Window systems play a key role in establishing both the thermal and luminous environments
within buildings, as well as the consequent energy required to maintain these for the comfort …

Window design is decisive in providing appropriate visual comfort for occupants and
sufficient energy savings in electric lighting. In daylighting, visual comfort is dependent on …

As we advance towards high-performance buildings, it is becoming necessary to reinforce
and extend the role of building information modelling (BIM) to better support performance …

Greenhouse gas emissions have been recognized as one of the major cause of the global
warming phenomena. The built environment accounts for more than 40% of the overall …

Various investigations have confirmed that pupils and teachers' learning/teaching
performance and health depend heavily on the quality and amount of daylight and indoor …

The Grasshopper environment permits the use of the widely accepted Radiance benchmark
simulation engine through different parametric tools. Parametric workflows allow complex …

This paper proposes a performance-based design validation approach to study EnergyPlus
for daylight harvesting capabilities. It considers EnergyPlus as a possible analytical tool to …

Nowadays, there is an in-depth debate about the suitability of daylight saving time. The shift
of one hour during summer time allows a better use of daylighting reducing energy …

The pandemic generated by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has led to a forced increase in the
number of hours spent at home. In many cases, the lockdown situations, both in social and …

This work focuses on daylighting performance analysis and its energy savings potential for
residential building by using dynamic simulation and its experimental validation. The …