The U.S. market penetration of automated window shading has been stuck at ~5% for the past few decades (that’s our own estimate, but it’s consistent with most estimates in the open literature). Regardless of how…
Smart shading products and systems don’t just differ in the type of shading device they use, but also in how “smart” they are. There are five levels of shading automation, each providing different benefits: Remote-Controlled…
Numerous studies have found that manually-operated window coverings are typically adjusted only rarely, with an average adjustment frequency of less than once per day. The implication is that most people don’t adjust window coverings to…
Responsive daylight control, sometimes called dynamic daylight control, is the capability to automatically adjust window shading to maintain a desired level of admitted daylight. This is arguably the most valuable of the five levels of…
Automated window shading represents a huge market opportunity that’s still mostly untapped. However, after decades of being stuck at less than a few percent of the overall window coverings market, automated shading products are finally…
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) includes new and revised tax incentives for clean energy projects. The bulk of the incentives are earmarked for clean energy generation and storage technologies, but some (thankfully) also…
Before COVID-19, commercial office buildings were seen as a prime opportunity for reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions via energy-efficiency retrofits. Not only do office buildings account for a substantial fraction of total greenhouse gas emissions,…
Pretty much anything that can be researched has been researched, and the usage of manually operated window coverings is no exception. This topic first took off after the 1973 energy crisis, and was initially aimed…
Twenty years ago, daylighting was regarded as one of the most promising avenues to reduce energy consumption in office buildings—but it never took off. Now, with highly efficient LED lighting taking office buildings by storm,…