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Lighting Options by Space or Area

Exteriors, Entrances, Garages & Parking Areas

When it comes of exterior lighting, you should judge a book by its cover. Your façade is your calling card. After dark,

exterior lighting turns your hotel into a landmark that people will recognize and be attracted to. It conveys an image of welcome comfort and security for arriving guests. It helps them navigate entrance drives and canopies, parking garages andwalkways. It creates a pleasing panorama for your guests to enjoy from the window of their rooms and transforms your gardens, terraces and walkways, into magical spaces for guests to walk through after dark. Take advantage of new lightingtechnologies from SYLVANIA and ensure that your guests’ first impression will be a positive one.

Design Tips:

Good exterior lighting should be energy efficient, provide stable color and require minimal maintenance. For architectural lighting, parking lots, garages, entrance canopies and loading docks, use SYLVANIA METALARC®discharge light sources. For landscapes, walkway, pool decks, use SYLVANIA METALARC® POWERBALL®ceramic metal halide lamps.,

Ensure that the exterior lighting design “blends” with the character and identity of the community surrounding

your property Select lamps and luminaires that will provide appropriate levels of illuminance and optical characteristics to direct

the light only where it is needed and away from guestroom windows.

Selecting high efficacy lamps and ballasts to achieve the greatest energy savings.

Save money with lighting controls that adjust illuminance levels, or switch off non essential lighting based onoccupancy, or time of night.

For more information, see our web pages on Street & Area Lighting

Guest Rooms & Suites

Guest rooms are one of the major commodities of a hospitality facility. Whether your guest is a business or leisure traveler,their room is one of the features that set your property apart from your competition. Since a hotel room must serve as a homeaway from home, wired remote hospitality, conference room, hospitality suite and AV and sales presentation room amongother functions, flexibility is needed in the lighting plan.

Design Tips:

The guest room or suite needs to accommodate a variety of personal and business related tasks. Adequate lightingfor these activities cannot be provided by general lighting alone. General illumination from ceiling or wall sconceluminaires provides the “base” layer for task lighting, helps housekeeping staff and provides flexible lighting for non residential use. Beyond that, a variety of general, accent, and decorative luminaires will be needed. In larger suites that accommodate business activities, guests must be able to control light levels and luminaire mix asneeded. Don’t forget that the desk top may be used for multiple tasks requirement different illuminance levels.

Traditionally, the predominant lamp types used were incandescent. Today, they have been replaced by compactfluorescent, halogen and LED retrofits that last many times longer and save significantly more energy. This is a

big advantage given that they are often left on even when the room is unoccupied. The small entrance foyer which is a typical part of a guest room should have its own surface mounted luminaires

that help enlarge the feel of the space by reflecting light off the walls or ceiling. Foyer lighting can be designed tolight closets, luggage racks and the foyer at the same time.

Self illuminated switches provide a convenience for guests entering an unfamiliar space. Low wattage night lightsand guide lights will avoid guests leaving higher wattage light sources turned on through the night.

Automated room controls that sense the presence of occupants or staff will provide additional energy savings.These systems switch off certain electrical receptacles and lower the thermostats when the space is unoccupied.

Guest Bathrooms

Grooming is the primary task in a guest bathroom. Light sources above or to the sides of mirror usually provide theillumination. When looking in the bathroom mirror, guests want shadow free lighting and accurate rendition of skin tones.



Design Tips:

The traditional T12 cool white linear fluorescent lamps still in use in many guest bathrooms make colors appear pale or washed out. SYLVANIA OCTRON® T8 and PENTRON T5 fluorescent lamps contain rare earth phosphors that yield a high color rendering index and make skin tones and hair color look more natural. They also

offer long life and energy savings Larger bathrooms are often designed with separate alcoves or partitioned rooms designated for toilets, tubs, shower

stalls or dressing areas. Each space should have its own lighting plan, with separately switched light sources for general illumination and for safety when closed off from the rest of the bathroom.

Shower enclosures in particular, require dedicated light sources for safety and egress. SYLVANIA CAPSYLITE®halogen, DULUX® compact fluorescent and ULTRA LED products offer long life, bright white illumination andreduced maintenance.

Corridors, Stairwells and Transition Areas

Lighting serves as a welcome guide in corridors, stairwells and transition areas, providing a bright atmosphere where there isusually no natural light. It helps guests find their way from the elevator to their rooms and promotes a feeling of safety byindicating emergency exits. Well-lit stairwells are a clear sign that hotel management holds the guests’ security in highregard.

