Lighting Design Toolbox: The Lighting Controls Narrative

As demand for lighting controls continues to grow, advanced solutions are becoming increasingly specified while also becoming increasingly sophisticated.

As a result, it is important that designers clearly express the design intent, or the basis of design, for lighting control systems so as to provide a common roadmap for their functionality. While there is no standard for communicating design intent, designers have a number of tools they can use. Of these, the written control narrative could be considered most important because it informs everything else.

This special report by the Lighting Controls Association describes the written lighting controls narrative, with examples.

Click here to read this special report by Craig DiLouie, LC.

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The leading source of lighting controls education for more than 10 years, the Lighting Controls Association is a non-profit organization administered by the National Electrical Manufacturers Association with the mission of educating the professional lighting community about lighting control and controllable ballast technology and application. Members include Cooper Controls, DELTA Controls, Encelium Technologies, GE Lighting, Hubbell Building Automation, HUNT Dimming, Leviton, Lightolier, Lightronics, Lutron Electronics, OSRAM SYLVANIA, Philips Lighting Electronics, PLC-Multipoint, Schneider Electric, Sensor Switch, Synergy Lighting Controls, Tridonic, Universal Lighting Technologies and WattStopper.

Good lighting design includes a good controls design.