Residential Lighting

Builders Guide to Home Lighting offers builders and electrical contractors practical advice for installing energy-efficient lighting in homes. This information comes from The Lighting Pattern Book for Homes, a comprehensive home lighting design tool developed from extensive research on lighting technologies and applications as well as consumer surveys.

Last Updated | September 18, 2010

Residential Lighting: Getting Good Lighting for Your Kitchen Counters

Under-cabinet lighting is often added to kitchen and pantry cabinets to provide task lighting on the countertops that is complementary to the general lighting of the room. The underside of cabinets provides an ideal location for task lighting because the light source is near the task and can easily concealed to avoid glare.

Last Updated | September 16, 2010

The Lighting Pattern Book for Homes can help you to design attractive, energy-efficient lighting for the kitchen, living room, bedroom, bathroom, home office, hallway, stairway, or porch. The book provides prototype designs or “patterns” for energy-efficient lighting suitable for typical dwellings.

Last Updated | September 14, 2010

The NYSERDA How-to Guide to Effective Energy Efficient Street Lighting helps understand the issues surrounding street lighting and the benefits of an effective energy efficient design.

Last Updated | September 12, 2010

This ASSIST recommends volume provides a general overview of outdoor lighting and discusses the objectives and applications of outdoor lighting and factors to consider when planning an outdoor lighting installation. These issues include visibility and visual comfort, security, aesthetics, energy usage, light pollution, and economic feasibility.

Last Updated | September 10, 2010

Efficient Street Lighting Design Guide for Connecticut

This design guide was developed to help municipalities in designing and specifying energy-efficient street lighting to meet their illumination goals. With an emphasis on light pollution issues, the guide provides illustrative examples of typical street lighting designs and presents alternative options,

Last Updated | September 8, 2010

This publication discusses what light is, how light is processed by the eye, what the components are that make up light, and how light is measured. This publication briefly discusses the different types of electronic light sources available on the market.

Last Updated | September 6, 2010

Large-scale efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the adoption of compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) continue to gain strength in Asia. At the same time, worldwide CFL production has increased from 500 million lamps in 2000 to more than 3 billion lamps in 2008, with China becoming by far the world’s largest producer. However, the rapid increase in the production of CFLs has lead to serious concerns about product quality in Asia. A large proportion of the CFLs available in the region are of poor quality, negating their efficiency benefits and leading to consumer dissatisfaction with the product category as a whole. To address and better understand these issues, the USAID ECO-Asia Clean Development and Climate Program (ECO-Asia) has released two important reports on energy-efficient lighting in Asia.

Last Updated | April 11, 2010

Integration of daylight into the built environment calls for thought and planning

explains Architect Narein Perera

Last Updated | March 10, 2010

Many corporate bodies do the lighting designs after the construction, which double their investment cost. Lighting requirements have to be considered at the concept level and included in the overall plan before finalizing construction drawings…

Last Updated | January 24, 2010