Single Family

5. Energy Efficiency

5.3a Efficient Lighting: Interior

Mandatory

Install ENERGY STAR® labeled lighting fixtures or ENERGY STAR Advanced Lighting Package in all interior units and ENERGY STAR or high-efficiency commercial grade fixtures in common areas and outdoors.

Green Communities Recommended Resources

ENERGY STAR Lighting

Green Communities and the Green Communities Criteria are a national initiative of Enterprise Community Partners to transform the affordable housing sector. For more information go to www.greencommunitiesonline.org

Minnesota Overlay

In addition to everything detailed under this item in the national Green Communities Criteria, add:

The Energy Star Advanced Lighting Package includes "lighting packages that consist of a minimum of 60% ENERGY STAR qualified hard-wired fixtures."

The use of large windows will increase the use of daylight in the home, decrease the usage of electrical lighting, and provide greater visual connections to outdoor space and neighborhood streetscape

Important Considerations

Specifications

26 50 00 (16500) Lighting
Specify lighting fixtures or the ENERGY STAR Advanced Lighting Package in all interior units, and specify ENERGY STAR or high-efficiency commercial grade fixtures in all common areas and outdoors.

The information above refers to the Construction Specification Institute's (CSI) MasterFormat. The numbers listed above refer to some of the most relevant but not all of the possible MasterFormat sections related to this strategy. The 6-digit numbers refer to the newer 2004 MasterFormat edition. Numbers in parenthesis refer to the older 1995 edition.

Other Resources

Publications and Links

See full list of recommended resources and links in our library.

Tools

ENERGY STAR maintains a rebate finder for identifying local rebates and incentives for purchasing ENERGY STAR appliances.

Related Strategies

E1c: Integrate daylighting with efficient electric lighting

Related Scales

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