Lighting System Design
Codes and Standards
a. CIBSE Lighting Guides
CIBSE Code for Lighting (2012)
CIBSE Lighting Handbook (2009)
b. SLL Lighting Guides
SLL Lighting Guide 0: Introduction to Light and Lighting (2017)
SLL Lighting Guide 1: The Industrial Environment (2012)
SLL Lighting Guide 2: Hospitals and Health Care Buildings (2008)
SLL Lighting Guide 4: Sports (2006)
SLL Lighting Guide 5: Lighting for Education (2011)
SLL Lighting Guide 6: The Exterior Environment (2016)
SLL Lighting Guide 7: Offices (2015)
SLL Lighting Guide 8: Lighting for Museums and Art Galleries (2015)
SLL Lighting Guide 9: Lighting for Communal Residential Buildings (2013)
SLL Lighting Guide 10: Daylighting - A Guide for Designers: Lighting for the Built Environment
(2014)
SLL Lighting Guide 11: Surface Reflectance and Colour (2001)
SLL Lighting Guide 12: Emergency Lighting (2015)
SLL Lighting Guide 13: Lighting for Places of Worship (2014)
SLL Lighting Guide 14: Control of Electric Lighting (2016)
SLL Lighting Guide 15: Transport Buildings (2017)
SLL Lighting Guide 16: Lighting for Stairs (2017)
Guide to Limiting Obtrusive Light (2012)
Guide to the Lighting of Licensed Premises (2011)
c. Other SLL Lighting Publications
Commissioning Code L: Lighting (2003)
TM14 Standard file format for transfer of luminaire photometric data (1988)
Reflections on 100 Years of Lighting in the UK (2009)
Guide to fibre-optic and remote-source lighting (2001) - SLL/ILE publication
d. BS 5266 Emergency lighting.
Part 1: Code of practice for the emergency lighting of premises (2016)
Part 2: Code of practice for electrical low mounted way guidance systems for emergency use
(1998)
Part 4: Code of practice for design, installation, maintenance and use of optical fibre systems
(1999)
Part 5: Specification for component parts of optical fibre systems (1999)
Part 6: Code of practice for non-electrical low mounted way guidance systems for
emergency use. Photoluminescent systems (1999)
e. BS EN 1838 Lighting applications. Emergency lighting (2013)
f. BS EN 50172 Emergency escape lighting systems (2004)
g. BS 9999 Fire safety in the design, management and use of buildings. Code of practice (2017)
h. NFPA 101 Life Safety Code (2018)
i. ASHRAE 90.1 Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings (2016)
j. UAE Fire and Life Safety Code of Practice (2017)
Software Products
1. Dialux
2. AGi32
System Design
1. Calculation
Lux Requirements
a. Non-essential lightings
Lux level requirements may be given by:
1. Client/Owner
2. Authority having jurisdiction
If not given, designer will be the one to provide as per applicable codes or standards.
b. Essential lightings
Lux level shall be based on applicable codes or standards.
1. NFPA 101: Life Safety Code
