DAYLIGHTING WITH WINDOWS, SKYLIGHTS, AND CLERESTORIES.

This paper examines the impact of several fenestration options on building space heating, cooling, and lighting loads. The use of skylights, windows, and clerestories is evaluated for a single floor commercial building, using the NBSLD-2 building energy analysis computer program, which possesses a fully integrated daylight model (DALITE). The NBSLD-2 computer procedure performs a dynamic simulation of hour-by-hour building thermal performance and energy requirements for a one-year period. The thermal and daylighting characteristics of each fenestration aperture are modeled to enable evaluation of the trade-offs associated with the use of each fenestration type. The results are correlated in the form of design guidelines to enable the preliminary design decisions to be made regarding fenestration location, type configuration, and size. The energy calculations are presented as functions of fenestration characteristics, so that the potential energy advantages can be estimated for different fenestration designs.