Abstract:

Given the current importance of daylighting in buildings, it is considered essential that future architects and building engineers perform some experimental practice to learn how to measure global horizontal illuminance and to be able to determine its distribution in an enclosure, at different times of the day and in different seasons of the year.

For the development of these practices, students will have to make scale models of the classrooms studied. They will have at their disposal photometric sensors (LI- 210SA) to be distributed appropriately in these models to measure global illuminances for several days, recording all measurements in a datalogger. Then these data will be processed with appropriate software to determine the daily evolution and illuminance distribution on the work plane.

As a complementary study, students will also determine the distribution of global horizontal illuminance in the classrooms by a computer program in order to carry out a comparative study of the results obtained by both methods.

Keywords:

Illuminance, daylighting, photometric sensors.