UCSF Genentech Hall
Sustainability - Interior Lighting

In general, lighting levels were designed to meet basic California Title-24 standards. The fixtures to meet those standard lighting levels use efficient T-8 florescent lamps with electronic ballasts, rather than standard-practice T-12 lamps with magnetic ballasts. The result is a lighting power density of 1.2 watts/ft², compared to the Title 24 allowable lighting power density of 1.40 watts/ft².

The building has some occupancy-based lighting controls. Most lights are controlled by a central energy management system (EMS) using time of day, with automatic lights-off warnings to occupants.

There is no particular daylighting design, although one side of the main atrium is glazed several stories tall. Lab spaces do have more window views and concomitant sidelighting than was typical in earlier generations of lab buildings.