RESIDENTIAL HOME
Proper lighting makes your home feel open. It’s easier to read, cook, and even enjoy colors. Natural interior daylight in your home brightens the mood.
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Natural Interior Daylight Initiative encourages homeowners, architects and building owners to use daylight as a primary light source.
A campaign to reduce our carbon emissions (and enjoy nicer lighting) in our buildings.
OFFICE BUILDINGS
Offices lit with natural interior daylight have been proven to increase student performance, and provide a stimulating space for teacher and student.
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There is plenty of evidence that natural interior daylight in the work environment creates happier and more productive factory workers.
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I couldn’t imagine buying a new vehicle under artificial lighting conditions.
Peter Hite
- American Artist
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We thought the modular skylight design was beautiful. And it also made for a much easier installation.
Stella Betts
- Architect
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What I can tell you is that walking into every one of those dorm rooms, the cooling and ventilation worked really well.
Joe Klein
- Project Manager, Reeves Young
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It makes a huge difference. It’s way brighter in here, even on cloudy days.
Josh Stringer
- Crews Subaru Sales Manager
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We should all have inverter-driven variable speed technology systems because we’d save energy and operating cost, be more comfortable, and reduce our carbon footprint. There’s really no downside.
Bill Goetzler
- Navigant Managing Director
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They’re really, really fantastic. It’s the most dramatic room in the house.
Kathy Wong
- Homeowner
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We pulled the trigger on that cost because we felt that if we put windows in and they don’t look right, it’s gonna be a disaster we can’t recover from.
Hunter Gaines
- USC Program Director for Capital Construction Development
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Most PTACs and VTACs can control temperature, but any humidity control is subsequent, or ancillary, to the temperature control. The Friedrich VRP unit specifically cools and addresses room humidity.
Rick Frey
- Senior Director, Engineering Hilton Hotels
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We love the room we have now and we’re glad that we did it.
Rich Wong
- Homeowner
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WE WANT BETTER LIGHT
Natural interior daylight offers a multitude of benefits beyond energy savings. It is the highest quality light source available for interior environments, it is flicker-free and it provides excellent color rendering and color balance. And natural interior daylight is one of the fastest greenhouse gas reducing paybacks you can buy, because it shrinks both energy bills and re-lamping maintenance costs. The fact is, introducing daylight into buildings provides energy savings, excellent lighting quality and more beautiful interior spaces.
- Does natural interior daylighting pay for itself?
Lighting accounts for roughly one third of electricity used by commercial or educational facilities in the United States. Whereas natural interior daylight requires no energy beyond sunlight. And Natural interior daylight is about 10-times more efficient then rooftop PV cells for lighting a room.
- How do students preform under natural interior daylight?
I am text block. Click ediThere is also plenty of evidence that daylighting improves occupant productivity in both schools and offices. Especially in learning environments, skylit classrooms provide a natural and stimulating space for teacher and student. While studies show that poor lighting adversely affects learning, daylighting has been proven to increase student performance in math and reading scores, as well as improving attendance. t button to change this text.
- How do students preform under natural interior daylight?
I am text block. Click ediThere is also plenty of evidence that daylighting improves occupant productivity in both schools and offices. Especially in learning environments, skylit classrooms provide a natural and stimulating space for teacher and student. While studies show that poor lighting adversely affects learning, daylighting has been proven to increase student performance in math and reading scores, as well as improving attendance. t button to change this text.
- How do office workers preform under natural interior daylight?
Studies show that office workers have few sick days. The human performance numbers in daylighting systems are important because the ROI for daylighting installations can sometimes be a difficult sell. In fact, the human performance gains can outweigh the energy savings, where human performance can be measured in financial terms.
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FAQ: Why don't we see more natural interior daylight in buildings today?
Eneref Institute has identified seven primary reasons we don’t see more natural interior daylight in our buildings. To learn the seven market obstacles to daylighting, download Eneref Institute’s report.