Sustainable Facilities Tool U.S. General Services Administration

Incorporating task lights into the overall lighting strategy allows occupants to customize their ambient light conditions on a personalized basis. T...

The lighting systems must be commissioned (and recommissioned), and integrative design processes should be employed. Energy efficiency necessitat...

Are lighting controls being integrated?

Have the energy-efficient lighting systems and controls been commissioned?

Integrate task lighting and thermal controls to leverage human behavior to promote IEQ.

Is there sub-metering installed for the following systems: light and lighting controls by floor or by zones, plug loads by floor or by zone, major e...

Use lighting controls that dynamically adjust lighting levels according to ambient levels while allowing manual override if desired.

Provide occupants with ways to make meaningful changes to their lighting environments through personalization of task lighting and manual overrides ...

Does the building incorporate any of the following high-efficiency lighting features: compact fluorescents, T8 or T5 fluorescent lamps, exit signs w...

Commission all lighting systems including controls to ensure they are performing as required and create a retro-commissioning to maintain the desire...

Provide placards explaining the principles of automated light controls so users understand when and how it is appropriate to override those controls...

Large windows can provide daylight to interior spaces, but the daylight can be best used when complementary technologies are employed. Lighting cont...

Retro-commission lighting controls to ensure that they continue to work as expected and are not obscured by new furniture arrangements.

Limit the use of accent lighting. Couple necessary accent lighting applications with lighting controls to ensure highlighted objects are illuminated...

Facilitate the transition from a passive occupant to an active participant through training and incentives. Where appropriate, account for passive ...

By consuming 17% of the building’s total electricity consumption and further influencing overall energy demand by the waste heat it emits, lig...

Provide occupants with safe and healthy ventilation and thermal comfort, in alignment with applicable ASHRAE standards and statutory requirements....

When specifying or replacing a particular lighting component, consider coordinating that component with other related building equipment. Lighting t...

Leadership in Environmental and Energy Design for Operations & Maintenance: Existing Buildings (LEED O+M: EB) addresses lighting systems through...

LEED ID+C: Commercial Interiors emphasizes daylight as a beneficial lighting strategy for the whole building. The rating system puts a preference on...

Limiting light trespass and resulting sky-glow from inefficient outdoor lighting is addressed in LEED, among other lighting-specific categories. Red...

Green Globes certification for NC projects directly necessitates a sustainable lighting strategy in the categories of Site, Energy, and Indoor Envir...

Submetering systems help to improve resource efficiency and conservation practices in a building, which can be used to improve indoor environmental ...

The lighting engineer is responsible for ensuring that all lighting regulations are met, interior and exterior spaces are sufficiently and elegantly...

Creating a sustainable and well-functioning lighting strategy by integrating efficient lighting technologies, controls, and space layout has been sh...

The lighting engineer, in cooperation with the rest of the integrative team, should ensure as much natural daylight permeates the space as possible....

Occupant comfort can be optimized by providing high levels of individual or group controllability with regard to ambient air, lighting, and sound. T...

Providing daylight access and views for occupants is important in reaching performance goals as part of the IEQ strategy. According to a study done ...

Leadership in Environmental and Energy Design (LEED) for Building Design and Construction (BD+C) highlights indoor environmental quality in a fully ...

When employing sustainable lighting strategies, financial benefits can be realized from several sources including energy savings from proper control...

The Energy Policy Act of 1992 (EPAct 1992) amended the National Energy Consumption Policy Act and gave federal agencies the authority to enter into ...

By establishing green cleaning contracts and purchasing agreements that specify environmentally-friendly cleaning and office materials, the facility...

Interior space not only impacts materials and resource use, but also is critical to human performance through safe and healthy interiors that promo...

Occupant behavior plays a critical role in achieving the designed energy efficiency of lighting systems. Energy modeling accuracies can often vary b...

A lighting upgrade can cut energy bills, improve the look of a facility, and boost employee morale, but all those benefits can fade away if the new ...

Your electricity bill tends to have several line items, such as costs for generation, distribution, and taxes. Some of these are related to consump...

Lighting accounts for nearly 20% of the total electricity costs of commercial buildings in the United States.1 Effective lighting systems invol...

Lighting Ecosystem Lighting in the workplace can be better understood as an ecosystem that includes lighting design as just one component of a netw...

HVAC systems must be commissioned (and recommissioned), and integrative design principles should be employed. Energy efficiency necessitates HVA...

Americans spend approximately 90 percent of their time indoors1 and as a result their comfort, health, and work performance rely heavily on indoor e...