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Daylighting is the process of designing, constructing or retrofitting architectural features on either new or exisiting buildings, that permit indoor spaces to be illuminated with an optimal level of natural lighting during the daytime, helping to offset expensive electric illumination.
Building occupants benefit from daylighting in a variety of ways that have been documented in numerous studies of comfort, performance of tasks, and even student scores improvements.
Using natural daylight is also energy efficient, helping to lower utility bills and helps protect the environment by reducing overall emissions of atmospheric pollutants from power plants.
Not only is electricial power needed to run lights lowered in daylit buildings, but air-conditioning demand is lessened in summer when many utility companies now apply demand charges to commercial billings. Less electrical power consumed inside a building means less by-product heat (unwanted in summer) is released indoors.
Download Library:
The Benefits of Natural Lighting
Articles available to download on the benefits of natural lighting.
Alternative Light Sources
Piping natural light into your work place not only becomes an energy saver, but is now an essential source of illumination during blackouts and brownouts.
The recent energy crisis …
More Cost Effective?
Hybrid skylights can be more cost effective than adding windows for light (not including "passive solar heating design"). Here is a comparison.
There's No Down Side!
Everyone from scientists and teachers to optometrists and dermatologists are now touting the benefits of natural light. Following are some of the positive effects sunlight is credited with providing…
Scientists and doctors are increasingly interested in natural lighting benefits...
There are documented benefits under increasing study including improvements to health, vision and mood -- not to mention the decrease in electric power used for lighting and the avoided air-conditioning loads of particular interest in commercial buildings…
The Affects of DayLight to Your Environment
Controlling for all other influences, we found that students with the most daylighting in their classrooms progressed 20% faster on math tests and 26% on reading tests in one year than those with the least.
"Skylights were found to be positively and significantly correlated to higher sales…
Press Release
THE DAYLITE COMPANY announces the installation of their Daylite™ SLX-Series of skylites in the Valencia Ice Arena, Valencia, CA.
This installation of 65 Daylite™ units …
Resources
The Who's Who in Natural Lighting…
Article from the New York Times
Daylighting Case Studies
Energy Industry Links
www.h-m-g.com
www.eia.doe.gov
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