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Proceedings of BS2013: 13th Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association, Chambéry, France, August 26-28

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Proceedings of BS2013: 13th Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association, Chambéry, France, August 26-28

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Proceedings of BS2013:

13th Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association, Chambry, France, August 26-28

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Table 1

Table 2

Figure 2:

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RE measured/simulated

Mean Daylight Factor

10

1.5

8
DFMEAN [%]

0.5

6
4
2
0

0
1

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

10 11 12

-0.5

70

-1

Area 25-500FC [%]

Measured and simulated points

Figure 3
Simulated Illuminance

3500

Point-in-Time Illuminance (LEED)

0.8

60

0.7

50

0.6
0.5

40

0.4

30

0.3

20

0.2

10

0.1

3000

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
0.8

Mean DA300

Illuminannce [lux]

70

Mean DA300 {%}

2000
1500
1000
500
0
1

10

11

60

0.6

50

0.5

40

0.4

30

0.3

20

0.2

10

0.1

12

0.7

RE

80

2500

0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

Measured and simulated points

Area DA300lux 50%

Figure 4

90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0

Spatial DA300|50

0.7
0.6
0.5
0.4
0.3
0.2
0.1
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

Figure 5

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0.8

RE

Relative Error

2.00
1.80
1.60
1.40
1.20
1.00
0.80
0.60
0.40
0.20
0.00

RE

RE

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13th Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association, Chambry, France, August 26-28

40000

Iluminance 9am

35000

Illuminance [lux]

30000

RE by Metric

0.80

25000

0.70

20000

0.60

15000

0.50

10000

0.40

5000

0.30
0
1

10

11

0.20

12

0.10
0.00
1400

DFmean

Iluminance 3pm

1200

Figure 8

Illuminance [lux]

1000
800
600
400
200
0
1

10

11

12

Figure 6

Figure 7

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LEED 8.1

DAmean
300

SDA
300|50

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Mean Daylight Factor by year

Frequency [%]

80

60

40

20

0
-0.5

0.5
2005

1.5

2006

2.5

3.5

2011

Figure 9

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Appendix A. Daylight Modeling Checklist


Before you start

Did you decide which daylighting performance metrics to simulate and how to interpret the
results?

Do you have a general idea of what the results should look like? e.g. a mean daylight factor in
a standard sidelit space should typically lie between 2% and 5%; interior illuminance
typically lie between 100 lux and 3000 lux and daylight autonomies typically range from
30% to 90% throughout the space.

Have you verified that the simulation program that you intend to use has been validated for
the purpose that you intend to use it for? i.e. that the simulation engine produces reliable
results and that the program supports the sky models related to your performance metric of
choice. (An example would be the old CIE overcast sky for daylight factor calculations.)

Have you secured credible climate data for your building site? (This is only required for
climate-based daylighting performance metrics.)

Have you performed rules-of-thumb calculations of simple daylight metrics to later validate
the integrity of your simulation model? i.e. Before you run complex daylight metrics, such as
daylight autonomy, consider comparing simulated average daylight factor to the average
daylight factor calculated using the modified Lynes Formula (Reinhart and LoVerso 2010).

Preparing the

Did you model all significant neighboring obstructions such as adjacent buildings and trees?

scene

Did you model the ground plane?

Did you model wall thicknesses, interior partitions, hanging ceilings and larger pieces of
furniture? Try to model overall space dimensions at least within a 10cm tolerance. Faade
details part of window assemblies should be modeled with a 2cm tolerance. Special
attention should be set on modeling window geometries and window-head-heights.

Did you consider window frames and mullions by either modeling them geometrically or by
using reduced visual transmittances for windows and skylights?

Window glazings:
- Did you check that all window glazings only consist of one surface? Several CAD tools
model double/triple glazings as two/three closely spaced parallel surfaces whereas
daylight simulation programs tend to assign the optical properties of multiple glazing to
a single surface.

Setting up the
simulation

- Did you check that all windows are inserted into the wall planes and not "overlaid" on
the wall surfaces? Several CAD tools suggest that you can create and visualize a window
in many different ways, one simply being the placement of a window surface on top of a
wall surface which case end up with two coplanar surfaces. As a result the simulation
program will either ignore the window or somehow guess which surface to consider.

Did you assign meaningful material properties to all scene components? Typical surface
values might range from: interior walls 50-60%, ceilings 50-80%, shiny floors 50-70, carpet
4-15, exterior ground 20% and exterior facades of surrounding buildings 20-40%.

Did you model any movable shading devices such as venetian blinds? If yes, do the results
make sense? Do any of the model assumptions need to revisited?

Make sure that you set up your project files correctly. This may involve:
- Checking that your project directory and file names do not contain any blanks ( ).
- Verifying that all sensors have the correct orientation, i.e. work plane sensors are facing up
and ceiling sensors are facing down.
- Setting the resolution of the work plane to 0.5m x 0.5m or 1ft x 1ft and placing it around
0.85m above the floor.

- Selecting the correct sky model (CIE, Perez, etc.).


- Selecting simulation parameters that correspond to the scene complexity. To do so you
should consult the technical manual of your simulation program.
- Comparing initial simulation results of simple daylight metrics against hand-calculations to
check the integrity of the model before analyzing the daylight performance of different
design variants.
* For a scene of low complexity (typical sidelit space with a standard window and no complex shading devices) use the
following recommended Radiance simulation parameters: ab= 4; ad =1500; ar=100, as=20; aa = 0.1; av=0 0 0. Sensitivity
analyses have demosntrated that higher radiance parameters for this type of scene will considerably increase run-time
without relevant benefits in simulation accuracy.

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