Outdoor Lighting Pattern Book

Featuring ready-to-use lighting patterns from the international authority, this time- and cost-saving resource provides architects, landscape architects, lighting designers, facilities managers, and building professionals with all the practical information and expert guidance needed to design quality, energy-efficient outdoor lighting for all types of residential and commercial spaces. Filled with hundreds of color photographs, artist's sketches, and site plans, the book offers proven solutions for the typical design, upgrade, and redesign of sites ranging from shopping centers to office parks, from high-rise to garden apartments, and from parking lots to alleys. Each easily adpated pattern contains basic site information: details on the location, types, and light distribution of the location, types, and and light distribution of the fixtures used; and a full performance summary, including annual operating cost and security and appearance ratings assigned by a panel of experts. Complete descriptions of common lamps and luminaries are also provided, as well as useful application tips.