Assessment of Light-Pipes Potential for Office Buildings

摘要

Daylight is necessary for occupant health and beneficial tomotivate occupant performance. The result presented in thispaper show the possibility of applying light pipes to a standardoffice building in japan is potential. The method of determiningdaylight transmittance through the pipe is simply to primaryexamine the possibility and not yet present the actual design.However, this method is able to show the potential of using lightpipes. The simulation tool is helpful to visualize daylightenvironment in design and evaluating process.