SkyView™ Healthy Blue Sky Lighting for Office Environments
Shining the Light on Office Productivity
Extensive research shows that broad spectrum blue sky lighting in offices results in:
Higher Focus & Attention
Faster Decision Making
Improved Collaboration
Reduced Fatique
Lower Error Rates
These improvements drive office productivity. Since employee performance is the most valuable asset in the building for many organizations, the right lighting is critical.
Lighting is more than infrastructure.
It’s performance infrastructure.
The blue sky effect drives office productivity
When offices provide blue sky light indoors, workers often experience the same uplifting mental benefits associated with a bright outdoor day. This phenomenon is referred to as the Blue Sky Effect.
How NOT to light an office if you want healthy blue sky light exposure
A typical modern office may appear bright but most spaces provide only one third of the needed healthy blue sky spectrum.
Want to know if your lighting measures up?
Use our handy Blue Sky Estimator to get a quick estimation of the amount of healthy light in a given space based on the electric lighting and simple room dimensions.
Bringing the benefits of a Blue Sky day indoors.
SkyView™ healthy blue sky lighting is a patented human-centric lighting technology designed to deliver healthy, natural feeling, sky blue illumination without sacrificing comfort, aesthetics, or energy efficiency.
SkyView™ is practical, general illumination that boosts your office productivity
Unlike conventional lighting, SkyView™ separates visual and circadian lighting functions to create a natural lighting experience that fundamentally supports your office occupants.
With simple installation and controls, SkyView™ is one of the most practical ways to upgrade your office lighting for human health and performance.
SkyView™ is a proven technology clinically and field tested in:
Harvard-associated clinical research
U.S. Department of Defense
Fortune 500 corporate offices
Luxury Resort back-office
SFO Airport (24-hour operations)
Elementary school classrooms
Check out our comprehensive review of the research studies using SkyView™:
Boosting blue sky light indoors reveals fundamental drivers of office productivity
SkyView™ - Lighting That Works With Your Office Design
SkyView™ general illumination beautifully augments and extends office daylighting and biophilic lighting design to create a performance-enhancing work environment.
Create healthy general illumination for all building occupants
Ceiling mounted SkyView™ lighting should be installed in all indoor areas where occupants have most of their daytime activities. This includes commercial offices, cubicle farms, back offices, classrooms, daytime medical offices, gyms, and even lobbies that are frequently occupied by staff.
Augment your daylighting strategy
Although daylighting is the gold standard for lighting interior space, it has significant limitations and often accounts for only a fraction of the total coverage of traditional office designs.
In most modern offices, only a small percentage of employees receive adequate daylight exposure for even a few hours (shown in blue areas of the floor plan). SkyView™ fills this gap by providing consistent performance enhancing lighting throughout the workspace.
SkyView™ lighting augments daylight by:
- Extending healthy blue sky light anywhere in the building
- Providing consistent, time-of-day independent healthy light exposure
- Minimizing glare and countering healthy light loss due to louvers, shades, or tinting
- Delivering optimal healthy light without solar heat constraints
Compliment your Biophilic Design Elements
It’s ironic that the very biophilic materials chosen to invoke a warm, natural appearance and feeling, like wood tones and plants, are also the best materials at absorbing the healthy blue sky light we need biologically.
SkyView™ lighting supports biophilic office design by:
- Creating, low glare, high CRI general illumination that works with accent lighting
- Restoring the blue sky light lost through material absorption to reinvigorate the color palette
- Providing true life-loving (e.g. biophilic), blue-enriched light in limited daylit environments
Your plants will like SkyView™ light as much as your building occupants.
SkyView™ Offers Optional Day-Evening Spectral Programming
For workplaces operating beyond 7am-7pm daytime hours, SkyView™ day-evening models can provide dynamic circadian lighting profiles. The result is stimulating daytime light, and no blue light at night (BLAN) in the evening.
RP-46-25 Criterion
≥250 melanopic lux (m-EDI)
Light Color & Direction
High-angle blue sky light and warm white downlight
Supoorts
- Alertness
- Cognitive Performance
- Focus
- Mood
RP-46-25 Criterion
<10 melanopic lux (m-EDI)
Light Color & Direction
Warm white downlight and no blue light
Supoorts
- Comfort
- Melatonin Production
- Healthy Sleep Timing
- Less Circadian Disruption
This dynamic approach aligns with recommendations outlined in RP-46-25 for maintaining healthy circadian rhythms in indoor environments.
Ready to Upgrade your Office Lighting?
Ready to enjoy the productivity benefits of bringing the feeling of a blue sky day indoors? SkyView™ makes it easy to energize your office environment with healthy blue-sky lighting.
SkyView™ is currently the only practical solution designed specifically to meet RP-46-25 recommendations while maintaining comfort and code compliance.
Contact us to learn more about how SkyView™ can be used in your office related project or find your local agent.
