Evaluation of Static Horizontal Louvers on Annual Daylighting Performance in Classrooms

Authors

Kamal A. Saleem, MSc. Candidate at Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University. And TA at Future University in Egypt (FUE). Kamal.selim@fue.edu.egFollow
Samir S. Hosny, Future University in Egypt, Cairo, Egypt.Follow
Ashraf Nessim, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.Follow

Abstract

Daylighting has a great impact on students’ health, learning performance, and productivity. The goal of this paper is to enhance daylighting performance by examining year-round daylighting performance of Southern facades in the case of one central window in a classroom located in Cairo, Egypt by using static external horizontal shading devices during the Fall, Spring and Summer semesters The scope of the study is to evaluate and assess the effect of the window-to-wall ratio (WWR) in addition to the louvers’ configurations of depth and count parameters of the classroom on annual daylighting performance metrics for classrooms’ southern facades by using Rhinoceros, Grasshopper interface and Honeybee Plus plugin which uses the Radiance engine for annual daylighting Simulations. Annual Sunlight Exposure, Spatial Daylight Autonomy and upper and lower limits of useful daylight illuminance are incorporated for an efficient annual daylighting performance. Based on geographical location and sun altitude angles that is gathered from ladybug tools, three alternative configurations of fixed horizontal louvers were investigated to evaluate the difference between them. Results show a low difference with the proposed louver configurations cases and a high reduction in annual sunlight exposure by 78% which complies with LEED v4 and IES-LM-83-12 criteria.

Recommended Citation

A. Saleem, Kamal; Hosny, Samir S.; and Nessim, Ashraf (2023) "Evaluation of Static Horizontal Louvers on Annual Daylighting Performance in Classrooms," Future Engineering Journal: Vol. 4: Iss. 1, Article 1.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.aaru.edu.jo/fej/vol4/iss1/1