Roofglaze News

Sep 2009

Roofglaze Nanogel® - the new breed of 'super rooflights'

Roofglaze Limited has introduced a new range of rooflights featuring Nanogel – a free-flowing translucent granular material comprising hydrophobic silica-based particles. This is placed in the cavities within polycarbonate multiwall glazing, to provide major performance gains over conventional rooflights in a number of key areas.

Thermal insulation is greatly improved, with U values of 1.31 W/m2K for 16mm glazing and only 0.89 W/m2K for 25mm glazing – providing outstanding energy efficiency, making Part L compliance easier than ever.

Roofglaze Nanogel® rooflights offer excellent light transmission and diffusion characteristics, providing  well-lit high quality internal environments without ‘hot spots’ or defined shadows.

Acoustic insulation is greatly improved too, with a 50% reduction at 1,000 Hz.

The extremely low weight of Roofglaze Nanogel® glazing allows a high degree of application freedom, with rooflights weighing in at approximately 10% to 15% of the weight of thermally equivalent glass alternatives.

The first Roofglaze Nanogel® rooflights have already been successfully installed on a variety of applications, including schools, commercial buildings and supermarkets.

Daylight Diary

May 2012


Recently completed projects this month, include a hip ended glass ridgelight at the Claremont High School in Harrow; another ridgelight at the Broadway Hotel in the Cotswolds, this time utilising the excellent Lonsdale glazing system; and a large glass pyramid at the Bicester Village retail outlet in Oxfordshire.

Our Flatglaze flat glass rooflights are keeping us busy with orders for domestic and commercial applications all over the country. Look out for some exciting new developments in the Flatglaze range over the coming months.

As members of NARM, the National Association of Rooflight Manufacturers, we uphold the highest standards and our products are fully compliant with The Building Regulations. You can find out more about why it pays to specify products from NARM members in our recently published NARM member leaflet.

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Richard Cliffe
Director