Showing posts with label Lighting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lighting. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Lighting Retrofit and Relighting: A Guide to Energy Efficient Lighting

Lighting Retrofit and Relighting: A Guide to Energy Efficient Lighting Review



The ultimate guide to the retrofitting of lighting for greater efficiency and performance

Retrofitting outdated energy-guzzling lighting components with green energy-saving alternatives is a process that promotes sustainability and offers significant benefits for businesses, contractors, and the community at large. Not only can retrofitting improve the overall quality and functionality of light, it also can make spaces safer, easier and less costly to maintain, and more comfortable to inhabit. From lighting technology to retrofit financial analysis, Lighting Retrofit and Relighting evaluates the latest lighting system types, then demonstrates how to apply them for the greatest functional and cost-saving benefit. This book:

  • Discusses the recent advances in lighting equipment and retrofittable controls, for both interior and outdoor use

  • Explains how to do a lighting audit to identify and evaluate logical retrofit choices

  • Includes case studies of retrofits, illustrating improvements in the quality and efficacy of new lighting

  • Demonstrates how cost savings realized over time can not only pay for new equipment but produce a return on the investment

Lighting Retrofit and Relighting serves as an ideal reference for students or professionals—whether they are energy auditors, designers, installers, facilities managers, or manufacturers—by taking a close look at the most current lighting technology illuminating pathways toward a brighter future.


Monday, April 30, 2012

Lighting Design: Principles, Implementation, Case Studies (Detail Practice)

Lighting Design: Principles, Implementation, Case Studies (Detail Practice) Review



More than any building material, light produces spatial effects, generates moods, and "stages architectural designs. In well-lit spaces, we feel good, and we are capable and effective; light promotes health. Moreover, especially in office buildings, the combination of a sensible natural lighting design with a corresponding approach to artificial lighting is a decisive factor in energy conservation.

Assembled by experienced authors and experts from the worlds of practice and teaching, this new volume in the series Detail Practice provides an introduction to the most important aspects of natural and artificial lighting design. In addition to straightforward planning rules such as ground plan design, building orientation, and the structuring of facades it also introduces and explains current natural and artificial lighting systems with the help of example projects.


Thursday, April 26, 2012

Complete Lighting Design: A Practical Design Guide for Perfect Lighting (Quarry Book)

Complete Lighting Design: A Practical Design Guide for Perfect Lighting (Quarry Book) Review



No matter how beautifully decorated a room is, it doesn't matter if no one can see it. Interior designers know the importance of good lighting placement, because it is the key that can literally transform a home. Although correct lighting placement is this book's central theme, it goes much further to discuss everything from basic lighting principles and practices to new technologies, issues of energy efficiency, and new trends in computer automation, followed by a practical guide for analysis and planning, execution, and installation, offering creative solutions to a wide range of illumination issues.

While the information is oriented to a professional design audience, the practical information and advice is just as useful to do-it-yourselfers and homeowners who take on their own lighting projects.

Each topic includes a visual guide and the author even includes room-by-room lighting strategies. Full-color photographs of interiors and drawings illustrate detail and specifics of placements and design features.


Sunday, April 15, 2012

Introduction to Solid-State Lighting

Introduction to Solid-State Lighting Review



A thorough reference that sheds light on the promising field of solid-state lighting
Solid-state lighting is a rapidly emerging field. Light Emitting Diodes are already used in traffic signals, signage/contour lighting, large area displays, and automotive applications. But its greatest future lies in the possibility of applying solid-state lamps to general lighting. Solid-state lighting promises to reduce energy consumption as much as fifty percent, cut down on carbon-dioxide emission, and even spur the development of a completely new lighting industry.
Giving this important emerging field the attention it deserves, Introduction to Solid-State Lighting comprehensively covers:
* The history of lighting
* The characterization of visible light
* Conventional light sources
* LED basics
* Extraction of light from high-brightness LEDs
* White LED
* Applications of solid-state lamps


Friday, April 13, 2012

Emergency and Security Lighting

Emergency and Security Lighting Review



The comprehensive guide for identifying needs, specification and installation of emergency and security lighting systems.

Emergency and Security Lighting is a thoroughly practical guide for lighting installers and electricians, intruder alarm and fire alarm installers, and managers with security and health and safety responsibilities. Covering the latest workplace directives, building and fire regulations, it is essential reading. The text is concise and accessible and includes the latest technical developments such as low-energy systems for extended period lighting.

This book provides the underpinning knowledge necessary for the level 3 NVQs from SITO / City & Guilds. The concise, accessible text makes it an ideal coursebook. This accessibility also makes it ideal for hard-pressed practitioners.

