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<p>Comparative research on the influence of daylight and visual environment on melatonin oscillations and the performance of space users was realized in two identical rooms with different glazing at the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava. The glazing in the windows had significantly different transmittances of melanopic light. This article presents measured changes in the intensity of photopic and melanopic daylighting values inside the rooms on horizontal and differently oriented vertical plane. Photopic and melanopic illuminances were measured under cloudy and partly clear skies during several months in 2021 and 2022. The article is also partially devoted to the effect of light from a computer monitor on the spectral composition of light on the eye of a person working with a computer. The article also analyzes the problems associated with the evaluation of non-visual aspects of daylighting of the interior spaces of buildings.</p>
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Comparative research on the influence of daylight and visual environment on melatonin oscillations and the performance of space users was realized in two identical rooms with different glazing at the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava. The glazing in the windows had significantly different transmittances of melanopic light. This article presents measured changes in the intensity of photopic and melanopic daylighting values inside the rooms on horizontal and differently oriented vertical plane. Photopic and melanopic illuminances were measured under cloudy and partly clear skies during several months in 2021 and 2022. The article is also partially devoted to the effect of light from a computer monitor on the spectral composition of light on the eye of a person working with a computer. The article also analyzes the problems associated with the evaluation of non-visual aspects of daylighting of the interior spaces of buildings.

Assessing Photopic and Melanopic Daylighting Performance of Special Glazing System: A Full-scale Experiments

Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava

Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of Building Construction

Selected Scientific Papers - Journal of Civil Engineering

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Comparative research on the influence of daylight and visual environment on melatonin oscillations and the performance of space users was realized in two...

Assessing Photopic and Melanopic Daylighting Performance of Special Glazing System: A Full-scale Experiments

Published Online: Jan 14, 2023

Page range: 1 - 13

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sspjce-2022-0006

Keywords
daylighting, melanopic light, glazing, illuminance, health

© 2022 Jozef Hraška et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Assessing Photopic and Melanopic Daylighting Performance of Special Glazing System: A Full-scale Experiments

Published Online: Jan 14, 2023

Page range: 1 - 13

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sspjce-2022-0006

Keywordsdaylighting, melanopic light, glazing, illuminance, health

© 2022 Jozef Hraška et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
daylighting, melanopic light, glazing, illuminance, health