Industry-standard building certification programs look to address the built environment, energy efficiency and now occupant health and well-being. Lighting can address many requirements in LEED® certification, WELL Building Standard™ and the Living Building Challenge™. Acuity Brands offers a number of lighting products, technologies, and services to help you address requirements in these building certifications.
What requirements of LEED v4 Interior Design + Construction can you help me to address?
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Sustainability and Site: Light Pollution Reduction
Description How Acuity Brands can help you address this requirement The intent is to increase night sky access, improve nighttime visibility, and reduce the consequences of development on wildlife and people
For outdoor lighting solutions that address light pollution requirements, visit: https://www.acuitybrands.com/resources/industries/outdoor-environments
Use photometry reports available for each product.
For environments where wildlife could be present, refer to amber lighting solutions available here: https://www.acuitybrands.com/resources/trending-topics/turtle-friendly-lighting
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Energy and Atmosphere: Optimize Energy Performance
Description How Acuity Brands can help you address this requirement Points based either on achieved project percentage improvement using metrics of energy cost improvements and greenhouse gas emission reductions or Prescriptive improvements including 1-5 points for interior lighting power density reductions and additional 1-2 points for daylighting control.
Lighting power density reductions are addressed with nLight embedded luminaires enabling lumen maintenance, over time, and resulting in energy savings.
For daylight controls, refer to: https://nlight.acuitybrands.com/products/sensors
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Energy and Atmosphere: Advanced Energy Metering
Description How Acuity Brands can help you address this requirement Intent is to support energy management and identify opportunities for additional energy savings by tracking building-level and system-level energy use.
Lighting power density reductions are addressed with nLight enabled luminaires enabling lumen maintenance, over time, and resulting in energy savings.
For lighting system level energy usage monitoring, address with nLight ENVYSION™. Additionally, nLight AIR provides for power monitoring solutions.
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Indoor Environmental Quality: Lighting Controls
Description How Acuity Brands can help you address this requirement Earn 1 point through providing occupant control of multiple lighting scenes that meet specific criteria Address with graphical touchscreens and scene selectors.
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Indoor Environmental Quality: Interior Lighting
Description How Acuity Brands can help you address this requirement Option A. Luminaires with a luminance of less than 2,500 cd/m2 between 45 and 90 degrees from nadir Photometry reports available for each luminaire include luminance charts. Option B. Light sources with a CRI of 80 or higher Find luminaires meeting this criteria, by utilizing the CRI filter in your product search. Option C. Light sources that have a rated life (or L70 for LED sources) of at least 24,000 hours Acuity Brands’ long-life LEDs, coupled with high-efficiency drivers, provide superior quantity and quality of illumination for extended service life. Information regarding lumen maintenance and rated life is available on each luminaire’s spec sheet.
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Materials and Resources: Material Ingredient Reporting
Description How Acuity Brands can help you address this requirement The project must use at least 20 different permanently installed products from at least five different manufacturers that use any of the following programs to demonstrate the chemical inventory of the product to at least 0.1% (1000 ppm) using one of several listed methods including Declare Labels, Health Product Declarations or a publicly available inventory of all ingredients identified by name and Chemical Abstract Service Registration Number. A growing number of luminaires from Acuity Brands have obtained a Declare label. This information is available on individual luminaire spec sheets. In addition, all products with a Declare label/status can be found on the Declare Database here.
Note that while some manufacturers will submit a “Manufacturer’s Letter” in lieu of a publicly available inventory of all ingredients, these generally are substantially incomplete and do not meet the program requirements.
Acuity Brands understands that it is not possible to create an accurate and complete inventory without going through the detailed process required to obtain a Declare label or HPD, and thus refrains from providing manufacturer’s letters.
What requirements in the Lighting Concept of WELL Building Standard can you help me to address?
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Light Concept: LO2. Visual Lighting Design
Description How Acuity Brands can help you address this requirement Meet Illuminance thresholds per IES (or another recognized standard) taking into account age requirements OR select predetermined light levels where 50% of occupants are under the age of 65 Address these requirements by utilizing Visual Lighting to calculate illuminance outputs.
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Light Concept: LO3. Circadian Lighting Design
Description How Acuity Brands can help you address this requirement Achieve minimum EML(or EDI D65) levels on vertical planes at eye level for four hours, beginning at noon the latest:
Tier 1: At least 150 EML [136 M-EDI(D65)] (1 Point)
Tier 2: At least 275 EML [250 lux M-EDI(D65) (3 points)
The above thresholds are lowered when the lighting design is combined with an enhanced daylight strategy.Data required to calculate EML is available from the melanopic ratio, provided on spectral data sheets for each luminaire.
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Light Concept: LO4. Electric Light Glare Controls
Description How Acuity Brands can help you address this requirement Each Luminaire, except decorative, concealed & wall washers, meets one of these criteria:
100% indirect, UGR </=16, Luminance <6000cd/m2 between 45 and 90 degrees from nadir
OR
Regularly occupied spaces designed w/ UGR </=16Photometry reports available for each luminaire include luminance charts, as well as UGR tables.
Easily find products with a low UGR
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Light Concept: LO6. Daylight Simulation
Description How Acuity Brands can help you address this requirement Computer simulations that demonstrate minimum daylight levels or target illuminances are met for a target percent of occupied floor area Visual Lighting software provides daylighting calculations for a specific date and time, and provides for simulation of multiple dates and times to obtain combined results over a date/time range.
