If you’ve been commissioned to produce tender designs or design development for a new building project, it’s well worth considering brise soleil benefits and architectural louvre screening systems as a vital tool in your Armoury. Whilst the practical benefits of louvres and brise soleil have made them common place on many commercial buildings, there is a largely overlooked and untapped potential to utilise these systems as completely bespoke, full façade features that can enhance any building and make it a landmark of its surroundings.
Alongside aesthetics, brise soleil and louvre screening systems provide a wide range of practical advantages both during construction and post project completion, all of which can be emphasized in your client proposal.
Our 7 Brise Soleil benefits
1. Superior comfort for occupants
Brise Soleil systems can prevent glare and overheating during the summer months, which minimise the need for internal blinds and air conditioning systems. This is especially important in commercial premises, where employees are expected to perform at a high level all year round. These unnecessary distractions can affect staff morale and consequently productivity. Employers will get the best out of their staff whatever the weather, and you’ll get a completed project that is a stand out of the industry.
2. Wide choice
As its popularity increases, brise soleil has become an umbrella term for a huge variety of shading structures, manufactured from numerous materials, fin profiles, blade arrangements and configurations, including manually and electrically operable systems. The modern system is all about customisation, tweaking every element to provide the best possible solution to your client’s specification.
3. Cost-effective Brise Soleil
Not only is the initial outlay cost-effective when compared with other façade screening or cladding systems but brise soleil and louvre systems can provide a long term saving in running costs. A building that is equipped with brise soleil will be less severely affected by solar heat gain in the summer whilst retaining precious heat and sunlight during the colder months, meaning the end user will save money on air conditioning and heating costs. This is a great way to promote the affordability of your project, and should result in satisfied customers.
4. Protects equipment
Solar shading is very effective at maintaining the life of furniture, upholstery and other items that are sensitive to sun damage. This can result in considerable savings for businesses during the life of the solar shading system, a benefit that is certain to be a huge plus for any company.
5. Protects staff
As any employer knows, the glare of strong sunlight can have a detrimental effect on the productivity of workers. With a solar shading system, the people inside the building can enjoy the benefits of an unfiltered view of the outside without any distracting glare.
6. Environmentally friendly
Brise Soleil is an eco-friendly addition to any building. Its shading effects mean that energy reserves are protected and the inhabitants are responsible for fewer carbon emissions.
Whilst louvre systems are specified for a number of purposes, their primary function is to provide a ventilated screen to plant machinery or duct work. In some instances this is sufficient to remove the need for any further mechanical cooling systems and the energy requirements that come with them.
7. Eliminates the need for curtains or blinds
In a commercial building, curtains and blinds can be costly and in some cases unsightly. There is the expense of buying them in the first place, then added costs when it comes to cleaning and maintenance. The design potential for a brise soleil system is much greater and requires minimal maintenance as a finished product.
