Glare Problems Research Articles

Simulation Analysis of an ETC Monitoring and Imaging Supplementary Lighting Device for Freeways

To address the glare issues caused by highway ETC gantry monitoring and imaging illumination devices, this paper first investigates the mechanism of disability glare and derives the formula for the glare threshold increment. Subsequently, using the glare increment threshold as the evaluation metric and incorporating the current regulatory requirements for illumination devices, a simulation model for ETC gantry monitoring and imaging illumination devices was developed. A single-variable control method was applied to conduct simulation experiments on the glare problems from multiple perspectives (e.g., different standard illuminance levels, various luminous areas, varying installation heights, and different lateral offsets), and the glare level was analyzed using the glare increment threshold method. It was found that when the lateral offset of the illumination device reached 4 m, the glare increment threshold decreased by more than 50%. Additionally, it is recommended that the illuminance of the illumination device should be greater than 15 lx.

Barriers and facilitators to conducting human subjects research at a safety net institution from the perspective of researchers.

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed glaring problems with clinical research enterprise. Faced with crisis, several trials opened rapidly but enrolled homogenous populations with few Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) individuals. Inclusive trial enrollment is important to inspire trust and confidence in BIPOC populations that have been historically excluded or harmed from research and to improve the generalizability of research findings. Safety-net hospitals and institutions often care for BIPOC populations, and thus it is essential to improve equitable participation in research at these institutions. In this study, we sought to understand barriers and facilitators to research participation at safety net institutions. We conducted semi-structured interviews among principal investigators, research assistants, research coordinators, and research nurses who conducted human subjects research at an urban, safety-net hospital from October, 2022 to December, 2022. We used inductive qualitative methods to identify themes associated with barriers and facilitators to clinical research participation. We completed 28 interviews and identified five themes: (1) compared to non-safety net systems, safety-net systems were perceived to require additional resources and funding to achieve comparable research recruitment and retention; (2) language barriers and translational processes are burdensome for researchers; (3) interactions between research staff and patients impact trust; (4) social determinants of health specific to safety-net populations are a barrier to participation; (5) competing priorities between clinical staff and researchers exist. Safety net institutions face several barriers to conducting human subjects research. However, identified facilitators may help inform future efforts to reduce inequities in research participation.

Planning and Design of the Automotive Engineering Building of SMKN 2 Surakarta with Green Architecture Concept

Background: The Automotive Engineering Department of SMKN 2 Surakarta has a problem with a lack of classrooms, unmet standards of space area and height, and problems of glare and heat in the room caused by wide ventilation but no canopy or coating walls. Based on the Guidelines for the Standardization of High School Buildings and Furniture, the infrastructure that is met, the building requirements, and the provisions that are applied greatly affect student learning. Space, air circulation, natural and artificial lighting are related to the performance of teachers and learners.Methods: This planning and design uses the architectural programming method with a green architecture approach. The stages of architectural programming include: determining goals, collect fact, uncover and test concepts, determining needs, and design. Data sources were taken from informants, archives, and documents. Data collection was conducted using observation, interview, and documentation techniques.Results: Space requirements in the Automotive Engineering Department include classrooms, teachers' rooms, basic automotive workshops, material tool rooms, toolman rooms and toilets. The application of green architecture principles includes conserving energy by utilizing solar panels, utilizing gray water, using brightly colored paint; working with climate by utilizing natural lighting and air conditioning, skylight applications, cross ventilation; respect for site through site shape adjustments; respect for use through calculating the area of space according to standards, installing roster walls and vegetation, minimizing new resources related to conserving energy; and holistic.Conclusion: The Automotive Engineering Building consists of two masses, namely the two-story main building (12 classrooms, 1 teacher's room, 4 toilets) and the one-story basic automotive workshop building (1 practice room, 2 toilets, 1 tool and material room and toolman room). The opening area for natural lighting and ventilation is 17-20% following the opening area guideline of 10-20% of the floor area. The use of solar panels as an effort to save energy produces a power of 9,500 WP which can meet the power needs of 9,262.56 WP. The management of gray water which can then be used to flush toilets is 4,645.2 L/day (33%) of the water demand of 13,974 L/day (100%).

