PROJECTS
Let the sunshine in
Bringing in natural light from outside without heat gain can be a
complicated affair, however a mall in Klerksdorp sought to do it
and achieved that balance.
By Ntsako Khosa
Installation of the roofing sheets turned out not to be as simple as expected.
M
atlosana Mall in North West
Province was designed with
natural daylight in mind, this
means that areas within the building must
incorporate large skylight roof sections.
“Along with the increase of natural light
flooding into the mail, came the usual
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problem of unwanted heat gain. In a bid to
limit the influx of infra-red (IR) and near
infra-red heat energy, the design team
sought out the use of a solar reflective
multiwall roofing panel system,” says
Dayne Scrowther, architectural solutions
consultant at Danpal.
Contracted from 2017, Danpal found the
roofing in the mall was in trouble. “Their
relatively new skylight roof appeared to be
failing in every performance metric
imaginable. Most notably was the amount
of uncontrolled heat gain, afflicting the
mall,” he says. He mentions that, the