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Light for healthcare facilities

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Overview
The document emphasizes the importance of lighting in healthcare facilities, focusing on its impact on patient recovery and staff efficiency. It highlights Human Centric Lighting, which aligns artificial light with natural circadian rhythms to enhance patient well-being.
Specifications and Standards
Healthcare lighting must meet specific standards, including brightness levels and glare-free lighting. Standards vary for dental practices and nursing homes, tailored to individual needs to optimize outcomes.
Lighting Solutions
The document describes solutions like XPECTRUM LEDs, Tunable White (TW) systems, and advanced sensor technology for energy-efficient lighting management.
Applications in Healthcare Facilities
Lighting is customized for different areas, such as patient rooms, examination rooms, and corridors, to support navigation and create a pleasant environment.
Biological and Acoustic Considerations
Light affects hormone levels, promoting recovery and stabilizing sleep patterns. Acoustic lighting solutions enhance both lighting and sound conditions.
Innovative Lighting Systems
Modern systems offer dynamic light sequences and user-friendly controls, emphasizing sustainability and ease of maintenance.
Case Studies and Interviews
Insights from architects and healthcare providers highlight the shift towards personalized lighting solutions, integrating natural and artificial lighting.
Conclusion
Effective lighting is essential for patient recovery and staff efficiency, advocating for adaptable and sustainable solutions aligned with natural rhythms.
Lighting Specifications and Standards
EN 12464-1 specifies illuminance levels for examination rooms and corridors. Indirect lighting is preferred for its relaxing effect, while direct lighting ensures optimal conditions.
Corridors and Staircases
Corridors require specific lux levels, with adjustments for energy efficiency at night. DIN SPEC 67600 recommends specific melanopic and day-equivalent illuminance levels.
Recreation Rooms
Lighting should create a cozy atmosphere with circadian light sequences to maintain internal clocks, using full-spectrum LEDs for natural wavelength composition.
24-hour Nurses’ Station
Requires specific illuminance levels with dynamic color curves to simulate daylight, enhancing the working environment.
Registration and Waiting Rooms
High illuminance levels create a welcoming atmosphere, with warm light colors enhancing well-being.
Therapy Rooms and Exercise Areas
Require a mix of room and accent lighting, supporting circadian rhythms for patient recovery.
Nursing Homes
Lighting should accommodate age-related visual impairments, ensuring comfort and safety.
Lighting Specifications for Elderly Care
Older patients require higher illuminance levels, with correction factors ensuring similar visual performance as younger individuals.
Common Room Lighting
Requires high illuminance to accommodate older residents, with circadian lighting systems improving well-being.
Medical Practices Lighting
Different areas require specific lighting solutions, with emphasis on glare control and high illuminance for orientation and communication.
Dental Practices Lighting
Requires high color rendering and light quality, with specific lux levels for treatment and operating areas.
Biological Light Effects
Lighting should align with circadian rhythms, influencing hormones and promoting health.
Lighting Design for Elderly
Older adults require more light, with a combination of artificial and daylight necessary for maintaining activity and sleep quality.
Lighting Specifications for Healthcare Facilities
Focuses on Human Centric Lighting designs, emphasizing dynamic systems with high color rendering.
Acoustics in Healthcare Facilities
Balanced acoustics aid recovery and reduce stress, with modern products enhancing patient comfort.
Lighting and Sensor Technology
Systems should be functional and adaptable, with sensor-controlled luminaires increasing comfort and reducing energy costs.
Data and Requirements
Smart sensor technology provides insights into patient recovery and facility efficiency, with requirements including energy monitoring and patient activity tracking.
Patient Room Lighting Example
Specifications include meeting EN 12646-1 standards, with detailed calculations for necessary vertical illuminance.
Specifications
Focuses on Human Centric Lighting designs for visual tasks and biological needs, particularly for elderly residents.
Lighting Standards
References EN 12646-1 standards, specifying minimum illuminance levels and glare limitation.
Biological Illuminance
DIN SPEC 67600 specifies minimum MEDI lux levels, with conversion to visual lux considering melanopic effect.
Age-Specific Correction Factors
Provides correction factors for different ages, indicating necessary vertical illuminance.
Recreation Room Example
Includes HCL to meet visual and emotional needs, with dynamic lighting control systems.
24-Hour Nurses’ Station Example
Lighting design accommodates office work and communication, with adjustable lighting for night-time conditions.
Product Information
Lists various lighting products and specifications, including luminaire types and power consumption.
Contact Information
XAL GmbH provides contact details for further inquiries, emphasizing their role in lighting design projects.
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Light for recovery Light for healthcare facilities

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Healthcare facilities Geriatrics Simmering, AT – by Josef Weichenberger architects + Partner

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Light for recovery The extent to which light conditions and the human organism are connected is only gradually being explored. One thing is certain: Light is a significant health factor. Lighting in the healthcare sector fulfils a wide range of functions. To ensure the best possible treatment quality and reliable diagnostics, a wide range of standard specifications must be complied with, from the mandatory brightness on the examination couch to glare-free lighting at the staff workstation. Different regulations apply in dental practices than in nursing homes. However, it is always important to...

