It is accepted that the visual comfort in schools depends on the quality of the whole visual environment. This leads to the concern upon the quality and quantity of lighting. Currently in Iran, in order to calculate energy transfer for public buildings a coefficient is usually used. This coefficient considers the rate of sunlight energy absorption in these kinds of buildings. To increase the ...

Lighting systems have historically been controlled by an individual or small group of human operators working together in real-time. Applications for real-time lighting control include theatre, concerts, dance performances, and dance parties such as raves. For the first three applications, changes in the lighting are usually designed to be triggered by premeditated actions of the performers on-...

Overhead light fixtures in shared-space offices are typically grouped into banks, each of which is controlled by a single switch. Even in offices with daylight responsive systems, the luminaires are divided into zones controlled by one photosensor per zone. Too often, the geographically-defined “zone” does not correspond to occupied areas, and energy is wasted illuminating the unoccupied areas....

The COPE (cost-effective open plan environments) project investigates the effect of open-plan office design on the indoor environment and on the occupant satisfaction with that environment. COPE is sponsored by a consortium of North American public and privatesector organizations and relies on field, laboratory and simulation studies to address design aspects like acoustics, lighting quality, i...