Daylighting means using natural light instead of artificial lighting fixtures. Because daylighting reduces the need for electric lighting, it saves money while reducing impacts to the environment. Review the daylighting examples below, and consider opportunities to incorporate daylighting in offices and in the stadium proper when making major renovations.
Daylighting can reduce a building’s lighting requirements. In addition, some studies suggest that natural light improves employee moral and productivity. If designed properly, daylighting can also decrease the need for more costly space heating.
For more information, visit the Department of Energy’s Daylighting webpage.
NRDC: New York
Appleton School District case study
Daylighting.org’s Virtual Tours
Daylighting Best Practices
Daylighting can reduce the amount of energy your team needs for lighting, heating, and cooling, reducing costs and emissions related to energy production. Energy use is one of the largest environmental impacts in any facility, and also one of the greatest costs. Most energy consumed in the United States comes from coal, which contributes to smog, acid rain, and negative health and ecological impacts, and also contributes significantly to man-made global warming. In addition, coal mining – especially surface mining and mountaintop removal – is devastating many of the world’s most biologically important habitats. Reducing energy use can have a positive impact on all of these factors and should also save your team money.
Daylighting.org
New York City – Manual for Quality, Energy Efficient Lighting