Interior Lighting Fundamentals, Technology and Application
This book outlines the underlying principles on which interior lighting should be based, provides detailed information on the lighting hardware available today and gives guidance for the design of interior lighting installations resulting in good visual p
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Interior Lighting
Fundamentals, Technology and Application
Interior Lighting
Wout van Bommel
Interior Lighting Fundamentals, Technology and Application
Wout van Bommel Van Bommel Lighting Consultant Nuenen, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
ISBN 978-3-030-17194-0 ISBN 978-3-030-17195-7 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17195-7
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Dedicated to my former lighting teachers, Prof. Nito de Boer ({), Prof. Jochen SchmidtClausen and Prof. Dietert Fischer ({), who gave me lots of trust, motivation and opportunities and to Hari Mamak ({) and Prof. Tai-Ming Zhou who were instrumental in creating challenging teaching opportunities for me in Asia.
Preface
This book outlines the underlying principles on which interior lighting should be based for arriving at good visual performance, comfort, alertness and health for the users of the lit space. It is the first interior lighting book in which the visual and non-visual biological effects of lighting are dealt with on an equal footing. Around the same time that solid-state lighting (LED lighting) was introduced, some 20 years ago, we began to learn that lighting has apart from visual effects also far-reaching non-visual biological effects. These effects influence the way our body “operates” and, therefore, influence our health, well-being and alertness. Interior lighting installations today have to be designed so that they can provide both suitable visual and non-visual biological effects. Lighting that indeed does this is referred to as human-centric lighting. This book gives all the fundamental and practical information needed to design human-centric lighting insta
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