Interior Lighting : Fundamentals, Technology and Application

This book outlines the underlying principles on which interior lighting should be based, provides detailed information on the lighting hardware available today and gives guidance for the design of interior lighting installations resulting in good visual performance and comfort, alertness and health. The book is divided into three parts. Part One discusses the fundamentals of the visual and non-visual mechanisms and the practical consequences for visual performance and comfort, for sleep, daytime alertness and performance, and includes chapters on age effects, therapeutic effects and hazardous effects of lighting. Part Two deals with the lighting hardware: lamps (with emphasis on LEDs), gear, drivers and luminaires including chapters about lighting controls and LEDs beyond lighting. Part Three is the application part, providing the link between theory and practice and supplying the reader with the knowledge needed for lighting design. It describes the relevant lighting criteria for good and efficient interior lighting and discusses the International, European and North American standards and recommendations for interior lighting. A particular focus is on solid state light sources (LEDs) and the possibility to design innovative, truly-sustainable lighting installations that are adaptable to changing circumstances. The design of such installations is difficult and the book offers details of the typical characteristics of the many different solid state light sources, and of the aspects determining the final quality of interior lighting. Essential reading for interior lighting designers, lighting engineers and architects, the book will also be a useful reference for researchers and students. Reviews of Road Lighting by the same author: "If you are going to design streetlighting, you must read this book....a solid, comprehensive textbook written by an acknowledged expert in the field – if you have a query about any aspect of streetlighting design, you will find the answer here." – LUX, August 2015 "...a realy comprehensive book dealing with every aspect of the subject well...essential text for reference on this subject" – Lighting Journal, March 2015 Front Matter ....Pages i-xx Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Visual Mechanism (Wout van Bommel)....Pages 3-23 Colour (Wout van Bommel)....Pages 25-55 Visual Performance (Wout van Bommel)....Pages 57-87 Visual Satisfaction (Wout van Bommel)....Pages 89-136 Non-visual Biological Mechanism (Wout van Bommel)....Pages 137-168 Light, Sleep, Alertness and Performance (Wout van Bommel)....Pages 169-186 Shift Work, Light, Sleep and Performance (Wout van Bommel)....Pages 187-206 Age Effects (Wout van Bommel)....Pages 207-220 Therapeutic Effects (Wout van Bommel)....Pages 221-232 Hazardous Effects (Wout van Bommel)....Pages 233-260 Front Matter ....Pages 261-261 Lamps, Gear and Drivers (Wout van Bommel)....Pages 263-314 Daylight (Wout van Bommel)....Pages 315-327 Luminaires (Wout van Bommel)....Pages 329-350 Connected Smart Lighting (Wout van Bommel)....Pages 351-370 Light Beyond Illumination (Wout van Bommel)....Pages 371-385 Front Matter ....Pages 387-387 Lighting Quality and Standards (Wout van Bommel)....Pages 389-406 Design Aspects (Wout van Bommel)....Pages 407-429 Calculations and Measurements (Wout van Bommel)....Pages 431-446 Back Matter ....Pages 447-483