Architectural Lighting: Our team understands the importance of light in architecture and is able to collaborate effectively to help architects reach their aesthetics goals while still designing high performance systems. Our lighting team has training in both architecture and lighting design.
Daylighting: One of the hallmarks of IDeAs is our ability to collaborate with the design team to develop effective daylighting strategies. We can provide daylight modelling analysis to help optimise designs to provide a healthier visual environment, save energy through daylight harvesting, let still effectively control glare. We use Radiance to calculate daylight levels, study glare, calculate daylight autonomy and can produce HDR images to show architects how glass selection and placement effects their designs.
Lighting Controls: We are familiar with the products of the leading lighting controls manufacturers and the pros and cons of their various products, including wireless and distributed technologies.
Illumination Level Calculations: In addition to aesthetics, we understand the physics of light as well as how the eye responds to optimize our lighting designs. We can also provide photometric calculations to verify general light levels as well as emergency egress light levels.
Wellness: Team members helped beta test and critique the lighting requirements for the Well Building Standard and have designed color tuning installations and collaborated with researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to better understand the effect of lighting on circadian cycles.
Emergency Egress Lighting & Exit Signage: The team is experienced code requirements for both egress lighting and exit signage.