Specifications

NAIROBI OPERATIONAL HUB
UNOPS Building, UN Lane, Off UN Avenue Tel: [phone]
P.O Box 783,Village Market, 00621 E-mail: [e-mail]
Nairobi, Kenya Website: www.unops.org
UNOPS is ISO 9001 certified
PART 2-PRODUCTS
2.1 LUMINARIES - GENERAL
A. Standards
1. IEC Standard 61 - Lamp Caps and Holders.
2. IEC Standard 64 - Tungsten Filament Lamps.
3. IEC Standard 81 - Tubular Fluorescent Lamps.
4. IEC Standard 82 - Ballasts for Tubular Fluorescent lamps.
5. IEC Standard 155 - Starters for Fluorescent Lamps.
6. IEC Standard 188 - High Pressure Mercury Vapor Lamps.
7. IEC Standard 259 - Miscellaneous Lamps & Ballasts.
8. IEC Standard 598 - :luminaires, incorporating:
Part 1: 598-1, General requirements and tests - 1979 including all
subsequent
amendments.
Part 2: 598-2, Particular requirements including 598-2-1; fixed general
purpose
luminaires - 1979, 598-2-2; recessed luminaires - 1979, 598-2-5;
Floodlighting –
1979, 598-2-19; Air handling luminaires - 1981, chain suspensions - 1982.
B. Equipment
1. Luminaires shall be completely self continued, unless otherwise specified, and
include all control gear, lamp holders, reflectors and diffusers, as required.
2. Luminaires shall be recessed, surface-mounted or suspended as indicated on
the Drawings, by code reference and identified in luminaire Schedule and
Data sheets.
3. All diffusers shall be of the light stabilized and non-discoloring type.
4. The design, construction and finish of all luminaires shall be entirely adequate
for operation in the ambient conditions and at the supply characteristics stated
in section 16010 of this specification. All luminaires shall be designed and
installed to permit easy relamping.
5. Where possible a terminal block shall be provided inside each luminaire and
the wiring between this terminal block and lamp holders, choke, capacitors,
etc., shall be completed in heat resistant (135
o
C) cable of adequate size.
Terminal blocks fixed to outside of luminaire housings shall be shrouded type
with cable cord grip.
6. Where space is not available for the installation of a terminal block at the