Design Tips

Energy efficient, long life lighting products should always be used in these 24/7 spaces

Lighting should provide good facial recognition, and illumination of room numbers, directional signage and entrylocks.

Illuminance levels should be higher in room level elevator lobbies, especially at the elevator thresholds.

Consider bi-level controls paired with occupancy sensors in stairwells, vending and service areas and other less

frequently used spaces to provide full illumination when it’s needed and save energy when lower light levels willsuffice. You’ll save up to 30% in energy use without compromising guests’ comfort.

Guests sometimes find long corridors disorientating and claustrophobic. This “tunnel effect” often found in longcorridors should be minimized by creating areas of varying luminance on walls and ceilings Accent lighting onwall graphics, artwork, statues, planters, etc. makes these areas more invigorating and visually interesting.

Down lighting should be provided above recessed room entrance alcoves

Event and Conference Rooms

These are the most multi functional spaces in any hotel property, designed to accommodate meetings and events of all sizes.They are often contiguous to one another and separated by soundproof “air walls” which can be opened up to create bigger venues for galas, exhibitions, dining, dances, conventions and other large events. Functional and effective lighting isessential if people are to use their time as here productively as possible. These spaces require lighting that can be tailoredcreate the right ambience for the task at hand.

Design Tips:

These spaces call for a variety of luminaires and lighting technologies consisting of general, accent and decorativelighting to handle the many activities and tasks that take place there. For Large events and conferences will alsocall for high output theatrical and video luminaires and light sources.

A high degree of lighting switching, control and dimming is also required so that light levels, lighting effects andcombinations of different luminaires can be easily tuned or programmed by hotel staff as preset “scenes”depending on the activity or task.

Lighting for meetings, AV presentations, note taking and reading should follow the design guidelines set for

Conference and Meeting rooms in the Office Lighting section of our website. Adjustable accent lighting should be provided for speaker’s podiums, head table locations, as these will likely change from one event to the next.



Lobbies & Reception Areas

Lobbies can be small and intimate, expansive and luxurious or anything in between. This is where people come together to

meet, get information and interact. The main lobby is a showcase where the image and feel of a hotel is first introduced. Inthis high energy, high traffic space, flexible and functional lighting is a must both day and night.

Design Tips:

Lighting operates 24/7 in lobbies and often in high ceilings where re-lamping can be difficult, inconvenient andcostly. Consider the most energy efficient long life light sources, like SYLVANIA ULTRA LED retrofit lamps.

Lobby lighting should provide a safe outdoor-to-indoor transition, i.e. the ability of one’s eyes to adapt fromoutdoor to indoor lighting conditions.

Highly reflective lobby walls can be wall washed with light to provide illumination for the lobby and occupants.

For glass enclosed lobbies, the interior walls need to be at higher luminance in the day (to be seen from outside)and lower at night. Consider controlled dimming systems.

Hotel lobbies house a number of areas that can be differentiated and enhanced with appropriate lightingtechniques. These include: elevator lobbies, reception desk, lounge areas, bell captain and, concierges desks.

Where informational display screens are used, care should be taken to avoid distracting reflections from luminairesor high brightness surfaces.

The registration desk is a multi-task area. A high general lighting level will help guests locate and use this area,while local task lighting should be considered where display screens are in use.

Higher illuminance is suitable in elevator lobbies especially over the elevator threshold.

Restaurants, Lounges & Bars

Lighting enhances the guest experience. Creating the right ambiance for different needs is the lighting design goal of any in-house drinking and dining space whether it’s a cafe, martini bar, sports bar, or restaurant. These are places where peoplemeet, socialize and simply enjoy the experience. Today’s many choices of luminaires and light sources allow you to createdifferent lighting moods in the same space, from professional and refreshing during the day, to exciting and dynamic after dark.

Design Tips Lighting in dining establishments should be suited to the goals of the space:

Intimate restaurants, lounges and clubs require low levels of illuminance with subtly lighted focal areas such asentrance lobbies, maitre d’ stations and table and bar surfaces. Lighting should be uniform and controlled indistribution.

