The paragraph below is found in the article written by Christopher Anderson (See the link below)

I’ll likely recommend a skylight retrofit project that may increase sales, reduce energy spend, and cut emissions.  Natural light is free and has long been known to be the best form of light available.  Numerous studies have shown improvements in employee morale, productivity, and even increased retail sales, all attributable to natural light.  Though either initially not considered or deemed not viable, I've changed some minds through my even conservative analysis.  If skylights were retrofitted at a third of Ahold USA stores, we'd likely save more than 13,000 metric tons of CO2 per year with a five year net present value nearing $30 million.

We received another call today from a hospital that had Kalwall installed when it was built and are now having a bad smell near the skylights. This is caused by water penetrating through the gasket seals and/or directly through the fiberglass itself which then sits inside the panels and putrefies.

This is exactly what happened in 2008 at a North Carolina building owned by Duke Energy. We had to remove three old skylights and install new polycarbonate skylights while the building was still occupied.

Contact us for more information if you have the same situation.

The Skylight

You were the one for skylights. I opposed
Cutting into the seasoned tongue-and-groove
Of pitch pine. I liked it low and closed,
Its claustrophobic, nest-up-in-the-roof
Effect. I liked the snuff-dry feeling,
The perfect, trunk-lid fit of the old ceiling.
Under there, it was all hutch and hatch.
The blue slates kept the heat like midnight thatch.

But when the slates came off, extravagant
Sky entered and held surprise wide open.
For days I felt like an inhabitant
Of that house where the man sick of the palsy
Was lowered through the roof, had his sins forgiven,
Was healed, took up his bed and walked away.

While on a family vacation, I received this email from one of my employees:

Marjorie Bruce (job 1335) called Trisha to say that our rep (Dave) just took off her old skylights and left without installing the new ones. “Now I’ve got two empty holes and a storm is on its way”.  Trisha give her Dave’s cell number and she leaves him a message in a panic asking him to hurry back with her new ones.  Dave calls me stating that he did indeed replace them with FCMs at 10 a.m. this morning.  I call the customer and she repeats that there is nothing up there.  After a quick ‘broom stick’ test, she thanked us for her new “amazingly invisible” skylights. 

Here is an interesting article about foot bridges and the belief that they do more than get you across and obstruction.

We provide aluminum structures and polycarbonate skins to enclose these type of structures.

This project has an exterior CPI polycarbonate skin.