Emergency Lighting Design Techniques

Emergency Lighting Design Calculations using Dialux evo

What you'll learn

Emergency Lighting Design

Lighting Design Techniques

How to select the right luminaire for emergency lighting

How to use Dialux and Dialux evo in Emergency Lighting Calculations

Requirements

Be able to use Dialux and Dialux evo software

Must understand the basics of lighting design

Must read floor plan from drawings

Description

This course is for lighting designers and other professionals who want to learn the basics of Emergency Lighting Design.This course will teach you how to run the EMERGENCY lighting design calculations using Dialux evo software.In this course, you will learn the theory behind the need for emergency lighting and its lighting standard requirements from CIBSE and other local legislations.Below are the contents of this course:— Legislation and Standards— Forms of Emergency Lighting— Design Approaches— Emergency Lighting Equipment— Scheme Planning— Emergency lighting for escape routes— Safety signs and points of emphasis— Positioning of calculation surfaces into staircases— Emergency lighting for anti-panic areas— Results and documentation of emergency lighting— Showing actual projects— What are the considerations in designing emergency lighting?— Hands-on tutorial using Dialux evo and AutoCADThis is an online course for emergency lighting calculation according to EN 1838 with more than 2 hours of video training. There are training materials inside the course which you can freely download.  These are the AutoCAD file and Dialux evo files.  Just look for the additional resources tab to download it. This course has lifetime access, therefore, you can come back and watch the videos as you please, by selecting the topics which are important to you.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Instructor and Expectations

Lecture 3 Project Inspiration

Section 2: Theory

Lecture 4 What is Emergency Lighting?

Lecture 5 Why is there a need for Emergency Lighting Design?

Lecture 6 Types of Emergency Lighting

Lecture 7 Design Objectives

Lecture 8 Schematic Planning

Section 3: Legislation and standards

Lecture 9 Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations: 199

Lecture 10 The Health and Safety (Safety Signs and Signals) Regulations 1996:SI 34

Lecture 11 Regulations covering other areas

Lecture 12 Lighting Standards (LG-12)

Section 4: Lighting Design Requirements

Lecture 13 Illumination

Lecture 14 Maintenance Factor

Lecture 15 Safety signs

Lecture 16 Luminaire Positions

Lecture 17 Escape Lighting

Lecture 18 Escape Route

Lecture 19 Escape Area

Lecture 20 Fixed Seated Area

Lecture 21 High Risk Area

Lecture 22 Standby lighting

Section 5: Emergency Lighting Design Guide

Lecture 23 Locate Luminaires

Lecture 24 Check the maximum viewing distance

Lecture 25 Identify additional Areas

Lecture 26 Ensure the minimun luminance levels

Lecture 27 Check areas that are greater than 60 sqm

Lecture 28 How to do the emergency lighting design?

Section 6: Luminaire Used in Emergency Lighting

Lecture 29 System

Lecture 30 Power Sources

Lecture 31 Maintained vs. Non-maintained

Lecture 32 Emergency Luminaires

Lecture 33 Understanding Datasheets

Lecture 34 Getting Photometric Files

Lecture 35 Specifications

Section 7: Hands-on Tutorial

Lecture 36 Dialux evo Basics

Lecture 37 Prepare the rooms

Lecture 38 Emergency for Corridor

Lecture 39 Emergency for Office

Lecture 40 Emergency for Staircase

Lecture 41 Select the Luminaire

Lecture 42 Run the calculations

Lecture 43 Emergency Lighting Design Report

Lecture 44 Emergency Lighting Layout (CAD)

Lecture 45 Do we need to put Emergency Lighting for less than 60 sqm room?

Lecture 46 How to do Emergency Lighting in Dialux 4.13

Lecture 47 How to Extract the EMERGENCY Lighting Calculation Report

Lecture 48 Emergency Lighting Design Guide Summary

Section 8: Closing Message and Quiz

Lecture 49 Closing Message and Freebies

Lecture 50 References

Lighting Designers,MEP Consultants,Electrical Engineers,Government Officials,Building Maintenance,Architects