Daylighting & Skylights

The Advantages of Daylighting Products

The largest benefit from integrating skylights into your roof is the energy savings they create. On average, approximately 40% of a building's energy is used by interior lighting fixtures, this is where skylights can significantly decrease your monthly utility bills. A reduction in energy usage also translates to an increase in environmental sustainability for your building. Daylights will significantly reduce your facilitiy's carbon footprint.

See the Energy Savings with SkyCalc™

See the impact on your energy bill before installing daylighting. Burns & Scalo Roofing Specialists are able to create a comprehensive report using SkyCalc™ - an advanced software tool designed to help building owners determine the optimum daylighting strategy.

The software produces a number of tangible graphics including a photometric footprint of the space to be daylit and a table demonstrating the energy savings to be captured by allowing natural daylight to replace the electric lighting in the daylit area.

Click Here to See a Sample SkyCalc™ Report

Additional Benefits Created from Daylighting

There have also been several research studies that shown that daylighting can have a positive impact on human behavior. They can increase sales in a retail facility, enhance employee productivity, and increase student performance in an educational setting.

Advanced Daylighting

Burns & Scalo also offers a suite of unique daylighting products. Ciralight's SunTracker™ Skylights use a state-of-the-art Solar-Powered GPS Controller to track the sun all day. The sunlight is then reflected by a Mirror Array, transmitted down a highly reflective Lightwell, and into the building interior through a prismatic Diffusion Lens below the ceiling to effectively distribute daylight all throughout the space.