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The new European standard EN 12464-1 focuses on the lighting of indoor workplaces. The requirements in the standard mainly relate to the actual working area. The lighting outside of the working area shall then be adapted to the conditions that apply within the working area.
However, the new standard specifies the minimum lighting requirements of individual working areas rather than the room as a whole. It takes into account three different measurements: lux values, the Unified Glare Rating (UGR) and colour rendering. Lux (lx) is the standard unit of measuring the level of light intensity.
Standard EN 12464-1. Since 2003, EU member countries have had a common standard for lighting planning of indoor workplaces. A new version was published in August 2021 and entered into force in February 2022. We have summarized the new European standard standard below.
Adopted into national standards in the UK in the autumn, as BS EN 12464-1:2021, this latest version appears a decade after the last revision. So, what are the key updates? The most obvious changes are to be found in the revised tables in Chapter 7 – the list of specific lighting requirements.
Aug 1, 2021 · This document specifies requirements for lighting solutions for most indoor work places and their associated areas in terms of quantity and quality of illumination. In addition, recommendations are given for good lighting practice including visual and non-visual (non-image forming) lighting needs.
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Since 2003, EU member countries have had a common standard for lighting planning of indoor workplaces. In the UK, these are summarised in the BS EN12464-1 published by the British Standard Institution.
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The SFS-EN 12461-1:2011 standard specifies the minimum required illuminance levels for the task area and its surroundings (see Table 1). The minimum illuminance is 50 lx for walls and 30 lx for ceilings.
