• IES RP-31-14
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IES RP-31-14

  • Recommended Practice for the Economic Analysis of Lighting
  • standard by Illuminating Engineering Society, 2014
  • Publisher: IES

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Good lighting should be responsive to the needs of the user. Among those needs are the aesthetic and the visual, as admitted in the oft-quoted "lighting is both a science and an art." But the user also has economic needs. In fact, it is the economic needs that often drive the decision making process when lighting systems are designed and purchased.

This recommended practice is written from the point of view that "economic analysis" is not the same as "how to beat the budget." Rather than considering economic analysis as the antithesis of engineering or artistic analysis, is should be thought of as subsuming these other needs. When a competent lighting professional takes care of economic needs, in conjunction with the artistic, engineering, and other needs, it increases the likelihood a project will have success and longevity. Financial considerations ad demonstrated through an accurate lighting financial analysis are important, but other elements such as aesthetics, human visual performance resulting from a lighting system appropriate to a given task, and other considerations involved in lighting for the human and natural environment are of equal importance.

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