Workshop

Daylighting Modeling Techniques for Sustainable Built Environment - A Workshop on Daylighting

Daylight can be a very reliable source of light. The benefits of daylighting are twofold: energy saving and psychological.

Daylighting can result in significant energy savings by reducing electric lighting loads and associated cooling loads. Additionally, with proper solar control, solar gains during cooling load periods can be mitigated and solar gains during heating load periods can be utilized, reducing the energy requirements of both cooling and heating a space.

Good daylighting has also been shown to improve the overall attitude, satisfaction and wellbeing of building occupants.

The main objective of this workshop is to deliver practical knowledge to access and monitor daylighting via simulation of three-dimensional models. The session will cover fundamentals of lighting and application of software tool for daylight simulation for assessing visual comfort.

The resulting ease of use may be deceptive for new users who do not fully understand what they are actually calculating and what the strengths & limitations of existing simulations programs. This half day training course is specifically designed towards helping students, architects, designers and sustainability consultants to learn the basic theory underlying daylight simulations and how to integrate such simulations within their practice.

Agenda for the workshop

*Please carry laptop for the exercise