Shop Lighting Layout - asking for opinions

[jblnut]

This is the proposed lighting layout for my soon to be built farm shop. The building is 54x72x18 and will have bright white steel everywhere inside. The lights will be a UFO style light, or that's what I have in mind right now. I'm open to suggestions for that as well.

The reason for using a UFO style light is that I have 7 100w UFO style lights in my cattle shed and they are BRIGHT and seems to light that area up crazy well. I have two in a 54x72 area and they are quite bright in a very non reflective area so I'd imagine that 16 of them in a bright white lined shop should be plenty. I've been told by a few people that there is such a thing as too much light. Seems like that's not possible but what do I know ... and that's the reason for the questions being asked here

I've read through a bunch of the " The Best Light Fixture Ever!" thread and have gotten a bunch of ideas out of there. I used the design tool in post #9 to play around with a few things and using a similar fixture to what I was thinking and it suggested I use 35 100w fixtures. Seems like a lot as I was thinking 16 would be plenty in the main part of the shop.

Anyway. Suggestions are welcome .... positive and negative feedback is welcomed as well.

 

[Platonic Solid]

16 fixtures in the main part of the shop looks about right. From there you need to adjust the lumen output of the fixtures to achieve the desired footcandles at workplane. The Visual tool likely suggested 35 fixtures due to 12000 lumens being underpowered for 18' mounting height. Either lower the fixture mounting height or increast fixture lumen output or be content with lower fc at workplane.