Tubular Skylights Introduce Daylight to Dark Interiors
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Much attention is focused on efficient lighting--from CFLs and LEDs to advanced controls. But for daytime lighting you can avoid electricity use altogether--with daylighting. Most daylighting is provided with windows or skylights (roof windows that are installed in the plane of the roof). For a lot of applications, there's another, easier option: tubular skylights.
Changes in LEED-NC v2009 versus v2.2
Compliance paths for IEQc8.1 have some key differences between v2.2 and v2009. In LEED-NC v2.2, Option 1: Calcualation allows you to show compliance with EQc8.1 by demonstrating over 75% of the regularly occupied areas have a glazing factor of at least 2%. These glazing factor calculations consider window, wall, ceiling and floor areas, glazing type and VLT values.