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Instantly STOP the sun's heat entering your rooms.

KoolShade® is the perfect fit for roof lanterns and skylights.




 


Let's face it, a room with a lantern roof is a thing of beauty. Allowing light to flood in and making a connection to the ouside. BUT, with Global temperatures rising fast Roof Lanterns are allowing in too much heat and glare, becoming huge radiators. KoolShade® will STOP the heat and glare of the sun reaching the glass .

Added benefits include:
  • Natural Daylight
  • Full Vision Out
  • Maintenance Free
  • Allows Ventilation
  • Easy To Install
 

Let's face it, a room with a lantern roof is a thing of beauty. Allowing light to flood in and making a connection to the outside.

Testing has shown that, similar to being vertical, dependent on the time of day, solar shading was still provided when using Microlouvre KoolShade®. A key finding from this study found that despite the angling of the screen, solar heat gain was consistently reduced. This can be seen in the diagram above. A kitchen in Centennial Park Sydney was designed to have a glass open ceiling to allow natural lighting and solar heating to create a more organic environment and reduce their need for electrical appliances. However due to the size of the opening the room was susceptible to overheating and glare. Due to the window housing numerous shapes of glass panels, it was hard to find an adequate product which was versatile enough to cover the entirety of the opening.

BUT, with Global temperatures rising fast Roof Lanterns are allowing in too much heat and glare, becoming huge radiators.

Microlouvre KoolShade® will STOP the heat and glare of the sun reaching the glass. When the sun is directly above your roof lantern, 100% shading is achieved through both sides. The sun moves constantly. As it does, the efficiency of the shading changes.

As the sun slowly moves the angled louvres maintain a high degree of shading. It doesn't allow the hot solar radiation through and removes the sun's glare. Natural daylight can benefit human beings in many ways, not least of all it promotes the production of serotonin. As the day progresses, the intensity of the sun drops. The strength of solar shading needed changes during the day. The need for natural daylight and ventilation remains constant. Microlouvre KoolShade® allows perfect vision out and an unrestricted flow of fresh air with a Clear Open Area of 80%. But still allows light and ventilation to pass through as normal. This keeps rooms well lit and comfortably cool.

This enables:

  • Balanced daylighting
  • Glare control
  • No upward light pollution
  • Energy conservation

One half of the roof lantern has 100% solar heat block. The other side will start at 100% and slowly decrease over the day, and as the sun's heat weakens. At 40%, it is still twice as effective as any internal blind.

Why MicroLouvre Koolshade®?

An exceptional range of sustainable green credentials and fire protection

Made in Britain - Delivered Globally

Our fabrics are all made in the UK to reduce shipping emissions.

100% recyclable

MicroLouvre Koolshade® metal fabrics and frames are 100% recyclable and are proven to last over 60 years.

90% recycled

The metal fabrics are made from over 90% recycled scrap copper.

How it works

How does MicroLouvre Koolshade® work?

MicroLouvre Koolshade® invisibly neutralises solar heat gain and glare before they even reach the window. MicroLouvre Koolshade® uniquely works non-stop providing dynamic value (heat blocking) performance to continually dissipate the sun’s heat and energy into the atmosphere but not blocking vision out, natural daylight or natural ventilation; solar shading using our products is efficient and effective.

Certified in efficiency and efficacy

Building Research Establishment (BRE) wind tunnel tested MicroLouvre Koolshade® screens from different angles and proved it to be indestructible at winds exceeding 100mph/160 kph/46 metres per second.

The Berkeley Lab included MicroLouvre Koolshade® in a major research project for PG&E. With MicroLouvre Koolshade®, daily cooling loads were reduced by 68% on sunny days when compared with dual pane, high performance solar control glass with an internal blind.

The IFC Group have confirmed MicroLouvre Koolshade® to be A1/A2-s1,d0 : BS EN 13501 Fire Rating, making it one of very few passive and dynamic external sun and solar heat gain blocking systems compliant for use on high rise buildings.

When tested at Fraunhofer, results confirmed MicroLouvre Koolshade® as the most comprehensive solution for Thermal and Visual Comfort in one system.

Smartlouvre Technology Limited is an ISO: 9001 2015 Accredited Quality Management company.

MicroLouvre Koolshade® has been extensively modelled using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in SimScale.

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