IES Footcandle Recommendations
Mail sorting.............................................50-100
Garages-Motor Vehicles
The following selected footcandle ranges
Off-set printing and
Storage............................................................5
represent the Illuminating Engineer Society’s
duplicating area........................................20-50
Traffic Lanes
(IES) current illuminance recommendations.
Spaces with VDT’s........................................75
Indiviudal applications will determing exact foot- Parking garage.............................................10
Service garage........................................10-20
candle levels. Please refer to the IES Lighitng
Entrances................. ...................................50 Paint Shop
Handbook for more detailed evaluation.
Spraying, rubbing,
Repair area...........................................50-100
hand art, stencil.......................................20-50
Airplane Manufacturing
Fine hand painting & finishing...............50-100
Drilling, riveting, screw fastening..................75 Gymnasiums
Final assemble, hangar...............................100 Assemblies....................................................10
Inspection...............................................50-200 General exercise & recreation......................30 Paper Manufacturing
Beaters, grinding......................................20-50
Welding.........................................................50 Exhibitions, matches.....................................50
Finishing, cutting....................................50-100
Hand couting..........................................50-100
Hospitals
Assembly
Paper manchine reel, inspection.........100-200
Rough easy seeing.................................20-50 Rooms......................................................10-30
Rewinder..............................................100-200
Rough difficult seeing............................50-100 Corridors....................................................5-30
Medium................................................100-200 Emergency rooms..................................50-100
Fine..................................................200-500(a) Operating rooms..................................100-200 Printing
Photo engraving,
Extra fine.......................................500-1000(a)
etching. blocking......................................20-50
Hotels
Color inspecting...................................100-200
Bathrooms................................................20-50
Auditoriums
Presses..................................................50-100
Social activities..........................................5-10 Bedrooms for reading..............................20-50
Proofreading........................................100-200
Assembly only..........................................10-20 Corridors, elevators and stairs.................10-20
Composing room...................................50-100
Exhibitions...............................................10-20 Front desk..............................................50-100
Linen room
Sewing................................................100-200 Schools
Automobile Manufacturing
Reading.................................................20-100
Final assembly, finishing, inspecting...........200 General...................................................10-20
Typing....................................................20-100
Body & chassis assembly...........................100 Lobby
Demonstrations...................................100-200
Body parts manufacturing...........................100 General lighting.......................................10-20
Sewing..................................................20-100
Frame assembly............................................50 Reading and
working areas.........................................20-50
Sheet Metal Works
Banks
General.......................................................100
Lobby general..........................................10-50 Iron & Steel Manufacturing
Tin plate inspection,
Writing areas............................................20-70 Stock, hot top, checker
galvanized, scribing.............................100-200
Teller stations, posting & keypunch.......50-150 cellar, calcining.......................................10-30
Building, slag pits, stripping yard..................20
Stores
Control platforms, repairs,
Barber Shops
Circulation area stockroom......................10-30
Beauty Parlors.......................................50-100 mixer building................................................30
Merchandising, serviced........................30-100
Rolling mills..............................................30-50
Merchandising, self-service........................200
Chemical Works............................................30 Shearing........................................................50
Tin plate.........................................................50
Motor room, machine room...........................30 Textile Mills
Clothing Manufacturer
Cotton picking, carding,
Inspection....................................................100
Receiving, storing, shipping,
roving, spinning.............................................50
winding, measuring..................................20-50
Beaming & slashing....................................150
Pattern making, trimming.......................50-100 Laundries
Drawing.......................................................200
Shops, marking......................................50-200 Washing...................................................20-50
Others.........................................................100
Cutting, pressing..............................100-500(a) Ironing....................................................20-100
Sewing, inspection...........................200-500(a)
Warehousing, Storage
Library
Inactive.......................................................5-10
Ordinary reading, stacks..........................20-50
Electrical Equipment Manufacturing
Active
Impregnating............................................20-50 Book repair and binding...........................20-50
Rough bulky............................................10-20
Insulating coil winding, testing...............50-100 Study & notes, cataloging,
Medium........................................................20
card files, check desk............................20-100
Fine.........................................................20-50
Food Service Facilities
Machine Shops
Dining areas
Cashier.....................................................20-50 Rough bench............................................20-50 Welding
General....................................................20-50
Cleaning...................................................10-20 Medium bench, rough
Dining.........................................................5-20 grinding, buffing.....................................50-100
Food displays.........................................30-100 Fine bench and work.......................200-500(a) Woodworking
Rough sawing and bench work...............20-50
Kitchen...................................................50-100
Sizing, planing, rough sanding,
Materials Handling
medium quality machine and
Loading trucking.......................................10-20
Foundries
bench work, gluing,
Annealing furnaces..................................20-50 Picking stock classifying..........................20-50
veneering, cooperage..............................20-50
Cleaning...................................................20-50 Wrapping, packing, labeling.....................20-50
Fine bench and machine work,
Core making...........................................50-200
fine sanding and finishing......................50-100
Offices
Inspection
Fine......................................................100-500 Accounting.............................................50-100
Medium..................................................50-100 Audio-visual areas....................................20-50 Footnotes:
(a) Obtained with a combination of general
Molding..................................................50-200 Conference areas....................................20-70
light plus specialized supplementary
Pouring, sorting.....................................50-100 Corridors, stairways..................................20(k)
lighting
Drafting..................................................50-200
General and private offices....................50-100
(k) Or not less than 1/5 the level in adjacent
Lobbies, lounges and
areas
reception areas..........................................0-20