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Lighting designers are always on the quest to develop a lighting control strategy that is aesthetically pleasing, comfortable, and energy-efficient.
Grace Colaco Sheryl +3 more
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Survey of hospitals lighting: Daylight and staff preferences [PDF]
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 +4 more
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Back to the surface – Daylighting urban streams in a Global North–South comparison
Many urban streams have vanished from the surface as a collateral effect of urban growth. Often, these buried streams have been forgotten, and only street names remind us of their existence. Reasons for stream burial include the gain of space for road or
Karl M. Wantzen +11 more
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The effect of the sun and its path on thermal comfort and energy consumption in residential buildings in tropical climates constitutes serious concern for designers, building owners and users.
Ochedi, Ekele, Taki, A. H.
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Daylight Distribution Improvement Using Automated Prismatic Louvre
Louvre is a common type of shading devices and has been increasingly used in office buildings. Meanwhile, some reflective types of louvre have been used to provide shade and to redirect daylight deep into buildings interior simultaneously.
Ahmad Eltaweel +3 more
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Contrasting the capabilities of building energy performance simulation programs [PDF]
For the past 50 years, a wide variety of building energy simulation programs have been developed, enhanced and are in use throughout the building energy community.
Crawley, Drury B. +3 more
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Daylighting, Space, and Architecture: A Literature Review
Daylighting dynamism and constant change can characterize buildings and spaces with a living quality that cannot be achieved with any other design element.
Dalia Hafiz
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The Application of Building Physics in the Design of Roof Windows [PDF]
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. +4 more
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The present study shows the application of various software performance analysis of daylighting and its energy savings potential in Energy-efficient building topologies.
Asim Ahmad +3 more
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High-Performance Integrated Window and Façade Solutions for California [PDF]
The researchers developed a new generation of high-performance façade systems and supporting design and management tools to support industry in meeting California’s greenhouse gas reduction targets, reduce energy consumption, and enable an adaptable ...
Breshears, John +11 more
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