Transform Your Workspace with Solar Film on Your Commercial Buildings
Installing solar film in your commercial building is a cost-effective and environmentally friendly way to transform your workspace. Let’s take a closer look at just what solar film is and how it can create incredible results like this.
Everything to Know About Solar Window Film
A solar window film or window tint is a thin sheet of specially treated material applied to windows. This special film will reduce the amount of infrared and ultraviolet radiation from the sun while still allowing light in.
How It Works
Solar window film typically works through one of two principles: absorption or reflection. As light passes through the film into the window, invisible microscopic architecture lets visible light through while affecting invisible radiation.
Depending on the material in question, it either harmlessly absorbs this radiation or deflects it back into the outside space. Certain brands, such as 3M, have proprietary technology that allows them to both reflect and absorb while allowing light in.
With both methods, the result is the same: infrared and ultraviolet radiation is largely reduced without impacting the room’s visible light.
Benefits of Solar Control Window Film
What are the benefits of solar control window film for your workspace? Practically speaking, there are three principal benefits to solar film: glare reduction, UV blocking, and temperature control. Each provides unique positive impacts to workspaces and commercial buildings, including energy savings and employee satisfaction.
Glare Reduction
Glare can be a major distraction affecting productivity and overall worker morale. This is especially true if your workspace’s windows cast light directly on your monitor or another regularly viewed screen.
Solar films can reduce the amount of glare, some of which promise as much as a 99% reduction to it. Ultimately, this will make many workplace activities like reading or writing that much easier. It will also likely improve productivity and employee satisfaction.
UV Blocking
Invisible ultraviolet radiation carries itself alongside visible rays of sunlight. While invisible to the naked eye, this radiation affects the human body. UVA exposure is one of the leading causes of cataracts and premature skin aging and damage. Even if you’re not directly exposed, they can go through glass and bounce off of objects to impact you directly.
And this isn’t just a concern for people. Regular sun exposure can age or weather posters, furniture, and other office equipment. So, by reducing the amount of UV radiation entering your workspace, you’ll better protect your space as a whole.
Temperature Control
The other radiation bandwidth solar film blocks is infrared radiation, which we often perceive as heat. With an untreated window, infrared and ultraviolet radiation will enter the room alongside the visible sunlight. This has the effect of further heating the space.
By installing solar film in your workspace, you can help mitigate one of the highest costs of your workspace. Reducing the amount of infrared radiation coming alongside summer sunlight will reduce the heat it brings with it. This will keep it cooler and ease the strain on air conditioning to maintain that temperature.
Windows also offers a challenge for insulation in colder months. Luckily, solar film can help with this problem as well. Some window treatments (like 3M’s Low-E films) also help reflect heat into the room while reflecting away outside heat. This will make it easier to keep spaces warm in the winter and likewise cut down on energy costs.
Solar Film for Windows from Commercial Films Solutions
Commercial Films Solution has been serving the Colorado area for over 18 years. They’re an industry leader in window tinting and specializing in commercial applications, so your business is in safe hands. Contact Commercial Film Solutions today for more information and a free same-day estimate!