Emergency lighting is a vital part of a facility’s life safety program. It is important to carefully consider the needs of your facility to achieve the best results. Codes and regulations, such as the NFPA® 101® Life Safety Code®, establish guidelines for emergency lighting equipment. Incorporating the right combination of elements into emergency lighting design helps provide a higher degree of safety. The best emergency lighting system is carefully planned for a specific building and its occupants. This newsletter includes a summary of some of the significant factors involved in this planning process. Scroll below to read more on: Planning and Specifying Emergency Lighting Codes, Standards, and Requirements Comprehensive Catalog of Recommended Products Proximity, shape, and size of exits The configuration of walls adjoining the exit way, the amount of space devoted to exit passages and travel distance to exits should be considered when determining the number and placement of emergency lighting units.   Intended Use of Building Additional emergency lighting may be required depending on the types of people using a facility. Elementary school children and older adults may require more emergency lighting than apartment residents, college students, or office workers. Retail situations where valuable merchandise is accessible may also require extra illumination. Occupancy and building knowledge Places like auditoriums, convention halls and sports arenas will undoubtedly have large groups of people unfamiliar with exit paths and therefore require more emergency lighting than buildings with smaller groups of people. The number of people expected to occupy a building will influence the needs of the space.   Codes, Standards, and Requirements for emergency lighting Emergency lighting is a vital part of a facility’s life safety program. While it is essential to consult federal, state and local codes related to emergency lighting for your project, there are some general guidelines for code requirements. Although state and local building codes vary, most are based upon: The National Electrical Code®, NFPA 70®, Article 700; The Life Safety Code®, NFPA 101®, Sections 7-8 through 7-10; The Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA), which offers some general guidelines. The California Code of Regulations – Emergency Illumination 2571.16 Key Information These codes provide complete information on emergency lighting requirements; however, a good introduction is found in NFPA 101, Section 7.9.2.1-7.9.2.1.3. Below are a brief summary of requirements: Emergency lighting is required throughout the path of egress and must operate for a minimum of 90 minutes. Emergency lighting transfer must be automatic (within 10 seconds) of loss of the normal lighting supply power. Emergency lighting must provide an average of 1 footcandle initial illumination. Changes in direction must be clearly marked. Products must be UL tested & within code compliance. Emergency products must be periodically monitored once installed

From public schools to universities, cost-effective LED lighting can enhance the learning environment, increase a sense of security, and strengthen a school’s brand and reputation, while contributing to comfort, wellbeing, and sustainability.

 

Signify LED lighting creates inviting outdoor areas and indoor spaces that inspire concentration and focus to support your educational objectives for today, tomorrow, and the future.

 

The comprehensive portfolio provided below offers the most comprehensive collections of energy-efficient lighting technology to meet your project needs. All solutions are created to:

• Provide & capture energy savings and reduce costs
• Contribute to cognitive performance and support wellbeing
• Promote a sense of security by ensuring well-lit space both indoor and outdoor
• Create sustainable solutions for the future using lighting controls and IoT systems

Learning Areas

The wellbeing of students and teachers is of utmost importance.

• Excellent lighting quality
• Flexible and simple installation
• Solutions using linear suspended, wall mount, troffers, track, pendant, and retrofit options.

Social Gathering

Create auditoriums, lunch areas and other inviting spaces for socialization.

• Add flexible lighting to areas that often serve multiple functions
• Provide glare-free, high quality color, or color changing to enhance the space
• Solutions using linear suspended, troffers, downlights, high bays, pendants, or theatrical options.

Outdoor Lighting

Provide a sense of security outside of your school building by upgrading to LED lighting.

• Ensure parking lots & recreational areas are well-illuminated
• Illuminate walkways and paths
• Solutions using area lights, canopy lights, strip lights, wallpacks, wall sconces, and floodlights.

Security Lighting

Health and safety are paramount for the learning environment. Code requirements are simple using our extensive portfolio of products.

• Exit and emergency lighting offer guidance in hectic situations
• Consider UV-C lighting to fight against viruses and bacteria
• Solutions include Exit, emergency, controls, UV-C options

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Showroom lighting must check a lot of boxes. The Holcim Innovation Hub is a showroom that showcases Holcim’s sustainable building solutions and serves as a co-creation lab to accelerate low-carbon, circular and energy-efficient building worldwide.

Located in Lyon, France, The Innovation Hub is a place where key stakeholders across the construction value chain gather to advance net-zero building. It offers working spaces to host start-ups and think tanks to accelerate innovation together. Officially opened in 2023, Holcim Innovation Hub profits of a tailor made and precise lighting project.

The featured product in this project wasTraceline by Reggiani; a linear lighting module able to provide excellent lighting results in a profile of just 20mm.

The whole project is in fact built around the use ofTraceline 48V mounted in a rectangular configuration. Thanks to the 48V track mounted inside the Traceline module, Yori Evo 48V projectors are installed and serve therefore as accent lighting for the showroom area.

