Outdoor Sports Lighting Standards

Additional lighting equipment is often necessary to compensate the low levels.
Outdoor sports lighting standards. For both indoor and outdoor sports sodium lighting will only be acceptable where its relatively poor colour rendering can be tolerated. Standard specification for light sport aircraft manufacturer s continued operational safety cos program. We represent the industry s best practices are experts at what we do and are proven and preferred. Incubator the standards australia incubator is a sandpit for playing with new ideas and testing concepts.
Standard guide for compliance with light sport aircraft standards. Some sports are classified as ground based unidirectional sports such as outdoor archery. Illuminance levels are dependent upon the difficulty of the visual task. Our purpose is to provide the best outdoor lighting solution for schools universities and municipal sport and recreation fields across the upper midwest.
The lighting specification document states that horizontal illuminance is most important at the firing line while vertical illuminance is more important at the target line and therefore the guidelines include separate requirements for each. They are specifically recommended by some national governing bodies for sport ngbs. In the building in the area closest to windows the light level may be reduced to approximately 1 000 lux. Sports lighting authority sla is your outdoor sports lighting expert.
Lighting fixtures shall be no higher than 15 feet above grade. Outdoor lighting installations and fixtures located in or within 50 feet of a residential zone shall comply with the following requirements. This is because there is generally greater subject contrast outdoors with a dark sky backdrop giving good adaptation levels. Standard specification for light sport aircraft manufacturer s quality assurance system.
Low pressure sodium lighting. Internal and external lighting is especially important when designing and building multi use games areas mugas and artificial pitches as per current industry guidance and standards. All permanent light fixtures are required to be full cutoff fixtures with the light source fully shielded for all uses and directed downward including single family and multifamily residential uses. Tungsten halogen lights are inexpensive but inefficient.
Lighting levels for exterior sports lighting are considerably lower than daylight levels and usually lower than for the same sport played indoors. In the middle area its may be as low as 25 50 lux. Our artificial sport lighting design guide includes both indoor and outdoor sports lighting and covers current codes on lighting requirements as well as sports. Metal halide lamps are efficient and give good colour rendering.