminous flux directly upward Class 2: the luminaire emits more than 5 percent but no more than 10 percent of its luminous flux directly upward Class 3: the luminaire emits more than 10 percent but no more than 20 percent of its luminous flux directly upward Class 4: the luminaire emits more than 20 percent of its luminous flux directly upward

for example, an inefficient “globe” luminaire made of a poorly transmitting material used in a parking lot. Such a luminaire might emit only a small fraction of the lamp luminous flux upward, but it would also emit only a small fraction downward. About 50 percent of this luminaire’s luminous flux would be emitted directly upward and about 50 percent downward. An installation of such luminaires would probably require more luminaires in order to achieve the light levels required for a parking lot because of the luminaire’s low efficiency. As a result, about half of the total light used in this application would be emitted directly upward. The proposed classifications above would tend to penalize inefficient luminaires, with the result of less total light emitted directly upward for a given application. Of course, this proposed system of classification is just a starting point for a conversation about these issues. Its purpose should not be to restrict thoughtful design, and when all is said and done, perhaps the lighting community will decide that no supplemental classifications are needed. However, understanding the proper application of the IESNA classifications, and understanding when to obtain additional data about a luminaire’s performance, such as the amount of luminous flux emitted upward, are both fundamental to the design of good outdoor lighting. Good outdoor lighting is likely to meet goals such as those outlined at the beginning of this article, while minimizing possible negative impacts, such as light trespass and light pollution. The modest proposal above is simply one more voice in the conversation. The author: John D. Bullough is a scientist and adjunct assistant professor of architecture at the Lighting Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. An IESNA member, Bullough has written or co-written more than forty technical publications on the psychological and biological effects of light, lighting for transportation, and solid state lighting.

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Leucos USA introduces its Matrix series of pendant, wall and floor luminaires. Designed by Yaacov Kaufman, the series features varying numbers of adjustable stainless steel rod arms as well as unparalleled flexibility and a unique look.

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Qualite’s new Gold Series luminaires for sports lighting optimizes light cutoff for a community friendly installation. All Qualite lighting systems are factory wired, pre-aimed and pre-assembled for ease of installation and accuracy in lighting application. Standard remote ballast assembly simplifies maintenance while reducing weight at top of pole. Go to www.leadnet.com/lda or Circle 100 on Reader Service Card

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Lithonia Lighting introduces the Gotham AF series of 6, 8 and 10 in. compact fluorescent downlights specifically designed for popular triple-tube lamps in 1, 2, 3 lamp configurations. A mechanical trim retention system that insures snug-

Kichler Landscape Lighting introduces a new landscape lighting imaging software program, developed exclusively for Kichler and its customers by Alogix. Software features include: Kichler’s entire fixture library; voltage drop calculator; ability to create a bill of materials; database editor so user can easily

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LEDtronics presents the sunlightvisible linear bargraph LEDs that simplify the organization of instrumentation and improve the visual transfer of information displayed on aviation instrument panels, temperature gauges, automotive instrument panels, volume levels, ultraviolet meters, and audio/video indicators. Available in two intensities: standard and super. Choose from 5, 10 or 15 LED segments. Go to

Exceline offers a compact fluorescent luminaire GeoScape model for outdoor lighting. This new fixture is specially designed to complement any building exterior/interior while providing superior lighting. The GeoScape is a 175 W unit, made of heavy-duty precision die cast aluminum housing, with flat, clear tempered glass. Go to

system installation gaps, and to meet growing demands for the contemporary “oversize look.” The new line of mid-size wallplates adds a full .375 in. on all sides to NEMA standard-size plates, providing needed gap coverage for over cuts or other large wallboard-to-box openings. The new line includes 25 different configurations for toggle switches, receptacles, decorator blank, power receptacles, telephone/ coaxial cable, combination devices and pre-marked special issues. Go to www.leadnet.com/lda or Circle 92 on Reader Service Card

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Intermatic Inc. now offers the F20 series surge protection devices. The F20 series consists of two hard-wired, in-line surge suppression devices—the IG1201F20 (120 V) and the IG24001F20 (240 V). Both units feature all mode protection, thermally protected MOVs for maximum safety, EMI/RFI filtration, a NEMA four enclosure and a five-year product warranty. The F20 series is for loads up to 20 amps, including fire alarms circuits, industrial controls, PLC’s and any other sensitive electronic equipment.Go .hessamerica presents an originaldesign outdoor area lighting fixture with entirely new reflector technology integral with it. Faro brings the concept and benefits of high-performance, glare-free area lighting to any exterior application where lighting effectiveness, ambiance and a design statement coincide. Polemounted luminaires are ideal for illuminating both the vertical and horizontal planes of any outdoor landscape or area, including pathways, parks; and corporate and university grounds. Go to www.leadnet.com/lda or Circle 95 on Reader Service Card 48

