Requirements for Outdoor Lighting Design Practitioners in the UK: Promoting Light Pollution Prevention in the 21th Century
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The protection of the environment against light pollution has been highlighted as one of the possible responses to some of the architectural challenges facing the UK today, including non-environmentally friendly lighting practices and energy crises. While light pollution may come from a variety of sources of architectural lights, outdoor lights resulting from appropriate brightness installations and environmentally friendly lighting design can lead to various positive impacts on human well-being by increasing outdoor visibility and leading to sustainable lighting architecture. This article considers how the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015, including other legal aspects of exterior light pollution control, can inform the development of controlling architectural light pollution in the UK. In particular, the focus is on encouraging the Government and professional lighting bodies to issue codes of outdoor lighting practice concerning the non-environmentally friendly lighting design and light pollution problems. According to some studies, this UK’s regulatory instrument can be used to protect people from health and safety risks arising from inappropriate outdoor lighting design through the establishment of a regulatory framework for architectural light design responsibilities.
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บทความที่ได้รับการตีพิมพ์เป็นลิขสิทธิ์ของมหาวิทยาลัยเทคโนโลยีราชมงคลอีสาน
ข้อความที่ปรากฏในบทความแต่ละเรื่องในวารสารวิชาการเล่มนี้เป็นความคิดเห็นส่วนตัวของผู้เขียนแต่ละท่านไม่เกี่ยวข้องกับมหาวิทยาลัยเทคโนโลยีราชมงคลอีสานและคณาจารย์ท่านอื่นๆในมหาวิทยาลัยฯ แต่อย่างใด ความรับผิดชอบองค์ประกอบทั้งหมดของบทความแต่ละเรื่องเป็นของผู้เขียนแต่ละท่าน หากมีความผิดพลาดใดๆ ผู้เขียนแต่ละท่านจะรับผิดชอบบทความของตนเองแต่ผู้เดียว
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