ARENCO Division 26 Section 26 09 43

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SECTION 26 09 43

LIGHTING CONTROL SYSTEM

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SECTION 26 09 43

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INDEX

PART 1 - GENERAL................................................................................................................................................. 3

1.1 WORK INCLUDED ......................................................................................................................................... 3

1.2 DESCRIPTION OF WORKS ............................................................................................................................. 3
1.3 QUALITY ASSURANCE .................................................................................................................................. 3
1.4 CODES AND STANDARDS ............................................................................................................................. 3
1.6 SHOP DRAWINGS......................................................................................................................................... 4

PART 2 - PRODUCTS .............................................................................................................................................. 4

2.1 LIGHTING CONTROL SYSTEM ....................................................................................................................... 4

2.2 DIMMING SYSTEM ........................................................................................................................................ 8

PART 3 - EXECUTION ........................................................................................................................................... 10

3.1 INSTALLATION ............................................................................................................................................ 10

3.2 TESTING & COMMISSIONING....................................................................................................................... 10
3.3 SPARE PARTS/EXTRA MATERIALS .............................................................................................................. 11
3.4 WARRANTY ............................................................................................................................................... 11

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PART 1 - GENERAL

1.1 Work Included

1.1.1 Conform to General Requirements for Electrical Services of Division 26.

1.2 Description of Works

The contractor shall supply, install, test, commission and maintain during warranty period intelligent
lighting control for the various areas as indicated in the lighting layout drawings and as specified herein.

System shall be complete with lighting control panels, photo cells, Presence Infrared Sensor (PIR),
override switches, all the required control and power cabling and terminations.

Lighting control shall be using PIR sensors, addressable relay/contactors, timers and photocells.

Location of the override lighting control switches shall be at the ground floor security or at location as
instructed by the consultant.

All external lighting including but not limited to the following, shall be controlled by the intelligent lighting
control systems via photo cells and timers.

- Roads and parking area lighting

- Walkway lighting

- Landscape lighting for the various trees and greeneries

1.3 Quality Assurance

Design, manufacture, testing and method of installation of all apparatus and materials furnished under
requirements of these specifications shall conform to latest publications or standard rules of the
following:

a) Local Electricity Authority regulations for electrical installation works

b) Department of Dubai Civil Defence requirements

The quality Control/Quality Assurance duties shall be performed by the Contractor. The system of
quality control verification shall be in accordance with ISO 9000 standards of quality control/assurance.

1.4 Codes and Standards

The following codes and standards to the extent specified herein, form a part of this specification.
When an edition date is not indicated for a Code or Standard the latest edition enforce at the time of
proposal submitted shall apply.

IEC 60947-4 Contactors

IEC 60947-5-1, IEC337-1,

IEC 60536 Indication lamps, Push buttons, switches

BSEN 60529

BSEN60439 Low voltage switchgear and control gear

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BSEN 61008 Earth leakage circuit breakers

BSEN 60898 Miniature circuit breakers

BS7671

- 17TH Edition, IEE wiring regulations

- Local electricity Authority

SUBMITTALS

The Contractor shall submit the following drawings and documents related with each electrical system
for Consultant approval:

Original catalogues for various proposed components.

Schedule of Accessories and Fittings.

Test Certificates.

1.6 Shop Drawings

Contractor shall submit detailed shop drawings including but not limited to the following for
CONSULTANT approval:

a) Single line system architecture drawings representing the entire system and including all
system components.

b) Point to point wiring diagrams for all system devices.

c) Floor layout drawings indicating all system components such as control panels routing of
network cabling, intelligent switches, etc.

d) Interfacing details with all other systems including fire alarm.

e) Typical installation details.

PART 2 - PRODUCTS

2.1 Lighting Control System

2.1.1 General

2.1.1.1 A two-wire bus cable shall link all the system devices (input, output, system support, and networking,
etc.) to each other. The bus cable shall be a twisted pair, screened /unscreened with solid conductors
and shall be capable of handling information exchange and supplying power to the bus devices. The
bus cable shall be laid in the building in the form of a linear, star or tree structure similar to the power
mains. The system shall support free wiring topology.

2.1.1.2 The system shall be completely de-centralized and programmable. The programming shall be
implemented via a computer located at a control location and having access level passwords. Any
device in the system shall be accessed for programming from the PC location without having to
manipulate the device locally.

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Each device in the system shall be addressable via a software programmable physical address. Any
device in the system shall communicate with any other device via software programmable group
addresses. Each individual device will respond to only those group addresses for which they are
programmed to do so. There shall be a non-volatile memory storing the physical address, group
addresses & other software parameters for every device, thus making it intelligent.