Solar-optical and thermal behavior of photochromic glazing: Small-scale testing under real sky conditions

Solar-optical and thermal behavior of photochromic glazing: Small-scale testing under real sky conditions

Research on the Factors That Influence and Improve the Quality of Informal Learning Spaces (ILS) in University Campus

Currently, with the intensification of global education competition, how to cultivate innovative and versatile talents has become the focus of education today. Informal learning spaces (ILS) have received widespread attention due to their benefits for interdisciplinary interaction. Many forms of ILS have been built, and coffee shops are one of them. However, there is no uniform standard for the design of cafes as ILS, and there are many problems with the spatial quality. This study took a university cafe as a case study and conducted research on the environmental quality and influencing factors from the perspective of environmental behavior. In terms of research methods, this study adopted a combination of ultra-wideband positioning, questionnaire surveys, and environmental data measurements. This research method could obtain the complete relationship between user behavior, time, and location, which improved the shortcomings of traditional research methods of fragmented and accidental data acquisition, and helped to obtain more accurate research results. The study identified the impact proportions of four criteria layer elements and 26 scheme layer factors, which was also the main contribution of this study. In terms of four criteria layer elements, the physical elements had the highest proportion, accounting for 32.46%. The ontology elements ranked second, accounting for 27.07%. The atmosphere elements ranked third, accounting for 24.19%. Finally, facility elements accounted for 16.29%. The top three scheme layer factors were equipment and facilities, noise, and illumination, with weights of 11.18%, 10.71%, and 8.35%, respectively. The study summarized the development directions of cafes as ILS, such as considering the learning needs of different groups, installing sound-absorbing and soundproof devices, adding grilles to external windows, and improving glare problems.

Highly sensitive ECL detection of miRNA based on self-generated coreactant and target-induced catalyzed hairpin assembly

Recently, various techniques have been developed to accurately and sensitively detect tumor biomarkers for the early diagnosis and effective therapy of cancer. The electrochemiluminescence (ECL) method holding outstanding features including high sensitivity, ease of operation, and spatiotemporal controllability exhibited great potential for DNA/RNA detection, immunoassay, cancer cell detection, and environmental analysis. However, a glaring problem of ECL approaches is that the layer-by-layer modification on the electrode leads to poor stability and sensitivity of the sensors. Therefore, new simple and efficient methods for electrode modification which can effectively improve the ECL signal have attracted more and more research interests. Based on the dual amplification strategy of target-induced CHA and nanocomposite probes leading to self-generated co-reactant (H2O2), we proposed a highly sensitive miRNA-ECL detection system. The introduction of the target miRNA-21 triggers the CHA cycle amplification of DNA1 and biotin-modified DNA2, releasing the target miRNA-21 sequence for the target cycle reaction. After the reaction, the newly introduced DNA2 was combined with Au NPs modified with SA and Glucose oxidase (GOD). In the presence of oxygen, glucose was decomposed by GOD to produce H2O2, and then H2O2 was immediately catalyzed by the Hemin/G-quadruplex at the double-stranded end of the CHA product to produce a large amount of O2-•. As a co-reactant of luminol, the ECL signal was significantly enhanced, thereby achieving highly sensitive detection of miRNA-21 content and obtaining a low detection limit of 0.65fM. The high specificity of the ECL biosensor was also proved by base mismatch. Compared with other current detection methods, this sensor can achieve quantitative analysis of other target analytes by flexibly changing the probe DNA sequence, and provide a new feasible solution for the detection of tumor-associated markers. Benefiting from the improved sensitivity and selectivity, the proposed biosensing platform is expected to provide a new strategy for biomarkers analysis and outstanding prospect for further clinical application.

Improve anti-glare ability of helicopters based on the anti-reflective structure of bionic moth eyes

This thesis focuses on the issue of glare during helicopter night navigation, which is caused by the high reflectivity of cockpit instruments, displays, and windshield surfaces. This can result in pilot eye fatigue and pose a serious threat to flight safety. To address this problem, a bionic moth eye antireflection structure is designed and prepared on the windshield glass surface using a combination of self-assembly and reactive ion beam technology. The aim is to reduce the surface reflectivity of the windshield glass and prevent glare. The anti-reflective structure comprises of conical structures with a size cycle of 15 nm and a structure height of 2000 nm. The surface of both sides is microstructured, resulting in a reduction of surface reflectivity from 8% to 0.5% at the wavelength of 300 nm to 800 nm. The passing rate is increased from 92% to 99.5%, and the applicable angle is greater than 50°). The anti-glare ability is improved by about 16 times. This thesis proposes a solution to the problem of glare during helicopter night navigation by designing and implementing a bionic moth eye antireflection structure on the windshield glass surface using self-assembly and reactive ion beam technology. The results show a significant reduction in surface reflectivity and improved anti-glare ability, which can contribute to enhancing flight safety.

