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Monday May 18th, 2015
At long last, a beta version of the new SPOT Pro program is now available on the downloads page! The download gives you a free 10-day trial after which a license can be purchased. Licenses are 50% off during the final beta testing period, get yours now!
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Thursday Mar 5th, 2015
After years of development, a new version of the award winning software SPOT (Sensor Placement + Optimization Tool) is nearing completion and will be available on this site soon! E-mail info@daylightinginnovations.com if you are interested in being a beta-tester.
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Wednesday Oct 22nd, 2014
The Windsor Readiness Center just won a 2014 AIA Colorado North Merit Award for Commericial Buildings. Daylighting Innovations provided daylighting design and analysis services on this beautifully daylit and highly sustainable project.
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Friday Aug 22nd, 2014
Came across these articles today, both make a great case for hiring a daylighting consultant on your projects.
Yet another curvy glass skyscraper creates another "death" ray with quite an expensive and ugly solution. See our analysis of this Boulder area office solar convergeance issue - we can help solve these issues with functional solutions that enhance your aesthetic, turning this potential liability into an asset.
A couple new studies on daylight and sleep, one studying teenagers and one studying office workers, both showing a positive impact on sleep patterns (and ultimately health in general) under consistent daily exposure to daylight. A common goal of our consulting on these types of projects is to provide good balanced daylight to all building occupants - hire us to optimize the occupant productivity and performance on your next project.
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Tuesday Apr 15th, 2014
Casey Middle School continues to impress and recently won the Grand Prize Honor in Spring 2014 Learning by Design. Daylighting Innovations provided daylighting design and analysis services and assisted in the commissioning of the daylighting and electric lighting control systems.
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Thursday Aug 22nd, 2013
The LAX Bradley West Hall project has been completed and opened to the public. Here is an interesting video about the LED screens that Daylighting Innovations helped design and validate through Radiance daylighting simulation. Also see the architects project page here.
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Thursday Aug 22nd, 2013
The annual Radiance conference was held last week in Golden, Colorado at the National Renewable Energy Laboratories. It was a stimulating couple of days of fascinating talks on lighting and daylighting simulation. Besides Radiance being a premier lighting simualtion software, this conference is also becoming a premier conference regarding daylighting simulation methods and techniques. You can see Zack Rogers presentation here, starting at about 1 hr.
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Monday Aug 5th, 2013
Check out this new article discussing the collaborative process for the design of the Colorado Army National Guard Project in Windsor, Colorado. The daylighting on this project really turned out great!
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Thursday Jun 27th, 2013
The new versions of SPOT are now officially hosted on the Daylighting Innovations website, and, after a rough start and some bad downloads, the download page is functional!
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Thursday May 9th, 2013
After 2-1/2 years after the inception of Daylighting Innovations, the official website goes live! Check out what we've been up to the past couple of years.
