Posts Tagged ‘solar heat gain’
16Nov
Tags: architectural blinds, Architectural Products, building energy costs, daylight harvesting, Dynamic Solar Facades, Energy Efficiency, energy-savings, maximize daylight, Product Innovation Awards, reduce solar heat gain, solar heat gain, solarmotion
Posted by JJoseph in Design, Product, Technology | No Comments »
Each year Architectural Products’ magazine searches far and wide for the best and most innovative products that the industry has to offer. The Product Innovation Awards (PIA) recognizes products, materials and system innovations that lead commercial and institutional design to new heights. With a distinguished panel of 44 architects and specification specialists who are skilled in product evaluation as judges, they’ve just announced that Solarmotion has won a Product Innovation Award for 2011. The award is based on attributes, qualities, functionality and/or performance beyond industry standards. Solarmotion meets all those qualifications and more!!
Solarmotion Wins Architectural Products’ Product Innovation Award
27Jun
Tags: best practices, daylighting, low-emittance, side lighting, solar heat gain, solar heat gain coefficient, solar shading, top lighting, u-value, visible transmittance
Posted by JJoseph in Design | 1 Comment »
With a seemingly endless number of articles on daylighting, it’s a little overwhelming to try and figure out where to start (especially when a lot of the contents seem to be in code – from U-value to SHGC, where do we begin?). Thankfully I happened to come across the Laboratories for the 21st Century: Best [...]
Laboratories for the 21st Century: Best Practices Blog
14Jun
Tags: controllable solar shading, daylighting, Energy Reductions, exterior controllable solar shading, external controllable solar shading, external venetian blinds, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, optimal daylighting, solar heat gain, solar shading, Sustainability, warema
Posted by Ulrich Lang in Product, Sustainability | No Comments »
The well-known German Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE recently published a very interesting study about “Calculating the Energy Demand for Residential and Office buildings“. This report compares two different solar shading solutions to understand the respective effects on the primary energy consumption for heating, cooling and artificial lighting.
Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE Energy Demand Study
11Jan
Tags: automation, daylighting, exterior controllable solar shading, exteriors, external controllable solar shading, external venetian blinds, glare, human performance, Innovation, intelligent system, natural daylight, optimal daylighting, optimal human performance, reduce solar heat gain, responsive system, solar heat gain, solarmotion, student performance, warema
Posted by JJoseph in Design, Product, Sustainability, Technology | 1 Comment »
There are thousands of buildings out there, all with fascinating exteriors, though what was interesting was that the publication emphasized innovative shading solutions (amongst the other exterior products) while mentioning that architects should evaluate their notions of building exteriors.
Hmm.. is this possible nudge in favor of innovative shading?
Architectural Products – “Exterior Issue” Focuses on External Venetian Blinds
02Dec
Tags: exterior solar shading, exterior venetian blinds, Greenbuild, interior solar shading, linkedin, solar heat gain, solar shades, solar shading, solarmotion
Posted by Kevin Morris in Product, Sustainability, Technology | 4 Comments »
I love a good debate. That’s one of the reasons watching the latest discussion in our “Architectural Solar Shading” Group on LinkedIn has been so fascinating (and another reason you should join right now!). Three months ago, I asked this simple question on our discussion board: “Is solar shading better suited for the interior or [...]
Roundup: Interior Solar Shading vs. Exterior Solar Shading
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