British Standard for Lighting (BS5489)

Our training is available as an online, flexible learning course.

This online training course introduces you to the substantial changes the new British Standard for Lighting BS5489 has brought.
A new and comprehensively updated BS 5489 Part 1 was published on 31 December 2020, and this CPD seminar will inform lighting professionals of the changes in this important document.

The British Standard provides guidance on all aspects of the design of road and public amenity lighting, including passive safety, sustainability, variable lighting, scotopic and photopic ratios and risk assessments. This educational seminar also includes the draft proposals for EN13201, conflict areas and the latest research on mesopic vision and what action lighting professionals must take.

What You Will Learn

1. BRITISH STANDARD

Introduction to BS5489-1
Introduction to BS EN 13201 (Draft proposed changes)
Reasons for road lighting
Environmental considerations
Energy considerations
Design strategy and lighting classification – Risk Assessment
Variable lighting for subsidiary roads
Variable lighting for traffic routes

2. WHEN DOES A HIGHWAY BECOME A CONFLICT AREA?

The purpose of a conflict area
Determining the lighting class
What is and is not a conflict area
Size of a conflict area
Worked examples of achieving those results using Lighting Reality (questions from the delegates will be encouraged)

3. UNDERSTANDING MESOPIC VISION

Basic understanding of the CIE photometry
Awareness of the research behind the changes
Changes from currently dropping a lighting class to dropping the light levels required based on the light source S/P ratio
What roads/areas does it apply to

Course Availability: Instant access. Content available for 30 days from purchase.
Course Length: 12 videos, totally approx 5 hours, plus extra time for assessment
CPD Hours: 5 hours

A Course Essential For

Designers of lighting schemes
Managers with responsibility for lighting design
Policy makers
Specifiers
Newcomers to lighting design and those who need to update their skills to the latest thinking
This course is suitable for participants with all levels of experience and prior training, whether you need a refresher, want the latest on the changes to BS5489-1 or those looking for an appreciation of basic road lighting standards.

Venue

Please register your interest for future events by emailing [email protected].

Tutor Profile

Experience

With over 30 years in the street lighting industry, mainly as a consultant and designer, Nick has a wide range of experience in lighting and electrical design. Nick is Managing Director of Nick Smith Associated Limited acting as an independent consultant in the exterior lighting industry since 2004. Prior to that, he was Technical Director at Harttron and Street Lighting Manager at Scott Wilson. Both these roles involved providing lighting design for section 38, Section 278 to developers and Highway Agency (now Highways England) projects also advised on invest to save schemes, energy reduction strategies, highway improvement schemes and public realm improvements.

He has been involved in providing lighting design training since 2002 in the use of Lighting Reality, AutoCAD and lighting standards like BS5489-1 and all parts of EN13201.
Nick was involved in the development of Lighting Reality design software until early 2020.
Nick is an experienced lighting engineer in road lighting, street lighting and other exterior lighting applications as well as the design of the associated electrical systems to support the street lighting system like cable networks and feeder pillar layouts.

He is a past Chairman of the Midlands Region Institution of Lighting Professionals (ILP) and represents the LDC Birmingham at national level, has been a tutor on the ILP Exterior Lighting Diploma. Nick has spoken at a number of ILP national events as well as events in the United States working with the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) for the street and area lighitng conferences (SALC) in Denver and Los Angeles as well as Lightfair in Las Vegas and New York.

He was chair and author of the panel that produced the ILP document PLG 03 on Conflict areas and the had input into the Guidance Note 08/18 Bats and Artificial Lighting document released by the ILP and Bat Conservation Trust in 2018.

Nick worked with the ILP technical committee on a revision to Technical Report 12 on Lighting for pedestrian crossings and an update of bats and artificial lighting document. He is also chairing a revision to EN13201-3 expected to be released in 2021. Nick has been involved in the preparation of BS5489-1:2020 and the 2013 editions and EN13201 released in 2003 and 2015.