Many daylight metrics are developed to assess different aspects of visual comfort in recent
years. However, there are still some doubts about the robustness of these metrics. This …

Purpose The COVID-19 global health crisis is undeniably a global housing crisis. Our study
focuses on quality of life in urban mid-and high-rise apartment housing, the fastest growing …

Daylight and glare metrics are useful to quantify visual performance, minimize visual
discomfort, and promote energy savings. This study evaluates the performance and …

Lighting simulation standards recommend default values for opaque material reflectance
values, but these are varied and not based upon measured data. In response, a database of …

Sufficient daylight in the indoor environment of buildings is important not only for vision and
well-being as daylight also has significant non-visual effects on the human organism. The …

Evaluation metrics using climate-based daylight modelling paradigms have become the de-
facto standard in work environments but have only limited applicability in residential …

Daylight metrics that shall guide performance-driven design must be applicable to models
that reflect the limited knowledge at the time of planning decisions. In particular in residential …

After the pandemic, as it becomes more feasible to study and work from home, the quality of
residential daylighting has attracted increasing attention. With the rapid growth of high …

Most existing daylight studies are focused on commercial buildings, with very few studies on
residential. Due to flexible floor layouts of residential buildings and diverse interior activities …

Multi-unit residential buildings (MURB) represent more than one half of the new housing
built in the USA and Canada. To date, the majority of daylighting research has focused on …