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Skylights for metal roofs5/28/2023 When determining where to place sidelights, a north or south-facing wall provides more even lighting for longer portions of the daylight hours. There are many configurations available for skylights, including a checkerboard style, ridge-to-eave, mid-span, continuous or horizontal, sawtooth or northern lights, or side lighting (vertical or horizontal) (See fig. Today, in addition to those traditional agricultural uses, natural daylighting is used in high-end architectural projects, retail facilities, hospitals, schools, offices, warehouses, and more. Traditionally, daylighting has been used in agricultural applications where electricity is unavailable or simply is not cost-effective in areas such as loafing sheds, fertilizer storage buildings, animal confinement buildings, and so forth. Side lighting is referred to as clerestory windows and traditionally occurs in vertical wall applications.Īdding a reflective shelf in front of the glazing is called shelf lighting and is also a popular solution to introduce more daylight into the building. Daylighting Optionsįrom a plastic or polycarbonate perspective, there are two types of daylighting options, top lighting (skylights and roof lights) and side lighting. This article will focus primarily on plastic, specifically polycarbonate. By glazing, we typically mean glass or plastic. Daylighting is the use of glazing to allow natural light into spaces, often replacing the use of artificial light.
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