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News Release from: Solatube | Subject: Daylighting Systems
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 06 March 2008
Word of warning on flexible Daylighting
Systems
Flexible systems, whilst marginally easier to install simply do not do what Tubular Daylighting Systems are meant to.
With lighting typically accounting for some 40% of annual utility costs, organisations are continually searching for ways in which to light their buildings more efficiently in order to reduce their energy consumption Tubular Daylighting Systems, which channel light through a dome fitted to a building's roof through a tube into the workspace below, are providing an increasingly popular solution
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 28 Feb 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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While there are now a number of systems on the market making various claims, Solatube is committed only to providing rigid tube systems rather than the flexible duct products that incorporate material designed for air conditioning rather than lighting systems, which some organisations offer.
Sales and marketing director Chris Taffs comments: "When the sole purpose of these systems is to optimise the use of daylight to illuminate internal spaces as efficiently as possible, it is clear that to use anything other than a material which has been proved to be the most effective is simply not going to produce the desired results".
"Flexible systems, whilst marginally easier to install simply do not do what Tubular Daylighting Systems are meant to.".
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