The Case for Better Daylight and Ventilation Design in Homes
This CPD will cover the importance of daylight and ventilation in the design of a healthy home and will look at the evidence to support architectural philosophies and translate your experience into strong, rational, pertinent reasoning to use with your clients. It will help you to understand the following topics:
- Understand the basics of daylight and human response to it
- Understand what makes a healthy home and the importance of daylight and ventilation when homeowners budget for a project
- Understand the active house principles of comfort, environment and energy
- Understand circadian lighting, a more holistic measure of daylight’s impact
- Understand indoor climate and how to combat indoor pollution
- Understand research around daylight control and case studies of roof windows in residential projects