Challenge: The Equity Trust Company had outgrown its previous offices and decided to consolidate its operations by completely renovating a five-story, former medical office space in Westlake, Ohio. The major challenge was to open up the five-story atrium and bathe the office spaces with as much natural daylight as possible, which had been blocked for… Read more »
Case Studies: Commercial Skylight Installations
Horizon S-Series and V-Series Translucent Polycarbonate Systems
Challenge: The Cassandra Voss Center was built in 2013 to honor Cassandra J. Voss, whose life was cut tragically short in 2007. She was on track to be the first St. Norbert student to complete an individualized major in women’s and gender studies. The center is a vibrant and collaborative learning environment for the study… Read more »
Horizon S-Series Pinnacle 350 Double Pitch Skylights
Challenge: The project location was an active hotel in the very crowded and congested Union Square area of San Francisco, with no available street parking. Work hours were restricted due to the fact that the hotel was fully operational at the time. To further complicate matters, there was no access to the roof and all… Read more »
Pinnacle 600 Double Pitch with Translucent Insulated Glass
Challenge: As part of a school district’s effort to refurbish and refresh their many instructional buildings, it was determined that portions of the roof at the Jamesville-DeWitt High School in Upstate New York needed to be replaced, including the skylight over the Media Center. Since the space already contained a metal framed skylight central to… Read more »
EcoSky3 Unit Skylights – City of Vallejo, CA Library/Fire Station
Challenge: As part of city of Vallejo’s effort to refurbish and repair the Springstowne Library / Fire Station roof, it was determined that the roof needed to be replaced and brought up to Title 24 specifications. The project also included cutting out the existing metal counter flashing, then removing and replacing the ten skylights over… Read more »
Continuous Vault System with UV Blocking Acrylic
Challenge: The Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute’s Museum of Art was originally designed by world-renown architect Philip Johnson, one of the co-designers of the Seagrams building in New York city, once described by the New York Times as “the millennium’s most important building.” It was a ground-breaking design and the template for today’s modern skyscrapers, using an… Read more »
Acrylic Domed Units with Lumira® Filled Laylites
Challenge: To supply sufficient diffused natural light to key sections of a 50,000 square foot supermarket while significantly reducing energy cost. Solution: From the start, architect Rick Ames of Boston-based Next Phase Studios envisioned the newly opened Augusta Hannaford store, the first LEED® Platinum supermarket in the U.S., as a day lit and low energy… Read more »
Fore Solutions Using Wasco skylights
Gunnar Hubbard, AIA, LEED® Faculty, founded Fore Solutions in 2003. As a licensed architect, he has designed and built projects on both coasts of the U.S. and, as a green building consultant, has worked on green projects across the country and abroad. His goal is to provide forward thinking solutions for designers and owners in… Read more »
Continuous Vault Skylights
Challenge: To create an exemplary new high performance 73,000 SF learning environment using the USGBC LEED-NC rating system to guide and evaluate the project. Solution: Architect, Stephen Blatt and Daylighting Consultant, Gunnar Hubbard decided to use a system of skylights to integrate daylight into the learning environment. In the main lobby they chose Wasco’s Double… Read more »
Barrel Vault skylights – Congin Elementary School
Challenge: To increase daylighting, reduce energy consumption and create an enhanced and more efficient learning environment for the 300+ K-5 students who attend the Congin School in Westbrook, Maine. In 2004 this 42,600 SF building underwent a $4.2 million renovation that altered the school’s open concept floor plan and created a series of separate classrooms… Read more »