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Sustainability & Performance
What is Daylight Analysis?
Daylight analysis simulates how natural light moves through a design across days and seasons, measured with metrics like spatial daylight autonomy (how much floor area is usefully lit) and annual sun exposure (glare and overheating risk).
In practice
Once a specialist study, daylight simulation now runs in near real time inside early design tools, shaping massing and window decisions when they are still cheap to change.
Tools for Daylight Analysis
Cove.tool
Web-based software for analyzing, drawing, load modeling, and connecting data for building design and construction.
Autodesk Forma
AI site planning with analysis
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