FlucsDL enables you to perform day-lighting analysis on any room in a <VE> 3ED building model − quickly and easily. You can investigate the day-lighting conditions in the room for comparison with voluntary energy efficiency schemes such as LEED Credit 8.1, BREEAM (UK), and BB87 (UK Schools).
What FlucsDL does:
FlucsDL performs lighting design calculations to determine the day-lighting levels in a room. This can be translated to daylight factors or as lighting level values throughout the room.
With FlucsDL you can:
•perform point-by-point lighting analyses to give light level values within a room
•produce daylight factor level plots on the working plane and other surfaces, and see the plots directly within the room in the <VE> model
•produce light level plots on the working plane and other surfaces, and see the plots directly within the room in the <VE> model.
How FlucsDL works:
FlucsDL performs a lighting analysis in five stages:
1.The room or group of rooms to be analysed are selected.
2.Reflectance values for the room surfaces are set.
3.Analysis options are set and point-by-point calculations are performed.
4.Daylight levels are displayed graphically within the room in the <VE> model, or can be copied/pasted or printed as text or graphics.
5.The threshold you want to test is defined. For LEED Credit 8.1: a 2% daylight factor would be selected.
Commercial Benefits
Productivity - FlucsDL will significantly reduce the time taken to analyse daylighting schemes. FlucsDL will perform daylight simulation on any number of rooms in your model. This capability is easily used to test for LEED Credit 8.1: Daylighting. This Credit requires you to demonstrate 2% daylight across 75% of all occupied space required for critical tasks.
