James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2000

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TR5002:03

Lighting Design

Townsville

39 contact hours. First and second semester. On-campus and flexible delivery.

Review daylighting and artificial lighting design theory and techniques, discuss critical issues for lighting in tropical built environments including the importance of spectral shifts in energy with respect to external glazing and localised glare and radiant heat gain in original designs as well as correcting existing defective designs.

Learning Objectives:

  1. ability to design energy efficient daylighting and artificial lighting appropriate to built environments in the tropics;
  2. ability to correct defective daylighting and artificial lighting design in built environments in the tropics.

Assessment by essay (60%); examination (40%).


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