Design Adjustments For Daylighting and Visual Comfort in a Classroom with Conventional Shadings

This paper evaluates how design adjustments applied to roller shades and louvres (namely the height of the shadings head and the angles of the louvre slats) can improve their annual and spatial effectiveness to provide autonomous daylight levels, reduce daylight glare problems, and offer views outside. The strategies were analogous to the rule of thumb that relates the window head height with the depth of daylight penetration. Climate-based daylight simulations were performed to calculate the Useful Daylight Illuminance, spatial Disturbing Glare, and View Factors in a classroom located at a 19° latitude. Temporal maps were included to assess the shadings’ performance not only over space but also over time. Results showed that roller shades performed better when they were applied letting the top of the window clear. On the contrary, louvres performed better when they covered the entire glazing. It is concluded that simple design adjustments can greatly improve the daylight and visual performance in buildings.

The Important Role Social Capital Plays in Navigating the Computing Education Ecosystem for Black Girls

Black women represent the greatest underrepresentation in STEM fields, particularly the technology sector. According to a 2015 article in The Verge , Black women make up between 0% and 7% of the staff at the eight largest technology firms in the United States. This points to a glaring problem in terms of equity and inclusivity in the technology sector. Similar to their underrepresentation in the STEM sector, Black women's underrepresentation in the tech sector is related to pervasive and persistent prejudice and biased policies that endure in the United States, which have limited—and continue to limit—their access to quality education and spaces where Black women's cultural capital (i.e., ways of being) is acknowledged and appreciated. For most people, including Black women, social networks often make available opportunities and pathways toward realizing the roles they can play in the world or a particular industry. These webs of relationships and the embedded quality in them can be defined as an individual's social capital and be applied to any industry, including STEM and technology fields. In a practical sense, social capital allows an individual to leverage relationships for resources (e.g., information about internships and jobs or encouragement to persist through a difficult college course). In turn, these resources can contribute to economic opportunities (i.e., jobs) or social opportunities, such as relationships with gatekeepers who work in STEM fields that may lead to opportunities like jobs, projects, or financial backing. Research suggests that the social networks of Black young women rarely overlap with the networks of predominantly White and Asian males, who are overrepresented in the technology field. This weakens Black women's awareness of opportunities and training, and undermines their motivation to persist in the STEM sector. As a result of this increasing understanding of the role of social capital in career development, K–12 and higher education programs that are focused on equity in STEM fields have increasingly turned to the concept of social capital to address the traditional underrepresentation of certain groups, particularly Blacks, Latinos, and women in STEM fields. The following research investigates the experiences of Black girls who attended a program, Google's Code Next, designed to engage Black and Latinx youth in computer science. We argue that it is crucial for computer science programs not just to teach hard coding skills but also to build on young Black women's social capital to accommodate the young women in creating and expanding their tech social capital, enabling them to successfully navigate STEM and technology education and career pathways. Specifically, this article explores a subprogram of Code Next and how it has contributed to young Black women's persistence in STEM, and particularly in technology. The findings suggest that the young women employed an expanded sense of social capital in addition to an expanded cultural capital (i.e., language, skills, ways of being) and worldview (i.e., sense of belonging and self-efficacy) to make sense of their possible selves in the world of technology.

Cold Comfort: The revelation that a popular decongestant doesn't work exposes a glaring problem with FDA regulation.

Cold Comfort: The revelation that a popular decongestant doesn't work exposes a glaring problem with FDA regulation.

