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Application Lighting Power Densities (LPDs)
Tradable Uncovered parking areas
surfaces - Parking lots and drives 0.15 W/ft 2
Building grounds
- Walkways less than 10 ft wide 1.0 W/lin ft
- Walkways 10 ft or greater 0.2 W/ft 2
- Plaza areas 0.2 W/ft 2
- Special feature areas 0.2 W/ft 2
- Stairways 1.0 W/ft 2
Building entrances and exits
- Main entries 30 W/lin ft of door width
- Other doors 20 W/lin ft of door width
Canopies and overhangs
- Canopies (freestanding and attached 1.25 W/ft 2
and overhangs)
Outdoor sales
- Open areas (including vehicle sales lots) 0.5 W/ft 2
- Street frontage for vehicle sales lots 20 W/lin ft
in addition to open-area allowance
Nontradable Building façades 0.2 W/ft or
2
surfaces. 5.0 W/lin ft
These are
special
ATMs and night depositories 270 W per location plus 90 W per
allowances additional ATM
that are in
addition
2
Guarded gatehouses or entrances 1.25 W/ft of uncovered areas
to the
allowances in (covered areas are included in
the tradable canopies)
section.
2
Loading areas for police, fire, EMS, or 0.5 W/ft of uncovered areas
other emergency vehicle (covered areas are included in
canopies)
Drive-up windows at fast food 400 W per drive-through
restaurants

Parking near 24-h retail entrances 800 W per main entry

Source: ASHRAE/IESNA Std 90.1-2004, Table 9.4.5, Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise
Residential Buildings, Chapter 9: Lighting, ©American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning
Engineers, Inc.
TABLE 2.8.1 Lighting Power Densities

include solar power lighting or other lighting that does not use electricity or fossil
fuels, and this does not apply to equipment or portions of building systems that use
energy primarily for industrial, manufacturing, or commercial processes. Or at least,
this is what the author has interpreted from the LEED-NC 2.2 and 2009 Reference
Guides.