Wellbeing in Daylighting Studies

Salah mansour abdelrahman, M; Coates, SP

Abstract

Daylight conditions throughout an internal space directly impact building occupant health and
wellbeing. To design a healthy building, many rating systems that use standards and recommendations are used
to achieve this goal. Although daylight is usually perceived as a visual phenomenon, it also affects human
physiology, behaviour and mood known as non-visual effects which are considered a subjective assessment.
These standards and rating systems share the same consideration to improve users' health and wellbeing;
however, different approaches have been taken to achieve this goal related to daylight. This paper review three
daylight standards and four building rating system studies that are selected and critically evaluated to extract
recommendations and guidelines regarding daylighting comfort and wellbeing targets. The review starts with a
chronological overview and presents daylight metrics, as well as their underlying methodologies to define the gap
in using these metrics to assess daylighting non-visual effects and illustrate the need to use building rating
systems’ guidelines and recommendations to enhance these effects. After that, a thematic analysis was
conducted to extract the relative recommendation on how building rating systems and daylight standards could
contribute to comfort and wellbeing in terms of daylight.

Citation

Salah mansour abdelrahman, M., & Coates, S. Wellbeing in Daylighting Studies. Presented at Will cities survive? The future of sustainable buildings and urbanism in the age of emergency., Santiago, Chile

• Presentation Conference Type: Other
• Conference Name: Will cities survive? The future of sustainable buildings and urbanism in the age of emergency.
• Conference Location: Santiago, Chile
• Acceptance Date: Nov 22, 2022
• Deposit Date: Feb 15, 2023
• Publisher URL: https://plea2022.org/