Daylight coefficients

Tregenza, P.R.; Waters, I.M.

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“…Later improvements have been made to allow annual and climate based daylighting modelling using daylighting coefficients or sky mixing methods. Daylighting coefficients methods is originally proposed by Tregenza and Waters [106], and implemented by Reinhart and Henkel into Radiance as a DAYSIM extension [2]. Sky mixing methods interpolate values under a range of skies from clear to overcast for different points in time in a year.…”

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State-of-the-art review of solar design tools and methods for assessing daylighting and solar potential for building-integrated photovoltaics

Jakica

2018

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

133

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Solar design can take many different forms across disciplines with different methodologies and goals, ranging from acquiring architectural visual effects to assessing illumination for daylighting and solar radiation potential on building surfaces for PV implementation. Furthermore, a capability of solar design methodologies and tools to accurately and time efficiently simulate light phenomena can greatly influence performance results and design decisions. This is especially important in complex cases such as dense urban settings with the significant surface shadowing, and vertical facades including daylighting devices and photovoltaics. Consequently, choosing a suitable approach and tool for each design phase is essential for achieving unique design and performance goals. This paper was carried out within the framework of IEA-PVPS Task 15 -BIPV and it aims to facilitate this decision for all parties involved in solar design process. Here presented, is an overview of almost 200 solar design tools, analyzing their numerous features regarding accuracy, complexity, scale, computation speed, representation as well as building design process integration in about 50 2D/3D, CAD/CAM and BIM software environments. Furthermore, tools from various fields have been analysed in a broad interdisciplinary context of solar design with a particular attention for being used for Daylighting and Building-Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) purposes. This approach should open many new perspectives on a potentially wider multidisciplinary usage and interpretation of solar design tools, sometimes well beyond their initial scope of work.

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State-of-the-art review of solar design tools and methods for assessing daylighting and solar potential for building-integrated photovoltaics

Jakica

2018

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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“…The DC approach is a proven method for annual simulation that subdivides the sky into patches whose partial contributions are computed independently [Tregenza 1983]. Any general lighting simulation method may be used to compute the daylight coefficients in advance of the annual loop.…”

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Simulating the Daylight Performance of Complex Fenestration Systems Using Bidirectional Scattering Distribution Functions within Radiance

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Lee

et al. 2011

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We describe two methods which rely on bidirectional scattering distribution functions (BSDFs) to model the daylighting performance of complex fenestration systems (CFS), enabling greater flexibility and accuracy in evaluating arbitrary assemblies of glazing, shading, and other optically-complex coplanar window systems. Two tools within Radiance enable a) efficient annual performance evaluations of CFS, and b) accurate renderings of CFS despite the loss of spatial resolution associated with low-resolution BSDF datasets for inhomogeneous systems. Validation, accuracy, and limitations of the methods are discussed.

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“…For the daylight contribution through the perimeter windows, the concept of the daylighting coefficient (Tregenza and Waters, 1983) is used to calculate the illuminance at given points on the desktop surfaces. The DaySim software (NRC, 2009) is used to compute the daylighting coefficient sets and the hourly desktop illuminances using the weather file data at the building site.…”

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The energy performance of the Central Sunlighting System

Laouadi

Coffey

2012

Journal of Building Performance Simulation

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/npsi/ctrl?lang=en http://nparc.cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/npsi/ctrl?lang=fr Access and use of this website and the material on it are subject to the Terms and Conditions set forth at http://nparc.cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/npsi/jsp/nparc_cp.jsp?lang=en NRC Publications Archive Archives des publications du CNRCThis publication could be one of several versions: author's original, accepted manuscript or the publisher's version. / La version de cette publication peut être l'une des suivantes : la version prépublication de l'auteur, la version acceptée du manuscrit ou la version de l'éditeur. For the publisher's version, please access the DOI link below./ Pour consulter la version de l'éditeur, utilisez le lien DOI ci-dessous.http://dx.doi.org/10. 1080/19401493.2011.558632 Journal of Building Performance Simulation, pp. 1-14, 2011-04-12 Energy performance of the Central Sunlighting System Laouadi, A.; Coffey, B. Ene rgy pe rfor m a nc e of t he Ce nt ra l Sunlight ing Syst e m NRCC-53616Laouadi, A.; Coffey, B. 2011-01-31A version of this document is published in / Une version de ce document se trouve dans:Journal of Building Performance Simulation, pp.1-14, April, 2011 http://dx.doi.org/10. 1080/19401493.2011.558632 http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/ircThe material in this document is covered by the provisions of the Copyright Act, by Canadian laws, policies, regulations and international agreements. Such provisions serve to identify the information source and, in specific instances, to prohibit reproduction of materials without written permission. 57% for lighting, 8% for cooling, and from 14% to 23% for the total (lighting, cooling, and heating) energy.2

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Daylight coefficients

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State-of-the-art review of solar design tools and methods for assessing daylighting and solar potential for building-integrated photovoltaics

State-of-the-art review of solar design tools and methods for assessing daylighting and solar potential for building-integrated photovoltaics

Simulating the Daylight Performance of Complex Fenestration Systems Using Bidirectional Scattering Distribution Functions within Radiance

The energy performance of the Central Sunlighting System

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