Extensive documentation has been developed to support the benefits of daylight for building occupants.Recently,the high performance building industry has shown a trend towards prioritizing better daylighting condition...
INTRODUCTION Central Community College (CCC) has multiple campuses and centers in rural agri-cultural communities throughout Central Nebraska and College President, Dr. Greg Smith, was an early adopter to the vision o...
The assessment of the daylighting performance of a design solution is a complex task due to the changing nature of daylight.A few quantitative metrics are available to designers to assess such a performance,among them...
Designing lighting for zero-net energy buildings poses unique and fascinating design problems.Beyond the challenge of providing lighting loads on the order of.1W/sqft2,these projects require toolsets beyond the typica...
The use of sunlight has always been a major goal of architects and building owners in the design and operation of commercial buildings to minimize electrical consumption when using artificial lighting.However,glazing ...
INTRODUCTION On April 1,2008,the School of International Service project was well underway,but the real beginning of American University’s greening started this day when President Neil Kerwin signed the ACUPCC(Americ...
This research looked to improve the daylighting performance of a shading device as a window component.The paper describes the development of the decision-making framework(DMF)for the selection and design of shading de...