Special Interest Groups.
Daylight
Chairman: Dr S Cannon-Brookes
telephone: 020 7625 4411
e-mail: cannonbrookes@clara.net
Secretary: Graham Phillips
telephone: 01306 885787
e-mail: graham.phillips220@ntlworld.com
About the Group
The Daylight Group provides a forum for members and non-members of CIBSE to meet and discuss issues relating to the daylighting of buildings. A wide variety of fields is represented with the Group, notably lighting designers and researchers, architects, manufacturers and academics. Meetings are held on a quarterly basis and usually given a theme.
This provides a focus for each meeting's paper contributions and discussion, as well as a framework allowing the Group to respond to its members' diverserange of interests. Meetings are usually located in London though at a varietyof venues. At present, one meeting during the year is set aside for a study visit. The buildings chosen for these visits are restricted neither to contemporary examples, nor to those showing innovative techniques. Recent visits have included Sir John Soane's Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields and Chiswick Housewhich have provided an historical perspective to the Group's discussions.
To date, the Daylight Group has maintained a relatively loose and informal structure. Its organisation through the year is undertaken by a small committee,elected at the AGM, and this is also the occasion at which the themes for the forthcoming year are selected.
Recent meetings have covered the following issues:
- Guaranteeing the provision of daylightwithin buildings
- A graphical design technique for solarshading
- Daylight use
- Daylight in offices
- BRE guidance on display screen equipment
- Daylighting under sunny skies - an illustrated talk on vernacular buildings in the Middle East including a fresh method of illuminance prediction for interiors lit by cloudless skies.
- Atrium design
- Human responses to daylight
- European daylighting research
- Museums and gallery daylighting
