27 Getting to grips with daylighting
Gary Dean of OnLevel UK explores the importance of daylighting in building design and the benefits of specifying glass clamps to help facilitate it
nsuring your home, workplace or recreational space maximises the use of natural light is fast becoming an integral part of building design. The wellbeing benefits of natural light are compelling, from boosting your vitamin D, helping to ward off seasonal depression, and improving sleep, while natural sunlight boosts energy and strengthens organs. Natural sunlight is also economical and sustainable. By increasing a building’s exposure to the sun with effective design and space planning, it can create a cost- effective, light filled sustainable building. At the end of 2018 the British Standard EN 17037:2018 was released. Relating to daylight in buildings, the standard encourages designers to assess daylit
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spaces in buildings and ensure they’re successful. It allows building designers and developers to focus on a building’s daylighting objectives, as well as tackle other issues related to daylight design, such as views out, protection against glare, and exposure to sunlight. The document gives information on how to use daylighting to provide lighting within interiors, and how to limit glare. It defines metrics to be used for the evaluation of daylighting conditions and gives principles of calculation and verification. Fundamentally daylighting is the practice of efficient design; the positioning of windows, skylights, and reflective surfaces to allow the flow and capture of sunlight within a building, so that sunlight can
By increasing a building’s exposure to the sun with effective design and space planning, it can create a cost-effective, light-filled sustainable building
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