Integrated regulation of sun screening, daylight and artificial light

The project established a basis of calculation and a practical basis for optimum choice of solar shading and integrated control strategies for both new building and renovation of office, commercial and institutional buildings with new calculation models for controlling solar shading integrated in the BSim program. A complete and applicable model for optimum, integrated solar shading control was established, focusing on thermal and visual comfort criteria towards energy consumption for heating, cooling and lighting. A prototype was tested in the daylight laboratory at Danish Building Research Institute-AAU and at University of Southern Denmark in Sønderborg. (Energy 10)