Skylighting Guidelines

The Skylighting Guidelines is available from the Web site of Energy Design Resources.
These guidelines:

• Describe opportunities for energy savings and good lighting design
• Explain how to integrate skylights with other building elements
• Show how to estimate energy and dollar savings
• Help designers avoid costly mistakes

Northeast Optimization Chapter

This new chapter to be inserted in the Skylighting Guidelines is written to help architects and engineers use skylights to maximum advantage of daylighting quality and energy savings in commercial and industrial buildings in the Northeast. The chapter covers regional issues and guidance on how to design an optimum skylighting system in the Northeast. It addresses energy performance, illumination conditions, and specification issues with summary graphs that illustrate the comparative effect of different parameters and skylighting rules of thumb. The chapter also covers maintenance and security issues related to skylights.

• Northeast Optimization Chapter of the Skylighting Guidelines
• The Skylighting Guidelines is available from Energy Design Resources. Click the “Publications” tab to access and download this PDF document. Also included in the Skylighting Guidelines is the SkyCalc® User’s Guide.