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Melanopic Light Intensity for Work Areas - b

Requirement: 
b
Description: 

For all workstations, electric lights (which may include task lighting) provide maintained illuminance on the vertical plane of equivalent melanopic lux, greater than or equal to the lux recommendations in the Vertical (Ev) Targets for the 25-65 category in Table B1 of IES-ANSI RP-1-12. For example, Reception Desks are provided with 150 equivalent melanopic lux from the electric lights.

Support Threshold: 

ANSI/IES American National Standard Practice for Office Lighting (RP-1-12) provides recommended maintained illuminance targets for various types of spaces by age group. For reception desks, RP-1-12 recommends a maintained target of 150 lux for ages 25-65.

Part: 
Melanopic Light Intensity for Work Areas
RecDocTitile: 
American National Standard Practice for Office Lighting