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Solatube® Daylighting Systems ... secure environments

Solatube® Daylighting Systems can improve natural light delivery into all types of secure buildings – from the modern newbuild to the older style of traditional prison architecture. Solatube® Daylighting Systems are a secure, but extremely effective way of introducing natural light; their relatively small aperture gives greater security than a traditional window or rooflight, but is no barrier to introducing significant levels of light owing to the active daylight harvesting at roof level and the 99.7% reflective tube material used by Solatube®. This super-reflective, proprietory tube material also means that longer tube lengths may be used to reach deeper into buildings than any traditional method or similar system. Additional security bars and dome fixing kits may be incorporated in the roof dome for added security.

Solatube Daylighting Systems pipe daylight over 20 metres into holding cells at Cardiff Bay Police Station

 

Holding cell in Cardiff Bay Police StationAngled tubes pipe daylight through the wall into this Young Offenders Institute in Leicester

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BREEAM Prisons

BRE has developed BREEAM Prisons in association with the National Offender Management Service. BREEAM Prisons can be used to assess the environmental impacts of new build and major refurbishments projects that form a part of one of the following types of prison establishments: High security prisons (normally holding category A prisoners), standard secured prisons (normally holding category B and/or C prisoners), young offender institutions, local prisons (receiving prisoners directly from court on remand or newly sentenced) and women's prisons (closed prisons only).

 

BREEAM recognises the benefits
of tubular daylighting devices which help to meet the requirements under the Health and Well-being Section HW01 and the Energy Section E01.

 

For more information please visit www.breeam.org