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    Impact of Innovative Lighting Strategies on the Performance of Workplace Environments: Evaluation of Solar Tubes
    (Springer Cham, 2025) Bana Eid; Wael Sheta
    Most buildings in UAE rely on the daylighting as a sustainable source to provide good indoor lighting quality. This natural source will allow to save energy, improve the indoor ambiance, enhance the work productivity, provide good visual comfort as well as providing the physiological and psychological needs of humans. This paper covered the various techniques that are needed to promote daylighting in buildings, this includes literature review, present one international case study, and applying the learned concepts to the offices at The Abu Dhabi University campus. The different applied solutions of daylighting on the selected building were simulated using Dialux EVO software to study and analyse the improvements of lighting quality and the impact on energy consumption. The simulation phase has covered 4 strategies, strategy 1 is for solar tubes ×1, size 10 in., strategy 2 is for solar tubes ×2, size 24 in., strategy 3 is for solar tubes ×3, size 24 in., and strategy 4 is for solar tubes ×4, size 24 in. The results showed that the offices in strategy 3 received 3 solar tubes with 24 in. each, and this have helped to enhance the amount of lux and achieve the requirements. The simulation results using solar tubes strategies have achieved the desired lux needed for indoor space with zero energy consumption as all artificial lights were switched off.