This book explores the single components that commonly constitute luminaires for interiors, describing their operating principles, families, strengths and weaknesses. It opens with the product classification and main standard requirements. The following chapters describe the different components: light sources, power supplies, thermal dissipation techniques, control technologies, optical system…
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human health, considering both psychological issues and bringing together a range of resarch in the field As w are becoming increasingly conscious of global warming and pushing towards energy eficiency in buldings, the book examines the question of daylaighting from the perspective of the health of building occupants. It gathers and review all the latest and partinent medical and architectura…