Daylighting Reports & Articles

Daylighting in Schools

Heschong Mahone Group, California Board for Energy Efficiency Third Party Program

An investigation into the relationship between daylighting and human performance. It includes a focus on skylighting as a way to isolate illumination effects from other qualities associated with daylighting from windows, such as view and ventilation. In this project, we established a statistically compelling connection between daylighting and student performance, and between skylighting and retail sales. This report focused on the school analysis. Read more