WHITESALES has supplied 14 Solus Monopitch rooflights and four Solus smoke hatches for a new Additional Support Needs (ASN) school in East Dunbartonshire.
Architects NORR Group designed Woodland View School to provide an enhanced educational experience for 200 children and young people aged 3-18. Acknowledging the benefits of daylight to pupils’ learning and wellbeing, the firm wanted to use rooflights as well as fenestration to create ‘flexible, light-filled spaces’.
With some of the rooflights spanning 15m, the challenge for Whitesales was to design and supply ‘durable, cost effective and energy efficient’ rooflights and deliver a ‘smooth, hassle-free installation’.
The team worked with main contractor McLaughlin & Harvey on the design and specification. Ranging in length from 4,000mm to 15,000mm, the 14 Solus Monopitch rooflights have been sited above the many breakout learning spaces and extra wide corridors in the school, bringing daylight into the heart of the building.
Whitesales explained the lights help to meet the requirements of BS EN17037 2018, which focuses on the physical and mental health benefits of daylight, as well as energy savings that can come from minimising the requirement for artificial light.
The business manufactured and installed the rooflights and smoke hatches in three phases as the build progressed, utilising a crane for the final installs to minimise time and disruption on site. They were all fitted on upstands constructed on site by the contractors and comply with BS EN6375, BS EN1026 and BS EN1027 to withstand the toughest Scottish weather conditions.
