A toolbox to evaluate non-residential lighting and daylighting retrofit in practice

Niko Gentile, Marie-Claude Dubois, Werner Osterhaus, Sophie Stoffer, Cláudia Naves David Amorim, David Geisler-Moroder, Roman Jakobiak

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Abstract

In the field of lighting and daylighting, standard monitoring procedures to assess the overall performance of retrofit projects are scarce. Nevertheless, access to monitored data is crucial in assessing whether daylighting or electric lighting systems deliver the expected performance in terms of cost-effectiveness, energy efficiency and lighting quality. In order to bridge this gap, a lighting retrofit evaluation toolbox was developed as a part of the International Energy Agency − Solar Heating and Cooling Programme (IEA-SHC) Task 50: “Advanced Lighting Solutions for Retrofitting Buildings”. The evaluation toolbox focuses on non-residential buildings and covers four key aspects: energy efficiency, costs, quality of the lighting environment and user satisfaction. This article presents the main features of this evaluation toolbox, along with some lessons learned from its application in selected case studies.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)151-161
Number of pages11
JournalEnergy and Buildings
Volume123
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016 Apr 22

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Building Technologies

Free keywords

  • Lighting retrofit
  • Daylighting
  • monitoring procedure
  • monitoring protocol
  • energy efficiency
  • lighting quality

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