
Sports Lighting
Gymnasium Lighting
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GE Lighting Systems can help you light any type of
indoor sports facility including: basketball; volleyball
and tennis courts; exercise and weight rooms; and
swimming pools. Following are detailed layouts
and design data for lighting basketball courts. The
lighting designs are also appropriate for volleyball
gymnastics, wrestling, physical education classes,
and indoor recreational soccer. They offer a choice
of three top-quality products:
GE Versabeam
TM
Luminaire
GE GP5– GHB
®
Luminaire
GE Omniglow
TM
Luminaire
These design recommendations apply to high
school, elementary school, club, and recreational
basketball courts, as well as small college
gymnasiums where video and still cameras are
used for teaching or for local news. Larger college
athletic facilities will require higher light levels to
accommodate broadcast quality television cover-
age. Consult your GE representative or the factory
for information on these types of applications.
This design guide features metal halide lamps,
which we consider the best choice for gymnasium
lighting. For applications where saving energy
is the main consideration, GE can supply high
pressure sodium (HPS) lighting systems.
GE Lighting Systems also designs and manufactures
a range of high intensity discharge (HID) fixtures
suitable for outdoor sports facilities, as well as area,
industrial, hazardous, roadway and security lighting
applications.
Design Guide
This design guide includes information pertinent
to the layouts on the following pages. Reference
this page along with the appropriate layout and
luminaire specifications for a complete lighting
design package. Consult GE Lighting Systems for
luminaire and accessory ordering numbers.
These layouts assume a ceiling height of 25 feet.
Recommended minimum mounting height to
the bottom of the luminaire is 22 feet above the
finished floor.
For gymnasiums, room surface finishes should have
reasonable reflectance. Minimum wall and
ceiling reflectances should be used. Reflectances
are listed in the standard order: ceiling/wall/floor.
Designs include a light loss factor (LLF) which is
the combined effect on light output of lamp lumen
depreciation (LLD) and luminaire dirt depreciation
(LDD).
Data shown is for fixtures using a 44,000-lumen
400-watt metal halide lamp with a rated life of
20,000 hours. It is based on a medium dirt
environment after 8,000 hours of lamp operation
(40% of life) at an average of 10 hours per start.
Thus, foot-candle (fc) levels given are maintained, as
recommended by IESNA. They are average fc (i.e.,
the average of all measured points on the court)
and are based on measurements computed 3’ off
the floor. Test points for measuring light levels
are on a 15’ by 15’ grid, with the first test point not
more that 7.5’ from the out of bounds line.
The ballast employed for the design is a NuVation
TM
Electronic. There are other types of ballasts and
400-watt metal halide lamps which are suitable for
gymnasiums. Metal halide lamp technology is
changing rapidly, particularly with 400-watt lamps,
so be aware of the choices available. High pressure
sodium lamps can be used for gymnasiums when
color is not critical.
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