STUDY ON LIGHTING IN OFFICE BUILDINGS KUCHING AREA
FAIZAL BIN ABD RAHMAN
This project is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Bachelor of Engineering with Honours
(Civil Engineering)
Faculty of Engineering UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA SARAWAK
2004
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This work is gratefully dedicated to my father and mother.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Regards to my project, I am thankful with the help of my supervisor Dr. Azhaili Baharun who
spent his time guiding and giving comments on my thesis progress. Never doubt our effort and
ability, an understanding supervisor and wonderful friend.
To the all individual person who helped me in this project which took a long time and very hard
until the end and to those people who helped me in intangible ways.
To my father and mother who always give a motivation and support to me. Their support gives
me a strong motivation to do the best in my project, although it was very challenging.
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ABSTRACT
This project is a preliminary research on lighting in office buildings Kuching area. The main
aim of the project is to conduct a survey on lighting systems and consumption characteristics.
The research had been carried out on five office buildings where the analysis is done using the
collected data. From the research, it shows that most of the offices building are not over
consumption in lighting system and provide comfortable luminaries in working space.
The major factor, which influenced the highest lighting lux and consumptions are using of
complex lighting system in working space and lighting systems, which is not improved
The day lighting in building and used of different types of lamps also will affected the results.
There should be emphasized on lighting system in today and future offices building, since it's
will effect the quality, occupants health and may reduced electric usage.
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AB STRAK
Projek ini adalah kajian mengenai sistem dan penggunaan lampu pada bangunan pejabat di
sekitar Bandaraya Kuching. Salah satu tujuan kajian ini adalah untuk menyelidik kuantiti
penggunaan lampu dan teknologi yang sedia ada,
Secara keseluruhannya, bangunan-bangunan pejabat di sekitar Kuching, tidak melebihi indeks
dan masih berada di tahap selesa kepada pengguna dan pekerja dalam tempat bekerja.
Salah satu faktor yang mempengaruhi nilai yang tinggi dalam kuantiti penggunaan lampu adalah
kepelbagaianjenis lampu yang digunakan dalam ruang bekerja dan system lampu yang tidak
dipertingkatkan. Pencahayaan semulajadi dan sistem lampu yang berbezajuga mempengaruhi
indeks.
Sistem lampu pada masa ini dan masa akan datang haruslah diberi perhatian yang serius
memandangkan ia mempengaruhi kualiti kerja, kesihatan pekerja dan mampu mengurangkan
kos elektrik.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTENTS
TITLE
DEDICATION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
ABSTRACT
ABSTRAK
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE: Introduction
1.1 Lighting In Offices Building
1.2 Lighting Technologies
1.3 Structure Of Thesis
1.4 Objectives And Aims of This Study
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CHAPTER TWO: Literature Review
2.1 Lighting strategies 11
CHAPTER THREE: Methodology
3.1 Data Collection
3.2 The Important Of Data Collection
3.3 Lighting Lux
3.4 Procedure Of Conducting Survey
CHAPTER FOUR: Result And Discussion
4.0 Introduction
4.1 Case Study
4.2 Summary Of Data
4.3 Analysis
4.4 Discussion
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CHAPTER FIVE: Conclusion And Recommendation
5.0 Introduction
5.1 Conclusions
5.2 Recommendation
5.3 Future Works
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REFERENCES 42
SCHEDULE 43
APPENDIX 1 Survey data For Yayasan Sarawak Building
APPENDIX 2 Survey data For Padawan Council Building
APPENDIX 3 Survey data For Sultan Iskandar Building
APPENDIX 4 Survey data For Menara Pelita Building
APPENDIX 5 Survey data For Majlis Bandaraya Kuching Selatan Building
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LIST OF FIGURE
Figure 4.1 Yayasan Sarawak Building
Figure 4.2 Padawan Council Building
Figure 4.3 Sultan Iskandar Building
Figure 4.4 Menara Pelita Building
Figure 4.5 Majlis Bandaraya Kuching Selatan
Table 4.6 Lighting type
Table 4.7 Buildings ranking lighting consumptions
Figure 4.71 Figure of Fluorescent Lamp Tube With Parabolic Lense
Figure 4.72 Figure of Fluorescent Lamp With Anodized Aluminium Reflector
Figure 4.8 Buildings average lighting lux graph
Figure 4.9 Buildings lighting consumptions graph
Figure 4.10 Graph showing buildings Lux vs Recommended minimum buildings lux
Figure 4.11 Graph showing buildings Lux vs maximum buildings lux
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Chapter 1
Introduction
Wuyner, (1992) said that lights we commonly use to illuminate other things with can
mostly be divided into two main categories: Incandescent lights, which use a filament, and Are
Lights, which use an electrical arc running thru a gas plasma. Arc Lights can be further divided
into the world of high pressure arc lights in which light is produced in a physically small bulb of
high pressure gasses and low pressure arc lights. Examples of incandescent lights include the 60
and 100 watt light bulbs most of us use in our homes, most car headlamps and all current bicycle
headlamps. Incandescent lights come in a number of variants, which go under the names of
"krypton", "xenon", "halogen", and "quartz-halogen".
