Choosedaylight.com, a new, free online tool developed by Kingspan Light + Air, a leading provider of daylighting products, to help architects and designers find the right custom daylighting system for their next project.

Kingspan Light + Air North America will exhibit June 22 - 25, at McCormick Place in Chicago, at the 2022 AIA Expo. KLA has made several high-profile acquisitions in recent years, including Solatube International, Major Industries, Bristolite and CPI Daylighting, all of whose products will be represented at the AIA Expo.

The upshot has been a new focus on hybrid work, as well as renewed interest in workplace design. “Resmercial” settings that are homelike and comfortable help to maximize the social benefits of in-person work while easing the adjustment back to the office.

Colleges and universities today are looking for sustainable facilities, and a number of them choose to participate in the LEED process to obtain a measurable level of sustainability.  

EIA’s most recent data reports that energy-efficient, multi-paned windows are featured in 60 percent of U.S. buildings, which account for 75 percent of commercial floorspace. This presents a significant opportunity to improve existing buildings and to construct new buildings with energy-efficient daylight openings, including polycarbonate glazing and wall systems.

The new Veterans Affairs (VA) Community Based Outpatient Clinic in San Antonio, Texas, offers patients, medical professionals, staff and visitors an environment promoting health, life-safety and well-being. Representing these principles, Hoefer Wysocki Architecture designed the building's main entry with sweeping curved exterior as a "healing embrace."

The challenge for architects is to achieve the optimal daylighting conditions throughout the schools they design.

The University of California, Irvine’s new Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building was designed with three major performance and aesthetic goals in mind: natural lighting, energy efficiency and sustainable design.

Architects selected three-dimensional, privacy-friendly Lamberts channel glass from Bendheim to complement the geometric façade of a new school for special needs students in New York City.

With an artistic blend of blue- and gray-tinted glass, Five City Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania, features a striking façade and daylit interiors.