Structure

Is your home too hot? Spending too much on air conditioning? Here are 9 simple tips to help you keep your home cooler when...

House too cold? Wish your home would stay warm longer when you use a heater? Read our tips on how to improve the heating...

Light shelves work on a fairly basic principle. A shelf is installed outside of a window, which reflects additional light back into a room....

These small windows are usually placed above doors, and often allow both improved lighting and ventilation.   Transoms and fanlights are as decorative as they are...

Traditionally narrow bands of windows across the tops of buildings, but now seems to include any 'higher-than-average' window. Clerestory windows allow daylight in without compromising...

This traditional daylighting method is mostly used in industrial buildings, but is now making a comeback in homes. Sawtooth roofs are making a resurgence in...

Skylights generally allow much more light into a room than windows do, thanks to their access to direct sunlight.   A decent skylight offers a...

The most common and essential form of daylighting in almost all homes, windows play a very big part in lighting design.   According to the Building...

Tilt and turn windows pen inwards in two actions – they turn like a casement window and tilt like a hopper window.       Tilt and turn...

Great energy efficiency Structurally strong Limited options Can be expensive   Fibreglass windows   Fibreglass windows are made of glass-fibre-reinforced polyester or other fibreglass composites. As a result of their strength...