According to facility manager
From April 2025 edition
THere is more about lighting than making a room visible – it is a critical component in creating a workplace environment. In search of optimal lighting systems, more institutions use networked lighting controls as a solution for real-time energy and occupancy monitoring and the promotion of healthier buildings as a whole. These solutions enable the systems to create automated lighting plans and enable different sunscreen conditions so that the construction companies feel more comfortable in a room.
In addition, the facilities check lighting solutions to support energy management. LED lighting can be used to create an inviting atmosphere and to define the sound for the atmosphere of a room. And more rooms are designed in today's environment to adapt to different lighting needs. In some cases, more facilities implement a uniform tax lighting surface to connect both indoor and outdoor lighting.
To learn more about the latest trends from lighting design and to work as lighting designers, Facility manager spoke to Jennifer Brons with the Light and Health Research Center at the Icahn School of Medicine on Mount Sinai. Brons will later teach a course on lighting design in 2025 to facilitate experts in lighting in state -of -the -art knowledge and to promote their career.
Facility Executive: When did you get into the lighting design for the first time? Tell us what it is like to be a light designer.
Jennifer Brons: After I was attended to the architecture school, I was interested in lighting design. I temporarily accepted a job in electrical contracts and worked in an office in the San Francisco Bay Area. This role included working with high-end houses; When people have huge houses, they have lighting designers who work with the architectural team. Your task is to improve the goals of the project and support everything that the architect tries to achieve, how to feel when you go in a room. Which impressions should visitors build? We have to consider how the light of different surfaces in the area can draw eyes to a certain place or leave a certain impression. The background of the lighting design is that it came from the theater – we try to create emotions and tell a story. We are not the project managers, but we manage the light ax.
It is the architect or head of the team who gives an impression and maintain it, made practical and energy -efficient. There are requirements that we have to take into account if we decide which type of lighting we enable. We give our recommendations to the team. Then we work with electrical engineers to develop panel plans, e.g. B. if load compensation is required and to discuss lighting controls.
A lighting designer does many different tasks that range from the factoring in aesthetics to considering technical tasks. You are a lawyer for a customer, the owner and the Facility Manager. Lighting designers are working to ensure that designs are flexible enough to meet the requirements of the occupants and easily wait.
FE: How has lighting developed as a lighting designer for over 20 years?
Bronze: The technology has improved so much and gave us a lot more flexibility. The visual standards have not really changed what light needs to promote seeing in our interiors, but the technology we use has changed from fluorescents now.
There is so much flexibility in how LEDs can be arranged and hidden in architecture. Maintenance and facility teams no longer change as much light bulbs due to new lighting bodies, so that we can hide light sources to places to become more difficult.
Overall, the technology change to LEDs from light design view has made it possible for new products and product lines and innovation cycles that are much faster. Facility teams can also send LEDs from all over the world and develop new products more easily than before.
With new innovations, facility management teams can have a more difficult time over time to replace certain parts or to keep up with a coherent appearance over the years. Some lighting manufacturers update product lines or change the owners.
To combat this, more companies choose to buy additional inventory (“loft shares”) in order to be at hand. If a device fails prematurely, the Facility Manager can replace it immediately and apply for a guarantee replacement with less urgency.
FE: What are not only the replacement for lighting substances available, but also some other strategies for challenges that the facilities could face in the event of lighting?
Bronze: Since states take stricter energy codes, companies bring in more lighting controls to limit energy consumption and electricity requirements. We will see more a need to combine systems in our buildings.
The management of electrical needs is another trend today. At the regional level, the supply companies run through either periods of a daily demand for demand or emergencies (e.g. weather extremes) that cause extremely high electrical needs.
Care companies begin to reward the use of demand management systems. Lighting controls can now decorate your lights by 20% or a kick or a HLK system by a few degrees in times of peak requirement.
You need an entire control system that can take a signal from your utility and then speak to all these other components in your building. The building thinks that as an ecosystem. The lighting can be connected to these integrated systems and connected to the entire community. Therefore, demand management is becoming increasingly important.
Further information on long -term learning courses in autumn can be found on the Outreach Education page of the light and health research center.
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