2.1.1.3 It shall be possible to program any of the devices on-line at the working site without affecting any of the
system devices or the system operation as well as off-line prior to dispatch of the material to site.

2.1.1.4 The entire system shall consist of bus lines connected to each other via line couplers that act as
network filters and also provide communication between devices in different lines. In the event of
failure of a device in one line, only the control functions controlled by that device shall be affected and
the device failure report shall be printed out with the date and time of failure.

2.1.1.5 Power supply module shall be provided as recommended by the manufacturers. In case of power
failure, the operation and programming of the system shall not be impaired.

2.1.1.6 The diagnostic modules shall scan the system for any faults in the bus wiring, failure of any of the
devices and generate reports displaying the physical address of non-communicating devices.

2.1.1.7 Each of the devices shall have a built-in push button along with a LED. The LED shall lit in the event
the push button is pressed and if there is power to the device, thus depicting that the device is
communicating in the system.

2.1.2 Control System Concept

2.1.2.1 The programmable lighting management system shall consists of three levels of control:

a) Central PC software for occupancy based control and manual override by the operator. The
software shall consist of graphics based overview of the entire building, floors and going up to
the individual rooms. It shall have the necessary PIR sensors to control the circuits in the form
of various groups.

b) All other circuits which are controlled based on daylight, local switches, etc. shall at all times be
working in the standalone Auto mode with monitoring and override control possible from the
central PC.

2.1.3 Lighting Control Concept

The low voltage system switches shall have indication for On and Off status with Red and Green
colors with a possibility to reverse them via software. In the case of circuits switched in parallel from
multiple signals, the switch LED shall display the true status of the circuit based on the latest signal
sent to the particular circuit. It shall be possible to control any circuit in the system from any of the
switch channels to ensure all channels are available for entire control of the system.

Lighting control at various areas shall be generally as indicated hereunder:

2.1.3.1 Corridors

a) All lighting circuits shall be controlled through motion sensors and programmable timer channel.

b) Actual time schedule shall be programmable as per End-user requirements.

2.1.3.2 Staircase

Lighting control shall be by timer and intelligent push button switch.

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All lights, which shall be ON by the push button switch shall be automatically turned OFF after a
predetermined time period which is programmable be the end-user.

2.1.3.3 Offices

Lighting control shall be via local switches.

2.1.3.4 LV room, Transformers room and Plant rooms

All lighting circuits shall be controlled via local switches.

2.1.3.5 External Lighting

External lighting shall be switched ON/OFF based on available daylight and time schedule. A light
value switch capable of switching up to three lighting groups where each individual channel has a
separate switching set point shall be used. The brightness range of the set points shall be adjustable
form 20 to 20000 lux or as agreed with the Consultant at the time of commissioning. A light sensor shall
be connected to the switch to detect daylight.

In general external lighting shall be switched on at sunset and off at 24:00 hrs. However, On and OFF
timing of the various group of lighting shall be different, it shall be possible to program/reprogram the
system accordingly.

Introduce time delays between various switching in order to avoid huge inrush current disturbance to
the power supply system.

2.1.4 Central Controller Software

2.1.4.1 The Central PC will comprise of Pentium IV with 21 monitor with at least 2.0 GB RAM and 250 GB
hard disk or a configuration required by the graphics software.

2.1.4.2 The software shall administer various access levels for different user accounts to ensure responsibility
and accountability in the operation of the system.

2.1.4.3 The software shall provide customized graphics screens giving a full graphics display of the entire
building along with floor plans, partition layouts, circuit layouts in the individual rooms, etc.

2.1.4.4 The software shall provide real time monitoring of the entire system and shall display active status of
each lighting circuit along with the run time hours and generate maintenance schedules when the
circuits have reached their threshold set points for run hours.

2.1.4.5 It shall be possible for the user to access any individual room for monitoring and controlling the lighting
circuits. The various screens shall be freely linked to each other be reached by a navigator.

2.1.4.6 Each circuit shall be graphically customized to contain operational characteristics available in the
system or by a link to an external database. This information shall be displayed by passing the mouse
cursor over the respective circuits.

2.1.4.7 The software shall have the interface to import and administrate graphics files having standard formats
such as Bitmap (BMP), Windows Metafile (WMF) and Enhanced Metafile (EMF). Further, it shall be
possible to add a huge variety of active elements to these files for visualization and easy
understanding.

2.1.4.8 The software shall enable repeat interrogatory sweeps to be programmed through the night or any
other times to extinguish lighting which may have been left on locally.

