{"id":869,"date":"2018-09-04T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T14:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=869"},"modified":"2018-08-31T19:08:24","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T23:08:24","slug":"ies-releases-ready-reference-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=869","title":{"rendered":"IES Releases Ready Reference App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many years the <em>IES Ready Reference<\/em> was on the desk of every lighting designer, and we were all baffled when they stopped publishing it. \u00a0Great news, it&#8217;s back! \u00a0This time as an app for your phone or tablet that&#8217;s available in the Apple App Store and Google Play. \u00a0According to the IES, the app\u00a0<span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">provides: \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"depth-0\">\n<li class=\"unordered-list-item\">Core lighting knowledge, including values from illuminance tables<\/li>\n<li class=\"unordered-list-item\">General knowledge information, assembled from <em>The Lighting Handbook, 10th Edition\u00a0<\/em>and IES standards<\/li>\n<li class=\"unordered-list-item\">Simple calculators for quick and easy basic lighting and energy and economic calculations<\/li>\n<li class=\"unordered-list-item\">A search feature allowing you to find the information you want<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Download it from the <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/ca\/app\/ies-ready-reference\/id1420086826?l=en&amp;mt=8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple App Store<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=org.ies.IES_RR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Play<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many years the IES Ready Reference was on the desk of every lighting designer, and we were all baffled when they stopped publishing it. \u00a0Great news, it&#8217;s back! \u00a0This time as an app for your phone or tablet that&#8217;s available in the Apple App Store and Google Play. \u00a0According to the IES, the app\u00a0provides: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=869\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IES Releases Ready Reference App<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"IES Releases Ready Reference App","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-design-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gZSw-e1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1436,"url":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=1436","url_meta":{"origin":869,"position":0},"title":"IES RP-16 is Now IES LS-1","author":"Jason Livingston","date":"December 9, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The Illuminating Engineering Society's Recommended Practice 16 Nomenclature and Definitions for Illuminating Engineering (aka RP-16) has long been one of the two reference sources for the definition of lighting related words and phrases - the other being the CIE International Lighting Vocabulary (ILV). 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