A window films specialist has improved the performance of one of the region's most prominent commercial buildings.
Newcastle-based glazing film installer FilmShield UK has applied 2,400 sq metres of high performance solar security film to the interior of the sealed units that make up the glass façade of the Northern Rock's Solar House complex at Doxford International Business Park in Sunderland.
Built in the late 1990s as the country's first speculatively constructed office building to incorporate integrated photo-voltaic cells, Solar House now operates as a customer services centre employing 450 people.
The external surface of the glazed units incorporate thousands of solar energy absorbing tiles that act as individual solar panels, absorbing solar energy and converting it into electricity for the building.
However, whilst effective in converting solar energy to electricity, the building's 66m south-facing façade caused considerable problems with internal conditions through a significant build-up of absorbed solar heat and high levels of visible glare.
In collaboration with the building's architects, FilmShield's solution to these problems was to install a high performance solar control window film to the internal surface of the glazed units.
Tony Sackwood, sales director of FilmShield, said: "The glazing film applied has unique low solar absorption characteristics and high heat rejection properties - enabling the film to transform the building's internal environment, while allowing the external photovoltaic cells to operate normally." FilmShield's installation team completed the job with the minimum disruption to the building's customer services operations.
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