Making a Statement: Solar Shading Systems - Sun Shade Screens and External Louvres
Colt's innovative technical solutions and expertise can turn an architect's vision into reality. Colt solar shading systems can be used to great effect to create a strong visual impact, whilst reducing heat loads on a building.
Colt experts are able to work with the architect, providing calculations and modelling to ensure the proposed solution offers the best performance while making a strong architectural statement.
Colt Solar Shading Systems:
- Reduce the building's heat load
- Reduce the building's cooling requirements
- Reduce glare
- Provide architectural impact
- Reduce winter heat loss
- Enhance the use of natural light
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Shading, directing daylight and energy saving - the function of fixed and controllable solar shading
Buildings with large areas of glazing make the best use of natural daylight and passive solar heat. But there can be too much of a good thing: too much daylight in the wrong places can lead to glare, and too much sun can lead to overheating.
Colt's solar shading systems eliminate excessive glare and reduce solar heat gains in the summer. During the hotter months of the year, the building is protected against overheating by Colt's adjustable heat reflecting louvres, which are oriented according to the position of the sun. Radiation from the sun is partially absorbed and reflected by the louvres, which reduces heat gains within the building.
Modern glazed buildings frequently use more energy for cooling in summer than for heating in winter. The use of external solar shading can enable the cooling loads to be greatly reduced or eliminated. In the winter months, the situation is reversed, as buildings lose heat through their glazing. Colt's solar shading louvres can be positioned so as to reduce heat loss as well as to help capture any heat coming from the winter sun.
The quality of daylight changes continuously within a building, depending on the time of day, the weather and the season. Colt's solar shading louvres can be oriented to enhance the levels of natural light while minimising glare, providing ideal natural light quality in the building throughout the daylight hours all year round, and reducing as much as possible the need for artificial lighting. This can be achieved by the use of transparent or translucent louvres, which provide good light quality even when closed.
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