Light-sense
Lighting Consultants
Environmental Obtrusive Light Assessment
We have many year of experience and expertise's to offer a wide range of services relating to Obtrusive light assessments.
• Environmental Impact reports We offer the creation of site specific impact reports including daytime and night-time surveys and photographs, and after dark base line illuminance survey. Producing a Lighting EIA report based on site visit and desktop analysis, which includes producing a lighting design and 3D/2D computational model of the proposed lighting installation to comply with the most stringent of planning and site restriction, curtailing upward light/Sky Glow, vertical illuminance and Source intensities to residence. This technical report and Environmental chapter can be inserted into the projects complete EIA report.
• Assessment and approval of manufactures submitted designs at tender stage to ensure the project meets ILP Obtrusive light requirements, and avoids residential issues of light overspill and high source intensity as well as to comply with the clients specification and planning restrictions, avoiding planning and neighbour concerns both at planning stage and at a later date avoiding unnecessary delays in the project.
• On site light survey to ensue an installation has met the required obligations, compiling a compliance report for the clients piece of mind or confirmation of compliance for the planning authorities. This can be carried out for either the design we have produced or deigns that manufactures have produced at tender stage and installed.
• Expert advice for Light trespass, dispute assessments and solutions provided, for private, commercial or local authorities.
• Expert witness we can also give the service of expert witness in legal lighting disputes.
Beaulieu Park School - Obtrusive Light assessment
Beaulieu Park School with multiple Sports areas driveways and car parks. The areas are on multiple levels and it was necessary to calculate the obtrusive light calculations to the surrounding apartment blocks and houses.
Three Padel tennis courts with 60% transmission canopies and part of the sides, lit to 300 Lux maintained average illuminance set with the grounds of a Golf club.
Padel Tennis Courts - Obtrusive Light assessment
This new build house is next to the stable the customer owns and therefore in a rural area and the planners required the light through windows and the exterior lighting to be taken in to account in the obtrusive light calculations.
New build house at Stables - Obtrusive Light assessment
Vertical illuminance towards residence can be shown with contours and numerically to best show the containment of light.
Horizontal illuminance overspill contours.
False colour rendering and standard renderings for a more visual indication of light containment.