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Evaluation of lighting conditions in portable classrooms and analysis for alternative daylighting systems [PDF]

, 2017
Lighting conditions in multiple classrooms in central Texas were assessed, and the feasibility of improving portable classroom daylighting via alternative daylighting systems was also evaluated.
Zhang, Yan, M.S. in Engineering
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Evaluation of Daylight Perception Assessment Methods

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Daylight is an important component in maintaining human health and wellbeing and plays a key role in physiological, psychological, and behavioural regulation.
Gizem Izmir Tunahan, Hector Altamirano, Jemima Unwin Teji, Cosmin Ticleanu, Cosmin Ticleanu   +4 more
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Sustainable energy saving alternatives in small buildings [PDF]

, 2019
Day lighting significance in architectural designs is well established for enhancing visual comfort, energy-efficiency and low carbon buildings development. Practising the atrium element in the modern architectures has been increasingly popular in recent
Abdullah, Abdullah, Ahmad, Aizlewood, Aizlewood, Aldawoud, Asadi, Aschehoug, Baek, Bahar, Berardi, Calcagni, Crawley, Daşkın, Du, Erdogan, Ghasemi, Ghasemi, Hung, Khan, Kim, Kim, Lan, Laouadi, Lazarou, Littlefair, Liu, Mansfield, Marsh, Mohsenin, Moosavi, Omer, Preiser, Pérez-Lombard, Qin, Reid, Roche, Samant, Sharples, Vangimalla, Wang, Yunus   +41 more
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Daylighting Evaluation of Perforated Screen Façade with Light Shelf in the Tropics

Dimensi: Journal of Architecture and Built Environment
The use of large glass facades in buildings without external shading devices leads to a high daylight level, uneven daylight distribution, and glare. A perforated screen facade (PSF) is one of the shading systems that can provide daylight and view and ...
Feny Elsiana, Lilianny S Arifin
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Climate based facade design for business buildings with examples from central London [PDF]

, 2015
There is a disconnection between commercial architecture and environmental thinking, where green features can be included as part of a strategy for gaining approvals and marketing projects, but those features are not reviewed after completion and ...
Napier, John D.
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Integrated Dynamic Facade Control with an Agent-based Architecture for Commercial Buildings [PDF]

, 2020
Dynamic façades have significant technical potential to minimize heating, cooling, and lighting energy use and peak electric demand in the perimeter zone of commercial buildings, but the performance of these systems is reliant on being able to balance ...
Blum, David H, Gehbauer, Christoph, Lee, Eleanor S, Wang, Taoning   +3 more
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The Application of Building Physics in the Design of Roof Windows [PDF]

, 2019
This paper deals with a small but important component in a building envelope, namely roof windows in pitched roofs. Building physics methods were used to support the search for new solutions which correspond to the maximum extent for requirements for ...
Calta V., Maierová L., Novák J., Staněk K., Tywoniak J.   +4 more
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Evaluating Daylighting Performance of Parametric Mashrabiya in Mediterranean Climate: A Simulation-based Approach

Journal of Daylighting
This study examines the daylighting performance of parametric Mashrabiya-inspired shading devices in a Mediterranean climate, aiming to enhance occupant comfort and visual performance.
Sana’a Al-Rqaibat, Mayyadah Al-Khdairat, Luna Hamad, Sajeda Al-Husban   +3 more
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Survey of hospitals lighting: Daylight and staff preferences [PDF]

, 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.
Al-Ansari, Abdullah, Ali Talib, Raidh, Alzubaidi, Safaa Ali, Banfill, Phillip Frank Gower, Roaf, Susan   +4 more
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Research on Light Comfort of Waiting Hall of High-Speed Railway Station in Cold Region Based on Interpretable Machine Learning

Buildings, 2023
Upon the need for sustainability and natural lighting performance simulation for high-speed railway station waiting halls in cold regions, a new prediction method was proposed for the quantitative analysis of their natural lighting performance in the ...
Falian Xie, Haihong Song, Huina Zhang
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