Wave Illumination, an internal startup of Ocean Insight, has teamed with the global engineering and consulting firm Arup to monitor lighting for customers constructing and maintaining healthy building environments.
With increased corporate interest in wellness, the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) has developed lighting guidelines as part of its WELL Building Standard (WELL, for short). They aim to quantify and standardize one aspect of employee wellness in the workplace. WELL ensures lighting has been designed to aid circadian rhythms, which regulate sleep, contributing to increased wellness for building occupants.
Equivalent Melanopic Lux (EML) is the key metric of the circadian lighting design section of WELL. Currently, EML measurement requires time-consuming and complicated calculations. These complex calculations, coupled with the laborious nature of commissioning individual lights (a type of quality assurance process), makes assessing the EML of lighting especially cumbersome.
The introduction of the WELL lighting guidelines has created a need for companies like Arup to measure lighting installations effectively, and offer clients peace of mind that their architectural projects are in adherence with IWBI standards.