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Cooper Wiring Devices presents its line of mid-size thermoplastic wallplates designed to cover electrical

Bulbrite Industries has improved its KX-2000 lamp, with the KX2000/3M halogen source. The KX2000/3M has all these benefits, but at 3,000 hours, burns 50 percent longer than the old KX-2000. With the use of krypton and xenon gases, the halogen provides a light source in a small compact size allowing for usage in all types of fixtures. Go to www.leadnet.com/lda or Circle 91 on Reader Service Card

Targetti North America, Inc. offers the BTT recessed downlights. The BTT provides crisp fixed lighting. It is completely contained within a 12 in. by 6.5 in. by 4 in. housing that recessed completely into ceilings, leaving only the downlight opening and its antiglare black baffle visible from below. Available with low-profile square trim, it is manufactured of die-cast aluminum that presents a crisp finished appearance around the light bezel. Illumination is provided by a choice of dimmable 12 V dichroic www.iesna.org

halogen lamps, offering a range of light distribution patterns from highly focused spot to six ft beam spr eads. G o t o www. leadnet.com/lda or Circle 90 on Reader Service Card

W.A.C. Lighting Company now offers high-quality metal halide track fixtures for energy efficient lighting in commercial installations. Features include an energy effiPeerless Lighting introduced an architectural luminaire featuring a completely new advanced optical system for smooth, even illumination. Unlike other extruded anodized aluminum luminaires, end caps are extruded (not diecast) and are anodized to match with the fixture body, creating a singular aesthetic. Go to www.leadnet.com/lda or Circle 89 on Reader Service Card.

Beacon Products offers its village collection of globe luminaires, providing glare-free outdoor ambient area lighting. The globes can be specified in clear or white acrylic, clear textured or white polycarbonate. Fitters, domes, and finials and lens holder rings are ASTM356.2 virgin ingot aluminum, cast in permanent molds for maximum strength and durability. Go to www. leadnet.com/lda or Circle 88 on Reader Service Card.

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cient source with twice the light output of halogen PAR lamps, available in a choice of 120 V magnetic or a 120 V electronic ballast, and in either black or white finish, and is offered in a broad range of lamp sizes and wattages. The metal halide fixture is offered with PAR20/39 W, PAR30/70 W, PAR38/70 W and PAR38/100 W sources. Go to www.leadnet.com/lda or Circle 87 on Reader Service Card.

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trol systems, easily accessible to residential and commercial end users. The D3200 system offers unique one-touch control, for scene changes. Menu-driven wizards on the face of the device guide users through task set-up and programming. Go to www.leadnet.com/lda or Circle 84 on Reader Service Card

d’ac Lighting offers the Father pendant. A teardrop-shaped, handblown Italian glass shade characterizes the pendant. Available in clear blue or translucent white opal glass, the 16 in. high by 10 in. wide outer shade envelops an illuminated, small-scale teardrop-shaped inner white opal glass shade. The two shades soften the emitted light, while the blue outer shade adds color. Both versions add a bold design element to any interior. Go to www.leadnet.com/lda or Circle 86 on Reader Service Card

Ardee Lighting introduces its heavyduty closet rod fixture for illuminating closets and hanging garments. Closet rod combines flexible clickstrip snap-in low-voltage linear strip lighting with a lightweight, durable extended aluminum clothes bar. It provides downward illumination for use in closets, cloakrooms, armories, and retail store garment displays. Go to www.leadnet.com/lda or Circle 00 on Reader Service Card

Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc. presents its Dimensions D3200 multi-point dimming and scene con-

Derek Marshall Lighting offers a new sculpture wall sconce for home, hospitality and commercial lighting applications. Designed to resemble an opened fan, the sconce is made from kiln-formed American art glass. Available in both the confetti and black and 50

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FLOS USA presents the Metropolitan Collection, the latest addition to its luminous line by Italian designer Antonio Citterio. The collection includes the XXL, an incandescent floor fixture with external diffuser of transparent glass surrounding an internal diffuser of blown opal glass. The structure consists of a slender, 79 in. high brass column with a satin nickel or galvanized bronze finish rising from a square base. Go to www. leadnet.com/lda or Circle 83 on Reader Service Card

Lutron Electronics Co., Inc. offers its Hi-Lume and Eco-10 fluorescent dimming ballasts in two ft (24 W) and three ft (39 W) models in both 120 V and 277 V. Combined with its existing Hi-lume and Eco- 10 four ft (54 W) T5HO dimming ballasts, the new products allow Lutron to offer a complete line of dimming solutions for T5HO lamps. Hi-lume ballasts offer 100 to 1 percent for full range architectural lighting control.Go to www.leadnet.com/lda or Circle 82 on Reader Service Card

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