Daylight strategies are front and center in every building you design. You carefully consider the building footprint, its orientation, and how to use fenestration to create sunlight and shadows. But you don’t have to stop there. Integrated light and daylight control present a tremendous opportunity to use lighting control throughout the space as an integral aspect of high-performance building design. It can unleash a building’s full potential for creating the right environment for the most important part of any space—the people in it.
Think About Your Personal Experience with Light
Maybe you wake up, throw open the drapes, and bathe the room in light. Or, maybe you greet the day slowly, dimming the bedside light to a low level and hitting the snooze button. With smart lighting control, your home can automatically anticipate your best light all day long—and into the night.
The same general strategies can be used to create the right environment in every commercial space you design. For example: when employees walk into a space, shades and lighting automatically adjust for occupancy. Then, as the intense afternoon sun moves around the building, shades lower and lights readjust, preserving views while reducing glare and heat gain.
Integrated daylighting control solutions allow light and shade levels in open offices, public areas, and lobbies to automatically respond to daylight, ensuring the right light levels without wasting energy, or leaving building occupants with insufficient light. Occupancy sensors and timeclock events automatically select the right light levels throughout the day and personal control allows occupants to set the perfect light level for their tasks.
Incorporating light and shade control into your design can create right-light environments in commercial spaces: fill the room with cool light for energetic, brainstorming sessions, or warm light and partially closed shades for periods of intense thought. As an architect, these are the gaps lighting control systems can help you fill to perfect the human experience of the space.
Opportunities for Every Project, Every Budget, and Every User Experience.
Whether you are working on a new building, major renovation, or lighting retrofit, scalable, wireless, smart lighting control solutions that are easy to design and easy to install can help you transform existing spaces. Lighting control solutions can also help meet green building standards, reduce glare, preserve view, and redefine the user experience. View project profile
Things to consider when specifying a daylighting strategy:
- The earlier you involve your engineer and lighting designer, the more you can map out the most effective lighting strategies.
- Work with manufacturers that understand all aspects of the lighting experience including the ability to easily adjust lighting strategies as building needs change.
- Look for a systems provider who offers design tools that empower you to get involved early, utilize available data, and help you design, bid and implement a solution with the right lighting strategies for any space.
- Use emerging lighting control technologies to change the experience of lighting control, and to deliver productive, comfortable, beautiful lighting environments that are perfectly tuned for the people in the space.
You already think about lighting as an essential part of building design; make sure you also include lighting control strategies to complete the user experience.
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