Looking for an update on daylighting control in high-performance buildings? Join us May 19 for an intermediate level webinar where Siobhan Rockcastle and Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg will discuss the benefits daylight provides, including occupant health, well-being and visual interest. They’ll address how daylight holds the power to transform buildings for improved health and reduced energy consumption.
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Editorial article on view quality published in LEUKOS
Window views have been shown to have positive effects on occupants’ health, well-being and productivity. However, we lack consensus on a unified definition for window view quality and assessment methods. In response, we defined window view quality as the quality of the visual connection to the outdoors that satisfies building occupants, and its primary components: content, access, clarity. We also identified research needs in a position statement signed by 55 experts. The statement is publicly available here.
This publication was co-authored by Siobhan Rockcastle and more than 50 other expert researchers in the field of lighting and view analysis.
Professor Rockcastle to present at the 2022 IES Research Symposium on Light + Intelligence
Siobhan has been invited to share her work on the use of virtual reality in perceptually accurate lighting design and lighting research applications. She will join other industry and academic experts to share her perspective on the opportunities and challenges posed by emerging visualization technologies. For more information on the symposium, click here.
Anupam Satumane awarded a 1-year PhD Research Fellowship with Nike
Doctoral student and Baker research assistant, Anupam Satumane, has been selected for a 1-year PhD Research Fellowship with Nike. Starting in the summer of 2022, Anupam will work remotely with the Workplace Design and Connectivity team on his proposal titled, “Leveraging workplace design to promote workplace experience: Evaluating the impacts of social, environmental, and workplace settings on employee satisfaction.” This fellowship will support up to $60,000 in financial support to cover Anupam’s tuition, fees, and living expenses. Join me in congratulating Anu!
Article on health perceptions in classrooms accepted for publication in Frontiers in Built Environment Journal
An article co-authored by Maria Camila Coronado, Siobhan Rockcastle, and Alison Kwok and called, ‘Environmental Health Perceptions in University Classrooms: Results from an Online Survey During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US and Colombia’ was accepted for publication in the Journal, Frontiers in Built Environment. This article was born out of a research study developed during the Advanced Research Methods class taught at the University of Oregon in the Spring of 2021.
Grant from NEEA supports research on circadian effects of LLLC lighting
A grant from the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) supports research within the Baker Lighting Lab to study the controlled effects of an installed LLLC lighting system on eye-level light exposure in an office setting. Our research will also compare field-recorded measurements with simulation-based results to understand the accuracy of our current workflows to model existing conditions and simulate potential future scenarios for energy-efficient and healthy electric light exposure.
new grant supports research on visual comfort and circadian light exposure
A new grant from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (sub-award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lighting R&D Program, part of the Building Technologies Office within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy) will support research on the impact of visual discomfort on predictions of eye-level light exposure to meet the WELL Building Standard for circadian lighting. Siobhan Rockcastle (PI) and Alen Mahic (Key-personnel) will work with lighting researchers at PNNL to explore the effect of discomfort glare on window-view avoidance, supplemental lighting, and shading system use with a goal to understand the implications that each of these factors have on eye-level light exposure for human health and energy-use.
paper on domestic robots accepted to Building Simulation 2021
A paper co-authored by Jospeh McLaughlin (UO Master Student in Computer Science and Baker Lab Researcher), Michal Young (UO Associate Professor of computer Science), and Siobhan Rockcastle (UO Assistant Professor of Architecture) was accepted for publication at Building Simulation 2021 in Bruges, Belgium. The paper, titled ‘Fine-grained measurement of the indoor built environment with robotic vacuum cleaners’ explores the use of a domestic robot to passively measure environmental variables like temperature, light, and humidity and use spatial and temporal interpolation methods to build dynamic maps of indoor performance.
paper on circadian light exposure in offices accepted to Building Simulation 2021
A collaborative paper co-authored by Megan Danell (UO M.Arch alumni), Stefan Hartmeyer (EPFL), Lisa Petterson (SRG Partnership), Marilyne Andersen (EPFL), Robert Davis (PNNL), and Siobhan Rockcastle (UO Assistant Professor of Architecture) was accepted for publication in the Proceedings of Building Simulations 2021 in Bruges. The paper, titled ‘The Impact of Light and Furniture Distribution on Healthy Light Exposure in an Office,’ explores the impact of source direction and color on reaching recommended eye-level light exposure for Circadian Health using the WELL Building Standard.
Rockcastle featured on the College of Design website
Read more about Siobhan’s receipt of the 2021 ARCC New Researcher Award on the UO College of Design website.