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GATE Building Services: Principles of electrification and illumination and special lighting for buildings – Previous Year Questions

5 GATE previous year questions on Principles of electrification and illumination and special lighting for buildings (Building Services, Architecture and Planning) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

  1. GATE 2021 AR Q58 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – A 180 m diameter circular cricket field has four equally spaced perimeter floodlight towers 48 m high. Each tower has fifty 700 W lamps. Centre…
  2. GATE 2023 AR — Architecture Q61 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – Match P goniophotometer, Q pyrheliometer, R spectrophotometer, S forward-looking infrared instrument with 1 spectral response at specific wavelengths,…
  3. GATE 2023 AR — Architecture Q62 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – Match P scotopic vision, Q presbyopia, R emmetropia, S photopic vision with 1 low-light rod vision, 2 bright-light cone vision, 3 myopia, 4 normal…
  4. GATE 2025 AR — Architecture Q64 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – Point light C is 1.75 m vertically above A. B is 1 m horizontally from A on the same receiving plane. If illumination at A is 300 lux, find…
  5. GATE 2026 AR — Architecture Q64 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – A 25×12 m conference room has CFL efficacy 60 lumen/W and lighting-power density 12 W/m². Utilisation factor is 0.8 and maintenance factor 0.5. Find…