Natural Daylighting

Natural Daylighting is the practice of utilizing windows, skylights, and other opening to optimize the amount of practical daylight used in a building interior. An alternative energy-free option for illumination, Natural Daylighting is an incredible way to brighten any room in any building. Using the abundant light resources of the Sun, Daylighting is a craft that places building elements in the hands of a designer and lets them create a well lit, human-centric environment. When Natural Daylighting is properly done, the building interior should be “artificial-lighting” free during the daytime due to the abundance of natural sunlight in the room at the workplane (approximately 4 ft. from the floor).

Right now, the world is in need of new means for energy consumption. Utility costs are continually rising, natural resources are declining, and solutions are seemingly few and far between. Natural Daylighting is the perfect way to curb these costs and resource usages by utilizing the world greatest, most abundant resource; Natural Daylight. Vibrant, bright, and always available, sunlight is our most valuable asset when looking to cutback electricity consumption. In commercial and industrial buildings, artificial lighting is often the single largest part of electricity usage. Imagine the savings (both economically and environmentally) when one can eliminate peak-utility-usage of all artificial lights within a building.

But the benefits don’t stop with utility savings, no; the benefits of Natural Daylighting extend far beyond the financials. Additional advantages of installing Daylighting into your building include supporting Sustainable building design, becoming more Environmentally responsible, and bringing a more Human-centric influence to your building. Sustainable design assures the building, and the components that help it run efficiently, lasts a long time and take little from the Environement while assuring daily processes are well taken care of. In regards to the Human aspect of Natural Daylighting, the benefits are innumerable: Accelerated learning rates and improved test scores in schools; increased sales, higher customer loyalty, and longer visits in retail; improved morale, higher productivity, and decreased absenteeism in the workplace; plus improved preventative health measures regarding Circadian rhythms, eyesight, vitamin D balance. So many benefits, it’s hard to choose against Natural Daylighting when designing a room for natural illumination.

Natural Daylighting

Ciralight Global’s Natural Daylighting System, the Suntracker Smart Skylight, is capable of tracking the sun and consistently transferring it’s light indoors for up to 10+ hours a day. Utilizing Solar-Powered GPS technology, the Suntracker adjusts throughout the day, rotating mirrors towards the sun and reflecting abundant levels of sunlight into the building interior. The Suntracker has been life cycle tested to withstand extreme weather conditions (-20C - +200C) for thirty (30) plus years with a full warranty, top to bottom, of ten (10) years.

The installation of a Natural Daylighting System immediately brings with it many benefits. These benefits include savings on utility costs, a rapid ROI, decreased maintenance costs, higher sustainability measures, increased environmental responsibility, and an enhanced human environment. While it is easy to track cost savings in dollars and environmental impact in CO2 reductions, the innumerable human benefits of Natural Daylighting, though tough to calculate, are extensive. From increased productivity, higher morale, and decreased absenteeism in the workplace; to accelerated learning rates and higher test scores in schools; to increased sales, higher customer loyalty, and longer visits in retail; to quicker recovery in health care; and to the many preventative health measures Natural Daylight regarding hormones, eyesight, Circadian ryhthms, and vitamin D balance; Natural Daylighting goes far beyond energy-savings and into life-saving.

The inclusion of a Daylighting Control device will help to regulate the interior light levels if you are using both Natural Daylighting systems and artificial lighting fixtures in your space. By using a Daylighting Control, the space will be automated to keep a steady balance of a particular light level depending on the available daylight available. The lighting fixtures will dim, switch to predetermined levels, or fluctuate between different lighting zones to maintain a lighting level that best accommodates the work done within the space. Minimum light levels differ depending on the needs of the space.

If you have any questions about Ciralight Global’s Suntracker technology, Natural Daylighting, or anything Daylighting-related, please feel free to give us a call at (877) 520-5005 and allow one of our Daylighting Advisors to help you out with all your natural Daylighting needs today.