Skylighting

Skylighting offers an opportunity to provide excellent lighting quality, high illumination levels, and substantial energy savings for your commercial clients. It can make for beautiful buildings, and has been shown to improve the performance of the people inside. Sponsored by the DesignLights™ Consortium (DLC) and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), the Heschong Mahone Group created the following skylighting tools to facilitate understanding of skylight design.

• The Skylighting Guidelines
  Documents providing specification choices for both skylights and electric lighting controls.
• SkyCalc® Skylighting Software
  A simple Excel macro that helps optimize the design of skylit buildings using local climate data.