New York Times article on the Daylighting Lab: Beyond The Bulbs: In Praise of Natural Light by Brian Libby.

Seattle Daylighting Lab
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about daylighting

The Daylighting Lab began as an element of the highly awarded Lighting Design Lab located in Seattle a decade ago with the support of Pacific Northwestern regional electric utilities, state agencies and public universities, in an effort to support the implementation of architectural daylighting design strategies across the many climate regions of the Pacific Northwest.

Today, the Seattle Daylighting Lab is staffed by an experienced team of daylighting consultants and daylighting interns who have been given the responsibility of providing consulting services to the Pacific Northwest design community. The Lab is unique in the world as a fully funded hands-on consulting team working in direct collaboration with leaders in the architectural community.The range of our consulting includes educational, institutional, cultural, retail, and multi-family residential projects of every conceivable scale and budget. As a member of the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance's BetterBricks Lab Network, the Lab provides daylighting information, education, and the tools for assessing daylighting design decisions. The Daylighting Lab has a mirror-box overcast sky and heliodon sun simulators, and digital photographic and light flux metering equipment for the analysis of physical models at all stages of the design process.

Joel Loveland, the Daylighting Lab Director, in collaboration with the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington, has delivered the daylighting consulting on over 150 projects per year across the states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana as well as the province of British Columbia.

Prof. Loveland continues to travel widely, consulting on projects throughout the lab's territory as well as lecturing and teaching nation-wide. In this effort, he is revisiting the major cities of the region to report on the Lab's recent daylighting work, renewing acquaintances made at Daylighting Consultant Seminars and looking for the best way to expand and support the "Daylighting Network" of professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest.