SBIR Phase I: Science-Based Networked Tools for Effective Design and Manufacture of Green Buildings and Green-Building Products

该项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力涉及建筑物设计中的眩光。建筑行业目前受到眩光问题的困扰，因为工具提供即时和严格分析的能力有限，这些分析可以帮助用户了解在何处，何时，为什么，多少以及如何补救建筑物中的眩光。该SBIR项目将创建第一个工具，使用户能够在没有日光照明，建模或模拟专业知识的情况下自动对其项目进行年度，整个建筑眩光分析。这一工具使以前无法想象的事情成为可能;眩光分析无疑将成为所有建筑物日常设计过程的一部分。建筑物业主和居住者将需要眩光分析。建筑师将能够在方案设计过程中纳入这些研究，并且仍然满足时间表和预算限制。制造商将能够改进他们的产品，以满足建筑师的眩光规格。该技术的市场包括建筑师、可持续性和照明顾问、采光产品制造商、建筑业主/房主和教育工作者。该工具将直接帮助建造更好的日间照明、节能建筑，更重要的是帮助所有已经学会“接受”眩光作为生活一部分的居住者减少视觉不适。这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目将开发一种新型眩光探头，将眩光分析的最新技术水平提升数千倍，此外，还为制造商提供可操作的信息，以说明其产品的一系列设计问题。通过使用云计算，将研究结合用户输入的先进算法，以高度简化建筑物范围内的眩光分析。这个探测器将报告交互式图形地图以及几个性能指标。用户将能够灵活、快速地分配和比较不同的制造产品。制造商的销售人员将使用这项技术，轻松而稳健地将其产品融入高性能建筑中。它也将被制造商内部用于研发目的，以评估和定位他们自己的产品，以进行销售和营销，以及开发他们的下一代技术。建筑师，顾问和工程师的指定社区也将受益于这些模型，因为他们可以验证他们的建筑是否会按照设计进行。建筑物的使用者将受益于更好地获得可用的日光，并将减少对电力照明的依赖。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this project relates glare in the design of buildings. The construction industry is currently stifled by the problem of glare, given the limited ability of tools to provide immediate and rigorous analysis that could help users understand where, when, why, how much and how to remedy glare in their buildings. This SBIR project will create the first tool that enables users to automatically perform annual, whole-building glare analysis on their projects without having expertise in daylighting, modeling or simulation. This tool makes possible what was inconceivable before; glare analysis will undoubtedly be a part of the everyday design process of all buildings. Building owners and occupants will require glare analysis. Architects will be able to incorporate these studies during schematic design, and still meet schedule and budget constraints. Manufacturers will be able to refine their products to meet the glare specifications of architects. The market for this technology includes architects, sustainability and lighting consultants, and manufacturers of daylighting products, building owners/homeowners and educators. This tool will directly help make better day lit, energy-efficient buildings, and more importantly help reduce visual discomfort for all occupants who have learned to "accept" glare as a part of life.This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will develop a novel glare probe to advance the state of the art for glare analysis thousands fold, plus provide actionable information for manufacturers to specify their products on a range of design problems. Through the use of cloud computing, advanced algorithms in conjunction with user-input will be researched to highly streamline robust glare analysis on a building-wide scale. This probe will report back both interactive graphical maps as well as several metrics of performance. Users will be able to flexibly and quickly assign and compare different manufactured products. This technology will be used by manufacturer salespeople to easily and robustly incorporate their products into high-performance buildings. It also will be used internally by manufacturers for R&D purposes to evaluate and position their own products for sales and marketing, as well as for developing their next generation technologies. The specifier community of architects, consultants, and engineers will also benefit from these models since they can verify if their buildings will perform as designed. Building occupants will benefit from improved access to usable daylight and will have less reliance on electrical lighting.