Lighting

Lighting in commercial buildings is responsible for 38% of electricity consumption. When we look at total energy consumed in commercial buildings, lighting is the largest individual use of power accounting for one fifth (20%) of the combined energy total. New Buildings Institute is making lighting a primary target for energy savings by supporting a variety of projects focused on energy efficiency, education, outreach and research.

Advanced Lighting Guidelines

This long-established lighting design resource has guided lighting professionals with vision and lighting research, current lighting technologies and best-practice design strategies for nearly two decades. The revision, presently underway, will update material and launch as a new electronic version: ALG Online.

The revision will contain several expanded areas such as a standalone Daylighting section and Application Modules developed in coordination with the DOE’s Commercial Lighting Solutions webtool.

ALG Online will be offered primarily as a world-class technical and design website: a comprehensive, readily searchable and widely accessible resource.
Advanced Lighting Guidelines 2003
ALG Online--Coming Soon!
Commercial Lighting Solutions webtool

Lighting California’s Future

In the second phase of the CEC-PIER sponsored California Lighting Research Program, NBI is reprising its role as the Market Connection lead. The program, called Lighting California’s Future (LCF), involves nine projects, each of which has a researcher and manufacturer partner that concentrate on a unique advanced lighting product. The program’s goal is to move a conceptualized technology from research through development, provide demonstration opportunities to test and measure the effectiveness of the product and then provide an industry-wide market outreach campaign for the various technologies.
Lighting California's Future Website

Office of the Future

One of the major goals of the Office of the Future (OTF) is to promote high-quality lighting design that saves energy. The proposed solutions will include lighting power density (LPD) reductions beyond code, and much of the savings is anticipated to come from improved control strategies. The lighting designs are meant to not only enhance office environments by improving lighting quality but also improve occupant comfort, overall satisfaction and therefore productivity.

In an effort to gather more technical data, NBI is managing the Office of the Future program. Participants in this program install a more energy-efficient and controllable lighting design as well as metering to guage the effectiveness of energy efficiency measures. Installed cost, energy  and demand Information gathered from this pilot project will help realize the technical potential of the OTF. Read more