Daylighting Pattern Guide

The Daylighting Pattern Guide, the newest offering in the Advanced Buildings® suite of tools and resources, is a free, interactive tool that helps design teams incorporate proven daylighting strategies into commercial building projects for substantial reductions in lighting power consumption and overall building energy use.

Why Daylighting Matters

High quality daylighting design has the potential to increase user satisfaction and productivity. In addition, when used in conjunction with energy-efficient lighting and controls, daylighting can reduce energy consumed by electric lighting by up to 70% as well as reduce overall building energy use.

Successfully designing daylighting into buildings in a manner that supports high ratings of visual comfort while also saving energy can be a complex and challenging process. The Daylighting Pattern Guide can help. This interactive tool, with 19 prime examples of well-designed daylit spaces around the United States, helps users find good examples of daylighting.

Looking for help designing an interior that maximizes daylight? Check out the Daylighting for Office Interiors Guide, another valuable resource from Advanced Buildings® suite of tools and resources.

Daylighting Pattern Guide Features:

• A visual and interactive platform equally useful to both those with and without experience in daylighting and lighting design practices.
• Easy-to-understand daylighting design principles
• 19 prime examples of well-designed daylit spaces from around the United States.
• A range of examples representing a wide range of spatial scales and uses. Project types include: offices, schools, libraries, laboratories, museums, industrial facilities, and recreational facilities.

Access the free Daylighting Pattern Guide at http://patternguide.advancedbuildings.net