Condições de iluminação em ambientes de uma escola de educação profissional de São José dos Pinhais

Abstract

The concerns of light and environments has always been an important issue for mankind from its earliest times. Nowadays it is widely discussed in multiple Engineering areas. The working place and the environment’s lighting conditions should provide welfare to the working person in order to improve his/her productivity. A pleasant working environment begins with the appropriate lighting, this comfort is required since modern life means that most workers pass around eight hours or more at work. It is extremely important to review and to evaluate the lighting conditions of working environments, as the actual legislation requires one to have adequate natural or artificial lighting to perform his/her activities. The main objective of this monograph is to analyze lighting levels in three specific environments of a Professional Education School and compare the obtained values with the reference values established by ABNT NBR ISO/CIE 8995-1/2013. The chosen methodology is characterized as a field research and during the execution three environment studies were conducted using a quantitative approach. In all evaluated environments was observed that there were specific places where the illuminance measured values were below the recommended value by the ABNT NBR ISO/CIE 8995-1/2013. As a result, these sites are running the risk of placing accidents and tasks wich require concentration and high visual acuity can lead to a stressful and uncomfortable eyestrain. Recommendations are proposed in order to adequate these environments such as redesigning lighting project, installation of located lighting, layout restudy, among others.