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Lighting for Educational Facilities, This Recommended Practice addresses lighting needs of all of educational facilities from preschool to continuing professional development. Its scope is restricted to learning and study activities, and associated circulation spaces. It should be noted that the IES Lighting Handbook and other Recommend Practices contain guidance on lighting administration areas, sports facilities, or residential accommodations on school and college campuses. Additional relevant literature is listed in the references. This Practice revises and replaces the previous edition which was published in 1988.
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Advanced Energy Design Guide for K-12 School Buildings, The purpose of this document is to provide a "how to," user-friendly design assistance to Design and A/E fi rms working for school boards in order to achieve energy savings of 30 progress toward a new zero energy building.
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Office Lighting, This Standard Practice provides useful, practical guidance on design elements that can produce both a productive and pleasant work environment.
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Articles & Reports

New Guide Provides Daylighting Designs to Maximize Students' Health and Performance
Lighting Research Center
Press Release 03/04/2011

School Classrooms by Michael Lane LC
The Lighting Design Lab, archived article 1996

Classroom Lighting System Demonstration Research Study
Prepared by Finelite for The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority
(8 MB download)

Windows and Classrooms: A Study of Student Performance and the Indoor Environment
California Energy Commission Technical Report
(1.3 MB download), Appendeces (1.3 MB)

Daylighting in Schools: An Investigation into the Relationship Between Daylighting and Human Performance
1999 PG&E on behalf of the California Board of Energy Efficiency Third Party Program.
(545 KB download)

Anatomy of a Mock-Up, A full scale mock-up of a prototypical classroom for the North Clackamas High School was constructed to evaluate the proposed architectural design and lighting strategies. Both daylight and electric lighting were evaluated, individually and as an integrated approach. This project was conducted in the mock-up facility at the Lighting Design Lab, Seattle WA. Because of the classroom's complex ceiling and its interior and exterior lightshelves, this was a much more elaborate mock-up than standard for the Lab. Thus the mock-up was accomplished as a collaboration of the Lighting De-sign Lab and Portland General Electric (PGE). The Lab provided its standard mock-up services for the project; Portland General Electric funded the incremental costs (labor and materials) of constructing the inclined ceiling plane and lightshelves. This report documents the construction, evaluation and costs of the mock-up.
The Lighting Design Lab

Occupancy Sensor Application, Occupancy sensors are "application-sensitive" devices, meaning that most problems in the field are the result of misapplication. Here are some general guidelines that can help with occupancy sensor application
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