Well-being in the built environment is a topic that features frequently in building standards and certification schemes, in scholarly articles and in the general press. However, despite this surge in ...attention, there are still many questions on how to effectively design, measure, and nurture well-being in the built environment. Bringing together experts from academia and the building industry, this paper aims to demonstrate that the promotion of well-being requires a departure from conventional agendas. The ten questions and answers have been arranged to offer a range of perspectives on the principles and strategies that can better sustain the consideration of well-being in the design and operation of the built environment. Placing a specific focus on some of the key physical factors (e.g., light, temperature, sound, and air quality) of indoor environmental quality (IEQ) that strongly influence occupant perception of built spaces, attention is also given to the value of multi-sensory variability, to how to monitor and communicate well-being outcomes in support of organizational and operational strategies, and to future research needs and their translation into building practice and standards. Seen as a whole, a new framework emerges, accentuating the integration of diverse new competencies required to support the design and operation of built environments that respond to the multifaceted physical, physiological, and psychological needs of their occupants.
•Views of ten experts from academia and the building industry are brought together.•Promoting well-being in built environment needs departure from conventional agendas.•A range of perspectives on design principles and operational strategies is given.•Focus is given to IEQ factors, multi-sensory variability, monitoring and management.•Future research needs and their translation in practice and standards are discussed.
With the exponential growth in population and commensurate increased density in urban cities, access to daylight and views to nature is being severely curtailed in buildings. In parallel, ...increasingly urgent demands to sharply reduce building energy use and associated greenhouse gas emissions are being made to mitigate climate change. There are many challenges and performance tradeoffs associated with the building facade (i.e., daylight and view versus solar and glare control); increased prioritization of health and well-being as a fundamental human requirement could adversely affect building energy-efficiency. Given the current state of knowledge on the effects of daylight and view on health and well-being in buildings, we identify critical needs in research, tools and technologies that if satisfied may enable more effective use of daylight and view in buildings within the constraints of climate change. Lack of knowledge regarding the complex causal mechanisms of window views on human factors is a severely limiting factor in forward progress. Current models and methods to derive bidirectional scattering distribution functions (BSDFs) will need to be modified. Developers of energy-efficient window technologies will need more guidance to shape product development. Advanced window technologies and integrated design can enable attainment of both health and well-being and net zero energy goals, but considerable work will be needed to make such options turnkey and broadly available.
Daylight metrics and energy savings Mardaljevic, J; Heschong, L; Lee, E
Lighting research & technology (London, England : 2001),
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41, Številka:
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The drive towards sustainable, low-energy buildings has increased the need for simple, yet accurate methods to evaluate whether a ‘daylit’ building meets minimum standards for energy and human ...comfort performance. Current metrics do not account for the temporal and spatial aspects of daylight, nor of occupants comfort or interventions. This paper reviews the historical basis of current compliance methods for achieving daylit buildings, proposes a technical basis for development of better metrics, and provides two case study examples to stimulate dialogue on how metrics can be applied in a practical, real-world context.
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Metrics of the quantity and quality of daylight are essential for assessing whether buildings provide good (or even adequate) daylighting for the purposes of human health and wellbeing, visual ...comfort, and energy saving.
At present there are only a few metrics of daylight that are used by designers and researchers. Most of these are very simple, they are based on illuminance and they do not have a proven record in research or usage.
Luminance maps offer a richer source of data, and the potential to create new types of metric that will more accurately quantify the quantity and quality of daylight. Recent advantages in camera technology make luminance quick and convenient to measure and to record, opening the way to the development of new luminance-based metrics.
This report investigates several potential luminance-based daylight metrics, using real data from surveyed spaces. The metrics are assessed for their stability over time, their ease, accuracy and repeatability of measurement, and their variation between spaces. Several luminance metrics are proposed as being suitable for further investigation and field trials, and eventual incorporation into design guidance.
Thesis. 1978. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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by Lisa Heschong.
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Daylighting Makes a Difference Heschong, Lisa; Knecht, Carey
Educational facility planner,
2002, Letnik:
37, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Examined the role of daylight in student achievement in three schools and found a uniformly positive and statistically significant correlation between the presence of more daylight and better student ...test scores. Offers guidelines on designing daylit classrooms. (EV)
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