[Bldg-sim] Interiors lighting

[Liam O'Brien]

AGi32 is a good bet.  It has a relatively user-friendly, CAD-like interface.  It'll give you virtually any outputs you want and it allows you to import any luminaire data from the major luminaire manufacturers.  Having used it for the first time a few months ago, I'd say you can learn the basics within a few hours.  To figure out if direct illumination "leaving the windows", you can set up a grid of points on the window surface for which it will tell you the illuminance.  You can download a free demo that'll give you five runs or so.  Here's a fairly complete list of other lighting analysis software:

http://www.eere.energy.gov/buildings/tools_directory/subjects.cfm/pagename=subjects/pagename_menu=materials_components/pagename_submenu=lighting_systems

Liam O'Brien

From: prabhat.greenbuildings at gmail.com
To: bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:14:07 +0530
Subject: [Bldg-sim] Interiors lighting














Deal all
 
I need to model an interiors llighting (luminaire 
arrangement) for an office building and have to ensure that no direct beam 
illumination goes out of the glazing.
 
any suggestion on the best tool/method to do 
it.
 
Regards
 
Prabhat Barnwal
Kalpakrit Sustainable Environments Pvt. Ltd.
Corp. 
Office: 610-A, Udyog Vihar, Phase V, Gurgaon 122016, Haryana, India
Tel: 
+91.124.4309490-92 Fax: +91.124.4309493
Cell: +91.9898663086
E-mail : prabhat at kalpakrit.com
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