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Visual comfort assessment of daylit and sunlit areas: A longitudinal field survey in classrooms in Kashan, Iran [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Visual comfort in schools enhances not only health and wellbeing, but also satisfaction and therefore learning and visual performance. This research aims at testing students’ evaluations on visual comfort through questionnaires in daylit and non-daylit ...
Korsavi, Sepideh S.   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

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

Sustainability and Energy Efficiency: BIM 6D. Study of the BIM Methodology Applied to Hospital Buildings. Value of Interior Lighting and Daylight in Energy Simulation

open access: yesSustainability, 2020
One of the least used aspects of BIM (Building Information Modeling) is the ability to obtain the energy model of the building using the BIM methodology known as BIM 6D.
Francisco Javier Montiel-Santiago   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

An Evaluation of Light Quantity and Quality in Reading Rooms, and Suggestions for Amendments; the Case of Shahid Beheshti University libraries [PDF]

open access: yesصفه, 2021
Daylight reception in built environments is one of the main performance indicators for the quality of life. This is even more important in certain spaces such as study rooms. There are a variety of measurement indices for assessing daylight.
n ima Forouzandeh Shahraki   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development of a comprehensive method to analyse glazing systems with Parallel Slat Transparent Insulation material (PS-TIM) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In order to provide enhanced levels of indoor comfort and building energy conservation, significant improvements have been made in the design of glazed facades and window systems, yielding increases in thermal resistance while simultaneously maintaining ...
Allen   +52 more
core   +2 more sources

Measurements and Simulation Study of Daylight Availability and Its Impact on the Heating, Cooling and Lighting Energy Demand in an Educational Building

open access: yesEnergies, 2020
This paper deals with the impact of the use of daylight on the overall energy demand for heating, cooling, and lighting in educational buildings. The energy performance of buildings is currently of the utmost importance as current European regulations ...
Joanna Rucińska, A. Trząski
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Optimum Glazing Configurations for Visual Performance in Algerian Classrooms under Mediterranean Climate

open access: yesJournal of Daylighting, 2019
Daylight quality and quantity in Algerian schools show serious problems in ensuring visual comfort of students and teachers. Some problems are due to window design, which leads to excessive amount of sunlight penetration into the classrooms.
Mesloub Abdelhakim   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ground Factors and Lighting Design in an Urban Area: Daylighting and Light Pollution [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In urban areas the daylight available to a building directly from the sky may be compromised, and the contribution from reflected daylight can become more significant.
Du, J, Sharples, S, Zhang, X
core   +2 more sources

Midlatitude ClO during the maximum atmospheric chlorine burden : in situ balloon measurements and model simulations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Chlorine monoxide (ClO) plays a key role in stratospheric ozone loss processes at midlatitudes. We present two balloonborne in situ measurements of ClO conducted in northern hemisphere midlatitudes during the period of the maximum of total inorganic ...
Engel, Andreas   +6 more
core   +4 more sources

The effectiveness of dayligting through the toplighting design in large-volume building models

open access: yesARTEKS : Jurnal Teknik Arsitektur, 2021
The utilization of daylighting as an effort to reduce the usage of building energy needs to be optimized. This is because, low-rise buildings with large volumes require specific strategies for proper light distribution throughout the space.
Ariani Mandala   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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