Examples of high pressure are lamps include mercury vapor lamps, and metal halide arc
lamps. All of these are found in street lamps, and industrial and stadium lightings. Examples of
low pressure arc lamps include fluorescent lights, the sort we often use in homes, offices, and
neon sign lamps.
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1.1 Lighting In Office Buildings
The occupants can be influenced to work more effectively when they are in environment
that promote "work like" atmosphere. Lighting system should be design properly because
worker productivity often increases because of the improvements in visibility and
environment brought about by new well-designed energy-efficient lighting systems.
Lighting systems must be familiar with fundamental concepts about lighting including:
" Quantity
" Quality
" Lamp technologies
" Ballast technologies
" Luminaries
" Controls
" Maintenance
Lighting systems are typically the second largest energy consumer in the offices building and
should be considered for inclusion. It was also the most significant of total energy usage in
offices. Lighting systems which are provided in building are subject to the code of "Energy
Building Management" standard.
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1.2 Lighting Technologies
Deep Perimeter Daylighting Systems
Fong, (1998) mentioned that conventional windows provide daylight in the outer 10 to 12
feet of a perimeter space. New daylighting technologies extend the daylit area by redirecting
sunlight further from the glazing aperture, may reducing electric lighting and cooling energy
within a larger floor area. The design is to collect sunlight from a source that varies in both
intensity and position and to distribute the luminous flux comfortably with minimal glare and
thermal impacts .
The system use a customized geometry developed for solar path have been developing
consists of a window wall divided into an upper daylighting and a lower view aperture. The
lower view aperture incorporates spectrally selective glazing with a shading device to control
glare, direct sun, heat gains, and view for those occupants adjacent to the window. The upper
daylighting aperture incorporates a prototype light shelf or light-pipe technology to transport
direct sunlight to depths of (30 ft) from the window wall; supplemental daylight is contributed
from the lower view window for the first (15 ft) from the window (Figure 2).
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Summer Equinox
Wintor
Spectrally Selective
Glass 0.6'
(a)
Secondary Reflector: Specular Reflective Film
Main reflector: Compound Reflective Film
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Figure 2.
South-facing light shelf:
(a) Section along centerline of room
(b) Detail of light shelf reflectors
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The QL lamp technologies
New exterior lighting technology is considering using Philips QL lamp based on excellent
induction technology, which lasts five to ten times longer than other current fluorescent or HID
(high intensity discharge) light sources. It has no filament or electrode to burn out, enabling a
lifetime of up to 100,000 hours and no warm-up time.
1.3 Structure Of thesis:
First chapter is the introduction part, which consist of objectives of this research and also
mentions about lighting technologies which available for lighting efficient.
Chapter two describes literature review, which covers study on standard design for lighting
system and efficient luminaries.
Chapter three consists the methodology of this research project, which explains how the data
collection is being done. The process of lighting consumption survey in building and the
importance for each data is collected.
For the following submission of final year project two, it is presented chapter.
Chapter four describes on results & discussion part.
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1.4 Objectives and Aims of This Study
This lighting study aims mainly research on lighting used in office buildings Kuching area.
It in objective of main study to analyze lighting use factor and to suggest optimum lighting
usage. The scope is applied to the offices building, which will be selected in Kuching area and
collected the data. Below are the main objectives of this research.
1. To finding the illuminance acceptable condition in offices building by literature review.
2. To finding availability of different lighting system by literature review.
3. To measure the lighting intensity in selected office building, check whether their
intensity is below or upper than suggested by building regulation.
4. To Identify the percentage of overall energy usage on lighting.
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Chapter 2
Literature Review
This chapter wills elaborate on research work that has been carried out and is closely to the
study conducted.
For the lighting system, Wayner, (1992) said that types of task being performed should be
noticed, since light replacement with more efficient lamps often involves chancing the colour of
resultant high.
Ex: high pressure sodium lamps are much more efficient than mercury vapor lamps or even
metal halide lamp, but the produce a yellowish light that make fine colour distinction difficult
In Malaysia, minimum lighting level standard for task area in office buildings should be
followed to insure worker productivity and safety. Lighting design should be relate to other
building systems because lighting has thermal which the change may affect the performance of
cooling system. Inadequate levels can decrease productivity, and they can also lead to a
perception of floor indoor air quality.
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William, (1994) mentioned that Lighting energy use represents only 5-25 % of total energy
cost for a standard office buildings, but it is usually cost effective to address because lighting
improvement are often easier to make than many process upgrades.
