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Maple Sunscreening: a maker of glass louvres that don’t cost the earth

When it comes to judging the environmental impact of your offices; as well as thinking about costs of heating and air conditioning, one consideration that many managers often overlook is the way that shade and sunlight are used outside the building. The environmental – and financial – impact of keeping a building hot or cool can be significant. In fact, it can be one of an organisation’s single biggest outlays. Add in the costs of protecting it from degradation caused by the elements, and it becomes clear that old-fashioned bricks and mortar, and straightforward solutions like central heating or air conditioning aren’t enough: more subtle approaches are required. Since 1983, Maple Sunscreening has offered a way of turning the elements from foe to friend, by harnessing them to your advantage.

Intelligently-placed elements like brise soleils, glass louvres and other external louvres can help you make the most out of the natural heating and cooling that the weather offers, by organising shade and sunlight intelligently. A strategically-placed glass louvre can improve airflow and rain defence simultaneously; on the other hand, an opaque external louvre on a roof can improve the rain-resistance of a building while masking unsightly rooftop plant, for a better appearance. And a brise soleil is a perfect tool for strategically creating shaded zones around the outside of your windows, to keep rooms at a desirable temperature and prevent them from baking in the sun!

Placing external louvres and other structures optimally can be a complex business, and the technical complexity of the undertaking can often seem daunting. But Maple Sunscreening have the expertise and the wherewithal to make it… a breeze!

Maple Sunscreening know that selecting, designing and installing the right external louvre or brise soleil can be highly technically demanding. But their service is organised in such a way as to provide the maximum local, personalised assistance as possible. Maple Sunscreening is divided into regional offices, and it handles its clients on a regional basis, to make sure that you are given the maximum support from start to finish. Maple Sunscreening offers a rounded package of support, with dedicated teams who can help you every step of the way, from conceiving and designing the product your building needs, to producing it in their own workshop, to installing it. An ethical company, they are dedicated to explaining every stage in the process honestly and straightforwardly – their aim is to do business while maximising the energy efficiency of buildings in the UK, not to bamboozle clients into ordering unnecessary works.Â

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External louvres help economise on air conditioning costs

In this epoch, in which the newspapers carry a new story on the prevalence of cancer almost daily, we are fully aware of the need to wear sunscreen, above all in summer between the hours of 11am and 3pm. We are less aware, meanwhile of the need to screen the buildings we live in from the sun – though there is a whole spectrum of brise soleil specially adapted to this purpose. And, while buildings are obviously not at risk from cancer, they should be causes of concern: careful upkeep of our buildings exteriors can help keep the insides running well. Energy efficiency, for example, can be greatly advanced by controlling external factors such as heat and light. A building that uses glass louvres will normally require less internal heating and use of fossil fuel. And buildings with external louvres can act simultaneously as blinds and as air vents for the intake and discharge of cool or hot air. The latter, in hot climes or seasonal temperature highs, will perform much the same function as an air conditioning system – only at a much lower long term cost.

External louvres come in many and varied styles and can even be custom-designed and fitted to suit individual buildings. This is because their fabricators are sympathetic towards the hugely divergent styles of architecture that coexist these days, but are also knowledgeable of their common requirements when it comes to climate regulation. To give an idea of what external louvres look like, it might help to imagine a heavy slatted blind or a set of narrowly overlapping sails. Given their erection outside, these sun-shading devices are always weather resistant with barely any maintenance required after their installation. This might be welcome news if the façade of your building now looks shabby or is in constant need of repainting due to weather-related cracks and peels; external louvres will protect whatever lies underneath them, behaving much like defensive shields.

Glass louvres are more clinical in appearance: think of the Louvre of the Parisian art gallery and you’ll have a good idea of their look. Clearly, some more traditionalist home and building owners will not welcome these sorts of extensions in their midst. But, given ample space such as a courtyard or green space, these louvres can truly come into their own. Brise soleil perhaps tread a middle ground: more conspicuous than external louvres they are useful in the creation of walkways between buildings, jutting out like awnings from the wall.

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Glass louvres in a whole array of different sizes, colours and styles

Buildings that are excessively hot or cold are not only uncomfortable, they can also be a risk to the environment and expensive to keep going. It is therefore important to consider how cases of overheating, or a lack of insulation might be addressed. The erection of sunscreening devices is one of several remedial options. Brise soleil, for instance, stop direct sunshine from entering buildings. An excellent alternative to air conditioning, which can leave us dried out and thirsty, brise soleil can be cut using reflective glass that at once lessens glare and increases privacy. glass louvres offer another solution that meets the demands of green policies with style; usually erected as additions to existing buildings, they can be made using bespoke coloured glass and can even be run solely on solar power. External louvres are then a third way of making buildings more energy efficient and keeping customers and employees happy on your premises.

So, if a workplace is unaired and inhospitable, any one, or a blend of the above solutions might quite quickly rebalance the temperature and air quality while also saving money and supporting eco-friendly ideas. Company directors, or leaders with a part to play in the well-being of employees have a responsibility to make offices, meeting rooms and other areas both pleasant to inhabit and conducive to work. In brief, an uncomfortable professional whose mind is caught up on keeping warm or staying cool is not going to be a happy one, nor, in all probability, will his or her work be up to scratch.

Indeed, the atmosphere of a workplace should be prized in much the same way by a respectable company as any more conventional asset would be. Therefore, if your building needs to be cooler, look into getting a brise soleil. If you need more room but want to use space efficiently and heat economically, why not invest in a glass louvre? And if you require some extra shading from the outside, external louvres can help. Quite simply, the reputation and the image of your brand is at stake every time visitors enter your building: first impressions of the business will be based not just on documentation but on the happiness of the people met and the surroundings that contribute to their outlook.

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