Essential Lighting: The Language, Metrics & Process of Lighting Design

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This 3-hour interactive online course provides a basic understanding of lighting, its properties, and the terminology used to define various aspects of lighting. From the ability to accurately describe characteristics of color and intensity of a light source, to understanding how we respond to light, you will come away with insights on how lighting can literally change your world - in ways that can be good or bad.

The author provides numerous examples that allow the reader to relate the technical issues to the everyday experience. Everyone knows lighting from their experience of it. Understanding its metrics, how it can be manipulated to help us perform better, use energy more effectively, and improve our moods can be valuable not only to designers, but to anyone interested in their environment.

The course also delves into how lighting design decisions are made, and the positive potential effects of good lighting design practice. Some examples of common, everyday lighting problems and solutions are discussed at the end of the course to bring the value of thoughtful lighting design into perspective.

Understanding terminology and concepts discussed in this course will be important before advancing to additional lighting design topics.

There will be a test included at the end of each section of this course.
Vector Solutions has a long history of providing industry-specific content for its customers. While this course and its content remain accurate and functional within our systems, the look and feel may not match our more modern offerings.

Objectives Course Applies to

Course Objectives

This course is intended as an overview of lighting issues that are important to designers and engineers, as well as contractors. I have tried to emphasize the importance of these design issues to those who are ultimately affected by them, the end user. I also hope that the text will provide the student with a primer to look at lighting with renewed curiosity and understanding.

At the conclusion of this course, you will have a good understanding of the following lighting topics:

The significance of both the quality and quantity of light in lighting design
Ways in which the human eye responds to light that are significant to the design
Why high contrast in lighting and glare should be avoided in many lighting situations
The definition and significance of cut-off luminaires in outdoor lighted environments
The importance of the reflective properties of lighted surfaces
The questions we need to answer before suggesting lighting solutions
The numerical properties (metrics) of light that must be considered in lighting design
How color of light is described in technical terms
Standards for lighting energy use
Basic formula and factors in lighting calculations
How to read luminaire photometric data
Applying IESNA illuminance categories
Lighting design process and the importance of coordination between the designers and the trades
Information needed to specify lighting