Impact of depression in Elderly patients with low vision

OBJECTIVE: To determine the effects of depression in the elder patients suffering from low vision and correlate depression with low vision.
 METHOD: A cross-sectional study was performed on 91 subjects who visited Low Vision Center at Mayo Hospital Lahore. All the patients were asked to fill the questionnaire. Qualitative data was analyzed through frequency and percentage. This study was conducted from September to November 2020.
 RESULTS: Forty six out of ninety one (50.5%) patients had trouble in reading regular size print. Fifty three percent were having difficulty to sign documents. Forty percent were having difficulty in recognizing faces. Sixty three (69.2%) patients had difficulty in independent travelling. Reduced vision leading to unhappy feeling sometimes was experienced by 39.6% of the participants. Out of 91, 40 patients of low vision having depression get frustrated when they could not perform certain tasks. Poor daily routine work was found in 50.5%. Patient having mild, severe and very severe glare problem were 51.7%, 24.2% and 6.6% respectively. Severe problem while watching television is found in 39.6% patients. Depressive patients having thoughts of hurting themselves were 3.3%. Thirty eight percent felt that ignorance could develop stress.
 CONCLUSION: There were high chances in low vision patients to develop depression because of visual loss, functional impairment, and difficulty in daily life activities. Visual impairment restricted a person's independence, and worsened the quality of life. If a person is counseled properly, it is beneficial in increasing the functional performance and will also help him or her to avoid developing depression.
 KEYWORDS: Low vision, Depression.

Cheatgrass: Fire and Forage on the Range. By James A. Young and Charlie D. Clements

James A. Young and Charlie D. Clements, two scientists from the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, invite readers to reflect on the history of cheatgrass and its management in the Great Basin. The authors state that the purpose of this book is to inform the public and other rangeland managers about the flaws of past cheatgrass management and to offer suggestions for handling the plant communities of the Great Basin. While the book has several glaring problems as both a history and a call-to-action for federal land agencies, this helpful narrative of federal weed management in the twentieth century can still be utilized by environmental and agricultural historians. Cheatgrass is both an attempt to explain the landscape history of the Great Basin region and the evolutionary and cultural history of cheatgrass. The book is organized into seventeen thematic chapters that cover a range and variety of topics from the phenotypic plasticity of the plant to cultural perceptions about it and its role in rangeland ecology. These chapters are not uniform in their intended audience or purpose, leaving the reader with a sense of stylistic and argumentative disjuncture. At times the authors address federal land managers and the overgrazing of the range in the Great Basin using scientific language. Other chapters take issue with environmentalists and the stigma against using widespread herbicides to convert cheatgrass-invaded areas to crested wheatgrass. Additionally, Young and Clements attempt to use anecdote and historical examples to support their arguments but fail to cite any serious scholarship in the fields of environmental or agricultural history. What this book lacks in argument is made up for in its knowledge of twentieth-century range and weed science.

DAYLIGHTING PERFORMANCE OF HIGH SCHOOL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT IN TROPICS

ABSTRACT The quality of the indoor environment, including the lighting conditions, is crucial in classrooms as it directly affects students’ learning performance and productivity. Natural light is the best light source for visual comfort, aesthetics, and energy efficiency. Malaysia is in a tropical region and has abundant daylight availability that could meet the required lighting during the day. However, in Malaysian schools, electric lights are frequently switched on during classes in the daytime; hence, daylighting is not efficiently utilised. This study investigates the daylighting performance in classrooms in a national high school in Penang, Malaysia. Fieldwork was conducted by measuring incident illumination levels inside selected classrooms in the Teluk Kumbar High School. The results show that average illumination levels were between 400 lux to 1000 lux, more than enough in most classrooms because of the relatively large windows with clear glass. The average daylight ratios recorded in the classrooms were between 6.4 and 9.2%, which may result in glare problems. Simulations were conducted using Design-Builder to further evaluate the annual daylighting performance including Daylight Autonomy (DA), Annual Sun Exposure (ASE) and Useful Daylight Illuminance (UDI). Based on the findings, it is recommended to use shading devices or replace the glazing type to improve daylighting performance for visual comfort. Proper design and selection of windows in schools can significantly improve indoor lighting quality for students and reduce solar heat gain.

Improving Natural Lighting Performance in Historical Education Venues: Ulugazi Primary School

Natural lighting is an essential factor in the design of educational buildings, as it creates an environment that provides psychological satisfaction, increases motivation, encourages healthier conditions and saves energy. Using the same finishing materials in classrooms facing different directions and sizes in educational buildings causes natural lighting effects of different quantity and quality. This situation creates psychological, physiological and cognitive inequality among students. This negativity can be annihilated by changing facade elements, the ratio of the transparent surface and the materials. However, these applications should be made with minor interventions in the historic structure. Within the scope of this study, which aims to determine the current natural lighting performance of the classrooms in Ulugazi Primary School, a historic school building in Kocaeli, the scenarios are designed with approaches that will have the most negligible impact on the building identity.
 
