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Ene 03 External lighting

Number of credits available

Minimum standards

No

Aim
To recognise and encourage the specification of energy-efficient light fittings for external areas of
the development.

Assessment Criteria
The following is required to demonstrate compliance for:

One credit

1. All external fittings, where provided, within the construction zone meet the
lighting requirements as given in Table 11. External lighting requirements by
location.
2. External light fittings are controlled through a time switch, or daylight sensor,
to prevent operation during daylight hours. Daylight sensor override on a
manually switched lighting circuit is acceptable

Table 11 External lighting requirements by location

Light fittings
measured in lamp
lumens/circuit Watt,
when:

LED luminaires
where the lamp is
integral to the fitting
measured in
luminaire
lumens/circuit Watt,
when:

External lighting location

Colour
rendering
index
(Ra)
60

Colour
rendering
index
(Ra) <
60

Colour
rendering
index
(Ra)
60

Colour
rendering
index
(Ra) <
60

Building, access ways,

pathways

50

60

40

50

Car parking, associated roads,

floodlighting

70

80

55

60

Lamp
wattage
25W

Lamp
wattage
< 25W

Lamp
wattage
25W

Lamp
wattage
< 25W

60

50

50

50

Signs, uplighting

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Compliance Notes
Ref Terms

Description

CN1 Shell
Typically external lighting will be specified and installed by the developer
and not the future tenant. If external lighting will be specified and installed
Only/Speculative
developmentsby the tenant, then compliance can be demonstrated via one of the
following available means:
1. Option 1 Use of a tenancy lease agreement
between the developer and tenant/s (full value of
available credits)
2. Option 2 A Green Building Guide for tenant fit outs
(half the value of the available credits)
3. Option 3 Developer/Tenant collaboration (full value
of available credits)
Refer to Appendix D BREEAM New Construction and shell and
core/speculative assessments of this Scheme Document for further
description of the above options. If responsibility for the external lighting
specification and installation is shared by each party (developer and
tenant), then compliance can be demonstrated via a combination of the base
build design drawings/site inspection and one of the above options. Note;
where option two is used as a means of demonstrating compliance in this
manner, only half the value of the credits available can be awarded.
CN2 Extensions
to
existing
buildings

Refer to the guidance below for single building assessments on

large existing developments/campuses.

CN3 Single
Where the building being assessed forms part of larger development
building
(or is an extension to an existing building) containing common areas
assessments and other buildings, the scope of the external lighting criteria apply
on larger
only to external new and existing lighting within the construction
developments/zone of the assessed building.
campuses
CN4 No
external
lighting
specified

The credit can be awarded where the building is designed to operate

without external lighting, including external lighting on the building,
signs and at entrances.

CN5 Decorative Decorative lighting and floodlighting must not be exempt from the
and
assessment criteria although temporary lighting such as theatrical,
floodlighting stage or local display installations, where specified, may be
excluded.
CN6 MultiFor buildings with self-contained dwellings also being assessed under the
Code for Sustainable Homes (CSH), the following applies:
residential
developmentsWhere the external space lighting credit for issue Ene 6 of the CSH has
been achieved, the credit available for issue Ene 03 of the Multi-residential
with
scheme is also achieved for the same external areas. Any external space
CSH
lighting outside of the scope of CSH issue Ene 6, but within the wider
assessed
scope of the Multi-Residential scheme, must comply with the requirements
dwellings
of either CSH issue Ene 6 or BREEAM issue Ene 03 to achieve the credit.
Where there are no self-contained dwellings in the building requiring a
separate CSH assessment or where credits are not sought for CSH issue
Ene 6, the BREEAM Multi-residential credit can only be awarded where
the BREEAM Multi-residential issue requirements have been met for all
relevant external lighting.

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Ref Terms

Description

CN7 Prisons
and
other
secured
buildings
security
lighting

The criteria are concerned only with general external lighting e.g.
way-finding, car parking, decorative, signage, landscape, storage
areas etc. Lighting specified for specific security purposes within
secured buildings, such as prisons, does not need to be assessed
against the BREEAM criteria.

Schedule of Evidence
Ref

Design stage

Post-construction stage

All

Relevant section/clauses of the

building specification or contract
Design drawings
Where relevant for multi
residential buildings;
Evidence in line with the Design
Stage evidence requirements of
CSH issue Ene 6 OR
A copy of the Design Stage CSH
certificate and report from the CSH
online reporting system confirming
the number of credits achieved for
CSH issue Ene 6.

BREEAM Assessors site

inspection report and photographic
evidence AND/OR As built
drawings
Manufacturers product details
Where relevant for multi
residential buildings;
Evidence in line with the Post
Construction Stage evidence
requirements of CSH issue Ene 6
OR
A copy of the Post Construction
Stage CSH certificate and report
from the CSH online reporting
system confirming the number of
credits achieved for CSH issue Ene
6.

Additional information
Relevant definitions
Colour rendering index (Ra)
A measure, between 0 and 100, of the ability of a lamp to reproduce the colour of
objects in comparison to their aspect under a natural or reference source of light. An
incandescent source has a Ra of 100 and a low pressure sodium source a Ra of 0
(see below for further information on colour rendering).
Construction zone
For the purpose of this issue the construction zone is defined as the site which is
being developed for the BREEAM-assessed building and its external site areas i.e.
the scope of the new works.
Daylight sensors
A type of sensor that detects daylight and switches lighting on at dusk and off at
dawn.
Luminous efficacy in lamp Lumens per circuit Watt
The ratio between the luminous flux produced by a lamp (in Lumens) and the total
power consumed by both the lamp and its associated control gear (in Watts).

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Time switch
A switch with an inbuilt clock which will allow lighting to be switched on and off at
programmed times.

Checklist and Tables

None

Calculation procedures
None

Other information
Colour Rendering
At night time, the sensitivity of the eye is shifted towards the blue region of the visual spectrum. As
a result, lamps with poor colour rendering index, such as some sodium lamps that emit light between
the yellow and red region of the visual spectrum, require more luminous output to light an object
with the same level of brightness than a source with better colour rendering index. Sources with a
poor colour rendering index also make the differentiation of coloured objects more difficult for
individuals.
In BS 5489-1:2013 Code of practice for the design of road lighting - Part 1: Lighting of roads and
public amenity areas1, this is acknowledged by allowing a relaxation of the lighting levels
(illuminance levels) required when the source specified has a colour rendering index Ra greater than
or equal to 60.
The colour rendering index requirement means compliance with this issue using sources of light with
a poor colour rendering index is harder to achieve than those with an index greater than or equal to
60. Other benefits of using sources with an index greater than 60 include an increased feeling of
safety for individuals, making recognition of spaces and other individuals easier. In areas where
CCTV is used, the colour rendering index of lighting sources is critical; an Ra value of at least 80 is
recommended (but not required by BREEAM).

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