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BENYA LIGHTING DESIGN Architectural Lighting and Daylighting Designers and Consultants With Internationally recognized expertise in Energy Efficiency, LEEDTM Design, and Sustainability Members of the International Lighting Alliance West Linn, Oregon USA
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DEVELOPMENT OF LIGHTING STANDARDS, CODES, AND ORDINANCES We serve in the development of standards, codes and ordinances for the lighting industry and broader use in national standards and for city, state and national governments. Our unparalleled experience and expertise ensure rapid development, competent consultation, expert public review and follow up support and education. Experience includes CALIFORNIA TITLE 24 Building Energy Efficiency Standards
ASHRAE/IESNA/ANSI Standard 90.1
NECA/IESNA/ANSI National Electrical Installation Standards International Dark Sky Association Model Lighting Ordinance (MLO)
ENERGY CODE DEVELOPMENT INFORMATION AND DOWNLOADS We continue to support the development of energy codes as a principal means of sustainable design and reduction in greenhouse gases. Recently, a number of proposed changes in IECC and ASHRAE/IESNA Energy Codes have been proposed, and we have filed comments recommending the suspension of proposed lighting energy code changes and in some cases the reversal of changes made in the past few years as being unrealistically aggressive. Bad codes result in their being ignored whenever possible and serve only to penalize responsible design professionals. At the request of IECC, we have made the following documents available with respect to the 2005 code development cycle (click to download PDF file):
The purpose of these documents was to demonstrate how the various energy codes vary with respect to retail lighting. We believe that Title 24 2005 is the best of the current codes - of course, since we helped develop it. But seriously, we did a lot of work testing the code against real stores between 2001 and 2004 and remain convinced that Title 24 does a better and more equitable job of allocating retail lighting power. Moreover, we think that both 2003 IECC and 2001 and 2004 90.1 contain a fundamental misunderstanding of the additional display lighting allowance developed by the original 90.1-1999 team that makes the later codes unnecessarily more complex and in fact probably fail to control lighting energy use any better than 90.1-1999. |
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