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Healthcare facilities

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Registration & waiting room ©I36 Therapy room & exercise area ©I40 Medical practices also (^0 Reception, waiting area & treatment Q 52 Biological light effect ®l6o Acoustics for healthcare facilities ©l62

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Healthcare facilities XPECTRUM Full-spectrum LED XAL's XPECTRUM LEDs' light spectrum is similar to daylight: It is healthy, biologically effective light. The reduced blue light component shields the eye from overexposure to short-wave, energy-rich light rays and therefore from fatigue. Thanks to the raised cyan levels, the light has an additional non-visual (melanopic) effect on hormone levels, which improves sleep quality and promotes recovery. Excellent IES TM 30 – 15 Rf = 98 and Rg = 101 colour rendering optimises visual comfort and creates a vivid environment. INO circle suspended Plasterboard...

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Advanced sensor technology Modern lighting management systems harness energy-efficient use of daylight. Sensors on the ceiling determine where and how much light is needed and control individual luminaires according to current lighting requirements. This means less light can be provided near windows than in darker areas of the room. Smart lighting control systems enable lighting regulation by using presence detectors and dimming or switching off the light in unused rooms. In addition, XAL's IoT sensors can detect humidity, air quality, sound pressure, and temperature, opening further applications....

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Product diversity For heavyduty use SONO recessed / surface Plasterboard ceiling / Concrete ceiling 3000 K, 4000 K, TW (Tunable White) IIP 40, IP 50, IP 54 Ideal application Patient room, Examination room, Corridors & staircases, Therapy room & exercise area Colour: white Timeless perfection VELA surface / suspended / wall Plasterboard ceiling / Grid ceiling 3000 K, 4000 K, UGR ≤ 19 Ideal application Common rooms, Registration & waiting room, 24-hour nurses’ station, Common areas, Corridors & staircases Colours white, grey, black and special colours Ultra-slim series For the right kind of reflection...

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Everything on track MOVE IT 25 recessed / surface / suspended Plasterboard ceiling / Concrete ceiling 3000 K, 4000 K Ideal application Common rooms Colours black, white/black, gold/black and special colours Always and anywhere SPADO square / round recessed Plasterboard ceiling / Grid ceiling 3000 K, 4000 K UGR ≤ 19, IP 44 Ideal application Corridors & staircases Colours white, black Be free to sharpen your profile Combine with your design SASSO 40 / 60 / 100 recessed / semi-recessed / surface FRAME 40 / 60 / 100 system recessed Plasterboard ceiling / Concrete ceiling 3000 K, 4000 K, TW (Tunable...

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RECOVER Light distributions wall Wall mounting ambient examination reading nurse night Ideal application light light light light Patient room, Residents’ rooms

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RECOVER The next generation of contemporary healthcare lighting, RECOVER has been developed to simulate a natural light pattern. This is achieved by the dynamically changing colour temperature. It varies from activating morning light to a sleep-promoting evening glow. The luminaire supports the natural regeneration of the patient by supporting the human biorhythm. The 4-in-1 system includes ambient light, a reading light, a nurse’s night light, and an examination light with a high CRI value which displays amorphous three-dimensional surfaces such as the skin correctly. RECOVER is designed to...

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Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital Vienna, AT – by Nickl & Partner Architekten AG

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The hospital of the future Interview with Studio Zweithaler Architect Markus Pernthaler of Studio Zweithaler sees the trend in hospitals moving from four-bed to two-bed and one-bed rooms. This clearly shifts the focus to design measures that support patient recovery. Colour-changing light's use is undisputed from a medical perspective. In addition to health-promoting aspects in intensive care, lighting enables the creation of an atmosphere that helps patients recover and provides staff with an activating working environment. The combination of natural and artificial lighting plays a central role...

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@ Examination room @ Corridors & staircases @ Recreation rooms @ 24-hour nurses’ station @ Registration & waiting room S Therapy room & exercise area

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Health-promoting light in the patient room The lighting mood greatly influences patient recovery. In bright, open rooms with natural light colours, the body can recover and regenerate better. Indirect light is particularly pleasant, as it makes the room appear larger. Since people in patient rooms spend a lot of time in bed, the lighting needs to be adapted to this position. The positioning and optical coverage of luminaires prevents bedridden patients being dazzled by room light. Small reading lights are mandatory for each hospital bed, which must reach at least 300 lux at the reading position....

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EMCO private clinic Bad Dürrnberg/Salzburg, AT – by FLEOS architektur with lighting design by Das Licht

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Top colour fidelity and light quality in the examination room Light combines two essential aspects in the examination and treatment room. A warm, friendly atmosphere helps patients feel calm and safe and relax during treatment. Physicians, meanwhile, need sufficient brightness and a high quality of light during treatment. According to EN 12464-1, a general illuminance of 500 lux and an examination illuminance of 1000 lux must be achieved. The right lighting in the examination room, combined with homely and clearly designed furnishings, form the basis for this. Ceiling luminaires with a combination...

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