
Learn emergency lighting design for anti-panic core areas over 60 m², applying 0.5 lux minimum with a 0.5 m perimeter offset, and placing luminaires at exits, toilets, lifts, and corridors.
Identify the two emergency lighting power sources—batteries (including UPS) and generators—and distinguish self-contained, central battery systems, and generator placements to ensure reliable performance during power failures.
Learn to obtain photometric files for emergency lighting: loom search with filters, brand plugins for offline access, or download catalogs via Deluxe Evo brands tab or brand websites.
Master Dialux evo basics with hands-on tutorial, from preparing rooms and selecting luminaires to running emergency lighting calculations and exporting layouts to AutoCAD, with a bonus on relaxed and AGI32.
Extract the emergency lighting calculation report in Relux for client submittals by selecting essential pages, including the first page and table of contents, using A4 layout and emergency file naming.
Identify mandatory emphasis points for emergency luminaires—final exits, exit signs, intersections, stairs, toilets, and lifts—and apply correct signage formats and minimum illuminance per BS 5266 part seven of 1999.
This course is for lighting designers and other professionals who want to learn the basics of Emergency Lighting Design.
This course will teach you how to run the EMERGENCY lighting design calculations using Dialux evo software.
In this course, you will learn the theory behind the need for emergency lighting and its lighting standard requirements from CIBSE and other local legislations.
Below are the contents of this course:
— Legislation and Standards
— Forms of Emergency Lighting
— Design Approaches
— Emergency Lighting Equipment
— Scheme Planning
— Emergency lighting for escape routes
— Safety signs and points of emphasis
— Positioning of calculation surfaces into staircases
— Emergency lighting for anti-panic areas
— Results and documentation of emergency lighting
— Showing actual projects
— What are the considerations in designing emergency lighting?
— Hands-on tutorial using Dialux evo and AutoCAD
This is an online course for emergency lighting calculation according to EN 1838 with more than 2 hours of video training.
There are training materials inside the course which you can freely download. These are the AutoCAD file and Dialux evo files. Just look for the additional resources tab to download it.
This course has lifetime access, therefore, you can come back and watch the videos as you please, by selecting the topics which are important to you.