Lumens Versus Lighting Codes: A Lighting Industry Shakeup
The lighting industry is seeing change on a tremendous scale. Energy conservation goals have manifested in new lighting code standards across the country – from California’s Building Energy Efficiency Standards for residential spaces to New York’s Energy Conservation Construction Code and its impact on commercial buildings. While the sustainability end goals of these initiatives is positive and super important, lighting manufacturers are stumbling through these often-complex standards, understandably so, to try to make high quality products that comply. We spoke to Ann Schiffers, senior VP of USAI Lighting, about the challenges lighting designers and manufacturers face in creating new products that provide interior designers with the finest quality lighting that also complies with new stringent lighting code requirements. ANSI/ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1 is known as the benchmark for commercial building energy codes in the U.S. “This standard provides the minimum requirements for energy-efficient design of most buildings, except low-rise residential buildings,” …
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