Embracing the Power of Indirect Lighting for Healthcare with The Lighting Quotient
Special Training Event for NY Specifiers - January 22-23rd
Indirect lighting is one of the most powerful ways we can transform healthcare spaces into welcoming environments. In a healthcare facility patients are often left in vulnerable positions, lying on their backs or reclined looking directly into lighting fixtures.
Using performance indirect lighting to create shadow free luminous spaces can improve patient experiences in numerous ways.
Calming environment for patients with sensory disorders
As sensory disorders become much more commonly diagnosed we are learning just how many people deal with these issues. The rhythmic patterns of bright and dark in the ceiling created by 2x2 troffers or commercial downlights can be triggering for patients with sensory issues. Soft lighting with indirect sources eliminate this issue.
Shadow free illumination for consistent examination environments
Well designed indirect lighting can create nearly shadow free examination environments by creating luminous ceilings that cast light over an entire working space.
Solving low plenum situations
Healthcare environments are notorious for their low plenum heights. Within those plenum spaces there are often multiple systems running through the ceiling each critical to patient care. Whether the design calls for lighting walls or ceilings, perimeter lighting makes space management much easier.
There so many ways indirect lighting and creating luminous surfaces can make healthcare spaces better, but it takes performance indirect lighting to create the right light levels, color consistency and stay within energy code.
The plan - January 22nd and 23rd
Myself and several of my SDA colleagues are hosting a trip to the The Lighting Quotient to look at their new luminaires specifically in the context of improving healthcare lighting. This January the trip will take place on Wednesday afternoon with train rides up to New Haven, CT (home of TLQ) that evening we'll have dinner and get to know the team. The next day we'll get to the factory and learn get to see the indirect lighting or Elliptipar in action. We'll head back to NY by the mid afternoon.
Interested? Shoot me an email and let me know so we can get you on the list.
