AS/NZS 1680: Interior & Workplace Lighting is the main standard, and this is outlined in more detail below. Other relevant standards include AS/NZS 4219: Seismic performance of engineering systems in buildings and AS/NZS 4243: Energy Efficiency-Large Buildings-Part 2: Lighting (read more about recent changes to this standard here).
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AS/NZS 1680: INTERIOR & WORKPLACE LIGHTING
Part 0 – Safe movement
Part 1 – General principals and recommendations
Part 2 – Specific applications
2.1 Circulation spaces and other general areas
2.2 Offices and screen-based tasks
2.3 Educational and training facilities
2.4 Industrial tasks and processes
2.5 Hospital and medical tasks
Part 3 – Measurement, calculation and presentation of photometric data
Part 4 – Maintenance of electric lighting systems
RECOMMENDED ILLUMINANCE LEVELS
The list below presents an extract from a few of these sub-sections with recommended illuminance levels for some common interior/office tasks and spaces, in lux:
|
TASK |
LUX |
|
General office tasks involving typing, reading, writing; Computer equipment rooms; Meeting, training and seminar rooms etc |
320 |
|
Photocopying and printing rooms; Filing areas etc |
240 |
|
Entrances; Entrance halls, lobbies, foyers, waiting rooms |
160 |
|
Corridors, passageways, ramps |
40 |
|
Staff canteens, cafeteria, dining rooms; General |
160 |
|
Kitchens; Food Preparation, cooking, washing up |
240 |
|
Toilets |
80 |
|
Storerooms, Medium or fine material requiring care (active storage) |
160 |