Benefits and Challenges of Daylighting (slides 2 – 4) Benefits (slide 2) Daylighting has tremendous benefits: provides illumination for space, free illumination, provides thermal...
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Greg Knoop. Daylighting
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Mariana Figueiro, Ph.D. 24-hr Lighting Schemes for Older Adults and Persons with Low Vision
There were studies done in California a few years ago saying that daylight in schools impacts test scores and that daylight impacts performance....
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Effects of Lighting and Daylighting on Performance
Response by Bob Massof: Yeah, daylight – both too much and too little. Too much light and they tend to wash out from this glare....
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Mark J. Mazz, AIA: Architectural Consultant on Accessibility
Ultimate Daylight (slide 3) Here you’ve got the ultimate daylight, because you’re outside (slide 3)....
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Tom Williams, AIA, National Accessibility Officer, GSA, Public Buildings Service
There was an interesting article in the Architectural Record in 2009 on daylighting....
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James E. Woods, Ph.D., P.E. Natural Lighting for Persons with Low Vision
There is no energy savings from that daylighting when you’re just transferring the heat in a different way. There is so much myth about energy savings with daylight....
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Mary Ann Hay, IALD, LEED AP, Vice President, Director, Architectural Lighting Design, Syska Hennessy Group, Inc.
Control glare from daylight sources. Consider opportunities for task lighting. Provide high color rendition light sources....
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Motivational Characteristics
You already know these things because you’ve already agreed pretty much on what motivational characteristics are: Low vision makes us more dependent on our environment...
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Material Characteristics (slide 6)
Matte Finishes Other just general things that are important. Matte finishes (slide 6) are always better than specular surfaces or polished granite. And that can be columns, and...
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Proceedings of: Workshop on Improving Building Design for Persons with Low Vision
GSA’s Design Excellence philosophy “to provide dramatic improvements in the design, preservation, and construction of federal buildings”, which has resulted in substantial increases in daylighting...
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John Brabyn, Ph.D., Director of Rehabilitation Engineering Research, Center on Low Vision and Blindness (NIDRR), Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
Introduction Some Vision Research Relevant to Built Environment Codes & Standards (slide 1) Research is being funded by NIH/NEI. No standardized tests for...
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Design Guidelines for the Visual Environment
facility, such as walkways and pathways, stairs, and ramps; interior spaces, including finish materials, and fixed and moveable furniture; and the lighting design, including the use of daylighting...
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Pricilla Rogers, Ph.D., Center on Vision Loss, American Foundation for the Blind
Introduction What Our Laws and Regulations Do Not Say About Low Vision and the Built Environment (slides 1 and 2). Low vision poses special issues for planners (and...
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Performance and Productivity
Comment by Tom Williams: It’s interesting to me that there doesn’t seem to be any more research out there on the connection of daylight to productivity....
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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...
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Robert Dupuy, IALD, LC. Problems and Solutions
So the state of Oregon, for example, requires controls for daylighting. The second photo shows a medical office building, where we have daylight coming into the space....
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Get Ready
, held the third Tuesday of each September; Get Ready: Set Your Clocks, Check Your Stocks, which encourages people to check their emergency stockpiles when they change their clocks for daylight...
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Mariana Figueiro, Ph.D., Program Director, Assistant Professor, The Lighting Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
., daylight, high CCT, bright or dim light) aren’t good enough...
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Building Guidelines and Standards are needed for Accommodations of Low Vision Persons
We site to improve and reduce glare but we also site to harvest and make best use of natural daylight (slide 9)....
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Balco Inc. IllumiTread Photoluminescent Egress Markings System
They recharge from ambient light – whether daylight or fluorescent or incandescent interior lighting – and glow reliably for over 24 hours, showing the route to safe exit pathways....
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Avoid Avoidance
Disaster and emergency planning is an activity that should be integrated into our lives (the same way we are encouraged to check our smoke alarm batteries when we change the clocks for daylight...
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Guardian Recessed Safety Station with Drain Pan GBF2173
AP250-064 Test Kit Removable fitting with elbow and drain tube installs in daylight drain for testing unit. AP250-065 Modesty curtain. TMV G3800LF thermostatic mixing valve....
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Appendix E: Vision Tests
The book of test plates was viewed on a dedicated easel under simulated daylight illumination as recommended by the manufacturer....
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BTX Intelligent Fashion Test For Drapery Track, 40Kg Load
The change from daylight to the seclusion of night should not cause abrupt interruptions in a carefully created atmosphere....