Gerard Honey is a practising security installer working in the UK and Spain. He is author of a number of security books and a regular contributor to magazines including Security Installer and PSI.
  • A thoroughly practical guide to identifying needs, specifying and installation
  • Covers requirements of latest workplace directives and Building Regulations
  • Includes the latest technical developments such as low-energy systems for extended period lighting


  • Sunday, April 8, 2012

    Advanced Lighting Controls: Energy Savings, Productivity, Technology and Applications

    Advanced Lighting Controls: Energy Savings, Productivity, Technology and Applications Review



    Advanced Lighting Controls is edited by Craig DiLouie and written for engineers, architects, lighting designers, electrical contractors, distributors, and building owners and managers. Advanced lighting controls, indicated by research as the "next big thing," are now mandated by the ASHRAE/IES 91.1-1999 energy standard, the basis for all state energy codes in the U.S., and are becoming the norm rather than the exception in new construction. This book provides in-depth information about the major trends, technologies, codes, and design techniques shaping the use of today's lighting control systems, including dimming, automatic switching, and global as well as personal control.


    Wednesday, April 4, 2012

    Lighting Design Basics

    Lighting Design Basics Review



    The essential book of lighting for professional designers, now updated and revised

    Providing the fundamental information new designers need to succeed in a concise, highly visual format, the Second Edition of Lighting Design Basics presents realistic goals that can be used as a guide to create simple yet impressive lighting designs and when collaborating with professional designers on more complex projects.

    Drawing on real-world case studies— from kitchens to doctors' offices—the book is packed with attractive, helpful illustrations, making it an invaluable resource for students, as well as interior designers and architects studying for professional licensing exams.

    • Authored by leading lighting designers with decades of experience
    • Offers straightforward coverage of lighting concepts and techniques
    • Contains design scenarios for more than twenty different types of spaces

    Lighting is a basic, yet difficult-to-master element of interior design. Lightning Design Basics changes that, putting the power to create in the hands of the designer.


    Monday, April 2, 2012

    LED for Lighting Applications (ISTE)

    LED for Lighting Applications (ISTE) Review



    Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) are no longer confined to use in commercial signage and have now moved firmly, and with unquestioned advantages, into the field of commercial and domestic lighting. This development was prompted in the late 1980s by the invention of the blue LED, a wavelength that had previously been missing from the available LED spectrum and which opened the way to providing white light. Since that point, LED performance (including energy efficiency) has improved dramatically, and now compares with the performance of fluorescent lights - and there remain further performance improvements yet to be delivered.

    The book begins with the principles of LED lighting, then focuses on issues and challenges. Chapters are devoted to key steps in LED manufacturing: substrate, epitaxy, process and packaging. Photoelectric characterization of LEDs, Lighting with LEDs and the imposition of a certain level of color quality, are the subject of later chapters, and finally there is a detailed discussion of the emergence of OLEDs, or organic LEDs, which have specific capabilities of immediate interest and importance in this field.


    Saturday, March 24, 2012

    Handbook of Lighting Surveys and Audits

    Handbook of Lighting Surveys and Audits Review



    Complete with checklists and forms, this step-by-step guide tells everything the facilities management professional needs to know about conducting lighting surveys and audits in a commercial or industrial facility. Lighting audits are required when companies undertake lighting retrofits and related projects in order to improve their lighting systems. The best way to ensure maximum performance of the new systems, maximize return on investment, and prove energy savings (in order to qualify for financial assistance or meet government targets) is to start with a comprehensive lighting audit. Public and private incentives along with recent energy saving advances in lighting technology have motivated companies to turn to energy saving solutions. Written by one of the nation's leading authorities on lighting and the education of lighting professionals, this practical handbook provides the auditor with the solid, useful information needed to accomplish accurate surveys and audits.


    Monday, March 19, 2012

    Lighting Control: Technology and Applications

    Lighting Control: Technology and Applications Review



    Robert Simpson's comprehensive volume covers all aspects of lighting control systems. It starts with two foundation chapters outlining the basics of electricity, light and electronics as they apply to lighting control. It then reviews all current artificial lightsources, and comments on their suitability for control. A section on lighting control components covers electronic and electromagnetic dimmers, ballasts and transformers. The next section reviews lighting control systems, including those for stage and entertainment, architectural applications, energy management and building control; and includes a chapter on control signals protocols. The final part is an extensive applications review, fully illustrated, covering everything from hotels and cruise ships to homes and churches; and taking in offices, factories, simulators, trains and planes on the way.

    Lighting Control: technology and applications brings together information not otherwise available from a single source. It is intended as a training resource within the lighting industry, both for those completely new to the subject, and for those coming to it from another technical field. It will also be useful for lighting designers, consulting engineers and electrical contractors as a reference book covering current and emerging lighting control techniques - with special emphasis on new light sources and new digital control standards. Information, case histories and illustrations for the book have been provided by many leading lighting companies and organizations in North America and Europe.

