Circadian Lighting at Sea: Human-Centric Design for Offshore Control Rooms By RANDY REID Late at night, far from shore, the work never stops. Inside a control room monitoring offshore wind farms—one in the United States, another in the Baltic—operators sit before walls of data, tracking performance, responding to alerts, and maintaining constant vigilance. The architecture is minimal. The screens dominate. And the lighting, if done correctly, almost disappears. That was the challenge presented to Erlend Lillelien of 64
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Asplan Viak. Speaking with me in March at Light + Building, Erlend described a project that sits at the intersection of ergonomics, human biology, and precision engineering— where light is not decorative, but operational. “We were not part of the full project team,” Erlend explained. “We were asked to do a lighting study for the people designing the control room screen systems. Their concern was that the screens are visible in the correct manner—and