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Information Paper 3/87 Solar dazzle reflected from sloping glazed facades
Publication Year
1987
Document Status
Current
Abstract
Glare or dazzle can occur when sunlight is reflected from a glazed facade. For vertical facades this problem usually occurs only when the sun is low in the sky; but some types of modern design incorporate sloping glazed facades which can, under certain circumstances, reflect unwanted high altitude sunlight into the eyes of motorists, pedestrians and people in nearby buildings. Addressed to architects, consulting engineers, planning consultants and planners, this paper presents a new method which can be used at the design stage to calculate whether such solar dazzle will be reflected from a proposed building facade.
Author
Littlefair, P. J.
Publisher Information
BRE
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