Rooflights for Flat Roofs

Rooflights for Flat Roofs

From vaulted to circular rooflights, we have rooflights suitable for all flat roof projects. Not only do they have many benefits from an occupants perspective, they have been designed to meet the growing environmental, thermal, and structural demands of today’s building sector.

We supply the Dalite range of rooflights which are offered as modular units and are manufactured in standard sizes, and the Daglaze range of products that are available as bespoke, made to order units. 

Rooflights provide a highly effective way to flood rooms with natural light. Research shows that rooflights can significantly reduce a building’s energy consumption by maximising natural light. While rooflights offer less insulation than other roofing areas, their passive solar gain compensates for this, making them an effective energy-saving solution overall.*

*The Rooflight Association, Rooflighting Best Practice Quickguide 05

Benefits of rooflights: Why you should specify and install them

From energy efficiency to improving natural light in indoor spaces, there are many benefits of specifying rooflights for flat roof projects. Light, bright interiors are naturally more attractive, and the benefits of daylight extend beyond aesthetics.

Daylight can provide significant advantages to positively impact indoor environments.

• Increased Workplace Productivity –Daylight improves concentration so that working environments, be they factories or offices with natural light, tend to achieve increased productivity.*
• Improved Concentration in Schools - Research demonstrates a clear correlation between classrooms with good natural light and improved student performance and even attendance. This is because in natural light children concentrate better so are more focused and less easily distracted. **
• Increased Retail Sales - Research into retail environments suggests that in many situations sales tend to be better in naturally lit locations; colours are more vivid and true, making goods appear attractive and encouraging customers to spend more time in these areas. A number of the UK’s leading retail organisations include large areas of rooflights in specifications for all new build projects to ensure a high percentage of evenly distributed natural light within the interior.***
• Improved Health and Wellbeing - In the UK we are used to hearing of SAD, Seasonal Affective Disorder, a clinically diagnosed condition in which the lack of sunlight in winter makes people feel ill. Natural light helps people to feel better but it can also aid the healing process. In hospitals, studies have proven that the recovery rate of patients is accelerated where levels of natural light are increased.****

*Daylighting in commercial environments

 **Daylighting in education

*** Daylighting in commercial environments

****Daylighting and health