Any variation in temperature alters the dimensions of a concrete structure and provokes
thermal stress. Moreover, the propagation of micro-cracking decreases the strength of …

The building sector accounts for 40% of global energy consumption, and artificial lighting is
a contributory factor. An approach to resolving lighting issues is daylighting. For daylight to …

The development and utilization of solar energy, meteorological forecasting, and agricultural
production all require accurate predictions of radiance. However, due to the influence of …

Fluctuations of daylight can cause uncertainties in evaluating its accessibility for building
design and optimization tasks by the time-averaged solar and daylight data in hourly …

The use of daylight in buildings contributes to energy savings while significantly improving
visual comfort and well-being. It is therefore very important to be able to quantify illuminance …

There are several compilations of sky classifications that refer to Meteorological Indices
(MIs)(variables usually recorded at meteorological ground stations), due to the scarcity of …

This work estimated the daylight availability and luminous efficacy of solar illuminance and
approximated indoor daylight levels for various indoor daylighting methods for Kolkata, a …

Daylight data are required for energy-efficient building designs. However, daylight is
scarcely measured, making the luminous efficacy model an alternative. This paper presents …

Harnessing daylight for energy-efficient designs requires the availability of daylight
illuminance data. In the absence of measured daylight data, deriving daylight using the …

The determination of optimal illumination conditions in buildings is of great interest both for
reducing energy consumption and for exploiting solar resources with greater efficiency and …