Daylighting Collaborative

Commercial Building Toplighting: Energy Savings Potential and Potential Paths Forward. Developed by TIAX LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy-Buildings and Technology Program, the study focuses on identifying the potential energy savings and other benefits of toplighting daylighting strategies used in combination with electric lighting controls.

Daylighting in Wisconsin: A Program Study. Published by the Energy Center of Wisconsin, 1997. This study developed an approach to a statewide daylighting program (implemented as the Energy Center's Daylighting Collaborative) ordered by the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin in 1996.

Energy Savings from Daylighting: A Controlled Experiment. Demonstrating actual lighting and HVAC impacts from high performance glazing and daylighting strategies is difficult. While many schools and other buildings have been designed and built using these strategies, attempts to compare energy consumption with standard designs must confront the myriad ways in which any particular building differs from other buildings. This leaves open the question of the extent to which measured differences in energy consumption are due to deliberate design strategies versus other uncontrolled factors such as operation schedules and building orientation.

This report presents the results of an experiment conducted at the Energy Resource Station near Des Moines, Iowa in two sets of identical rooms with independent lighting and HVAC delivery systems.

NASEO Project: Energy Smart Schools—Applied Research, Field Testing, and Technology Integration. The Association of State Energy Research and Technology Transfer Institutions, Inc. (ASERTTI) and the National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO) with the Department of Energy (DOE) and the EnergySmart Schools Program conducted a joint project that encompassed applied research, field testing and technology integration.

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