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IEA SHC Solar Academy: Low Carbon, High Comfort Integrated Lighting

19. - 21. May 2026
Online, AT

This webinar will highlight key activities and results from IEA SHC Task 70/EBC Annex 90, focusing on low-carbon lighting strategies (i.e. electric lighting and daylighting/­façade), new findings on human lighting requirements, and the status of digi­ta­li­za­tion the status of digitalization with respect to technologies and design processes, followed by a Q&A session for the audience.

Organizer

  • IEA SHC Solar Academy (Organisation)
  • ISES International Solar Energy Society (Hosting)

Content Description

Lighting accounts for 15 % of the global electrical energy consumption and 5 % of global CO2 emissions. Thus, widening the rating perspective of lighting solutions to a more holistic view of its impact on CO2 emissions, encompassing the whole life cycle chain also in the context of regional energy markets aspects, interaction with other building trades, etc. is urgently deemed necessary. 

This goes far beyond the pure LED lamp-driven energy efficiency gains. The aim of IEA SHC Task 70 / EBC Annex 90 "Low Carbon, high comfort integrated lighting" is to identify and support implementing the potentials of lighting (electric, façade: daylighting and passive solar) in the decarbonization on a global perspective while aligning the new integrative understanding of humans' light needs with digitized lighting on a building and a building related urban scale.

In this webinar, the activities and results of the work will be highlighted. Specific attention will be paid to low carbon strategies (electric lighting and daylighting/Façade), new findings on lighting requirements for humans and the status of digitalization with respect to technologies and design processes.

Program

Online Webinar:

Speakers:

  • Introduction to IEA SHC Task 70 / Annex 90 - Status of lighting and decarbonisation
    Jan de Boer (Fraunhofer Institute IBP, LiTG) 
  • Visual and Non-Visual Lighting Requirements for Decarbonisation: Collected Scientific Evidence and Emerging Insights
    Mandana S. Khanie (University College London, CIE JTC 18, Daylight Academy)
  • Digitalized Lighting Solutions – State of the Art in Technologies and Design workflows 
    David Geisler-Moroder (University of Innsbruck, ISO/CIE)
  • Application and Case studies – How do concepts prove in practice
    Niko Gentile (Lund University)
  • Moderator: Bärbel Epp (Solrico)

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Participant Information

Contact Address

Universität Innsbruck
David Geisler-Moroder
Technikerstraße 13
A-6020 Innsbruck
E-Mail: david.geisler-moroder@uibk.ac.at