Additionally, soft uniform wall wash providing lighting ambient to the space was created using theIncline custom 48V Wall Washer assures no glare and spaces design with human comfort in mind. The dedicated lens system ensures the majority of the intensity is evenly distributed across and down the wall with minimal spillback on the ceiling. Incline 48V Wall Washer is installed inside Traceline, completing the lighting project.

 

See more showroom lighting here: https://www.reggiani.net/projects/?cat=Showrooms

Inspired by L-Prize-winning technology, BloomBox combines breakthrough high efficacy LED technology and optics with low glare to bring quality illumination to a variety of applications.

Intentionally designed for efficient material use up-front, BloomBox’s focus on environmentally conscious construction and eliminating waste comes to life in its modular, field-replaceable LED tray design and optics.

Luminaire-level lighting control allows for improved occupant comfort, tailored sequences of operations, and easy updates to scenes or zones.

Highlights include:

• Efficacy: up to 170 lm/W
• Glare: UGR < 19
• Spacing: up to 14’x14′ OC
• CRI: AccuRender CRI 90+ standard
• Low-profile 2.18″ depth
• Field-replaceable LED boards

Now That’s Smart! An Open Platform Energy Management System By Autani   Autani is an open platform building energy system providing one of the most flexible and powerful controls system on the market. By offering an open platform system, users are are not locked into one single vendor making scaling your system easier than ever before.   The system starts with the powerful EnergyCenter Software: Autani’s EnergyCenter brings total control to your Smart Building in one efficient and convenient location, either on-site or remotely accessed online. Facility Managers can push scheduling and protocols across an entire network of facilities and generate analytical reporting that offers insights into how to efficiently manage your business resources.   Next, Autani saves on installation:  Autani systems are wireless, which means that installation is simple and efficient compared to wired solutions. The Autani Commissioning application dramatically reduces commissioning time for large-scale projects.    Finally, Autani provides flexibility, scalability and rebates:  The Autani system is built with upgrades in mind. Our easy upgrade path means that regardless of which tier is installed, you qualify for the most advanced lighting control system rebate available. Learn More Here

From offices, to healthcare, and even residential, the drum fixtures by Chameleon Lighting fit any type of space while giving the project a stylish edge. Available in multiple sizes and an array of finishes and fabrics, it’s the bold design that distinguishes the drums from other fixtures.

Chameleon Lighting manufactures both traditional fabric drums as well as the acrylic infused version. The polyester fabric is available in a variety of textures and colors ranging from natural burlap to metal finish to wood texture and more. (Custom options available).

Additionally, the drums can be hung as suspended pendants or surface-mount and have multiple light source options. Choose from diameters 12″ to 48″.

 

 

With increased energy costs and gains in LED efficacy, solar panel output and battery technology make solar power the right answer for outdoor lighting. Commercial solar lighting systems are ideal for commercial properties, municipalities, parking lots, community residential streets, highways, and multi-use paths.

Fonroche Solar Lighting has some of the brightest LED fixtures in the industry. With options for dark-sky, local ordinances, and IES lighting guidelines, the benefits to considering solar outdoor lighting have never been greater.

If you need assistance creating a customized solution, Forman can help meet your needs, goals, and budget.

Universal Fiber Optic Lighting has recently released an exciting and advanced product that allows spectacular color control using fiber optic lighting. The Nebula RGB Illuminator is an advanced fiberoptic unit with primary integral DMX control of individual LED multi-ports.

But that’s not all! The Nebula also offers secondary manual dimming and a manual demonstration mode.

This is the ultimate illuminator for lighting and controlling active display fiber optic effect lighting with off-the-chart color change!

Fitted with a 60 LED fiber multi-port output with 180 controllable fiber outputs, this makes the Nebula perfect for creating shooting star and other animated lighting displays which require numerous points of light to be effective.

 

LEDScape Handrail is a revolutionary LED based handrail system that provides continuous functional lighting for a safe indoor and outdoor environment. The entire Handrail system is IK10 impact rated and resistant to vandalism – especially good when used in public areas such as train stations or other high volume pedestrian areas.

The LEDScape Handrail can be wall mounted or post mounted. By integrating the FLEX LED strips (24-25 V DC) in the stainless steel LEDScape Handrail, the product is ideal for high- end indoor and outdoor projects in various sectors, such as: architecture, infrastructure, construction, health and entertainment industry.

Highlights on this product:

• ADA Compliant.

• Custom Mounting Solutions Available.

• Color Temperature 2400k-2700k-3000k-3500k-4000k-6500k -RGB

• Indoor & Outdoor Applications

• Clear or Diffused Lens

• Dimmable

• DMX Controls

The LEDScape Handrail has the same light benefits as a LED fixture: energy efficient with an expected lifetime of more than 50.000 hours.

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Forman was proud to accept the 2022 CSI project of the year award for the 6th Street Viaduct!

This fantastic architectural lighting project was just completed this year (after only a short 8 years of design, planning, and implementation ?)!

Thanks to Nick Forman – Peter Rogers – Debbie Koach – Brian Ellsworth – Calvin Akers, LC, IES – and many more!

For more information on this project: https://lnkd.in/gcq9CQrD
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