Solar shading and daylight conditions combined with high insulation, transparent facades

The effect of solar shading devices combined with high insulation glass are not currently available in existing tables that today only apply for standard glass. Consequently, architects and engineers will need more information of different combinations of solar shading device's efficiency as a function of U-value and transmittance of windows. The purpose of the project was to develop a catalogue of different solar shading coefficients for solar heat gain and daylight in combination with different glazing types. Based on earlier experience and measurement results for several different shading devices simulations there has been conducted for different shading devices in various combinations and locations combined with low-E glass including consequences for daylight penetration. The simulations have been accomplished by use of existing computer programmes and by use of the experience achieved in earlier studies. The project has prepared a catalogue of different shading devices in combination with different glazing types. The catalogue will be a reference book that gives necessary data, such as solar shading coefficients and the consequences for solar heat gain and daylight, to be used by the practitioners in both simple design methods and design tools. This project can make the foundation for a direction on the built-up of transparent/translucent facades, but the results of the project can be used immediately