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Emergency Lighting Design Calculations using Dialux evo

What you will 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

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


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— 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 AutoCAD

This 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.

English
language

Content

Introduction

Introduction
Instructor and Expectations
Project Inspiration

Theory

What is Emergency Lighting?
Why is there a need for Emergency Lighting Design?
Types of Emergency Lighting
Design Objectives
Schematic Planning

Legislation and standards

Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations: 199
The Health and Safety (Safety Signs and Signals) Regulations 1996:SI 34
Regulations covering other areas
Lighting Standards (LG-12)

Lighting Design Requirements

Illumination
Maintenance Factor
Safety signs
Luminaire Positions
Escape Lighting
Escape Route
Escape Area
Fixed Seated Area
High Risk Area
Standby lighting

Emergency Lighting Design Guide

Locate Luminaires
Check the maximum viewing distance
Identify additional Areas
Ensure the minimun luminance levels
Check areas that are greater than 60 sqm
How to do the emergency lighting design?

Luminaire Used in Emergency Lighting

System
Power Sources
Maintained vs. Non-maintained
Emergency Luminaires
Understanding Datasheets
Getting Photometric Files
Specifications

Hands-on Tutorial

Dialux evo Basics
Prepare the rooms
Emergency for Corridor
Emergency for Office
Emergency for Staircase
Select the Luminaire
Run the calculations
Emergency Lighting Design Report
Emergency Lighting Layout (CAD)
Do we need to put Emergency Lighting for less than 60 sqm room?
How to do Emergency Lighting in Dialux 4.13
How to Extract the EMERGENCY Lighting Calculation Report
Emergency Lighting Design Guide Summary

Closing Message and Quiz

Closing Message and Freebies
References
Short Quiz