The Role of Rooflights in Sustainable Architecture

Sustainable architecture is driven by the principles of energy efficiency, waste reduction, water conservation, the use of eco-friendly materials and optimising natural light. Rooflights play a key role in enabling the last of those principles, but that's not the only way they can make a home more sustainable. In this post, we'll look at some of the ways rooflights contribute to sustainable architecture.

How Rooflights Complement Sustainable Architecture

Below are just some of the ways rooflights complement sustainable architecture.

By boosting energy efficiency

This is perhaps the most obvious way rooflights complement sustainable architecture. By allowing natural light to flood into the space below rooflights, you reduce dependence on electric lighting. Rooflights that open also significantly improve ventilation in a home, to the point where you can keep the air conditioner off for stretches of time during the summer months, saving even more on your energy bills.

By supporting passive design

Passive design is one of the foundational principles of sustainable architecture. Rooflights enable passive design strategies such as reducing the dependence on electric lighting, harnessing sunlight for passive heating during the winter, and promoting house-wide ventilation during the summer that, as we mentioned above, will enable you to keep the air conditioner off.

By improving the indoor environment

Due to its northern location darkness descends on the UK during the winter months. This can and does create dingy interiors that have a negative effect on millions of people's emotional health. Rooflights allow for natural light to penetrate the interior of your home all day long, brightening it up to a significant degree and making it a more agreeable place where people's moods don't suffer.

By helping to make the world cleaner and more sustainable

A downstream effect of homes installing rooflights is that the power stations that generate the electricity used for home lighting do not have to work as hard and therefore burn fewer fossil fuels. As power plants burn fewer fossil fuels they also produce less harmful emissions and CO2. Two more environmentally important benefits. 

Get in Touch With Rooflights Roof Lanterns

Even if your home was not designed with sustainable architecture in mind you can modify it in ways that will make it more environmentally-friendly. Installing rooflights is one of the best and most cost-effective ways to make your home more sustainable while also making it more beautiful, liveable and valuable. To learn more call Rooflights Roof Lanterns on 020 8087 2004.

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