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2.1.4.9 The timer library in the software shall be programmable. It shall have the necessary timer modules to
control any of the circuits individually or in the form of groups, which can be selected and changed as
and when desired. It shall be possible to pre-program the time channels in advance with special holiday
programs, weekly programs, etc. up to the year 2040.

2.1.4.10 The system shall be interlocked with the fire alarm system so as to switch lights ON in case of fire.

2.1.5 Lighting Control Modules (For On-Off Switching Control)

2.1.5.1 The lighting control modules shall be DIN rail mounted consisting of either four or eight individually
programmable integral relays (contactors).

2.1.5.2 Each of these contactors shall be rated 16 A/AC1, suitable for switching loads with high switch-on
peaks, and capable of switching resistive, inductive, incandescent, and fluorescent loads without any
de-rating. It shall also have a capacity load rating of at least 200 microfarads.

2.1.5.3 The output states of each of the four relays shall be displayed on the front. Each of these relays shall
be latch-on type with manual operation (override) possible even without power to the system.

2.1.5.4 In the event of power failure or bus wiring failure or control module failure, each of the four relays shall
attain a pre-programmed fail-safe position (On, Off or As it is).

2.1.5.5 The control modules shall be capable of been programmed with different applications to suit site
requirements. The application for which a relay has been programmed shall apply irrespective of the
signal from which it is switched.

2.1.5.6 Each of the relays shall be capable of being programmed with its own On and Off delays which is
applicable irrespective of the signal from which the relays are switched.

2.1.5.7 The control modules shall receive its operating power supply from the same bus cable without any
other power supply.

2.1.5.8 Each of the control module shall have its own individual address and shall be capable of being
programmed from the central PC for the purpose of changing parameters without the need to access
the module locally.

2.1.6 Lighting Control Panels (LCPS).

There shall be a dedicated Lighting Control Panel (LCP) for every DB. The LCP shall house the system
devices and the related control equipment depending on the no. of circuits being controlled. This is to
ensure the power wiring between the DBs and the control modules inside the LCPs is kept to a
minimum. The LCPs shall be surface mounted IP65 polycarbonate enclosures together with built-in
DIN-rails for easy installation of the control equipment.

2.1.7 Presence Infrared Sensors (PIR)

Presence sensor device with sensor angle 180 degrees is used to send switch-on commands to
actuators via the i-bus EIB. The switch-off behaviour is defined in the actuator. Twilight sensor and
after-running time are adjustable; manual operation for ON / AUTOMATIC / OFF must be possible.
Installation recessed ceiling mounted, wall mounted or external weather proof mounting to engineers
approval. Supplier must provide all mounting accessories required.

Sensing - Passive infrared motion detector 180 horizontal

Power supply - Via EIB Bus / C Bus Ambient temperature

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Operation - 5C to + 45C

Storage - 25C to + 55C

Coverage - Minimum 18m range

Transport - 25C to + 70C

Operating and display elements

1 slide switch - OFF / AUTOMATIC / ON

(can be locked in automatic mode)

1 adjustment potentiometer - For Twilight sensor : 51000 lux.

1 adjustment potentiometer - For afterrunning time:10s to 17min.

Protection type - IP 20 according to DIN 40 050

Attached to the flush-mounted bus couple

Note :

Equivalent C Bus technology also acceptable.

2.1.8 System Programming

The contractor shall allow for programming the system to operate as per the Consultant instruction at
site and shall allow for reprogramming of the system if necessary during the maintenance period in
accordance to the end user requirements.

2.2 Dimming System (If applicable)

2.2.1 General

The contractor shall supply, install and commission dimmer racks as specified hereunder and as
indicated on the drawings and inline with the specialist lighting designer drawings and specifications.

2.2.2 Dimmer Modules Cases

Dimmer Modules shall be encased in Anodised Aluminium or polycarbonate ABS cases with solid
aluminium chases cases. The power control circuitry shall be protected from accidental interference
by means of a one section cover. All adjustment potentiometers where required shall be accessible
through this cover to allow the setting of lighting levels and maximum/minimum levels.

Units shall be completely pre-wired by the manufacturer. The contractor shall be required to provide
input feed wiring, load wiring and control wiring which terminates to a set of clearly marked low voltage
terminals.

Units shall contain input miniature circuit breakers rated for electrical safety and protection.

Units shall contain a bypass switch which enables the power to bypass the load control circuitry.

Internal wire used within the units shall be to British Standards and have a 105 deg. C temperature
rating. All wiring shall be harnessed with cable ties or wire ducts at sufficient intervals to present a
neat orderly appearance. All connections made during installation shall be clearly labelled terminals.

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Encapsulated thyristor pairs/ IGBTs shall be used to control the power applied to the load. They shall
be capable of withstanding surges without impairment to performance.

