Co-authored by: Kris Callori, Verdacity and LightStanza Verdacity’s strategy is to implement big moves early, followed by progressively smaller ones that cumulatively result in a cohesive, effective building daylight strategy. This provides the maximum opportunity to gain LEED points. Verdacity integrates their methods with the typical architectural design process and conducts studies to inform building orientation, […]
Co-authored by: Kris Callori, Verdacity and LightStanza Verdacity is a building sustainability consultancy headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico that informs the design of high performance buildings. They use an integrative approach in all of their company service areas, starting with the discovery phase, then moving towards more detailed evaluations, and finally affirming design selections for […]
Daniel Glaser presented at LightFair International in Philadelphia on May 21, 2019 with Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg (University of Oregon) and Matthew Tanteri (HLB Lighting). The course titled “Visualizing Innovations in Daylight Modeling” explored how daylight modeling and analysis have evolved and considerations for daylight when designing for electrical lighting. An excerpt from Dan and […]
Join LightStanza founder, Daniel Glaser, PhD in Philadelphia May 21 – 23 for the LightFair International Conference. Dan will be co-presenting on “Visualizing Innovations in Daylight Modeling” on May 21 from 2-3PM. See more on the session here: https://www.lightfair.com/browse/#/courses/493358
Dan Glaser, LightStanza founder, spoke at the 2019 Daylighting Symposium put on by the California Investor-Owned Utilities, in partnership with the National Electrical Manufacturers Association Daylight Management Council this past week in Sacramento, California. The symposium brought together a diverse group to explore daylight management solutions that address glare mitigating through the design, evaluation, application, […]
Available now to comply with the USGBC draft of new scoring for the LEED daylight credit called LEED v4.1. Please note per Dan’s recommendations to the USGBC that this new version does not account for glary spaces and has other limitations which we hope the USGBC will rectify. In the meantime, LightStanza also offers several […]
Want to compare how different materials can affect daylight, views and glare in your design? Here’s how to: Easily apply materials to the same model & save different versions as separate designs: https://youtu.be/0M5ju-KLa9k Run the same simulation on multiple designs: https://youtu.be/WRkxs-Bv038 Split screen to compare and view 2 different reports/analyses side by side: https://youtu.be/KYg-JjOTTqQ Please email support@lightstanza.com or visit the LightStanza […]
We are always excited to see LightStanza software used to improve building design around the world! Dan presented last week to a group in Israel with Michal Vital on how LightStanza features make it easier for architects and consultants to meet Israeli Building Standards (SI 5281). Slides from the talk can be accessed here.
Daniel Glaser, PhD, and founder of LightStanza presented at the Greenbuild Conference in Chicago this year with Derek Felschow (Point Energy Innovations), Kris Callori (Verdacity) and Patrick Sheehan (Gensler). Speaker Session: How to use LEED v4 EQ7 successfully to both get more points and better daylight outcomesNovember 12-16, 2018 Chicago, IL See an excerpt of […]
2018 Building Performance Analysis Conference and SimBuildSeptember 26-28, 2018 Hilton Chicago 720 S Michigan Ave Chicago, IL 60605 Daniel Glaser of LightStanza has been invited to present “Bringing Daylight Analysis off the Grid: A Novel Big Data approach” at the 2018 Building Performance Analysis Conference and Simbuild, which is co-organized by ASHRAE and IBPSA-USA. Although climate-based annual metrics […]