Leisure restaurants and dining rooms (the most prevalent type) require moderate illuminance levels and luminairesare usually unobtrusive, except where decorative luminaires might be used as part of the interior theme décor.Light levels should be higher in focal areas such as buffet tables.

Quick service restaurants including snack bars, coffee shops and franchise restaurants usually strive for fast andefficient customer turnover. Higher illuminance levels and uniform light distribution are usually the norm.

In any dining or drinking establishment, there should be adequate light levels for reading menus or reading labels

on bottles behind the bar. Light sources with a high color rendering index are important wherever food is being served so that everything

looks appetizing.

Where windows are present in restaurants, a daylight harvesting system can be used to save energy and extendlamp life.

In lounges, clubs and discos, SYLVANIA LED light sources and luminaires can be incorporated into just about anyarchitectural surface, feature or texture to create exciting and dynamic color combinations and scenes. SYLVANIA digitalcontrols give you total control over your LED systems to create both functional white light as well as warm and intimatecolor moods.

Back of House



In back of house areas such as kitchen, service hallways, laundries, housekeeping, maintenance, and refuse areas, welldesigned lighting helps to create a bright and hygienic atmosphere. Light levels should be bright enough to reveal dirt anddebris and provide a safe environment anywhere dangerous equipment or implements are being used. Good lighting reducesaccidents by revealing slippery floors, tripping hazards or other potentially dangerous situations. Many of these 24/7 areasare still lit with older T12 fluorescent luminaires that can be replaced with newer T8 and T5 systems for greater efficiencyand longer life.

Design Tips:

Lighting must eliminate shadows and provide illumination of vertical and horizontal surfaces for demandingmanual tasks.

Luminaires must be shielded or located so that there is no glaring light spill into adjacent dining areas whenkitchen doors are opened.

High color rendering light sources are important for all food preparation tasks.

In food prep and high moisture areas such as laundries or dishwashing areas, gasketed moisture proof luminairesare required to allow for easy disinfection and protection of the luminaire from accumulated dirt and splashedliquids.

Where open fluorescent lamps are in use above food prep or display areas, plastic protector sleeves should beapplied to the lamps to contain them in the event of breakage.

Direct and reflected glare can affect employee visual comfort and safety. Indirect or semi-indirect light, reflected

off the ceiling is preferable. Balance with task lighting directly above work surfaces. Bi-level controls paired with occupancy sensors allow for reduced illuminance levels or shutting down luminaires

when low traffic areas such as service hallways, laundries, storerooms, refuse rooms, etc. are unoccupied.

Measuring Success

In the world of hospitality, lighting must accommodate guests as well as the bottom line.

The success of any hotel depends on attention to details. In this highly competitive business, first impressions are critical.Hotel owners and operators must constantly strive to differentiate their properties, create a welcoming ambiance, serve their guests’ needs and increase profit margins while dealing with the present realities of increasing labor and utility costs .

There is no such thing as a “typical” hotel. There are properties of all types, ranging from cozy bed & breakfasts todowntown grand hotels to sprawling country club resorts and convention centers. The American Hotel and LodgingAssociation reported that in 2009, there were more than 50,800 properties* with just over 4.7 million rooms. 2009 hotel salesrevenue topped out at just over $127.2 billion.

Success means staying ahead of the competition in meeting and exceeding travelers expectations. From the business traveler seeking the amenities of the workplace, to the leisure traveler who wants to be pampered and entertained, today’s hotelguests are well educated in the range of options available to them and they comparison shop for lodging that measures up totheir lifestyle. For hotel owners and operators, that success is measured by room occupancy, a result of:

Building brand loyalty and preference,

Increasing repeat visits

Maximizing ADR (average daily rate) and RevPAR (revenue per available room)

Controlling operational costs

Good lighting is a critical component of the profitability equation. The right lighting creates an atmosphere that welcomesguests, enhances their visit and invites them to return – in short it helps ensure continued revenues. At the same time, smartlighting choices can significantly lower energy consumption and operational costs.

At OSRAM SYLVANIA, we see lighting as a valuable marketing tool that stimulates and maintains steady business. Our national account managers, commercial lighting engineers and sales professionals continually work to better understand your business and its changing needs. To help you reap all the possible cost benefits, our SYLVANIA Lighting Servicesorganization will work with you to assess your current system and specify upgrade and replacement options, to further boost

your profit margin. SYLVANIA lighting solutions will look as good to your guests as they do to your bottom line.



