A study about daylighting knowledge and education in Europe. Results from the first phase of the DAYKE project

A Survey on Daylighting Education in Italian Universities. Knowledge of Standards, Metrics and Simulation Tools

“…In such a case, they would not have enough education on daylighting to promote the development of sustainable architectures. • The findings from DAYKE-Italy are in line with what observed within the earlier DAYKE-Europe [22]: in both surveys, the knowledge about daylight standards and regulations is meager, opposed to a higher knowledge of daylight metrics and simulation tools. Compared to European students (DAYKE-Europe), Italian students showed a higher knowledge of daylight metrics and software (especially M.Sc.…”

“…In this section, the answers collected about daylighting knowledge within DAYKE-Europe and DAYKE-Italy are compared, with the aim of highlighting if the trend in Italian universities is somewhat in line, or better, or worse with respect to the average knowledge observed in Europe [22]. Figure 9 shows the frequencies of positive answers provided by the respondents on the various items on 'knowledge about daylighting', with regard to both the total of students and disaggregating B.Sc from M.Sc students.…”

“…The DAYKE questionnaire is an ad-hoc instrument developed based on previous questionnaires available in the literature that investigated different aspects of daylighting in educational [25][26], office [27], residential [28] and healthcare [29] buildings. The online mode was chosen after carrying out the first survey within DAYKE [21]: a paper questionnaire was used at first, but then it was decided to use an online platform (Google Forms) to handle the collection and management of a very large number of responses. Besides, some questions were also modified, as they were not easy to cope with in the presence of massive data (f.i.…”

“…gender, age) and daylighting education information, including daylighting design training. More detail on the survey can be found in [22].…”

“…Overall, a substantially low level of knowledge about daylighting issues among professionals, building designers and practitioners seems to emerge. Within this frame, these paper reports findings from the DAYKE (DAYlight Knowledge in Europe) research: DAYKE-Europe was carried out in a first stage in some European architecture faculties to investigate how daylighting is taught at a university level, where building practitioners are educated and trained to implement conscious daylighting strategies into their later professional design activities [21][22]. DAYKE-Europe was methodologically replicated and applied to an Italian partnership (DAYKE-Italy), using the same ad-hoc survey that was developed within DAYKE-Europe.…”