Architects, specifiers and designers are increasingly being asked to search for products, which not only meet Australia’s green building regulations, but that are aesthetically pleasing. Helping architects achieve these goals are national daylighting solutions experts, Solatube .

To meet strict energy conservation design requirements, Designers of the Beijing Olympic Science and Technology Gymnasium used 148 Solatube Daylighting Systems.

“Compared with traditional lighting systems, Solatube Daylighting Systems have a unique advantage with better progressed view and a wide application field,” said Weimin Zhuang, Architect Dean, Architecture Design Institute of Qinghua University. “They reduced power usage and exceeded our environmental design goals.”

Solatube’s Designer Sample Purchase Programme enables practicing designers to experience the company’s new daylighting solutions in their own home or office at a reduced rate.

In conjunction with the Designer Sample Purchase programme, Solatube are offering free online courses that teach architects and designers about the benefits of using Tubular Daylighting Devices (TDDs) in their projects and how they can use certain tools to calculate the levels of natural light produced.

Designers can also easily access and download spacing criteria, photometric data, BIM (Building Information Modelling) files and even installation instructions from Solatube’s dedicated web section.

Communications Manager for Solatube, Sibylle Gibson, said Solatube have invested time and money into making their products architect friendly.

The aim of the programme is to help interior and exterior designers, architects and specifiers, and make it simple and cost-effective for them to meet energy efficient requirements using this advanced technology in natural lighting.

Solatube provide comprehensive developmental tools and resources for designers and architects, and work with them to create environmentally effective commercial and residential homes.