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Most lighting-design schemes are overseen
general overview of lighting, and that is what the SLL
Lighting Handbook is designed to do.”
by generalists who need an easily accessible
Launched in the centenary year of the Illuminating
guide they can use on site. A new handbook
Engineering Society, a forerunner of the SLL, the new
handbook is the first step in making general lighting
has just been launched to fulfil this and
information more accessible, according to co-author
other needs, writes Paul Haddlesey
Peter Raynham: “To that end, it has been designed to
be a genuine handbook that will easily fit in a briefcase
and can be taken out to site.”
Y
ou could be a student seeking a general Boyce adds: “It’s not aimed at very experienced lighting
overview of lighting design. Or you might designers as most of them already have this knowledge,
be at the other end of the professional ladder and although many more lighting schemes are being
– a specialist in a particular field of lighting given to specialist designers, these still only account for
who wants to apply your knowledge in a different way. about five per cent of lighting designs in the UK.
The authors of a new lighting handbook say that their “As a result, the majority of lighting designs
publication can meet a wide range of needs through its are carried out by people who do not specialise in
practical, accessible approach to design. lighting, but would like to have the knowledge to
The SLL Lighting Handbook, described as the first of think about their designs more broadly. Or they
its kind, has been published to plug a gap in existing may be specifying lighting to comply with a certain
Society of Light and Lighting (SLL) publications. lighting guide, but lack the knowledge to fully evaluate
“We already have the Code for Lighting, which explains the proposals.
design criteria and how to perform calculations; and we “In addition, there are lighting designers
have the lighting Guides, which go into great detail on who are very experienced in a particular field – such
specific applications,” explains co-author Peter Boyce. as church or theatre lighting – who get involved in
“However, there was nothing in between to provide a other types of lighting occasionally. They will
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