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Regulating Natural Lighting and Ventilation of Residential Buildings in Hong Kong Policy Implications for High-rise, High-density Housing Environments in South Korea

  • Seo, Bokyong;Kim, Sung-Hwa;Lee, Jae-Hoon
    • Architectural research
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.81-92
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    • 2014
  • This study discusses the features of the lighting and ventilation regulations for residential buildings in Hong Kong. Given the compact built environment and public concerns about the environmental quality of housing, various lighting and ventilation regulations have been enacted in Hong Kong. The application of building regulations on the micro scale and incentive systems on the macro scale are present, and the governments' calls for more active participation of the private sector and use of the building environmental assessment tools were also noted. Unlike South Korea, however, Hong Kong was found to adopt more performance-based standards, consider the external factors of the lighting and ventilation conditions together with the indoor elements, and provide specific design guidelines. Notwithstanding the different climatic conditions and socio-political contexts of Hong Kong and South Korea, these findings provide some policy implications for the South Korean government in its efforts to achieve a healthy environment for high-rise, high-density housing. It is suggested that the South Korean government adopt more on-site measurement methods to reflect the environmental conditions accurately and broaden the scope and scale of the implementation of the lighting and ventilation regulations with more specific, practical planning and design guidelines.

Fatigue of tubular steel lighting columns under wind load

  • Peil, U.;Behrens, M.
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.5 no.5
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    • pp.463-478
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    • 2002
  • Lighting and traffic signal columns are mainly stressed by excitation due to natural, gusty wind. Such columns typically have a door opening about 60 cm above ground level for the connection of the buried cable with the column's electric system. When the columns around this notch are inadequately designed, vibrations due to gusty winds will produce considerable stress amplitudes in this area, which lead to fatigue cracks. To give a realistic basis for a reliable and economic design of lighting and traffic signal columns, a number of experimental and theoretical investigations have been made. The proposed design concept allows the life of such columns to be assessed with a satisfactory degree of accuracy.

Development of Daylighting System with Modified Light Pipe for Longer Transmission Distance and Higher Illuminance

  • Vu, Hoang;Kim, Youngil;Park, Chaehwan;Park, Jongbin;Bae, Hojune;Shin, Seoyong
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.93-102
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    • 2021
  • In this research, we present a natural lighting system with transmission distance of 30m and lighting efficiency of 35% (30m standard) for operating hours of 7h/day (based on clear sky). The system is composed of parabolic reflective mirror and modified light pipe that can secure more than 88% of light concentration efficiency. The light loss rate of newly designed light pipe transmission system is demonstrated to 0.8 %/m in the straight-line part and 2%/m in the curved part. Modified light pipe daylighting system shows better performance over fiber optic daylighting system in terms of transmission distance (1.5 times longer) and illuminance (3.05 times higher).

Comparison with Perception of Interaction between Finishing Materials and Lighting according to Preference of one's Spatial Sensitivity (공간감 선호에 따른 조명과 마감재 인터랙션의 지각정도 비교 분석)

  • Seo, Ji-Eun
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.42-50
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze the change of perception and to measure the degree of interaction between the lighting and the finishing materials according to preference types and the impacted factors to the spatial sensitivity of users. To do that, the this change was grasped through the experiment with Likert Scale and ANOVA of SPSS program to the simulated images. The result of this study is as following. Firstly, the personal difference in the perception of space comes from 'attention' in information processing process. The degree of the perception of users change strongly by lighting in the space expressed the 'modern natural'. Secondly, the atmosphere and the degree of perception are different in the preference of users to the spatial sensitivity and in impacted factors which are thought by users in the space sensitives. The users who prefer the 'decoration' feel the mood more strongly in the space. But the users who prefer the 'active' and 'intimacy' are opposite to that. The difference to the degree of perception is greater in the 'classic natural' than the others under the lighting turns on. Thirdly, an in-depth research which is considered of the interaction among the various factors is needed for finding the design methods for inducing the sensitivity of users in the space. And the ranking of the impacted factors should be understanded and applied to the research regarding the changes of perception in the space. Finally, this study has the limitation to be adapted to all of the situation for the space design methods. But this will be a basic data to study the design methods for users's sensitivity in the space.

Research about Lighting Fixtures Development to the 300W Class PLS (300W급 광원을 이용한 조명기기디자인개발에 관한 연구)

  • Hwang Min-Ku;Shin Hyeon-Jeong;Yun Bong-Shik
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.103-111
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    • 2005
  • By international lighting market's growth and domestic landscape lighting market's growth, the latest lighting market is activated. But, They are doing price competition that domestic lighting technology and development technology of lighting fixtures design do not possess international competitiveness than these change. Specially, as image of area and the country can be influenced greatly by cityscape at present visual point that many interests are converged country and identity establishment of local government, many cities are using force hereupon. Constructs which cityscape is various including natural ecology area of life environment gather and are done Image creation and this people's consciousness and culture living soon inside thing which do speaking by proxy be. Than city's night view nature lighting more than by spectacle lighting along with life lighting to basis materialize can. It is meaning more than thing that fine view of city becomes beautiful simply that night view of city becomes superior, that means that city efficiency and quality of life are exalted by a word. Wish to establish effective lighting technology and new product design process through PLS lighting technical development and 300 W lighting fixtures design development hereupon, and raise domestic spectacle lighting market's localization and domestic lighting market's competitive power furthermore.

