COMcheck Lighting Compliance for a High-Rise Law Office Fit-Out, Minnesota
13% below allowed interior lighting power
Residential · Multifamily · COMcheck Compliance · Founder experience
COMcheck Lighting Compliance for a Multifamily Apartment Building, Minnesota
Before founding Analemma, Tejesh Bagul, PE prepared the COMcheck interior and exterior lighting compliance for a new multifamily apartment building. Interior lighting came in 61% better than code and exterior lighting 66% better.
61% better
than code, interior lighting
66% better
than code, exterior lighting
416
fixtures across 9 LED types
The challenge
A new apartment building needed lighting compliance for both the building and the site. Inside, the common areas used nine LED fixture types. Outside, the lighting covered a parking lot, a driveway, walkways, building entries and a feature area, each with its own allowance under the code.
What Tejesh delivered
- Scheduled all nine interior LED fixture types in COMcheck, 416 fixtures in total, against the multifamily lighting power allowance.
- Broke the site into six exterior categories (parking, driveway, walkways, main entry, other doors, feature area) and assigned each fixture to the right one.
- Used tradable wattage across the exterior categories, as the code allows, and kept the full result inside the allowance.
- Completed the inspection checklist for controls: automatic shutoff, occupancy sensors, daylight zones and exterior lighting controls.
The result
Both certificates pass. Interior lighting: 13,099 W proposed against 33,542 W allowed, 61% better than code. Exterior lighting: 1,175 W proposed against 2,899 W allowed, 66% better than code.
Technical details
- Project: Multifamily, new construction apartment building with surface parking
- Compliance path: Interior: Building Area Method, multifamily. Exterior: Lighting Zone 2
- Deliverable: COMcheck interior and exterior lighting compliance certificates with inspection checklist
At a glance
- Client type: Architect
- Our role: Founder experience: COMcheck lighting compliance by Tejesh Bagul, PE, at his previous firm, before founding Analemma
- Scope: COMcheck Compliance
- Market type: Residential
- Project type: Multifamily
- Location: Southern Minnesota
- Codes and standards: 2012 IECC
- Software: COMcheck 4.0
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