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Daylighting Performance of Buildings: Monitoring Procedure
Marc Fontoynont, Vincent Berrutto
Département Génie Civil et Bâtiment (DGCB - URA CNRS) Ecole Nationale des Travaux Publics de l?Etat (ENTPE), France
Abstract
This section presents a procedure which was developed to allow the assessment of the behaviour of buildings and building components with respect to daylight. The goal was the caracterisation of windows as ?daylighting luminaires?, in relation to the space lit and the materials used. Reasons for the success or failure of daylighting options can be deduced from site measurements. An objective analysis of the resulting visual environments is proposed, a means of investigating how they are adaptated to the visual needs of occupants.
This information should be seen as complementary to subjective assessment, where aesthetics and amenity are of concern. The proposed procedure has been developed within a Europan monitoring campaign which studied 60 European buildings, and ran from 1996-1997 [1]. It focuses on various buildings, old and new, including offices, museums, schools, houses, glazed streets, churches, factories, etc.
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