In medium terms, the energy performance for buildings directive causes increased efforts for light planners. Besides the well known lighting data characteristics, they will also have to pay attention to new energy performance characteristics.
Fortunately, a common light planning already contains a great deal of the needed information for an energy evaluation. These information can be analyzed and recycled for the energy evaluation. So if the energy evaluation is integrated into the light planning process as efficient as possible, the additional expenses for this evaluation can be reduced significantly. That’s why DIALux 4.5 offers the possibility to include an energy evaluation according to EN 15193 or DIN 18599.
A DIALux user can include an energy evaluation project into a DIALux project with only two mouse clicks.
Fig. 409 Insertion of an energy evaluation project into a DIALux project via menu „Paste“ and via the context menu of the DIALux project
The rooms for light planning can be transferred to the energy evaluation all together or only in part. Caution: Energy evaluation is only defined for inner rooms! Outdoor scenes and streets are not part of the evaluation.
Properties of the room and the project (geometry, obstruction, location and north alignment) are automatically identified, analyzed and recycled for energy evaluation by DIALux. The same holds for windows and roof lights. Particularly daylight supplied and not daylight supplied assessment zones are determined automatically.
The specific connected load is no problem for the user too; it is taken directly from the planned luminaires in the room.
DIALux 4.5 is designed in such a manner, that a light planner is able to do a light planning under optimal lighting data aspects that fulfills energetic requirements at the same time, with as little additional expenses as possible. Ideally the additional energy evaluation needs only a few mouse clicks.
