Proceedings of: Workshop on Improving Building Design for Persons with Low Vision

Issue 11: What environmental and perceptual data on natural/daylighting are available from buildings with low vision occupants?

Question by [Participant]: Jim, can I just ask one quick question? So did you actually survey persons with low vision to come up with this information?

Response by Jim Woods: We didn’t ask that question. That was the general population. We had 50 to 70 [responses from employees] in [each of] the buildings.

Question by [Participant]: Were these GSA-owned buildings or were these the leases?

Response by Jim Woods: These are GSA-owned. These are all federal courthouses.

Comment by [Participant]: I just looked up a COB [acronym was not defined] study from 1928. This thing had 90,000 observations of glare. They can tell you the angle, the contrast ratios. The point is, try to write a law around this. It’s impossible. It’s all depending on that room, that architecture, that brightness, that view angle.

Response by [Participant]: We don’t need a law; we need guidance.