Louver Windows – It’s Time You Bring Style And Class To The Office
Looking for a green solution to managing the heating and cooling of your building while doing your part to utilize natural methods that are environmentally friendly? Wooden louvers are a sleek and classy way to manage structural heat while reducing the dependency a building has on air-conditioned cooling systems. The benefits of a louver system are varied and encompassing.
The obvious and immediate benefits of wooden louvers are their incredible cooling power. By providing a subtle and natural source of heat regulation, louvers can drastically reduce indoor heating by reflecting and absorbing incoming sunlight. The effect is much like that of sitting under a shade tree.
Wooden louvers reduce the overall dependence of a building on electric lighting and cooling while still allowing for ample natural lighting. By effectively using wooden louvers for daylighting and natural cooling you can save extensively in monthly bills for cooling and lighting.
Providing services and utility all year, wooden louvers can even be used during the winter. In their closed position, louvers can actually help insulate a building to maintain interior heating. By minimizing buffering cold winds, louvers can increase thermal performance and reduce the cost of heating during the cold winter months.
For these kinds of louvers, Cypress wood is largely preferred for its many benefits and unique characteristics. Exceptionally easy to work with, Cypress is a dependable material that takes well to finishes and looks fantastic. Having a natural beauty and allure that is unmatched and unique only to Cypress, this material resists warping and is extremely durable. Serving as a fantastic alternative to IPE louvers, Cypress tends to be a lightweight but sturdy material.
Offered in a wide array of shapes and sizes, these stylish and aesthetically pleasing wooden louvers can be customized to meet the particular tastes of any client, company or architect. In fact, many architects value wooden louvers for their Marquee appearance. Cypress louvers take finishes very well and look fantastic.
The aesthetic quality of an office is an important factor in the daily productivity and work of your employees. When employees and clients are in a well-lit office with a smart design and comfortable atmosphere they will respond favorably and you’ll begin to immediately notice the difference.
The cost effective nature of exterior louvers and the extensive benefits they can provide for structural heat management makes them a solid investment. The US Green Building Council supports and celebrates the benefits of natural heating and cooling solutions such as wooden louvers. One of Twelve LEED Credit Points are available for optimizing “Indoor Environmental Quality” when using sun control devices like louver. With benefits like these, there’s no reason not to take a look at what louvers can do for you.
Filed under General by on Jul 26th, 2010. 