Best Paper Award at SimAUD 2020

On May 27th, Megan Danell (Baker Lighting Lab), Maria Amundadottir (OCULIGHT analytics), and Siobhan Rockcastle  (Baker Lighting Lab) were awarded the Best Paper Award at SimAUD 2020.  Their paper, titled ‘Evaluating Temporal and Spatial Light Exposure Profiles for Typical Building Occupants,’ was selected from among 72 peer-reviewed and accepted papers for it’s quality, originality, and significance.  To read our paper, you may access it online here.  SimAUD is an international Symposium on Simulation in Architecture and Urban Design and just celebrated its 11th consecutive year through on online venue (original planned for Vienna, but made virtual in response to COVID-19).

Check out our virtual presentation for SimAUD 2020

Due to the unique global circumstances surrounding 2020, SimAUD has gone entirely online this year.  Check out the virtual recording of our paper titled, “Evaluating Temporal and Spatial Light Exposure Profiles for Typical Building Occupants.”  This work was co-authored by Megan Danell, Maria Amundadottir, and Siobhan Rockcastle and represents an interdisciplinary, simulation-based approach to assessing circadian lighting through building occupant profiles.

Collaborative Research on Occupant-Centric Circadian Health Presented at Build Health 2020

Recent simulation-based research conducted by Siobhan Rockcastle (Baker), Megan Danell (Baker), Maria Amundadottir (OCULIGHT analytics), Robert Lochner (SRG) and Lisa Petterson (SRG) was just presented at the Institute for Health in the Built Environment’s Annual Industry Consortium Symposium, Build Health 2020.  This research uses simulation to compute occupant-specific light exposure profiles for 38 occupants in a side-lit office space, accommodating their spatial and temporal dynamics as they move throughout the office.  A version of this work will be presented at the ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings in August.