SoDa:: Services for Professionals in Solar Energy and Radiation

Case Studies - Building Engineering - Daylighting

Technical rules apply to building engineering; some of them relate to climate, including solar radiation and its three components: global, direct and diffuse. In France, it was shown that previous solar radiation data were obsolete (thermal regulation RT2000) and a new set is necessary (RT2005). The SoDa Service was used in this purpose in combination with data purchased to Meteo-France. It was found that using the SoDa Service provides a double benefit to create these new standards. It complements the data of Meteo-France when and where those are absent and provides in one click the three components while Meteo-France data are global radiation only and are to be entered into a specific software to obtain the other components. A revised standard data set was integrated into the standard RT2005. More on this story: Bruno Peuportier, Ecole des Mines de Paris / Armines, Center for Energy and Processes, 60 bd Saint Michel, 75272 Paris, France, e-mail: bruno.peuportier at ensmp.fr. Date: November 2006.

Katerina Meresi is an architect. She has a MSc on Environmental Design of Buildings from Cardiff University, UK and is currently a PhD student at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece. Her research area is the Daylight Performance of Classrooms in Greece. She wrote "In the past I used Satel-Light for daylight information and skies frequency for Athens and Thessaloniki. Now I will try to take advantage of the services SoDa offers. For example, the sky frequency information is very useful because it gives you an idea of what sky types you should take more into consideration when, e.g., simulating a room in a certain software". Date: April 2006.