    *Offers comprehensive coverage of all aspects of lighting control from live performance to architectural lighting
    *Understand the background to various applications and disciplines in the lighting industry
    *Discover the latest thinking and technology; illustrated in full colour


    Wednesday, March 7, 2012

    Discovering Stage Lighting, Second Edition

    Discovering Stage Lighting, Second Edition Review



    This guide to the fundamentals of stage lighting includes a series of projects to allow experimentation, discussion and analysis. The necessary equipment is described in relation to its purpose, along with checklists and hints for practical use.

    The practical handling of light, with observation of the relationship of cause to effect, is central to the study of stage lighting. Rehearsal pressures usually restrict the time available for experimenting with lighting for a performance, but laboratory-style projects can be used to enable specific lighting problems to be solved.
    The core of this book is a series of 'discovery' projects using minimal resources, to explore the use of light in the theatre, with particular emphasis on the interaction of conflicting visual aims. The projects cover all the major scenarios likely to be encountered by lighting students and have been tried and tested by the author, who has taught lighting students all over the world for over 30 years.

    The book has been updated to include more on safety and the latest technology including:
    - fixed instruments using the new lower wattage high efficiency lamps in combination with dichronic reflectors
    - an increase in the availability, reliability, range and usage of 'moving light' technology based on remotely controlled instruments.

    New lighting projects have also been added.

    If you are studying the art and craft of stage lighting this book is an excellent working manual that will provide you with the technical knowledge and skill to cope with a range of lighting situations.

    *Includes a series of projects to allow experimentation, discussion and analysis
    *Provides checklists and hints for practical use
    *Now fully updated to include the latest technology


    Sunday, February 12, 2012

    The Design of Lighting

    The Design of Lighting Review



    Written primarily for the practising designer, The Design of Lighting brings together in one volume all that the practitioner is likely to need. The authors combine a technical introduction to lighting and colour theory with a guide to design concepts and criteria, to create a comprehensive source book for architects and designers on interior lighting design.


    Sunday, February 5, 2012

    Lighting for Industry and Security: A Handbook for Providers and Users of Lighting

    Lighting for Industry and Security: A Handbook for Providers and Users of Lighting Review



    Provides a wealth of information about lighting for industrial applications and as an aid to security. As well as serving the needs of practising lighting engineers and specifiers of lighting it will also be a valuable reference for newcomers to the
    lighting industry. This is because technical terms and basic lighting concepts are explained in plain language.


    Tuesday, January 31, 2012

    Lighting Handbook: Reference & Application (Illuminating Engineering Society of North America//Lighting Handbook)

    Lighting Handbook: Reference & Application (Illuminating Engineering Society of North America//Lighting Handbook) Review



    This comprehensive volume contains explanations of concepts, techniques, applications, procedures and systems as well as detailed definitions, tasks, charts and diagrams to provide the reader with what they need to know about lighting.


    Sunday, January 29, 2012

    Lighting the Landscape

    Lighting the Landscape Review



    Lighting design, long regarded as a pragmatic and purely technical aspect of construction planning, has increasingly developed into a discipline of its own over the past years. This publication recognises recent developments by combining the technical sphere with an artistic perspective, centred on the question of the role of natural and artificial light in the perception of a variety of (urban) landscapes. The first section of the book describes techniques for creating nocturnal landscapes, analysing these according to typology (coastal, riverside, lakeside, mountain, forest, marsh, or quarry and industrial sceneries) and concept of illumination. We embark on a process of learning to read (illuminated) landscapes. The second section presents detailed documentation of 21 international case-studies arranged according to type and drawn, for example, from Great Britain, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Japan and Singapore.


    Saturday, January 28, 2012

    For Historic Buildings, Lighting (Historic Interiors Series)

    For Historic Buildings, Lighting (Historic Interiors Series) Review



    For Historic Buildings, Lighting (Historic Interiors Series) Feature

    • ISBN13: 9780471143994
    • Condition: New
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    How to Light a historic interior appropriately--or create a realistic period look--can be a perplexing problem. Few people want to return to the days when light came mainly from candles, kerosene, gas or available sunlight. But acceptable ways of re-creating old lighting do exist, and Lighting for Historic Buildings shows how to find them. This invaluable guide provides both a history of lighting in America and a catalog of 481 suitable reproductions available today. Noted historian Roger Moss shows how interiors from the 1620s to the 1930s can be well lighted yet still maintain their character. Reproductions are organized by lighting source (candles, burning fluids, kerosene, gas and electricity) and fixture type (chandeliers, wall brackets and hall lights). Also included are chapters on street lighting and specialty items, a glossary and a reading list.


    Tuesday, January 24, 2012

    The Ventilation, Heating, and Lighting of Dwellings

    The Ventilation, Heating, and Lighting of Dwellings Review



    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.