Warehouse Lighting Design using Dialux evo

Explore the theory of warehouse lighting design, covering warehouse types, key areas, and vertical lighting considerations to support safe operations for forklift operators, conveyors, tracking systems, and supervisors.

Explore the four main warehouse types—public, private, bonded, and government—and introduce eleven mini types, emphasizing lighting considerations such as explosion protection, climate control, and food-grade luminaire needs.

Explore how to tailor luminaire types for each warehouse area, from offices and receiving to dispatch, aisles, mezzanines, and open shelves, balancing illumination for security, accuracy, and workflow.

Identify key warehouse lighting design considerations before proposing solutions. Address retrofit or new installation, ceiling height, daylight integration, rack height, luminous spacing, lamp types, glare, sensors, and IP ratings.

Master vertical lighting for warehouses by ensuring evenly distributed illumination to reduce picking errors, using vertical calculation surfaces and false color checks to highlight rack-level lighting.

Discover how good lighting enhances energy efficiency, safety, and productivity in warehouses. Learn how durable, easy-to-install luminaires with sensors and daylighting deliver long-term savings and reduced maintenance.

Learn about warehouse luminaires like high bay, low bay, and linear fittings, plus food-grade, impact-resistant, and explosion-proof options for interior spaces.

Identify high bay luminaires for ceilings from 20 to 40 feet, with lumen outputs from 6,000 to 35,000 and beam optics around 20–30 degrees.

Learn to distinguish low bay and high bay luminaires in warehouse lighting design, and select the right luminaire based on ceiling height, drawing section, and mounting options.

Learn how linear fittings illuminate warehouses with fluorescent and LED luminaires, choosing low bay versus high bay, and considering lumen output, ceiling height, mezzanines, and IP40 or IP50 seals.

Identify food-grade luminaires for warehouses that stock or process food, ensuring chemical protection for both luminaires and food, per the Food Hygiene Act.

Select impact resistant luminaires for vibration-prone warehouse areas and verify data sheets for impact resistance, noting diffusers of polycarbonate or modified acrylic and suitability for generator or machine rooms.

Learn how to select explosion proof luminaires for hazardous warehouse areas. Explore zone classifications (zone 1 to zone 3) and fittings for explosion proof applications.

Explores beam optics for warehouse lighting, including high bay and low bay, comparing narrow, wide, and asymmetrical distributions, and using luminaire data, uptake angles, and spacing to meet lux targets.

Introduce warehouse design standards from Iceni, SL Lighting Handbook, and CBC lighting guide, emphasizing industrial lighting, uniformity, glare control, and lux guidance across storage, corridors, and loading bays.

Explore CIBSE LG-01 industrial environment for warehouse lighting design. Apply lux targets: 150 lux for loading bays and 300 lux for packing areas, and use calculation grids to ensure uniformity.

Explore IESNA warehouse lighting standards across the ninth and tenth editions, compare foot candles and lux requirements, and apply these guides within the Dialux evo software for warehouse design.

Examine warehouse lighting design requirements from the SLA lighting handbook, including Chapter ten recommendations and a table of lux targets for automated and general areas.

Explore warehouse lighting concepts using Dialux evo, examining area requirements for sorting/picking, storage, working areas, mezzanines, shipping, and receiving, and how luminaires and lux targets guide design.

Identify each room’s function and apply the corresponding standard in Dialux evo, choosing Europa, USA, or Japan. No memorization required; use the drawing label to select the standard.

Explore exterior warehouse lighting design in dialux evo, using Area Flood Pro fixtures to achieve at least 50 lux on the loading zone, checking plan, elevation, and 3d view results.

Compress floodlight spacing from 10 m to 8 m and increase fixtures to reach 50 lux for the warehouse perimeter; ensure perimeter lighting, not wall lighting, and consider higher wattage.

Design indoor warehouse lighting using high bay and fluorescent fittings to ensure vertical illumination of racks. Create plan-view calculations to meet lux targets and strategic luminaire placement.

Select high bay fittings, set spacing and mounting height, and verify horizontal and vertical lux targets in Dialux evo to meet warehouse lighting requirements.

Explore warehouse lighting design using Dialux evo in an introductory, hands-on tutorial. Learn how to download, install, and use Dialux evo for warehouse layouts, with CAD files and project setup.

Identify client requirements for daylight, artificial lighting, and indoor outdoor lighting. Plan high bay on the main warehouse and liner on the sub warehouse; ensure 150 lux on the floor.

Clean the AutoCAD file by removing unnecessary layers and dimensions, purging unused layers, and keeping essential sheets (roof, floor plan, elevations) for the Dialux evo workflow.

Explore room build-up in Dialux evo by importing floor plans, setting meters, building a warehouse layout, labeling rooms, and preparing lighting calculations for indoor spaces.

Create and arrange warehouse racks and open shelving, add doors, windows, skylights, and roof in Dialux evo, using box methods and SketchUp or 3D Warehouse objects for lighting design.

Import elevation plans and add apertures: doors, windows, and skylights by drawing and sizing in plan and 3d views. Design shed and gabled roofs with heights to finalize warehouse.

Learn a fast method in Dialux evo to create warehouse facade lighting by turning a PDF image into textures, adding cutouts, and placing floodlights to meet 50 lux.

Prepare horizontal and vertical calculation surfaces, offset them from walls, and set point densities for accurate lighting calculations. Then select luminaries to finalize warehouse lighting design in dialux evo.

Insert luminaires and select suitable units using indoor filters and loom search, adjusting beam, height, and optics to meet warehouse lux targets through iterative layout and calculations.

Explore warehouse lighting design calculations in Dialux evo, testing luminaire options and bounce, to achieve target lux and uniformity with Philips fittings and linear luminaires.

Design outdoor warehouse lighting with perimeter floodlights and security bulkheads. Model with dialux evo, create exterior calculation surfaces, and verify 50 lux targets.

Generate the warehouse lighting pdf report by creating 3d views and images, configuring the cover page and logo, then export and save with calculation objects, luminaire layouts, and data sheets.

Create a daylight calculation scene for a warehouse, set a clear sky at 3 o'clock, evaluate skylight placement, then combine daylight with dimmed artificial lighting to meet LEED criteria.

Learn to generate a pdf daylighting calculation report for a warehouse by combining daylight with artificial lighting to meet lux targets, assess skylight coverage, and export CAD files.

Export the luminaire-focused CAD file from Dialux evo by selecting luminaries and calculation surfaces, choosing AutoCAD 2010, and exporting as a new file; prepare a client-ready, color-coded PDF on A3.

Create precise dimensions and pdfs for warehouse lighting layouts, using decimal precision, meters suffixes, and center references to meet installer needs, with luminaire lists exportable to Excel.

Explore lighting control in industrial spaces, from manual switches and dimmers to automated sensors and timers, to improve energy efficiency, visibility, ambiance, carbon emissions, and financial savings.

Explore how warehouse lighting uses time-based, occupancy, daylight harvesting, and alarm triggers, from manual to network controls, with motion sensors as the simplest, most common solution.

Explore grouping and layout for warehouse lighting control in Dialux evo, wiring luminaire networks, sensor zones, and energy calculations to estimate savings and emissions.

Evaluate project quantities for a Carrefour warehouse, confirming lighting counts with area-based calculations and simple simulations, including cold storage, dark corridors, ablution and prayer room zones, and main storage.