For an area of task, which is a working space, older workers may require greater light level
than young worker where modular task lighting would allow worker to increase their light level
on specific task.
0' Connor, (1997) suggested average illuminance levels, lighting for general offices is
300-400 lux and maximum allowable light power for illumination system for office is 20 w/m2
and Lighting made up 28 % of the total energy cost and a starling 54% per cent of the electricity
cost.
Illuminating Engineering Society IES recommends that the place where working space are
visual task and only occasionally performed, the range of illuminances is 100-150-200 lux
where it's reference work plane is general lighting throughout spaces.
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"Adding lense or reflector to a lighting fixture change the light distribution pattern
(i. e, photometrics). Replacing the lens or diffuser can be helpful in situations where the system
was poorly designed or the use of the space has changed. For example, many offices area which
were lighted appropriately for traditional paperwork now have glare on video terminals because
people are using computer instead of typewriters or pens. " (William, 1994).
Tanya, (1996) mentioned that it was estimated that the average lamp was on for about 2500
hours per year. It could probably be reduced to 1800 hours (or by over 25%) simply by avoiding
waste which need cooperation from the occupants, for example by making minor changes to
operating programmers, cleaning schedules and light levels in corridors. Much greater savings
could often be made by replacing or upgrading luminaries and control systems with new
technologies, but realistically these could be contemplated only in new installations or major
refurbishments.
For maintance the lighting and reduce the waste of energy, the switches should be placed
strategically so that the last person to leave the space or task area can switch off all remaining
lighting and corridors, toilets and occasionally used rooms with user-controlled on-switching,
but with manual or automatically sensed 'OFF' control to allow for forgetfulness. Fully
automatic occupancy sensing works best in circumstances where people do not have their hands
free to use switches, e. g. when carrying boxes into storerooms, restacking library shelves etc.
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The basic functional goal of incorporating window and lighting systems in commercial
buildings is to give occupants an adequate level of daylight or electric lighting to perform visual
tasks productively since some of the occupants like a view outside. Windows admit radiant heat
as well as light, and more expensive to remove the heat than to supply the light.
In a study of office workers in the Pacific Northwest region, slightly more than 40% of the
occupants said the sunlight in their offices was too bright at least some of the time, and 60% of
the occupants said the window was a primary source of glare and interfered with their work.
Lee, (1995) said that yet more than 50% of the occupants in several Tokyo high- rise office
buildings preferred to have seats nearer the window, citing the brightness, outside view, wide
visual range, and open feeling as advantages.
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2.1 Lighting Strategies
Givoni, (1991), suggested that offices are typified by diverse clerical tasks performed on
the whole at desks though not exclusively. The groupings of specific tasks are susceptible to
change during the lifetime of the electric lighting installation. There are three strategies for
lighting this environment.
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The first strategy is uniform lighting. For any office larger than a single cellular office this
entails a uniform (equally spaced) grid of luminaries, which pays no attention to the planning
layout of tasks. The luminaries are generally suspended from, mounted on or recessed within
the ceiling and for reasons of economy and energy efficiency these are normally linear
fluorescent luminaries. (Refer to Figure 2.1 a)
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The second strategy for office lighting is localized lighting. This form of lighting must
relate to the pattern of work groups as it aims to provide sufficient task illumination over
workstation areas in preference to areas of less critical visual tasks. An inevitable result of this
type of lighting is a greater diversity in the illuminance pattern in the interior.
(Refer to figure 2.1 c)
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Because a high level of task illuminance is not provided over the whole interior on plan,
localized installations can facilitate energy savings. One technique of providing localized
lighting is by the use of up lighters. If these are free standing or screen mounted they can
provide a degree of flexibility to accommodate change within the office.
(Refer to figure 2.1 d)
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Figure 2.1 e
The third strategy is local lighting. This form of lighting is similar to localized lighting, in
that it relates to tasks in the office, but it aims to light to a sufficiently high level only the area of
critical task and not the whole workstation. Usually this means the desktop. The rest of the
office is lit by a system of background lighting or ambient lighting, which aims to provide a
sufficient and generally. (Refer to figure 2.1 e)
Uniform level of lighting for non-critical visual tasks and ambience. The background
lighting can be provided by a ceiling mounted system of uniform lighting or by up lighters.
Figure 2.1 f
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This strategy like localized lighting provides potential for energy savings because of its non-
uniformity but suggests greater diversity in the illuminance pattern in the interior.
Figure 2.1 g
The resulting illuminance pattern combines the illuminance pattern of the background lighting
with the illuminance pattern of the task lighting and will change with desk layout. Both
uplighting and task lighting present a wiring management problem.
(Refer to figure 2.1 f and 2.1 g)
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