Lighting evaluation of the Vaasa Housing Fair in Finland
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Lighting designer Ilkka Pekanheimo has made the lighting evaluation of the Vaasa housing fair (18.7. – 10.8.2008). He has given the school degree numbers used in Finland at the end of some evaluations:
- (10) = excellent lighting
- (9) = good lighting
- (8) = rather good lighting
- (7) = rather good lighting, some improvement needed
- (6) = not good lighting, much improvement needed
- (5) = bad lighting (most halogens, blending, fire accident possibility)
- (4) = very bad lighting (most halogens, blending, fire accident possibility)
Best and the worsest lightings in Finnish, look here. (see the evaluation numbers)
E.g. House 23 (blue) = mostly good valaistus, house 38 (red) = mostly bad lighting
Evaluation of the all houses
Over 600 good and bad lightings.
Backgrounds for the evaluation:
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AD-Lux - expert in safe home lighting
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Ecology was one of the target at the Vaasa housing fair. Ecology is important also in lighting.
We have commented also the speech The Minister of the Interior in Finland.
Safety, also fire safety, is important. Target is, that Finland will be the most safe country in Europe in 2015.
AD-Lux has evaluated and photographed fire and other risks in the houses. Because of fire safety we should not use incandescent and halogen lamps any more.
We must consider more the light quality and safety of elderly people when planning houses.
Lighting is important for elderly people.
AD-Lux recommends light, where the eyes can see best. This is important for elderly people, who do not see in the warm toned light, which is common in houses. This causes unnecessery accidents. Daylight simulating lighting would help also in reading.
The manager of The Housing Fair told that we must consider also the climate change in living and building houses.
AD-Lux: We should not use lamps, which has bad effect on climate change and which use too much energy: these are incandescent lamps and halogens.
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