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Benefits of Daylight

    After taking this course, the reader will:

  1. Understand the many benefits of incorporating daylighting in commercial projects.

  2. Learn how daylighting in commercial buildings can specifically lead to energy savings, increased employee productivity, higher retail sales, increased property values and increased student performance (schools).

  3. Discover how daylighting can help projects gain green certification credits under the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy &Environmental Design (LEED™) program.

  4. Learn how Tubular Daylighting Devices (TDDs) in particular are being used to incorporate daylighting in both new and retrofit building projects.

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Questions

 

Questions 1:
 According to the USGBC, well-designed daylighting solutions can reduce lighting energy in a building by how much?


 

a) 30-50%

b) 50-80%

c) 80-100%

D) 10-20%
 

Questions 2:
 Which is NOT an advantage of cool daylighting?

 

 

a) Filters out unwanted wavelengths of light

b) Minimizes upfront installation costs

c) Reduces the overall cooling load costs

D) None of the above
 

Questions 3:
  Since customers prefer naturally lit environments, retail profits from sales in buildings that use daylighting may be worth more than the energy savings themselves. How much more?

a) 100 times more

b) 50 times more

c) 45 to 100 times more

d) 25-50 times more
 

Questions 4:
 What is the primary reason TDDs, rather than traditional skylights, are used to daylight a building?

 

a) Compact size

b) Technological features

c) Flexible design

d) All of the above
 

Questions 5:
 In order to most effectively bring daylight into an interior space, where should sunlight capture first occur?


 

a) The side of the building

b) The center of the building

c) The roof of the building

d) None of the above
 

Questions 6:
 Daylit buildings can result in 10 to 20 percent higher rental income than those that use only artificial light.

(a) True

(b) False
 

Question 7:
TDDs are only able to be installed in new construction due to the fact that the roof of the building is already in place.

(a) True

(b) False

 

Question 8:
Which of the following are typically found only in the most advanced, modern TDDs?

 

a) Corrugated/flexible tubing

b) Optical modulation systems

c) Optical Diffusers

d) None of the above
 

Questions 9:
 Which can be greatly affected by the design and specification of a TDD’s diffuser?

 

a) Light spread

b) Color temperature

c) Glare

d) All of the above
 

Questions 10:
 The choice of diffusion must be based on precise lighting calculations that consider light spread and photometry.
 

True

False

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