[Radiance-general] Daylighting Society

[Zack Rogers]

Hi Jill,

 

I believe IESNA is trying to have a stronger presence in daylighting.
For the past 6 years or so they have had a Daylighting Institute along
with a Lighting Institute which occurs for 2 days before the exhibit
hall opens at LightFair.  This includes two days of daylighting specific
presentations and relates to the "Daylighting Pavilion" they now
distinguish on the LightFair floor.  From 2004 - 2006ish there was also
a loose daylighting forum at LightFair organized by New Buildings
Institute (I believe) where industry representatives got together to
discuss the state of affairs.  Not much came from that and it fizzled.
There is also two IESNA committees focused on daylighting - the
daylighting committee (chaired by Kostas Papamichael and working on a
Daylighting RP-5) and the daylight metrics subcommittee (chaired by Lisa
Heschong and working on a dynamic daylight metric).  This year, as part
of a Daylighting Plus research project and the metric subcommittee
efforts, there was a new Daylighting Forum held at the end of LightFair
for 2 days.  Many of the who's who in daylighting attended and there
were good general discussions about the state of affairs for
daylighting, the need for metrics for a variety of code applications,
and the idea of making it a more regular forum came up - though nothing
concrete that I know of.

 

I'd like to see a daylighting forum continue as part of IESNA's
daylighting institute, and I'd like to see it occur in combination with
the classes during the LightFair event.  Alternatively, perhaps there
should be or already is a strong daylighting component to the CIE
activities.  I know there is some activity relative to climate based
daylight simulation but am not as familiar with CIE activities.

 

Cheers,

Zack

 

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[mailto:radiance-general-bounces at radiance-online.org] On Behalf Of Jill
Dalglish
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 3:51 PM
To: radiance-general at radiance-online.org
Subject: [Radiance-general] Daylighting Society

 

I apologize that this is not really a post regarding Radiance but
hopefully is still applicable to some users. 

Does anyone know of any professional daylighting groups or societies?
Especially one that is geared toward the consultant? I am aware of the
Daylighting Collaborative at the Energy Center of Wisconsin, however
their membership pricing structure does not seem to be geared toward the
independent consultant, but more toward larger manufacturers. I have
asked them about changing their pricing structure, but they do not seem
to want to budge.

Would anyone be interested in starting such a group with me? Or in
persuading the Daylighting Collaborative into changing their pricing
structure? Email me directly at jilldalglish at yahoo.com

Thanks



Jill Dalglish, EIT, LEED AP 
www.dalglishdaylighting.com <http://www.dalglishdaylighting.com/>  
Dalglish Daylighting, LLC

jilldalglish at yahoo.com 

 

 

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