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Planning manual emergency lighting

This planning guide supports you in the design, planning and specification of modern, future-proof emergency lighting systems.

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Clearly and structurally divided into the following subject areas:

  • Fundamentals 
  • Regulations and Standards 
  • Applications 
  • System Design 
  • Service 
  • Useful Information

In addition to relevant occupational health and safety regulations and building legislation, this guide covers the following standards, among others:

DIN EN 50171
Central Power Supply Systems

DIN EN 50172
Emergency Escape Lighting Systems

DIN VDE 0100-560
Electrical Installations for Safety Services

DIN VDE V 0108-100-1
Emergency Escape Lighting Systems – Proposals for Supplementary Provisions to EN 50172

DIN 14036
Dynamic and Adaptive Escape Route Guidance – Planning and Implementation of Directionally Variable Concepts

DIN VDE 0100-600
Low-Voltage Electrical Installations – Verification

DIN EN 1838
Lighting Applications – Emergency Lighting

DIN EN IEC 62485-2
Safety Requirements for Secondary Batteries and Battery Installations

DIN EN 60598-2-22
Particular Requirements for Luminaires for Emergency Lighting

The following content has been updated or added compared with the previous edition:

  • Basic principles of building law
  • Overview of the MVV TB provisions adopted by the German federal states
  • Overview of the EltBauVO regulations adopted by the German federal states
  • Service life of electrical installations
  • Battery requirements
  • Fire classifications
  • Conductor identification
  • Requirements for the design of dynamic safety signs
  • Minimum illuminance
  • System integrity
  • Qualified persons for inspections (specialists for safety power supply systems, live working [LW])
  • Illuminance measurement


Planning Manual BSV Systems

This planning manual supports you in the design, planning, and layout of a battery-supported central power supply system (BSV).

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Clearly and neatly structured into the following subject areas:

· Fundamentals
· Relevant standards, laws, and regulations
· Design, planning, and construction
· Planning guide through a practical example
· Service, testing, and maintenance
· Additional useful information

This book deals, among other things, with the following standards (selection):

DIN VDE 0100-710
Installation of low-voltage systems

DIN VDE 0558-507
Battery-supported central power supply systems (BSV) for safety purposes for supplying medically used areas

DIN EN IEC 62485-2
Safety requirements for secondary batteries and battery installations – Stationary batteries