Lighting and Your Bottom Line

It’s critical that hotel owners understand how lighting can have a direct effect on their guests’ satisfaction as well as their own profitability, overhead, energy and disposal/recycling costs.

Hotels are 24/7 operations so even minor increases in operating efficiencies will result in significant savings. Installing or upgrading to more energy efficient, longer life lighting systems will result in reduced energy consumption and fewer lampreplacements. Longer replacement intervals mean less interruption of hotel operations and lower maintenance costs.

Hotel owners concerned about the cost of new lighting systems need to look beyond the initial capital investment andconsider the long-term benefits and ROI. Capital investments in lighting systems are small in comparison with RevPAR.Good lighting directly affects guest satisfaction and the contribution they make to your hotel’s annual revenue.

Total Cost of Lighting Ownership The Total Cost of Lighting Ownership (TCOO) of your hotel lighting systems is derived from:

Material Costs

The initial price of the lighting system and components. Remember that material costs are small compared tothe energy needed to operate the system.

Energy Costs The total per annum hours the system operates, multiplied by local kWh electric rateWhen choosing lamps, consider efficiency (lumens per watt), life, lighting control options. Inquire about energy incentivesfrom the local utility and government agencies.

Maintenance The ongoing cost of maintaining the system: labor, re-lamping, etc.Consider longer life products (e.g. extended life T5 and T8 fluorescent, ceramic metal halide, LEDs) with superior color stability and lumen maintenance to reduce labor/replacement costs and longer maintenance intervals.

Disposal/Recycling The cost of removal and disposal of lamps, ballasts luminaires and components at end-of-life in an environmentallyresponsible manner Consider longer life products.Contact SYLVANIA Lighting Services for all your property’s lamp recycling needs.

Energy and Sustainability

Managing Your Energy Costs

Reducing operating costs is a challenge in the hospitality industry where hotel owners must satisfy guest’s expectations for comfort and security without lowering quality of service. Guests expect to find all the comforts of home: long hot showers,climate control, well lit rooms and round-the-clock amenities, all of which consume energy.

According to the EPA, on average, America’s hotels spend close to $4 billion or $2,196 per available room for energy eachyear. Hotels are the fourth most intensive user of energy in the commercial sector.

Electricity accounts for the largest portion of a hotel’s annual energy budget. Lighting alone represents almost 25 percent of the total electricity consumed. In fact, lighting accounts for more than 40 percent of the total electric cost for a typical hotelroom. With energy costs in the U.S. averaging over $2 per square foot, there’s a tremendous and immediate opportunity for hotel owners to increase net revenue.

Reducing energy costs by just 10% is equivalent to:

ADR increase of $0.62 for limited service properties

ADR increase of $1.35 for full service properties



You can provide comfortable light levels for all your guests’ activities and reduce energy costs, simply by upgrading to or installing new energy efficient lighting systems from SYLVANIA.

Replace traditional incandescent lamps with DULUX® compact fluorescent lamps for up to 75% energy savingsand up to 10,000 hours life.

Replace traditional incandescent lamps with ULTRA LED retrofit lamps for up to 84% energy savings and up to

50,000 hours life. Replace traditional T12 fluorescent lighting systems with new high performance, SYLVANIA OCTRON® T8 and

PENTRON® T5 reduced mercury lamps and QUICKTRONIC electronic ballasts for up to 40% energy savingsand higher light levels.

Implement dimming and lighting controls systems for an additional 25% energy savings.

Lighting for the Sustainable Hotel In the face of rising energy costs, many hotels have adopted “green” strategies, implementing energy efficient technologiesand processes to save natural resources, reduce waste and protect the earth. Using environmentally preferable lightingsolutions can reduce the carbon footprint and impact of your properties.

Here are just a few reasons to use energy efficient, long life lighting products:

Sustainable operations consume fewer resources, which in turns leads to lower operating expenses and higher netoperating revenue.

New energy efficient lighting systems increase your property’s value.

Enhanced guest comfort and satisfaction. Today’s advanced lighting systems deliver more comfortableillumination, providing guests with the ability to select light levels that are suitable and comfortable for specificactivities. In many cases, they chose lower light levels, which translate into greater energy savings

Build brand loyalty with customers. Taking a leadership role in improving your building’s environmental“footprint” demonstrates leadership and commitment to social responsibility.

