The Effect of office design on workstation lighting a simulation study.pdf

The Effect of office design on workstation lighting: a simulation study Newsham, G.R.; Sander, D.M. NRCC-45357 A version of this document is published in / Une version de ce document se trouve dans : Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society, Summer 2003, pp. 52-73 www.nrc.ca/irc/ircpubs Lighting Paper #12 IESNA Annual Conference 2002, Salt Lake City 1 The Effect of Office Design on Workstation Lighting: A Simulation Study Lighting Paper submitted to the IESNA Annual Conference Salt Lake City, 2002 Newsham, G.R.; Sander, D.M. Institute for Research in Construction National Research Council Canada Ottawa, ON, K1A 0R6 guy.newsham@nrc.ca ABSTRACT It has long been recognised that the lit environment in open-plan office space is influenced by the density and properties of the installed furniture. Indeed, the Lumen Method includes a procedure involving look-up tables to account for the effects of workstation size, partition height, and partition reflectance on the mean working-plane illuminance. As part of a larger project on open- TM plan office environments, we used the Lightscape simulation tool to further explore the effect of office design on the lit environment in workstations. The office design variables of interest were workstation size, partition height, workstation reflectance, ceiling reflectance, and ceiling height. In addition to de