Luminaire Dirt Depreciation. Dirt or dust that accumulates on luminaires decreasing the total output of light, lowering the overall efficiency of the system.
An adjustment factor that accounts for the fractional loss of task illuminance due to luminaire dirt accumulation.
Luminaire Dirt Depreciation. The multiplier to be used in illuminance calculations to relate the initial illuminance provided by clean, new luminaires to the reduced illuminance that they will provide due to dirt collection on the luminaires at the time at which it is anticipated that cleaning procedures will be instituted.