My boss has asked some of the engineers in our office and myself to research daylight modeling software options. We currently use AGI 32 which models daylighting and can calculation light levels, but it cannot calculate energy characteristics of daylighting. We also use Trane Trace, which can model the energy characteristics of daylighting, but not the light levels. We need one software that can do both plus provide daylighting renderings. He suggested to look at EQuest (which is a version of DOE2), IES and DAYSIM. I know nothing about daylighting analysis but need to look at how the software will interact with Revit MEP. Soooooo, does anyone have any opinions about the ones I Iisted or are there any others that you'd recommend? Pros and cons?
Thanks,
Jason
