Comparison Study of Four Popular Lighting Simulation Software Programs

Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 9 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................ 9 Background to the Project .................................................................................................................. 9 Selection of Software for this study.................................................................................................. 10 Objectives ......................................................................................................................................... 11 Limitations ........................................................................................................................................ 11 Presentation...................................................................................................................................... 12 Chapter 2 Literature Review ................................................................................................................. 14 Chapter 3 Comparison of Use of Lighting Simulation Software in Industry ......................................... 23 Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 23 Survey methodology ......................................................................................................................... 23 Ethical Considerations....................................................................................................................... 25 Survey Results ................................................................................................................................... 26 Discussion.......................................................................................................................................... 37 Chapter 4 Comparison of Photometric Simulations ............................................................................. 42 Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 42 Test Room ......................................................................................................................................... 42 Procedure.......................................................................................................................................... 48 Results ............................................................................................................................................... 49 Software Set-up ................................................................................................................................ 51 Running the Simulation..................................................................................................................... 52 Results ............................................................................................................................................... 56 Photometric Comparison .................................................................................................................. 57 External Horizontal Illuminance ........................................................................................................ 60 Discussion.......................................................................................................................................... 61 Limitations ........................................................................................................................................ 64 Chapter 5 Conclusions .......................................................................................................................... 66 Further Research............................................................................................................................... 69 References ............................................................................................................................................ 70 Bibliography .......................................................................................................................................... 72 Appendix 01 .......................................................................................................................................... 73 Survey Results ................................................................................................................................... 73 Appendix 02 .......................................................................................................................................... 82 5