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Lighting, views, and acoustics

Lighting, views, and acoustics

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Lighting, views, and acoustics

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- [Narrator] Another occupant-related LEED credit addressed indoor lighting quality and controls. This credit rewards design strategies that dramatically improve lighting quality and individual lighting controls that enable occupants to adjust the lighting to meet their individual tasks and preferences with at least three lighting levels or scenes, on, off, mid level. Let's take a few minutes to review lighting-related terminology and standard that may be covered in the exam. Illuminance is the luminous flux on a surface, per unit of area. In simple words, it is the quantity of light falling on a unit surface. Higher illuminance levels make surfaces appear brighter to the human eye and improve visibility. Luminance is the brightness of an object or surface, as perceived by human eyesight from a specific direction. Luminaire is a complete and functional lighting fixture. IESNA, Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, is a technical authority on the subject of lighting. The…

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