Emaegency Light Spacing Requirements
Emaegency Light Spacing Requirements
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Is there a standard for the spacing or amount of lights required per square footage. Or is it "adequately lighted egress".
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Is there a standard for the spacing or amount of lights required per square footage. Or is it "adequately lighted egress".
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RE: Emaegency Light Spacing Requirements
What type of emergecy lights are you talking aboout? Self-contained emergency lights with battery and charger?
or selective normal lights wired to a generator?or other?
There are some rules of thumb for estimating, for example, self-contained lights/1-50W lamps, if you can figure a light every 50 feet in linear corridor (not more than 25 feet from a point).
RE: Emaegency Light Spacing Requirements
On the blue prints, they seem to be randomly placed, different locations, different heights, etc.
RE: Emaegency Light Spacing Requirements
At any rate, you may also want to post this on an electrical or lighting enginnering forum where more of the "sparkies" visit. They might be able to provide some "rules of thumb" for you. Good luck.
RE: Emaegency Light Spacing Requirements
I used to do that for a living, and if my memory serves, the standards are located in the Life Safety Code (NFPA 101). You need to check with the AHJ in your area, but in the old days it was paths-of-egress plus places of assembly (and a couple other specific locations) that had to be lit to one footcandle. It might have changed (I'm old).
Good luck with it, and let us know what you find out!
Old Dave
RE: Emaegency Light Spacing Requirements
You also want to have emergency lights in electrical and mechanical utitliy rooms.
In short, it is best left to experts in the area, such as good electrical engineering consultants (not necessarily lighting consultants who dwell mostly on esthetics or architectural lighting)
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Jim
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RE: Emaegency Light Spacing Requirements
The aisles are about 600' long with cross aisles in the middle for exiting.
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