Large office buildings (those more than 100,000 square feet) in the US use an average of 20 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity and 24 cubic feet of natural gas per square foot annually. In a typical office building, lighting, heating, and cooling represent almost 70 percent of total energy use (
Month: November 2016
Natural lighting vs. artificial lighting: How our bodies and brains react differently
One of the most striking discoveries I’ve recently had was the difference between daylight and artificial light. Of course, I could only talk about this from my own experience without having any research to back it up. So in an incredibly interesting recent study, scientist Mirjam Muench tried to find out about