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    Rooflights are installed in large buildings like factories to provide natural lighting where it is inadequate. They can be flush with sloping roofs or have an upstand on flat roofs. Rooflights admit natural daylight to save on electricity while minimizing direct sunlight and views of the sky. Their area must be chosen to allow adequate daylight without excess heat. Functional requirements include strength, weather resistance, durability with little maintenance, and fire safety. Glass provides benefits like beauty, openness, and insulation but has disadvantages of higher costs, security concerns, and unsuitability for earthquake or desert areas.

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    Rooflights are installed in large buildings like factories to provide natural lighting where it is inadequate. They can be flush with sloping roofs or have an upstand on flat roofs. Rooflights admit natural daylight to save on electricity while minimizing direct sunlight and views of the sky. Their area must be chosen to allow adequate daylight without excess heat. Functional requirements include strength, weather resistance, durability with little maintenance, and fire safety. Glass provides benefits like beauty, openness, and insulation but has disadvantages of higher costs, security concerns, and unsuitability for earthquake or desert areas.

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    Rooflights are installed in large buildings like factories to provide natural lighting where it is inadequate. They can be flush with sloping roofs or have an upstand on flat roofs. Rooflights admit natural daylight to save on electricity while minimizing direct sunlight and views of the sky. Their area must be chosen to allow adequate daylight without excess heat. Functional requirements include strength, weather resistance, durability with little maintenance, and fire safety. Glass provides benefits like beauty, openness, and insulation but has disadvantages of higher costs, security concerns, and unsuitability for earthquake or desert areas.

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    ROOFLIGHT

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    Siti Nadra Embok Patak
    Rooflights are installed in large buildings like factories to provide natural lighting where it is inadequate. They can be flush with sloping roofs or have an upstand on flat roofs. Rooflights admit natural daylight to save on electricity while minimizing direct sunlight and views of the sky. Their area must be chosen to allow adequate daylight without excess heat. Functional requirements include strength, weather resistance, durability with little maintenance, and fire safety. Glass provides benefits like beauty, openness, and insulation but has disadvantages of higher costs, security concerns, and unsuitability for earthquake or desert areas.

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    Roof light

    Large building such as factories


    must have rooflight to compensate
    inadequate natural lighting

    Rooflight are installed in the


    following way

    1)Flush with sloping roof

    2)With upstand on pitch or flat roof


    Main function of rooflight

    To admit natural daylight into large single


    storey building such as factories ,
    godowns, hypermarket and etc.

    For electricity saving

    Rooflight peneration of adequate daylight


    with the characteristic :
    1)Minimum diversity
    2)No excessive direct view of the sky
    3)No peneration of direct sunlight
    The choice of area of rooflight must
    be made properly so that adeuate
    amount of daylight is allowed without
    compromising heat absorption .

    The ratio area to floor area is:-

    1) 1:6 for pitch roof


    2)1:3 for upstand rooflights
    Rooflight must have adequate area and
    well – spaced out :-

    1)To ensure uniformity of day lighting on


    work surface

    2)To avoid excessive solar heat gain

    3)To reduce glare

    4)To avoid peneration of direct sunlight


    Functional Requirement
    a)Strength ang stability

    b)Resistance to weather

    c)Durability and freedom from


    maintence

    d)Fire safety
    a)Strength ang stability
    >Most common used material are glass or transparent
    plastic.

    >Must have adequate suppport to ensure it is strong


    enough as part of roof covering .

    b)Resistance to weather
    >Usage of non ferrous flashings or plastic capping and
    gashet that fit over glass thus preventing the peneratration
    of rain and wind.

    >Provide adequate side lap and end lap for profiled plastic
    sheets and sealsed with suitable sealed
    c)Durability and freedom from
    maintence
    >Glass would require o ccasional cleaning.
    >Plastic stained easily suffer from dis colouration
    and would brittle after same time.

    d)Fire safety
    >Must be able to limit internal and external fire
    spread.
    >Those material must very strong to protect the
    occupant from fire.
    The Advantage and Disadvantages
    of using glass as a material for
    Rooflight.
    Advantages Disadvantages
    Add beauty to the building. Costly material
    *the quality that gives pleasure *it may increase the
    to the mind or senses and is budgeted cost of
    associated with such property as construction work.
    harmony of form or colour and
    design.
    Sense of openess Enhance cost of
    &harmonious security
    *its use fulfills the architectural *its means glass a very
    view for external decoration expensive, so the
    maintenance also will
    high
    Advantages Disadvantages
    Good interior design Hilly area and dessert
    *As toughened glass is area may rise the cost of
    available,one can have good maintence.
    interior design with the use
    of glass in transparent
    staircase ,coloured shelves.

    Excellent material for Unsafe for earthquake


    thermal insulation ,water proven area.
    proofing and energy *that means, when occurs
    conservation . earthquake easily to cracks
    Advantages Disadvantages
    It is bad conductor of
    heat , it save energy in
    air conditioning of
    building .

    Making glass partition


    on upper floors ,no extra
    design is required for
    slab as glass is light in
    weight .

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