SUPERLINK and RADLINK are programs to obtain estimates of the interactions between daylight, artifcial lighting and the building dynamic thermal performance.

The simulation is based on daylighting calculations with SUPERLITE (for SUPERLINK) or RADIANCE (for RADLINK).

SUPERLINK and RADLINK produce hourly values for additional lighting input into a building over a complete year, taking into account:

• several lighting control strategies,
• different lamp types,
• desired work surface illuminance,
• user-defined worktime schedule,
• hourly sunshine probability.

The hourly energy input can be used to perform hourly thermal simulation with dynamic building simulation programmes as tsbi3, SUNCODE, TRNSYS or DOE.