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This document provides guidance for lighting installers on selecting lighting equipment. It includes details on luminaire types, light output ratios, spacing to height ratios, and utilization factors. Utilization factors indicate the proportion of light from a luminaire that reaches the horizontal work plane and are included in a table for different room sizes and surface reflectances. Instructions are provided on how to use these factors to calculate the number of luminaires needed to provide a desired task illuminance level. Information is also given on display lighting luminaires.

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Calculation of Uf Factor 2

This document provides guidance for lighting installers on selecting lighting equipment. It includes details on luminaire types, light output ratios, spacing to height ratios, and utilization factors. Utilization factors indicate the proportion of light from a luminaire that reaches the horizontal work plane and are included in a table for different room sizes and surface reflectances. Instructions are provided on how to use these factors to calculate the number of luminaires needed to provide a desired task illuminance level. Information is also given on display lighting luminaires.

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THE INSTALLER’S GUIDE TO LIGHTING DESIGN

SELECTING LIGHTING EQUIPMENT

Luminaire type: single 1.5 m, 58 W fluorescent lamp fitting, incorporating a white louvre attachment.

Illustration of luminaire Luminous Intensity Distributions


(polar curves) – axial (A) and transverse (T) Figure 2 Example of luminaire
photometric data – see table 2
Light output ratio: upward – 0.0; downward – 0.55; total – 0.55. for typical values of utilisation
Spacing/height ratio: nominal – 1.5; maximum (square) – 1.7, maximum (continuous) – 2.0. factor

Room index 0.75 1.0 1.25 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 4.0 5.0
Room
reflectances
C W F

70 - 50 - 20 0.36 0.42 0.47 0.51 0.56 0.60 0.63 0.66 0.69


30 0.31 0.36 0.42 0.46 0.52 0.56 0.59 0.63 0.66
10 0.27 0.32 0.37 0.41 0.47 0.52 0.55 0.60 0.63
50 - 50 - 20 0.33 0.38 0.43 0.46 0.51 0.54 0.57 0.60 0.62
30 0.29 0.34 0.38 0.42 0.51 0.51 0.53 0.57 0.59
10 0.25 0.30 0.35 0.38 0.44 0.48 0.50 0.54 0.57
30 - 50 - 20 0.31 0 35 0.39 0.42 0.46 0.49 0.51 0.54 0.55
30 0.27 0.31 0.35 0.38 0.43 0.46 0.48 0.52 0.54
10 0.23 0.28 0.32 0.35 0.40 0.44 0.46 0.50 0.52
0 - 0 - 0 0.20 0.24 0.28 0.30 0.34 0.37 0.39 0.42 0.44

Using the table


Table 2 Typical utilisation
Calculate the room index – see section 4, page 15
factor data for nominal
Decide on the appropriate reflection factors for ceiling (C), walls (W) and floor (F) – see section 4, page 15
spacing-to-height ratio,
Locate utilisation factor at intersection of appropriate column and row
SHR (NOM)

included are details of luminaire spacing for Display lighting luminaires


achieving a uniform task illuminance. Some light Display lighting luminaires are usually used to
reaches the horizontal working plane by reflection emphasise a feature or artefact and provide a
from room surfaces, and in addition to the LOR, directional beam of light. Filament lamps with
it is necessary to know the utilisation factor (UF), integral reflectors are the most commonly used
shown in table 2. UFs indicate the proportion of because of their simplicity and ease of beam
lamp light output that will reach the horizontal control, although other types of lamp can be used.
working plane, both directly and by reflection, for Lower-wattage discharge lamps have the
a range of different room sizes and room surface advantages of high output and small light source
reflectances. This will enable the number of size. Fluorescent lamps are less easy to control in
luminaires required to provide a particular task the directional sense and more suited to
illuminance to be determined. More information applications where a wash of light is wanted rather
on UFs is given on page 15. than spotlighting.

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