Building Design

When it comes to energy efficiency in buildings, understanding the U-value of building components is crucial. U-value is a key factor in determining t...

Realizing the potential of daylight in hotel and conference centre projects has several benefits. Guests and visitors can experience better time spent...

Maximizing your industrial buildings daylight has several operational benefits. Good daylight provisions increase the comfort, health and productivity...

Incorporating daylighting into healthcare building design has several benefits. Good daylighting canassist with patient recovery and connects people w...

Brick and mortar stores competing with online buyers need to maximize customer experience. Retail spaces with natural daylighting deliver a fuller sho...

Daylight solutions for airports and railway stations represent a challenge to designers. But it is one that has excellent rewards for people who often...

Daylight solutions can improve productivity, comfort and the well-being of office employees. Daylighting is also energy-efficient and cost effective, ...

Daylight solutions enrich the recreational experiences people have when using sports facilities. Natural light in a well-being environment assists in ...

While the science of well-being is relatively nascent, the UK Government’s ‘Foresight’ project sheds a great deal of light on five factors that have a...

There are several factors that influence the success of commercial rooflight refurbishment projects. From choosing the correct daylight solution and g...

Daylight solutions help to create quality, attractive, and comfortable spaces to spend time in. A range of rooflight solutions are available to maximi...

When choosing a new daylight solution as part of a refurbishment project, understanding a building’s functionality plays an important role in decision...

We all know that the best antidote to the ‘winter blues’ is a break in a warmer, sunnier climate, preferably with white sandy beaches and clear blue w...

Ventilation contributes to the provision of good indoor air quality, removing carbon dioxide and unwanted pollutants while introducing fresh air. Peop...

If no ventilation strategy is in place, a commercial building can experience overheating, especially in spaces where there is increased internal gains...

Atrium rooflights are designed and built in a variety of configurations with the option of bespoke designs available to create centrepiece spaces with...

When viewing the night sky, most of us feel an intimate connection to the universe. Yet starry skies and moonlit nights have become increasingly rare ...

Over the last one and a half centuries, artificial light and the restructuring of working times have seemingly ‘liberated’ us from the diurnal cycles ...

One important function of the building envelope is to protect the interior from unwanted outdoor noise. Sound insulation is an important parameter of ...

Well-designed classrooms can help boost the academic performance of students. One of the deciding factors is a good acoustic environment. In this arti...

Giving young school children a sense of ownership of "their" classroom promotes a sense of self-worth and responsibility and has also been shown to im...

While stimulation, colour and visual complexity are important to creating a vibrant learning environment in classrooms, what is the healthy balance be...

Children spend more time within the walls of their school than anywhere else but their own homes. How much time are we talking about?

Schools are complex environments, where a wide variety of factors interplay to determine the kind of experience children will have, whether in the phy...

Have you ever thought about how 64 million European children spend more time at school than anywhere else other than their own home?