 In this context, with the Climatestudio analyzes were conducted for four classes with different characteristics. Visual comfort problems were determined with the Spatial Daylight Autonomy (sDA) that evaluate the illuminance level annually and with the Annual Sunlight Exposure (ASE) that reveal the glare probability, within the scope of Leed V4.1. Furthermore, scenarios were created with the choice of finishing materials and curtains with different optical properties for the interior wall surfaces and ceiling, which have lost their authentic value, based on the same metrics. Thus, it has been revealed to what extent the quantity, quality and distribution of natural lighting in classrooms have changed. According to the simulation results, it was determined that there were significant glare problems in two of the four classes, with ASE ranges ranging from 0% to 31.4%. Class B facing south and east, has the most significant glare potential. In addition, all classrooms spatially provide the sDA value. However, more illuminance levels are required in the back corners of the classrooms.

An Improved Approach to Detection of Rice Leaf Disease with GAN-Based Data Augmentation Pipeline

The lack of large balanced datasets in the agricultural field is a glaring problem for researchers and developers to design and train optimal deep learning models. This paper shows that using synthetic data augmentation outperforms the standard methods on object detection models and can be crucially important when datasets are few or imbalanced. The purpose of this study was to synthesize rice leaf disease data using a Style-Generative Adversarial Network Adaptive Discriminator Augmentation (SG2-ADA) and the variance of the Laplacian filter to improve the performance of Faster-Region-Based Convolutional Neural Network (faster-RCNN) and Single Shot Detector (SSD) in detecting the major diseases affecting rice. We collected a few unbalanced raw samples of rice leaf diseases images grouped into four diseases namely; bacterial blight (BB), tungro (TG), brown-spot (BS), and rice-blast (RB) with 1584, 1308, 1440, and 1600 images, respectively. We then train StyleGAN2-ADA for 250 epochs whilst using the variance of the Laplacian filter to discard blurry and poorly generated images. The synthesized images were used for augmenting faster-RCNN and SSD models in detecting rice leaf diseases. The StyleGAN2-ADA model achieved a Fréchet Inception Distance (FID) score of 26.67, Kernel Inception Distance (KID) score of 0.08, Precision of 0.49, and Recall of 0.14. In addition, we attained a mean average precision (mAP) of 0.93 and 0.91 for faster-RCNN and SSD, respectively. The learning curves of loss over 250 epochs are 0.03 and 0.04 for Faster-RCNN and SSD, respectively. In comparison to the standard data augmentation, we achieved a t-test p-value of 9.1×10−4 and 8.3×10−5. Hence, the proposed data augmentation pipeline to improve faster-RCNN and SSD models in detecting rice leaf diseases is significant. Our data augmentation approach is helpful to researchers and developers that are faced with the problem of fewer imbalanced datasets and can also be adopted by other fields faced with the same problems.

A novel positioning method of anti-punching drilling robot based on the fusion of multi-IMUs and visual image

Anti-punching drilling robot (APDR) is the key equipment for underground rock burst relief in coal mine and the accurate position and attitude determination is the basis and premise for realizing unmanned pressure relief operation. In this paper, a novel positioning method of APDR based on spatial array inertial measurement units (IMUs) and visual image is proposed. Firstly, the spatial array layout of multiple IMUs is displayed creatively, and the data fusion model and the posture calculation process of spatial array IMUs are constructed. The superiority of proposed spatial array IMUs is verified through the motion trajectory simulation analysis and mobile carrier simulation experiments. Then, an image enhancement method (SSR-AF) is designed to overcome the problems of atomization, glare, uneven illumination and noise interference in coal mine images, so as to improve the accuracy of image feature extraction and matching. Accordingly, the positioning estimation model based on continuous frame images is established. Furthermore, the fusion positioning process of APDR is presented by using the loose coupling mode based on Kalman filtering algorithm. The position and attitude monitoring experimental platform of APDR is built in a simulated coal mine tunnel. The experimental results indicate that the calculation errors of displacement and attitude based on the proposed fusion positioning method is superior to the competing methods, which meet the actual positioning requirements, and verify the feasibility and practicability of the proposed positioning method for APDR.