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Light Concept: LO7. Visual Balance
Description How Acuity Brands can help you address this requirement Meet specific parameters for vertical luminance contrast ratios & uniformity or lighting designed by a professional Address these requirements by utilizing Visual Lighting to obtain results.
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Light Concept: LO8. Electric Light Quality
Description How Acuity Brands can help you address this requirement Enhanced Color Rendering
1 Point: For all spaces except circulation areas 90CRI, 80CRI/R9 50
or Rf78/Rg100
Manage Flicker
2 Points: Meet flicker requirements of T24, IEEE 1789-2015LED or NEMA 77-2017Find luminaires meeting this criteria, by utilizing the CRI filter in your product search.
R9 values are available from spectral data sheets.
Acuity Brands luminaires with eldoLED® drivers meet these flicker requirements.
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Light Concept: LO9. Occupant Lighting Controls
Description How Acuity Brands can help you address this requirement Lighting Zones, 1-2 Points: One zone per specified square feet or number of occupants AND Lighting Control System with set scenes Supplemental (Task) Lighting, 1 Point Address zone requirements with nLight lighting controls, and provide access to scene configurations with:
• nLight® UNITOUCH
• nLight nPODM xS Family
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Materials Concept: XO9. Material Transparency
Description How Acuity Brands can help you address this requirement Part 1: Select Products with Disclosed Ingredients (1 Point) For at least 50% by count or 25 distinct, permanently installed products ingredients are disclosed by the manufacturer, a disclosure organization or a third party through one of several approved formats including a Declare label, Health Product Declaration (HPD) or a manufacturer’s inventory containing CAS numbers of all individual compounds down to 1,000 ppm (0.1%).
Part 2: Select Products with Enhanced Ingredient Disclosure (1 Point)
Part 3: For at least 15 distinct permanently installed products all ingredients are disclosed down to 100 ppm (.01%) using a Declare label, Health product declaration or Manufacturer’s disclosure.A growing number of luminaires from Acuity Brands have obtained a Declare label. This information is available on individual luminaire spec sheets. In addition, all products with a Declare label/status can be found on the Declare Database here. Note that while some manufacturers will submit a “Manufacturer’s Letter” in lieu of a publicly available inventory of all ingredients, these generally are substantially incomplete and do not meet the program requirements.
Acuity Brands understands that it is not possible to create an accurate and complete inventory without going through the detailed process required to obtain a Declare label or HPD, and thus refrains from providing manufacturer’s letters.
What requirements in the Living Building Challenge can you help me to address?
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Section 07. Energy + Carbon Reduction
Description How Acuity Brands can help you address this requirement Project must 1) Achieve a reduction in total net annual energy compared to an equivalent baseline building (70% for new buildings, 50% for existing buildings, 35% for interiors) and be metered to verify performance 2) Use on-site renewable energy 3) Use materials that reduce embodied carbon by 20%. The DesignLights Consortium (DLC) has provided independent verification of energy optimization with networked controls, resulting in an energy reduction of nearly half compared to LED lighting installed without controls. The energy reduction increases to a significant 63% when each luminaire has the capability of individual control.
Find nLight and nLight AIR luminaires here
For lighting system level energy usage monitoring, address with nLight ENVYSION™. Additionally, nLight Air provides for power monitoring solutions.
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Section 12. Responsible Materials
Description How Acuity Brands can help you address this requirement The project must contain one Declare label product per 200 sq m of gross building area, or project area, whichever is smaller, up to twenty distinct products from five manufacturers.
All other product manufacturers not currently in Declare must, at a minimum, receive a letter requesting they disclose their ingredients and identify any Red List content
20% or more of the materials construction budget must come from within 500 kilometers (310 miles) of construction siteA growing number of luminaires from Acuity Brands have obtained a Declare label. This information is available on individual luminaire spec sheets. In addition, all products with a Declare label/status can be found on the Declare Database here.
Note that while some manufacturers will submit a “Manufacturer’s Letter” in lieu of a publicly available inventory of all ingredients, these generally are substantially incomplete and do not meet the program requirements.
Acuity Brands understands that it is not possible to create an accurate and complete inventory without going through the detailed process required to obtain a Declare label or HPD, and thus refrains from providing manufacturer’s letters.
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Section 13. Red List
Description How Acuity Brands can help you address this requirement No red list ingredients in 90% of the project by cost. Section 13 requires red-list products to count toward the requirement.
Luminaire Declare labels are not red list free.
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Section 14. Responsible Sourcing
Description How Acuity Brands can help you address this requirement Doubles the number of Declare labeled products used on the project vs. Core Certification. A growing number of luminaires from Acuity Brands have obtained a Declare label. This information is available on individual luminaire spec sheets. In addition, all products with a Declare label/status can be found on the Declare Database here.
Note that while some manufacturers will submit a “Manufacturer’s Letter” in lieu of a publicly available inventory of all ingredients, these generally are substantially incomplete and do not meet the program requirements.
Acuity Brands understands that it is not possible to create an accurate and complete inventory without going through the detailed process required to obtain a Declare label or HPD, and thus refrains from providing manufacturer’s letters.
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Section 15. Living Sourcing Economy
Description How Acuity Brands can help you address this requirement 75% of construction budget must be from products sourced within a specified distance from the construction site: 20% 500 Kilometers (311 miles), 30% 1000Kilometers (6214 Miles), 25% 5000 Kilometers (3107 miles) Acuity Brands counts multiple manufacturing locations. Reach out to your local agency for information on how we may meet these project specific requirements.
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