Harnessing the power of natural light in buildings
Why choose us?
Encon Associates provides tailored Daylight Analysis services that are specifically designed to improve your building’s thermal and energy performance.
Understanding Daylight Analysis
What is Daylight Analysis?
Using advanced 3D simulation tools, we evaluate factors such as window placement, room depth, and sky visibility to calculate the building’s daylight performance. The goal of Daylight Analysis is to reduce reliance on artificial lighting and instead focus on enhancing natural light within the initial design phases.
Daylight and sunlight assessments are critical in the world of urban development. They enable architects and developers to measure the impact of new construction on the light levels within neighbouring properties, ensuring they are not negatively impacted by overshadowing. Integrating Daylight Analysis early in the design process can help mitigate potential objections or planning delays, whilst also allowing you to achieve valuable BREEAM Hea 01 credits.
Our Daylight Analysis service
Daylight Simulation Modelling
Our experienced assessors harness advanced computer simulation technology to simulate how natural lighting will interact with your building design, providing recommendations on window placement, room layout, and shading strategies. These calculations follow BRE’s guidance for ‘Site Layout Planning for Daylight and Sunlight’, ensuring you are fully compliant with the requirements for BREEAM Visual Comfort (Hea 01) credits.
Internal Glare Assessments
Discomfort glare, disability glare, and blinding glare can all significantly impact occupant comfort and wellbeing in indoor environments. By simulating various lighting conditions throughout the day, our comprehensive Glare Assessments identify any high risk areas that could be hazardous to human health. We conduct detailed data analysis and recommend suitable solutions that can help you appease planning conditions, such as installing appropriate shading systems, adjusting glazing specifications, or suggesting alternative interior layout options.
Our Daylight Analysis service
Right to Light Studies
We use advanced digital simulations of real-world lighting scenarios, completed in line with BS 8206-2:2008 “Lighting for Buildings” code, to calculate potential light reduction on existing buildings against best practice levels. We can provide a detailed report of findings for issue to the relevant Local Authority to support planning applications, and offer advice on necessary design adjustments before construction begins.
Suncast Studies
Our Suncast Studies simulate how sunlight interacts with your development throughout different seasons, measuring key areas such as sun paths, shading, and light intensity. These detailed 3D simulations provide you with valuable insights into your building’s thermal and energy performance, allowing you to make any necessary changes during the early design stages – such as adjusting the building orientation, reviewing window openings and positions, and reconsidering shading design. We can then provide a detailed report to help strengthen your planning application, if required.
We partner with organisations like yours
Encon Associates were employed by ourselves as BREEAM Assessor and Approved Professional on 3 contracts running concurrently in Sheffield. At all times through the project they were able to provide clear detailed advice on requirements to ourselves and our supply chain, and were able to offer additional services where required (including compiling the Tenant Green Guide Specification).
The use of the IES TaP for BREEAM portal has proved a useful tool in tracking the BREEAM process, providing us as a main contractor a simple and user friendly way to co-ordinate the BREEAM evidence requirements with the designers and our supply chain.
The team have promptly assessed evidence when received and provided detailed feedback to ensure any compliance issues were understood – we would have no hesitation in employing Encon Associates on our future BREEAM schemes.
Additional services
We offer a wide array of specialist services that complement our Daylight Analysis services and are designed to boost your project’s overall sustainability rating.
From Thermographic Inspections and Tree Surveys to Traffic Assessments and Acoustic Reports, our team provides the technical expertise you need to achieve the highest energy assessment rating possible.
Want to gain environmental credits or need planning advice for your next project?
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Frequently asked questions about Daylight Analysis
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