Cambridge's Second Generation of Solucent™ Announced

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For Immediate ReleaseContact: Nick Murosky, LarsonO'Brien ADV/PRPhone: 412-571-1600 E-mail: nick@larsonobrien.com Date: November 16, 2009 CAMBRIDGE, MD… Cambridge Architectural has further developed its popular Solucent™ energy-saving and daylighting mesh shading system to create an even more comprehensive version now available for building exteriors. Solucent, the “Whole Building Exterior Shading System,” features pre-packaged solutions for shading every side of a building. Each solution has been fully developed with both curtainwall integration and building energy modeling protocols in mind so that the system as a whole functions in accordance with the building's environment, effectively customizing the amount of light entering a space for daylighting and solar heat gain reduction needs.There are four different pre-packaged products that make up Solucent's second generation – Veils, Fins, Visors and Canopies. Each product is positioned on a building exterior in a different manner. Veils are placed parallel to the building, Fins are placed perpendicular to the building, Visors are placed perpendicular to the building above windows and Canopies provide an overhead exterior shade environment. Together, all of the products combine to provide various levels of shading and views on various building facades.Cambridge has also been working with a wide range of curtainwall manufacturers, engineers and designers to develop streamlined integration of both custom and off-the-shelf Solucent systems with building curtainwalls and other exteriors. Through this extensive analysis, the second generation of Solucent has been designed to impart the minimum amount of loading back into the curtainwall and to utilize the brackets of a wide range of curtainwall manufacturers, eliminating load issues at installation.Another key addition to Solucent is a brand new modeling protocol developed by Cambridge for energy-simulation modeling software, based on the DOE 2.2 calculation engine. Solucent offers building modelers the inputs needed to incorporate a variety of mesh shading systems into a building's design. The result is a targeted assessment of shading and solar heat gain coefficients at a range of incident angles and direct normal as well as transmittance, reflectance and absorbtance data all before any construction is underway.-# # #-

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