Give yourself credit for going green. Incentives may be available to building owners to help offset the financial investment in new energy efficient systems. Theseinclude:Allowing owners to use the money saved on energy bills to pay for the new systems.Utility incentive programs and Federal tax incentive and rebate programs.

Industry sustainability standards for commercial buildings A number of whole building rating systems have been developed to guide designers, architects and builders who incorporategreen building strategies. These rating systems include ENERGY STAR® for buildings, Green Globes® and Leadership inEnergy and Environmental Design (LEED®). SYLVANIA lighting system solutions can help you achieve and exceed manyof the criteria for each of these rating systems, including energy efficiency, controllability of systems and low mercurycontent.

Shed some light on your energy usage and save valuable time with our lighting assessment. Contact your SYLVANIA sales representative for a comprehensive analysis of your hotel’s lighting usage, includingrecommendations for every lamp, ballast and fixture in the building. Our lighting experts have the knowledge and experiencenecessary to properly evaluate your facility and help you choose lighting products that will yield both the greatest savingsand the highest levels of performance.

Best of all, our assessment will leave you with more time to tend to other pressing property management issues. There’snothing to lose and so much savings to gain.

At OSRAM SYLVANIA, environmental sustainability is a continuous initiative that is built into the way we do business.Meeting our needs today without compromising the resources needed by future generations, touches everything we do as acompany. It’s all about reducing environmental impact, a commitment that goes beyond our products to include how those products are used, how they are manufactured and how they are packaged and distributed. Whether you’re interested inlowering your energy bills, avoiding frequent and costly maintenance, recycling programs or discovering our ECOLOGIC® products that contain little or no hazardous materials, OSRAM SYLVANIA can help support your green building strategy.

Lighting Design Goals



Guests begin forming impression about your property as soon as they drive up to the main entrance. A bright invitingentrance canopy, attractive landscape lighting and a well lit parking area immediately puts individuals at ease. The lobby andreception area should invite people and make them feel welcome. Adequate light levels and well placed luminaires helporient guests and enhance their comfort level. Drawing attention to carefully selected floral arrangements, artwork, curiosand furnishings enhance their appeals and help make your property a treasure in its own right.

Good lighting design is a balance between the following three areas:

o Human Needso Visibilityo Task performance

o Visual comforto Safety

Environmental and Economic Issueso Cost of lighting system ownershipo Energy costs

o Sustainability

Architecturalo Lighting systems complement building design

Regardless of the space or area being illuminated, the design scheme usually employs a “layered” approach, combining the

three basic categories of lighting:

General (also called ambient lighting),

Local (also called accent or task lighting)

Decorative

Lighting for hospitality facilities, including hotels, motels, and food service outlets, must help staff and guests to see andcomprehend their environment in order to move about and work within it. In this type of environment, the psychologicalfactors of lighting are critical. If you create an attractive, comfortable, functional environment, the lighting design will become a brand support and marketing tool.

Hospitality spaces often require that a variety of activities take place in the same area. Function rooms are used for banquets,candlelit dinners, dancing, meetings, lectures, trade shows, and conferences. To accommodate these different visual tasks

and their varied levels of illuminance and light distribution, several lighting systems are required and must be operated incombination or separately with switching and dimming controls.

Lighting must provide an environment that can relax or energize people as desired, and quite simply “feels good” to theoccupants.

Lighting systems must be flexible and adaptable to guests’ specific needs and activities. Inadequate amounts of light causevisual discomfort and in some cases can compromise safety. Lighting should deliver illuminance levels appropriate to thetasks being performed. Too much light can also cause visual discomfort and consumes more energy than required. Moredetailed information is available in Chapter 28 of the 20th Edition IES Lighting Handbook: Lighting for Hospitality and

Entertainment.

Lighting should be controllable, either by automated building control systems or by allowing the occupants themselves tovary light levels and determine where the light is directed based on activities, time of day, ambient light levels or tasks to be performed. Illuminance levels in glassed in spaces such as health clubs, atriums and lobbies should be controlled based onthe availability of natural daylight by incorporating “daylight harvesting” technologies. Even the most simple occupancysensor is a step towards energy savings, turning the lights off when a space is unoccupied.

Lighting should help promote your brand image. Highlighting unique architectural elements, signage and ID, facades,thoroughfares, etc. will all contribute to presenting a positive corporate image.

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