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Daylight performance : Daylight quality and control of energy consumption [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
The European Commission’s Daylight-Europe (DL-E) project set out to produce design guidelines for practitioners wishing to incorporate daylight utilisation principles within buildings as a means to displace the electrical power consumption associated with artificial lighting.
Clarke, Joseph Andrew   +2 more
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Impact of Window Design on Dynamic Daylight Performance in an Office Building in Iran

open access: yesJournal of Daylighting, 2023
Window design affects the building's appearance. Besides, it has a significant impact on daylight performance and the visual comfort of interior spaces. Therefore, choosing the shape and position of windows can be a challenge for architects.
Shiva Farivar, Shabnam Teimourtash
doaj   +1 more source

School design daylighting Analysis A study of Foundation schools in Erbil Governorate

open access: yesSulaimani Journal for Engineering Sciences, 2019
Recently, the physical building performance has been demonstrated widely by researchers and architects due to its direct and indirect influence on space usage and comfortability, particularly in learning spaces.
Abdulqadir Bayz Hammad Amin   +2 more
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Optimisation of Passive Solar Design Strategies in Side-lit Offices: Maximising Daylight Penetration While Reducing the Risk of Glare in Different Chilean Climate Contexts

open access: yesJournal of Daylighting, 2020
It has been shown that in buildings with fully glazed facades designed to save electricity and increase daylight, overheating due to excessive solar gains and glare have become recurrent problems, affecting the quality of the indoor environment in office
Cecilia Palarino, María Beatriz Piderit
doaj   +1 more source

The Effect of Parametric Patterned Façade Variations on Daylight Quality, Visual Comfort, and Daylight Performance in Architecture Studio-Based Tutoring

open access: yesJournal of Daylighting, 2023
Parametric design influences on building envelope design are exponentially increasing in the current era due to the dominance of computational design on architectural outcomes.
Yasmine Mahmoud Saad Abdelhamid   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Evaluation of a New Daylighting System's Energy Performance: Reversible Daylighting System (RDS)

open access: yesASHRAE/IBPSA-USA Building Simulation Conference, 2022
This paper evaluates the energy performance of a new daylighting system, patented by the author, in a regular closed office space. The advantage of this new system as opposed to conventional venetian blinds is its rotating capability, which improves the energy efficiency of the space.
Masoome Haghani   +2 more
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Survey of hospitals lighting: Daylight and staff preferences [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Hospital staff’s preferences for daylighting to notions of the effects of daylight on patient’s recovery times and processes, their experiences of daylight when treating and diagnosing patients and patient comfort levels is studied.
Banfill, Phillip Frank Gower   +4 more
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Impact of Building Typology on Daylight Optimization Using Building Information Modeling: Apartments in Erbil City as a Case Study

open access: yesJournal of Daylighting, 2019
Daylight represents one of the crucial factors that affect directly on the building performance and its occupants. This study assesses the daylight performance in the multi-storey residential buildings (apartments) in Erbil city.
Mohammed Nadhim Majeed   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Daylight Annual Illuminance Investigation in Elementary School Classrooms for the Tropic of Lhokseumawe, Indonesia

open access: yesJournal of Applied Science and Engineering, 2021
This study investigated twenty-two (22) state elementary schools, regarding daylight annual illuminance in the classrooms, using climate-based daylight modelling (CBDM) metrics.
Atthaillah   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Performance and Aesthetic Effects of Daylight [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting, 1980
An experimental booth was constructed wherein north daylight or cool white fluorescent from either the side or top could be provided with the artificial horizontal illuminance matched to the daylight illuminance (at 320 to 860 lx). Thirty college student subjects performed needle threading, proofreading and graphreading tasks without awareness of the ...
Juan G. Santamaria, Corwin A. Bennett
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