More advanced programs can include the effect of light from windows or skylights, allowing further optimization of the operating cost of the lighting installation.

Some of the projects completed were new museum lighting installation; picnic area, bathhouse and beach, landscaping, parking, lake dam and shelter construction.

Practical lighting design calculations must allow for ballast loss in estimating the running cost of a lighting installation.

Until 1939, the lighting installation was powered by an electric generator located inside the base of the monument and was made up of only 120 bulbs.

For example, public lighting provides a different form of light pollution than attention-grabbing strobe lamps, and these differ from commercial lighting installations.