Architectural Daylighting Design Consultants
Daylighting Innovations provides quality sustainable daylighting and lighting-related design, development, and research services for the architectural industry, approaching every project as a unique design challenge and an opportunity to innovate for a more sustainable future.
Daylighting Design and Analysis
We provide daylighting design and analysis services for new and retrofit commercial and residential projects. These services are aimed at assisting teams in refining the daylighting and lighting systems in a building to reap the many benefits of daylighting while avoiding the potential problems that can occur. Working with the project’s architectural design team, we provide a variety of consulting services throughout the design, construction, and post-evaluation process.
Integrated Lighting Design
We provide full lighting design services which support a healthy and high-performance environment. We create lighting designs that color tune and integrate with daylight, which helps synchronize occupants’ own circadian rhythms with natural daily cycles. This, in turn, results in greater productivity and less fatigue. In addition, our designs are engineered with a focus on good optics, efficacy, and strategies that create functional and aesthetically pleasing spaces.
Daylighting Research and Standards
Over the years, we have been actively engaged in a variety of daylighting-related research and standard development efforts. We provide research services related to developing daylighting performance metrics, simulation, and design methods and techniques, photosensor and control modeling, material measurement and modeling, and optical daylighting product evaluation techniques. We have also been involved in developing a number of daylighting metrics and standards for use in codes, building rating systems, and design guidelines.
SPOT Pro Daylighting Design Software
SPOT Pro was developed out of necessity to handle the variety of daylighting design and analysis challenges we have come across over the years. It can provide clean and accurate daylight models for reliable analysis and quick design comparison or detailed analysis of specific photosensor control designs.
Daylighting Product Development
Daylighting Innovations staff hold several patents on the innovative and award-winning LightLouver daylighting systems and have been involved in the development and refinement of a number of daylight delivery and solar control products over the years. Ranging from optical shelves and skylights to automatic shades and electric lighting controls, we can help optimize and refine your daylighting product and make it shine in the growing marketplace.
Daylighting Software Development
In addition to developing and maintaining the award-winning Sensor Placement + Optimization Tool (SPOT Pro), we provide custom daylighting software development services for the industry. We can create custom modeling and simulation algorithms, front-end interfaces for stand-alone applications or tools that are part of a whole building modeling software such as OpenStudio and Energy Plus.
Sustainable Design
We provide a variety of sustainable design and engineering services for local residential and small commercial building projects. We thrive on developing innovative solutions for the challenges that arise in highly sustainable projects. This work is done in collaboration with Sustainable Innovations producing fully engineered construction documents for local small commercial and residential projects.
