Compliance model lighting takeoff
There's got to be a better way - than counting light fixtures, calculating their power and assigning that power to a specific zone.
I'm doing that for a project in which the lighting designer has picked 60 different lighting fixtures for indoors and 20 for outdoors - for only 30 or so zones. It's painfully slow!
Do you have any recommendations for making that process faster? We don't use REVIT, but I'm imagining that REVIT might have a way to tally lights by room or zone.... If so, We could ask the design firm to run a report...
Hi Jim, I would definitely ask the design team to send you a list for all the lights: they should have the power for each lighting fixrure available to them, and it is certainly easy to send a summary schedule with the room list in any BIM software they might be working in. Then you can calculate quickly whatever is needed. I am mostly working with Archicad, and I helped a lighting designer firm to set up a pretty efficient workflow to gather such summaries - the hiccup could be if no one was responsible to store this information in the model.