The DaylightGuide

An Excel-based tool for personalized daylight recommendations for the home office

The tool consists of 3 steps:
1) Fill in information about your home office
2) Analyze the daylight conditions in your home office for the following purposes: ensure wellbeing (m-EDI), avoid intense daylight (DGP), optimize daylight in the workplace (UDI), and ensure sufficient daylight in the home office space (sDA)
3) Optimize your home office according to your preferred purpose.

This tool has been developed as part of the EngD thesis of Verena de Kok, in collaboration with Velux. The tool is available in English and Dutch and can be downloaded from this 4TU.ResearchData website.