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A Study on Lighting Design and Illumination and Luminance of in Advanced type Control Room by the Standard of Ergonomics - Focused on Ling Ao Phase II NPP MCR Environmental Design in Guangdong, China- (인간공학 기준에 의한 차세대형 주제어실 조명설계 및 조도 휘도 분석- 중국 광동 Ling Ao Phase II NPP MCR 환경디자인을 중심으로-)

  • Back, Seong-Kyung;Lee, Seung-Hoon
    • Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.73-82
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    • 2008
  • Currently an office in information society is advanced to a digitalized VDT office. The VDT office has a natural luminous system prioritizing visual perception and so importance of lighting design by artificial lighting is emphasized in the VDT office. The purpose of the study is to analyze Illumination and Luminance for lighting design by the standard of ergonomics in the VDT office. The study analyzed Illumination and Luminance in the main control room of an nuclear power plant needing a design of ergonomics ACR(Advanced Control Room) type Ling Ao phase II NPP MCR in Guangdong, China. The study examined the relativity of ACR characteristics to its operator's duties and set up an outline of lighting design, the standard of ergonomics and input data for the analysis. Thus, the study examined appropriateness with the standard of ergonomics setting up the analyzed Illumination and Luminance and drew a conclusion.

Implementation of an Automatic Sunrise Household Lighting System Using a PIC Microcontroller (PIC 마이크로컨트롤러를 이용한 가정용 자동해돋이 조명시스템 구현)

  • Kang Brian B.;Kang Chul-Goo
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.22 no.12 s.177
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    • pp.70-76
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    • 2005
  • It is known that natural awakening of us in the morning is due to stimulation of the reticular activation system through biological clock in the suprachiasmatic nucleus of hypothalamus by the morning sunlight. If we sleep at dark rooms without windows and so without morning sunlight, thus, it is not easy fur us to get up refreshingly in the morning. In this paper, we propose an automatic sunrise household lighting system that helps us fer getting up cheerfully in the morning even if we sleep in dark rooms without morning sunlight. The proposed lighting system is an embedded system that turns automatically on the electric lamp and makes it brighter and brighter coincidently with the actual sunrise. The proposed system is composed of a PIC microcontroller with flash memory, a real-time clock IC, a D/A converter, an amplifier, a dimmer unit, a light bulb, a display panel and a keyboard. The validity of the proposed intelligent lighting system is demonstrated via a prototype production and experimentation.

A Study to Suggest a Method to Evaluate Light Environment Energy Performance based on Actual Residence Environments (실거주환경 기반 빛환경 에너지 성능평가 방법 제안 연구)

  • Gim, Sang-Hoon;Lee, Heang-Woo;Kim, Yong-Seong
    • Journal of The Korean Digital Architecture Interior Association
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.33-39
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    • 2013
  • As lighting energy consumption in buildings occupies high ratio, technical researches to solve it have been constantly carried out. However, basic studies on light environment performance evaluation is actually deficient and only at a level of a simple illumination monitoring. Thus, this study has suggest a light environment energy performance evaluation based on actual residence environments to allow setting lighting interoperation and user required illumination. Conclusions from the study are as follows: 1) As the performance evaluation suggested by this study has not only derived lighting energy usage as well as monitored simple indoor illumination distribution, it is quantitative and allows derivation of visual results. 2) The performance evaluation suggested by this study allows inputs of user required illumination through the performance evaluation server, which is able to support for performance evaluations for various works and users. 3) This study has verified validity of the performance evaluation method by analyzing results of lighting energy reduction by executing performance evaluation on changes of light shelf that is a natural lighting system through the suggested performance evaluation method. This study is significant from a viewpoint that it has suggested a quantitative performance evaluation method on the basis of actual residence environments. Those researches concerned on the energy performance evaluation should be constantly progressed from an aspect that they are another solution of the energy problems.

A Study on Energy Savings Analysis by Controling LED Lighting according to the Change of the Amount of Daylight (주광량의 변화에 따른 LED조명 제어를 통한 에너지 절감량 분석에 관한 연구)

  • Ham, Won-Tae;Chae, Soo-Yong;Han, Soo-Bin;Kim, Heung-Geun;Jung, Hak-Guen
    • 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2012.03a
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    • pp.522-528
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    • 2012
  • Currently, the energy consumption of electric lighting in an office building is accounted for more than 30% of the total energy consumption. In order to reduce the energy consumed by the indoor lighting, the daylight as a natural energy resource can play an important role in energy savings. The daylight can have positive impacts on improvement of work efficiency and productivity, and also make people feel more psychologically stable. Moreover, by using the daylight, we can definitely reduce the energy consumption in office buildings. Thus, the purpose of this study is to determine the LED dimming ratio depending on the ratio by calculating the amount of artificial illumination required according to the change of daylight by using the light simulation software that can quantify and visualize the performance of daylight. As a result, the energy savings could be obtained up to 30%.

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Analysis of Mental Fatigue of Inspection Workers under Various Lighting Conditions (조명조건의 변화에 따른 검사작업자의 정신적 피로도 분석)

  • Jang, Tong-Il;Lim, Hyeon-Kyo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.21 no.2 s.74
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    • pp.114-120
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    • 2006
  • Inspection works are mainly carried out with the help of human sensory organs and are relatively simple and repetitive, so that the workers easily become to feel fatigue and monotony, and their mental activity levels attenuate. Consequently, during the work time, it is natural that various lighting conditions around the workplaces may have in-fluence on work performance. This study aimed to analyze cortical fatigue of inspection workers. Thus, an inspection work was simulated on a computer monitor under various lighting conditions, and CFF, EEG, EOG, and HRV were analyzed. According to the results, fatigue symptoms turned up about $60{\sim}90$ minutes after the onset of the work. The work performance also decreased when the fatigue symptoms due to lighting conditions turned up. The variations of fatigue and work performance were affected by illuminators, illumination levels, or interaction of those two factors. The spiral fluorescent lamp seemed improper to the inspection work, because the work performance under that condition was lower than under any other illuminators.