The units shall be voltage regulated so that a + 10% change in line voltage shall cause no more than
a + 0.5% change in output voltage.

The units shall provide a smooth and continuous "squarelaw" dimming characteristics throughout the
operating range.

The units shall be 98% or greater efficiency at full intensity and full load.
Units shall operate at 0-40 deg. C ambient environment and racks shall be cooled by natural
convection or by forced ventilation.

The units shall incorporate filtering circuits that reduce RF1 interface to levels deemed acceptable by
EN50081-1, EN50082-1, IEC1000-2-2

The units shall be de-rated by 50% when used for controlling inductive loads so as to avoid nuisance
tripping of MCBs. They should also be capable of controlling Fluorescent Loads with suitable ballasts.

Contractor shall indicate ratings of Dimmer modules and shall provide for each circuit as a single
channel control in the load schedules.

2.2.3 Dimmer Racks

Dimmers must be housed in sheet steel purpose built racks which will accept plug in dimmer modules,
microprocessors and primary circuit MCB. The rack should be wired for front access with connections
for extra low voltage control and load wiring, separate gland plates should be provided at top and
bottom of rack for control and mains/load wiring.

Earth leakage protection should be provided as incomer.

2.2.4 Microprocessors

Control of the dimmers shall be through channel microprocessors linked with addressable control
plates.

Microprocessors shall be of high reliability with self checks to ensure system integrity in all
environments. Storage of default levels shall be through non volatile memory, that retains these
settings even when power is switched off. It shall be possible to programme a minimum of 100
scenes. The control signal to the dimmer modules shall be 0.5V.

A 2 wire balanced data high way is to be used between control plates and the microprocessors.

The microprocessor shall be capable of receiving programmed instructions from the control plates to
control.

a) Level Intensities

b) Fade Rates

c) Individual Scenes

d) Individual Channels/Circuits

e) Link scenes with preprogrammed scenes fading from one to another on a time basis.

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The system shall be interlocked with the fire alarm system such that in case of fire the lighting level
shall go up to full intensity regardless of the set illumination level.

2.2.5 Hand Held Programmer

A hand held programmer shall be supplied for programming of the system.

The unit shall be designed for ease of operation and shall not require complex programming.

The unit shall be capable of programming lighting level information, fade rates and link scenes for all
dimmer channels on a particular data highway. Programming can be performed either 'on line' or 'off
line'.

2.2.6 Dimmer Controls

Multiple Scene control with illuminated Led Push buttons giving 'scene 1; scene 2; scene 3; scene 4;
off plus individual raise/lower push buttons for each circuit being controlled from the plate and with a
jack socket to accept the data plug from the hand held programmer shall be used. The plate finish of
the controller shall be similar to the adjacent electrical accessories.

PART 3 - EXECUTION

3.1 Installation

Design, manufacture and method of installation of all system components shall conform to latest rules
and requirements of the following:

a) Local Electricity Authority

b) Dubai Civil Defence

c) Relevant BS codes

d) IEE wiring regulations

e) CIBSE

Contractor shall install all lighting control system equipment shown on the relevant drawings and
required as per the specifications described in this section, all as per manufacturers
recommendations and complying with the above regulations.

3.2 Testing & Commissioning

a) Check for installation of lighting control panels a site.

b) Check for installation of devices in the panel and in the field.

c) Check the wiring and termination of the bus cable for all the system devices.

d) Check the wiring and termination of the circuits in the lighting control panel.

e) Manually override each circuit using the override On-Off switch provided for each circuit in the
relay output module.

f) Test the respective lighting circuits to be ON as per the Electrical Load Schedule provided by
the M & E contractor.

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g) Switch On the power supply to the lighting control panel with system devices.

h) Program the presence sensors as per Consultant requirements for standalone operation of the
lighting control system.

i) Switch ON & OFF the individual gang of the LV Push Button Switches & check that the
respective programmed circuits are switched ON & OFF accordingly.

j) Switch ON the power supply for standalone operation of the Lighting Control System.

k) Demonstrate and explain the system operation to the site technicians.

l) Hand-over the control system to Consultants authorized personnel.

3.3 Spare Parts/Extra Materials

3.3.1 The contractor shall supply to the owners stores spare parts for two years operation, from the date of
final handing over of the project, as generally, but not limited to the items listed hereunder:

a) A minimum of 1% of the total number of PIR sensors, switches, contactors, etc. for any other
accessories used in the project.

b) Any other items as recommended by the manufacturer to cover the period indicated above
and to consultant approval.

3.4 Warranty

From the date of issuance of the Taking over certificate the system must be unconditionally
warranted for minimum of 2 years.

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