Skylighting
Resources
Modular Skylight Wells: Design Guidelines for Skylights with Suspended
Ceilings
 The
Design Guidelines for Skylights with Suspended Ceilings (Design Guidelines)
provides a step-by-step guide to designing skylights with suspended ceilings in
low-rise commercial buildings.
This design assistance can serve as an essential
design tool for architects, engineers and other designers, and provide valuable
information to manufacturers in the skylight and suspended ceiling industries.
The Design Guidelines form a part of the “Integrated Design of Commercial
Building Ceiling Systems” study and follows a PIER research report “Modular
Skylight Wells for Suspended Ceilings Research” that summarized the issues in
current building practices for skylit buildings with suspended ceilings.
The
Design Guidelines introduce the concept of modular skylight wells that can be
pre-manufactured, are easy to install and replicate, and can gracefully
integrate skylights with other building components. Designers can benefit from
information contained in these guidelines about the steps in the skylight design
process, implications of different design solutions, and codes and
performance-related issues. Manufacturers can benefit from market information,
nomenclature and definitions, product components’ requirements and codes and
performance metrics for product evaluation.
Did you know? -- Skylights in conjunction with suspended ceilings have a potential market
of 16.5 million square feet (sf) added each year in California and 120.8 million
square feet nation wide. In California, this 16.5 million sf of buildings with
skylights and suspended ceilings would save $3.2 million/yr in energy costs.
After ten years, the savings from 165 million sf of skylit buildings would
result in $32 million/yr of energy cost savings.
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