Multimedia Classroom Natural Lighting Glare Research and Lighting Optimization Design

At present, multimedia teaching has become the main teaching method, but most multimedia classrooms due to natural lighting caused by the glare problem, resulting in classroom lighting effect is not ideal. In order to understand the relationship between glare and natural lighting and provide reference for the improvement of the light environment of multimedia classrooms, this article selects a typical classroom in a university in Henan as the research object. Based on the natural lighting glare index (DGI), the paper studies the influence degree of natural lighting glare of multimedia classrooms, and uses DALI software simulation to dynamically simulate and analyze the improvement of the light environment of multimedia classrooms from the perspective of shading from the side windows of buildings, then obtains the lighting design scheme with the least affected by glare, which provides reference for the lighting design of multimedia classrooms and teaching buildings.

Civil economy as a path towards sustainability: An empirical investigation

Civil economy as a path towards sustainability: An empirical investigation

Exploring the effect of pavement reflection and photometric properties on road lighting performance

The reflection properties of pavement have an impact on the lit environment and thus upon drivers’ vision and comfort and the energy consumption of the lighting installation. The reflection properties combine diffuse and specular components. The specular reflection component changes with different materials: it also changes when the surface is wet, although this is sometimes ignored in lighting design. This study used simulation (DIALux 4.13) to investigate the effect on lighting parameters (luminance, overall uniformity, longitudinal uniformity and threshold increment (TI)) of changes in pavement reflection properties using different pavement materials and under dry and wet conditions. Furthermore, comparison of lighting parameters was made with different road lighting arrangements. The results show that an increase in the specular reflection component leads to an increase in luminance and a decrease in uniformity. Of the surfaces investigated, the porous pavement had the lower luminance but better uniformity. Arranging the lighting installation based on the extreme wettest condition could make luminance and uniformity rise but with an increase of 2–2.5 kWh/m2 annual energy consumption. When trying to control glare problems during design process, it is suggested that uniformity cannot be neglected except the TI.

Development, testing, and evaluation of the daylighting, thermal, and energy-saving performance of semitransparent radiative cooling glass in cooling-dominated regions

• A semitransparent energy-saving glass (SESG) is proposed for hot-climatic regions. • The maximum temperature reduction of the indoor air with SESG is 19.1 ℃. • The annual energy-saving potential reaches 15% —60% under different glazing ratios. • A more efficient balancing between the energy behavior and daylighting quality can be obtained. Glass-made building envelopes play an essential role in buildings’ thermal/daylighting environment and energy behavior. To enhance its overall energy efficiency in cooling-dominated regions, a double-layer film that combines the concepts of selective solar utilization (SSU) and radiative cooling (RC) is proposed to form the semitransparent energy-saving glass (SESG). The SSU film (∼0.1 mm) is a multilayer optical film that contains polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and thin reflective metal layer. The RC film (∼0.1 mm) consists of a PET layer and an adhesion layer. To evaluate the daylighting, thermal, and energy-saving performance of the SESG on buildings, comparative field tests using reduced-size model boxes and whole-building energy simulation analysis on a larger-scale office building are conducted. Compared with the normal clear glass, the developed SESG decreases the indoor air temperature of the modeled box by maximum values of 19.1℃ and 17.8℃ while reducing the daylighting level by 68 % to support a more comfortable thermal/daylighting environment. In addition, a single-story office building modeling using EnergyPlus was developed to evaluate the energy-saving and daylighting performance of the SESG in two different cooling-dominated cities, Male (Maldives) and Hong Kong (China) considering different glazing ratios. Compared with normal clear glass which will add amounts of extra cooling load and cause serious glare problems due to its high transmittance to visible light and near-infrared solar radiation, the annual cooling energy savings of the SESG reach 15 %—60 % in two selected cities under different glazing ratios. By considering both energy-saving potential and daylighting quality, the simulation results show that in Male, within the glazing ratios of 0.4 to 0.6, the UDI (Useful Daylighting Illuminance) values and energy-saving potential both reach the highest value of 0.5–0.6 and ∼ 55 %. In Hong Kong, the UDI values and energy-saving potential both reach the highest value of 0.4–0.5 and ∼ 57 % when the glazing ratio ranges between 0.5 and 0.9. The experimental and simulation results validate that combining selective solar utilization and radiative cooling for the glass envelopes is able to seek a more efficient balance between the energy behaviors and daylighting environment for buildings in cooling-dominated regions.