COMcheck Lighting Compliance for a Multifamily Apartment Building, Minnesota
61% better than code, interior lighting
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COMcheck Lighting Compliance for a High-Rise Law Office Fit-Out, Minnesota
Before founding Analemma, Tejesh Bagul, PE prepared the COMcheck interior lighting compliance for a three-floor law office fit-out in a downtown Minneapolis tower. The alteration came in 13% below the allowed lighting power.
13% below
allowed interior lighting power
27
space groups, Space-by-Space
3 floors
alteration in an occupied tower
The challenge
A law firm was reworking three full floors: private offices, open offices, a boardroom, conference rooms, lobbies, curved corridors, storage and a cafe. Some existing fixtures stayed, and new LED fixtures were added, so the compliance had to account for a mix of LED, fluorescent and incandescent lighting.
What Tejesh delivered
- Grouped every room on all three floors into 27 space groups, each tied to a space type with its own allowance.
- Entered each fixture line by space, including LED troffers, decorative pendants, wall washers, downlights, linear LED and the existing fixtures that stayed.
- Used the Space-by-Space Method so the cafe, lobbies and boardroom earned the allowances their uses call for, instead of a single office-wide number.
- Issued the COMcheck report with the construction documents so the permit set and the compliance matched.
The result
The interior lighting passes: 33,219 W proposed against 38,080 W allowed, 13% below the limit, even with existing fluorescent and incandescent fixtures kept in the design.
Technical details
- Project: Commercial office, tenant fit-out of three upper floors in a high-rise tower
- Compliance path: Space-by-Space Method, 27 space groups
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: Commercial
- Project type: Office
- Area: About 38,000 sq ft
- Location: Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Codes and standards: 2012 IECC, alteration
- Software: COMcheck 4.0
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