Assessment of daylighting strategy using office building envelopes in hot and arid climates

Conference · Wed Dec 31 04:00:00 EST 1997

OSTI ID:361846

Al-Mohaisen, A H ^[1]

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1. Kuwait Univ., Safat (Kuwait). Civil Engineering Dept.

Different daylighting techniques in office buildings are necessary to deal with the problems associated with side-lighting like overheating, excessive brightness and discomfort glare, especially in hot and arid regions where solar radiation availability is enormous coupled with high air temperatures. This problem can be approached by using a lightshelf daylighting delivery system which manipulates sunlight and daylight both in terms of its light and heat by shading view apertures below the lightshelf to reduce solar heat gain and glare and by reflecting light deep into the space through clerestory apertures above the lightshelf. However, it hasn`t shown until now what is the best combined lightshelf configuration on an envelop of multi-story buildings that will provide good interior luminous environment in terms of adequate ambient lighting, uniform lighting distribution, reduced glare discomfort coupled with reduced energy consumption. This paper presents methodology and results for the evaluation of this system performance.

• OSTI ID: 361846
• Report Number(s): CONF-970441--; ISBN 0-89553-212-3
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

14 SOLAR ENERGY
32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
DAYLIGHTING
DESERTS
ENERGY CONSERVATION
HUMAN FACTORS
OFFICE BUILDINGS
THERMAL COMFORT