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Key Takeaways
- The Society of Light and Lighting launched the updated lighting guide LG4: Sports Lighting, focusing on design flexibility and basic lighting requirements.
- The new guide emphasizes LED technology, aligning with British Standard BS EN 12193 and incorporating emerging sports not included in previous editions.
- It offers guidance on the principles, specific lighting requirements for sports, maintenance, and equipment specification.
- Updated environmental guidance addresses outdoor lighting concerns, reflecting modern issues around light pollution at night.
- The guide provides tabulated lighting parameters for each sport, ensuring compliance with updated standards for broadcasting.
The Society of Light and Lighting (SLL) has launched the latest revision of Lighting Guide LG4: Sports Lighting. As before, the aim of the guide is to create design flexibility while achieving basic lighting requirements for each sport.
This new edition takes into account a wide range of developments since the previous edition, published in 2006, with an addendum in 2015, in both technologies and emerging sports.
The new guide (which is only based on LED light sources) includes recommendations have been aligned with the British Standard and European Norm (BS EN) 12193 (BSI, 2018). In this new edition, particular attention has been paid to incorporate new and emerging sports that were not included in the 2006 guide or BS EN 12193, but which are played in the UK, and of proposed amendments to BS EN 12193.
In revising LG4 the SLL has ensured ongoing alignment with other published standards and fully incorporated the 2014 amendments for broadcasting. The main task was to update the guide given the switch to LED technology and eliminate guidance which was based on lamp types no longer used.
Users will see that for outdoor sport the colour rendering is now >70 giving better quality without any compromise in efficacy.
In addition, the environmental guidance has also been updated to reflect the growing awareness of the issues surrounding outdoor lighting at night. The guide has been prepared by designers with deep experience in the subject and will be of value to anyone undertaking a sports project.
The revised guide is now in four parts and includes guidance on the principles of lighting with respect to sport, specific lighting requirements for individual sports (indoor and outdoor), maintenance and operation of sports lighting and specification of equipment for sports lighting.
The sport requirements and recommendations give specific information relating to good lighting practice for each individual sport. Tabulated lighting parameters are provided for each sports application relative to the new system of lighting classes. The addendum issued in 2015 relating to the lighting requirements for broadcasting has been included and updated.
Find out more about the SLL and access your copy of LG4: Sports Lighting here.
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The new edition of LG4 has been fully updated to reflect the complete industry switch to LED technology, eliminating guidance based on obsolete lamp types. It also incorporates new and emerging sports played in the UK, updates environmental guidance for outdoor lighting at night, and introduces a colour rendering index of $>70$ for outdoor sports to improve quality without compromising efficacy.
The guide is now split into four parts covering the principles of sports lighting, maintenance and operation, and equipment specification. It also provides specific indoor and outdoor lighting requirements for individual sports, using tabulated parameters that align recommendations with British and European standards (BS EN 12193) and include updated guidelines for broadcasting.
