Lighting or electrical planning in a new villa - experiences

Hello dear forum community,

we recently started building our single-family house. It is planned as a modern architect-designed house with KNX as the standard for home automation. There are the floors basement (UG), ground floor (EG), upper floor (OG), and attic (STG), whereby due to the structural requirements, almost exclusively concrete must be used.

Because of the concrete construction method, all flush-mounted positions for switches, sockets, lamps, and cable outlets must be precisely determined in advance, since later adjustments are very labor-intensive. Most floors will have suspended ceilings, while in the basement many installations will be surface-mounted. However, there will be no suspended ceiling in the upper floor, so for the upper floor, both the walls and the ceiling surface should be fixed before concreting.

Attached you will find the floor plan of the upper floor with the proposed positions for lights on the ceiling surface and walls by the architect. In the second version, I have made various adjustments, but as a layperson, I am uncertain about the planning of lights and flush-mounted installations.

Can the planning be implemented as is, or are there things in the ceiling surface that urgently need to be adjusted?

Best regards,
Stefan

I cannot clearly distinguish what comes from the architect and what comes from you. But my first impression is that neither of you are lighting experts. One of our best investments in building the house was to go to a lighting planner. We had two sessions of about 2 hours each with them and then had a very good concept with exact positions of the ceiling and wall lamps on the floor plan. We would definitely do it that way again.

A modern architect-designed house is planned with as the standard for home automation. There are the floors basement, ground floor, upper floor, and attic,

And the other floors remain dark?

One of our best investments during the house construction was to consult a lighting planner.

Unfortunately, there are many providers in this market who would more accurately be described as "lamp shopping list floor plan scribblers." I would also at least involve the home automation planner.

I might first remove the address.

Otherwise, where do the presence detectors go?

Where should the access point or access points for WLAN go?

Overall, that would be too many switches for a KNX installation for me.

We also visited a lighting designer and we would definitely do it the same way again. One thing must be clear though, spotlights that stage certain sequences or furniture need this foundation. As soon as something is changed here in many years, it no longer fits.

I think for this project the few extra euros for proper planning are always worth it.

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