Floodlighting and indoor lighting guide
Answers for clubs, municipalities and operators: from glaring old installations through standards and funding to the retrofit process.
Problems at the site
Floodlighting and neighbours
When floodlighting is a significant nuisance, which guideline values apply and what helps.
Floodlighting too dark
Why the system declines, how to measure and when a retrofit makes more sense.
HQI and halogen: phase-out
Which EU rules apply and whether old systems may keep running.
Floodlight energy costs
How to calculate the costs and put LED savings into context.
Insect protection and floodlighting
What state law and funding already require, and how to plan ahead.
Project and funding
For clubs
LED floodlighting for sports clubs: from the resolution through funding and calculation to delivery. What the board needs to know, with a one-pager.
For municipalities
LED floodlighting for municipalities: product-neutral tender, Kommunalrichtlinie, convincing committees. We supply calculation, data and a one-pager.
Floodlighting project: the process
From the club resolution to commissioning.
Funding applications in Germany
Requirements, documents and what is off limits before approval.
What determines the cost
What the cost of a floodlight system depends on.
Building permit for floodlighting
When masts and retrofits need a permit.
LED on existing masts
Weight, wind load and stability: what to check.
Mast height and mast layout
Mounting height, number of masts and layout by sport.
Tender for LED floodlighting
What belongs in a tender, with text modules for each sport.
Light and standards
DIN EN 12193 explained
Lighting classes, values and terms of the standard for sports facilities.
Lux, uniformity, glare
Reading the values in lighting calculations and measurement reports correctly.
Ball-impact resistance to DIN 18032-3
What the proof means and how hall operators recognise it.
Flicker, TV and camera
What UEFA and FIH require and what counts for streams and phone video.
Floodlighting at 3000 kelvin
Why warm white light is required and what it means compared with 4000 K.
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