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Tackling the benefits of natural light is a key strategy when designing sustainable buildings.
Daylight analysis allows us to improve the energy performance of the building, enhance user's comfort and cut down global
CO2 emissions.
Accredits and justifies sustainable building certification’ quality points.
Daylight design is a common credit requirement when performing sustainable building certifications such BREEAM, LEED, WELL and DGNB. Daylight simulation helps us to identify specific site constraints and overshadowing, to improve indoor and outdoor design, to defind quality views and lower energy demand and consumption.
| Sustainable Certification | Indicador | Puntos |
|---|---|---|
| BREEAM | Daylight Factor | 2 |
| LEED & WELL | Spatial Daylight Autonomy (sDA) | 3 |
| LEED & WELL | Illuminance Calculator | 2 |
| DGNB | Daylight Factor, Visual contact, Glare | Up to 100 |
It is a crucial factor to design nZEB buildings.
When it comes to energy balance, the analysis of lighting energy consumption is one of the most effective strategies to achieve nZEB standards.
Daylight analysis allow us to reduce building energy demands while providing a healthier working conditions for users. It can be applied in any kind of building typology and it is an essencial factor to reach user comfort and wellbeing.
Integrating daylight analysis with electric light design is a guarantee to reduce buildings’ global energy consumption.
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Promoting wellbeing within our built environment is synonym of workforce productivity
Natural viewing makes us feel positive and in a better mood, reducing stress and health problems while improving our sleep quality. Meanwhile, it generates an economic positive impact through the energy savings for electric lighting.
Being aligned with our circadian rhythm means to experience a better performance in our everyday activities, an improvement to our health, productivity and wellbeing.
Daylighting permit us to connect the built environment with the natural environment, lowering the energy demand, reducing energy consumption and cutting down global CO2 emissions.
Connecting BIM methodology with flexible modelling tools
OpenStudio modelling allows us to interconnect the daylight analysis results with BIM methodology, to calculate the building energy consumption and forecast its lighting bills.
Radiance calculation engine permit us to adjust other data interficies and align them according to the aim of each project.
These cross-platform software collections permit us to analyse and adapt the building geometrics according to global illumination, compute iluminance values and daylight factors and integrate them into the building design.
Identifying the metrics that influence the sustainability performance of the building, we can achieve the best scores for the credit requirements of your sustainable building certification.
Successful projects
BREEAM and VERDE certification for a logistics platform
BREEAM and VERDE certification process and consultancy
- Certification: BREEAM Excelente and VERDE 4 hojas
- Location: Polígono Industrial de Arinaga en Agüímes (Gran Canaria)
- Area: 36.446m2
- Client: LIDL Supermercados S.A.U
- Status: Ongoing
Sustainability consulting and integrated design in a new construction LEED platinum hotel
Consulting and sustaineble certification for a LEED new construction hotel
- Expected surface: 3610 m2
- Location: Palma de Mallorca
- Building construction type: hotel
- Certification: LEED Platinum
- Status: In progress
- Additional services: LCA, energy simulation, integrated design process.
LEED Gold certificate for a logistics distribution centre
LEED Gold certification process and consultancy
- Certification: LEED Gold
- Location: Carrer de Ca l’Arana nº4–8 de la ZAL Port (Prat)
- Area: 60.942m2
- Client: CILSA
- Status: Completed
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