LIGHTING : - RECOMMENDED ILLUMINANCE LEVELS (COMMERCIAL BLDGS, DRG OFFICES, HOSPITALS, HOTELS, TRANSPORTS, RAILWAYS)

Commercial buildings
Offices
General Offices	300
Deep Plan General Offices	500
Computer Works Station	300
Conference Rooms, Executive Offices	300
Computer and Data Preparation Rooms	300
Filing Rooms	200
Drawing Offices
General	300
Drawing Boards	500
Print Rooms	200
Counter, Office Area	300
Public Area	200
Retailing
Small Shops with counters	300
Small Self Service Shops with Island Displays	300
Super Markets – Hyper-Markets	300
General	300
Checkout	300
Showrooms for large objects, for example, cars, furniture	300
Shopping precincts and arcades	100
Hospitals
Anesthetic Rooms
General	200
Local	750
Consulting Area
General	200
Examination	750
Corridors
General	100
Ward Corridors
Day, Screened from Bays	150
Day, open to nature light	150
Cubicles
General	200
Treatment	750
Examinations
General	200
Local Inspection	750
Intensive Therapy
Bed Head	30
Circulation Between Bed ends	50
Observation	200
Local Observation	750
Staff base (day)	200
Staff base (Night)	30
Laboratories
General	200
Examination	300
Nurses ‘s stations
Morning/Day/evening	200
Night desks	30
Night, Medical Trolleys	50
Operating Theatres
General	300
Local	10000
Hotels
Entrance Halls	50
Receptions, Cashiers & Porter’s desks	200
Bars, Coffee base, dining rooms, Grill rooms, Restaurants, Lounges
Cloak Rooms, Baggage Rooms	50
Bed Room	30
Bath Rooms	50
Food Preparation & Stores, cellars, Lifts and corridors	100
Transport
Air ports	150
Ticket Counters, Checking, desks and information desks	300
Departure Lounges, other waiting Areas	150
Baggage reclaims	150
Baggage Handling	50
Customers & Immigration halls	300
Concourse	150
Railway Stations
Ticket Office	300
Information Office	300
General	50
Counter	150
Waiting Rooms	150
Concourse	150
Time Table	150
Ticket Barriers	150
Platforms (Covered)	30
Platforms (Open)	20

LIGHTING : - RECOMMENDED ILLUMINANCE LEVELS (MACHINE SHOP, MOTOR VEHICLE PLANTS, PAPER WORKS, PHARMACEUTICALS, TEXTILE, SHEET METAL ,STORES)

XIV) MACHINE AND FITTING SHOPS
a) Rough bench and machine work	150
b) Medium bench and machine work,	300
ordinary automatic machines, rough
grinding, medium buffing and polishing
c) Fine bench and machine work, fine automatic machines,	700
medium grinding, fine buffing and polishing
XV) MOTOR VEHICLE PLANTS
a) General sub-assemblies, chassis assembly and car assembly	300
b) Final inspection	450
c) Trim shops, body sub-assemblies and body assembly	300
d) Spray booths	450
Paint Works
a) General, automatic processes	200
b) Special batch mixing	450
c) Colour matching	700
Paint Shops and Spraying Booths
a) Dipping, firing and rough spraying	150
b) Rubbing, ordinary painting, spraying and finishing	300
c) Fine painting, spraying and finishing	450
d) Retouching and matching	700
XVI) PAPER WORKS
a) Paper and board making :
1) Machine houses, calendering, pulp mills, preparation	200
plants, cutting, finishing and trimming
2) Inspection and sorting (over hauling)	300
b) Paper converting processes :
1) Corrugated board, cartons, containers and paper	200
sack manufacturer, coating and laminated processes
2) Associated printing	300
XVII) PHARMACEUTICALS AND FINE CHEMICAL WORKS
a) Raw material storage	200
b) Control laboratories and testing	300
c) Pharmaceuticals manfuacturing :
1) Grinding, granulating, mixing and drying, tableting,	300
sterilizing and washing, preparation of solutions and
filling, labelling, capping, cartoning and wrapping and
inspection
d) Fine chemical manufacture :
1) Plant processing	200
2) Fine chemical finishing	300
XVIII) PLASTIC WORKS
a) Manufacture (see Chemical Works)
b) Processing:
1) Calendaring and extrusion	300
2) Moulding- compression and injection	200
3) Sheet fabrication:
i) Shaping	200
ii) Trimming, machining, polishing	300
iii) Cementing	200
XIX) ELECTROPLATING SHOPS
a) Vat and baths, buffing, polishing and burnishing	150
b) Final buffing and polishing	Special lighting
Pottery and Clay Products
a) Grinding, filter pressing, kiln rooms, moulding, pressing,	150
cleaning, trimming, glazing and firing
b) Enamelling, colouring, decorating	450
XX) SHEET METAL WORKS
a) Bench work, scribing, pressing, punching,	200
shearing, stamping, spinning and folding
b) Sheet inspection	Special lighting
XXI) TEXTILE MILLS (COTTON OR LINEN)
a) Bale breaking, blowing, carding, roving, slubbing, spinning	150
(ordinary counts), winding, heckling, spreading and cabling
b) Warping, slashing, dressing and dyeing, doubling	200
(fancy) and spinning (fine counts)
c) Healding (drawing-in)	700
d) weaving :
1) Patterned cloths and fine counts, dark	700
2) Patterned cloths and fine counts, light	300
3) Plain grey cloth	200
e) Cloth inspection	700
XXII) TEXTILE MILLS (SILK OR SYNTHETICS)
a) Soaking, fugitive tinting, conditioning or setting	200
or twist.
b) Spinning	450
c) Winding, twisting, rewinding and coining, quilting and
slashing :
1) Light thread	200
2) Dark thread	300
d) Warping	300
e) Healding (drawing-in)	700
f) Weaving	700
g) Inspection	1000
XXIII) TEXTILE MILLS (WOOLEN)
a) Scouring, carbonizing, teasing, preparing, raising,	150
brushing, pressing, back-washing, gilling, crabbing
and blowing
b) Blending, carding, combing (white), tentering, drying	200
and cropping
c) Spinning, roving, winding, warping, combing (coloured)	450
twisting
d) Healding (drawing-in)	700
e) Weaving :
1) Fine worsted	700
2) Medium worsteds and fine woollens	450
3) Heavy woollens	300
f) Burling and mending	700
g) Perching :
1) Grey	700
2) Final	2000
XXIV) WAREHOUSES AND BULK STORES
a) Large material loading bays	100
b) Small material racks	150
c) Packing and dispatch	150