IX TERMS
CIBSE: (The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers). Illumination standards of practice for the United Kingdom.
CONTRACTOR NET: The distributor’s cost to the contractor, prior to contractor markups.
CUL: Underwriter’s Laboratory approved for use in Canada, and the United States.
DIN: “Deutsches Institut fuer Normung” (Germany Institute for Standardization). Guidelines for practice in Germany.
DISTRIBUTOR NET: The manufacturer’s cost to the distributor, prior to distributor markups. IALD: International Association of Lighting Designers. IESNA: Illuminating Engineering Society of North America.
IP RATING: International Protection code/rating. A two-digit rating system classifying luminaires according to their protection against the ingress of dust, solid foreign bodies and water.
LEED: Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. A voluntary, green building rating system, consensus-based national standard for developing high-performance, sustainable buildings developed by members of the U.S. Green Building Council (
www.usgbc.org).
LIGHTING DESIGNER (LD) OR LIGHTING CONSULTANT: A trained professional with expertise in preparing documentation for lighting and lighting specification.
LIGHTING FIXTURE SCHEDULE (OR TABLE): Typically an abbreviated summary of lighting products and/or lighting equipment specified for a project with product ordering information identified.
LIRC: Lighting Industry Resource Council.
MANUFACTURER: A fabricator of lighting equipment or control systems, their agents and/or representatives. QUANTITY SURVEYOR (QS): Cost Estimator. TENDER: Bid Phase. UL: Underwriter’s Laboratory.
VALUE ENGINEERING: A process of re-evaluating the project design to make cost savings to bring the project into the allocated budget.
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