How to Bring More Efficient Daylight into Your Building

by | Nov 28, 2017 | Interior Building Systems

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You may have already investigated studies that suggest that more natural daylight entering your building is more efficient for your employees and visitors than providing expensive energy alternatives. The introduction of translucent panels in Wisconsin will help improve the amount of natural daylight that can enter any building.

Have You Noticed the Natural Daylight Around Indoor Swimming Pools?

When you visit an indoor swimming pool or another athletic facility, you are likely to see translucent panels in Wisconsin. Permission to plan and build these facilities is only granted when the maximum of natural daylight has been considered and forms part of the architect’s design.

Translucent panels in Wisconsin are often preferred to glass panels, because they are safer, cost less to manufacture and install and remove many of the disadvantages of placing so much glass around busy areas in a building.

Using glass, direct sunlight can form a difficult glare or hotspots in specific areas inside the building. When an architect suggests translucent panels are used, these can dye fuse the light which makes it more comfortable for the individuals in that specific area.

The amount of direct sunlight can cause distractions to the individuals performing within the facility. The glare may cause difficulties looking at timing boards during a swimming race or other displays that are helpful for the athletes participating.

Apart from recreational facilities, these panels are often used in areas where individuals are likely to gather in substantial numbers before moving to a different area in a building.

This makes translucent panels in Wisconsin extremely suitable for a lobby area of non-recreational facilities for offices and other buildings.

Where the price of a project is involved, the panels are often attractive in comparison to the installation of glass, especially as large panels and toughened glass may be required as part of the installation.