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Solar Benefits + Daylighting Overview
Natural light is a key sustainable design component for high performance habitability. It informs:
- Operational safety
- Energy conservation
- Productivity, wellbeing, comfort
Our expertise and advanced daylight modeling capability contributes to efficient responsible design integration of the following:
- shading / sunshade
- daylighting of indoor spaces
- direct and reflected glare
- insolation (solar radiation)
- vegetation health
Also see our Renewable Energy page.
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Benefits
- Location and climate specific: Assessments consider specific hourly climate data for the site.
- Validated models offer trusted quantitative results: We use advanced metrics and tools that supports realistic performance prediction.
- Space within a space: We look at light profiles within a space.
- Questions answered:
- How much day light penetrates a space?
- Which parts of spaces have too much or too little light?
- When do extreme events occur?
- Can the solar impact be adjusted to enhance visual and thermal comfort?
- Significantly reduce energy demands: Balancing energy impact of heating and cooling strategies with daylighting and artificial lighting.
- Iterative design: A vital iterative component that allows comparison of mitigation options.
- Connection to other scientific areas: We are experts at linking natural lighting to thermal comfort, building energy and more.