The Impact of Daylight in the Built Environment

While not an electric light source, daylight is an important layer to consider in a lighting design in any space that has daylight apertures such as windows and skylights.

In its simplest definition, daylighting is the use of daylight as the primary source of illumination in a space.

Daylighting is also related to providing access to a view, optimizing quality of the visual environment, and reducing whole building energy consumption.

When designing a lighting system, one must consider where daylight is allowed to enter the space and in what intensity, how it is controlled, and how the electric lighting and daylighting will be integrated.


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