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2. Flashing (weatherproofing) - Wikipedia

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   In earlier days, birch bark was occasionally used as a flashing material. [7] Most flashing materials today are metal, plastic, rubber, or impregnated paper. [8]Metal flashing materials include lead, aluminium, copper, [1] stainless steel, zinc alloy, other architectural metals or a metal with a coating such as galvanized steel, lead-coated copper, anodized aluminium, terne-coated copper ...

3. Daylighting (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   A roof lantern is a daylighting cupola that sits above a roof, as opposed to a skylight which is fitted into a roof's construction. Roof lanterns serve as both an architectural feature and a method of introducing natural light into a space, and are typically wooden or metal structures with a number of glazed glass panels.

4. Passive solar building design - Wikipedia

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   "Sawtooth roof glazing" with vertical-glass-only can bring some of the passive solar building design benefits into the core of a commercial or industrial building, without the need for any roof-angled glass or skylights. Skylights provide daylight. The only view they provide is essentially straight up in most applications.

5. Building-integrated photovoltaics - Wikipedia

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   Solar roof tiles are roof tiles with integrated solar modules. The ceramic solar roof tile is developed and patented by a Dutch company [12] in 2013. Modules shaped like multiple roof tiles. Solar shingles are modules designed to look and act like regular shingles, while incorporating a flexible thin film cell.

6. Light tube - Wikipedia

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   Light tubes (also known as solar pipes, tubular skylights or sun tunnels [1]) are structures that transmit or distribute natural or artificial light for the purpose of illumination and are examples of optical waveguides. In their application to daylighting, they are also often called tubular daylighting devices, sun pipes, sun scopes, or ...

7. 22-year-old fell through skylight after roofing company ...

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   The Department of Labor says the Louisiana roofing company could have prevented the death of its 22-year-old employee. 22-year-old fell through skylight after roofing company ignored deadly risks ...

8. Skylight - Wikipedia

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   A retractable skylight rolls (on a set of tracks) off the frame, so that the interior of the facility is entirely open to the outdoors, i.e., not impeded by a hinged skylight. The terms retractable skylight and retractable roof are often used interchangeably, though skylight implies a degree of transparency. Tubular daylight device

9. Cricket (roofing) - Wikipedia

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   In some cases, a cricket can be used to transition from one roof area to another. On low-slope and flat roofs with parapet walls, crickets are commonly used to divert water to the drainage, against or perpendicular to the main roof slope. The pitch of a cricket is sometimes the same as the rest of the roof, but not always. For Steep-slope roofs ...