For the UK you might like to look at: http://www.planning-applications.co.uk/righttolight.htm
And this presentation: http://www.control-network-solutions.co.uk/?post_type=document&p=1377 Which has a slide with this useful summary: Regulations • European workplace directive - Access to daylight required • Building Regulations -No minimum daylight standards Standards • BS 8206-2 2008 Code of Practice for daylighting. 2-5% DF ave Uo 0.7 • BREEAM 2008 HW 1 2% DF (1pt) Exemplar 3% DF (1pt) HW 2 view out (1pt) Glare control (1pt). • Building Bulletin 87 Guidelines for environmental design in schools 3-4% DF ave Uo 0.3-0.4 and 0.7 for rooflights • Lighting design for schools Building Bulletin 90 2-5% DF ave Uo 0.3-0.4 and 0.7 for rooflights • Designing schools for the future Building Bulletin 95 3-4% DF ave Uo 0.3-0.4 and 0.7 for rooflights. • CIBSE LG2 Lighting for Healthcare buildings Guides • CIBSE SLL Daylighting and window design LG10 1999 • BRE Designing buildings for daylight. • BRE Designing with innovative daylighting Regards Patrick Sent from my iPhone > On 3 Jun 2014, at 12:09, ml...@interia.pl wrote: > > Dear Diallists, > > I’m currently preparing a paper on Polish building code regulations in > relation to provision of sunlight in apartments, and would like to include a > chapter on similar regulations in the other countries. > > In general, we have a building code requirement to provide at least 3 hours > of sunlight in at least one room in any type of apartment, between 7:00 and > 17:00 on the days of equinox. In the dense urban areas (specified in local > zoning plans or by administrative decisions when there is no zoning plan) the > requirement can be limited to at least 1,5 hour of sunlight, between 7:00 and > 17:00, for at least one room in multi-room apartments, while one-room > apartments (studio) can have no sunlight. It has to be noted that within the > time range given by the building code (that is between 7:00-17:00), it is > allowed to sum up separate intervals of sunlight. The original intention of > setting this time range was to not take into consideration the first and last > hour of the day, due to low energetic levels of the sunlight and low angles > of incident sunlight. > > The idea of providing sunlight in apartments has a long history of course, > but it was first so explicitly manifested during Congress of Modern > Architecture CIAM in Athens in 1933, where requirement of providing at least > 2-hours of sunlight for every apartment during winter solstice was included > in the conference document - Athens Charter, manifesto of modern movement in > architecture. > > Polish regulations in this subject come from Russia. To my knowledge they > were first introduced in Russia as sanitary regulations in 1963 and in > subsequent decades adopted in other countries of the former Soviet block, but > since the collapse of the communism they have evolved separately and > different ways and now they differ quite significantly – but I don’t know > many details unfortunately. > > If You have ever had contact with similar general building code legislation > requirements in Your countries or local law (zoning plan etc.), I would be > indebted if You could share with me its specific requirements. > > The goal of the planned paper is to formulate guidelines for optimizing > existing building code in Poland, as it is not fully clear in details and as > a result it poses many interpretation problems to architects as well dwellers > who wish to verify if the apartment was designed and implemented according to > building code regulations. > > Regards, > > Maciek Lose > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial >
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