Focus Areas
Daylight Management
Better Control of Light Throughout the Day
Daylight makes commercial spaces more comfortable and inviting, and uncontrolled sunlight creates glare, excess heat, inconsistent interior conditions, and difficulty using workspaces as intended.
Wilson Shade provides commercial shading systems and controls designed to help project teams manage changing daylight conditions throughout the day.
We work from project requirements, plans, specifications, and control intent to furnish and install systems that support:
- Glare control
- Solar heat gain reduction
- Automated shade control
- Lighting integration
- Energy performance goals
- Occupant comfort
- More consistent interior conditions
Our role is to help turn the intended daylight management strategy into a properly coordinated and installed shading system.
Glare Control
Shading systems can reduce direct sunlight and excessive brightness at windows, helping create more usable spaces for offices, classrooms, conference rooms, healthcare environments, and other commercial applications.
Solar Heat Gain Reduction
Interior and exterior shading systems can help reduce the amount of solar energy entering occupied spaces and lessen the impact of direct sun at the glazing.
Automated Shade Control
Motorized shades can respond automatically to schedules, solar conditions, building orientation, or commands from compatible control systems.
Automation can reduce the need for occupants or facility teams to continually adjust shades throughout the day.
Lighting Integration
Where the project calls for it, shade controls can coordinate with compatible lighting or building automation systems.
Wilson Shade works with the project team to understand the intended sequence of operation, provide compatible shading components, and coordinate the requirements affecting our scope.
Energy Performance Support
Shading can be one component of a broader building performance strategy by helping manage solar exposure and daylight entering the space.
Wilson Shade furnishes and installs the shading systems that support those objectives while coordinating with the designers, engineers, controls contractors, and other project partners responsible for overall building performance.
Occupant Comfort
Good daylight management helps reduce glare, excess brightness, direct solar exposure, and uncomfortable temperature variations near windows.
The goal is not simply to move shades up and down. It is to help create interior spaces that remain comfortable and usable as exterior conditions change.
Consistent Interior Conditions
Automated systems can help maintain more predictable shading conditions across rooms, floors, and building elevations instead of relying entirely on individual occupant adjustments.
This can be particularly useful in larger commercial spaces where consistency and centralized control are important.
Built for Commercial Project Teams
General Contractors
Clearly defined shading and controls scopes with dependable coordination from bid through installation and closeout.
Architects & Designers
Shading systems, fabrics, controls, samples, and submittals that support the intended daylight experience while protecting the design of the finished space.
Facility & Property Managers
Practical shading and control upgrades that can improve glare management, occupant comfort, and day-to-day operation of existing facilities.
Business Owners
A single commercial shading partner who can evaluate the space, explain available options, and manage the system through installation.
From Design Intent Through Installation
Daylight management systems may involve more coordination than the finished installation suggests.
Shade location, fabric selection, glazing orientation, electrical requirements, control interfaces, sensors, programming responsibility, ceiling conditions, and adjacent building systems can all affect the final result.
We work to identify those requirements early and clearly define our scope.
We can support projects with:
- Drawing and specification review
- Shading system selection
- Fabric and openness factor selection
- Manual and motorized shade systems
- Automated shade controls
- Control component submittals
- Samples and mockups
- Field measurements
- Shade pocket and mounting coordination
- Electrical requirement coordination
- Lighting control interface coordination
- Building automation interface coordination
- Procurement and scheduling
- Installation
- System startup coordination
- Punch list completion and closeout
Understanding Our Role
Wilson Shade provides and coordinates commercial shading systems that can support a project’s daylight management and building performance objectives.
Wilson Shade does not provide formal daylight modeling, glazing analysis, energy engineering, or building performance modeling.
When those services are required, they are typically performed by the project’s architect, engineer, sustainability consultant, lighting designer, glazing consultant, or other qualified design professional.
We work with those professionals to understand the specified performance requirements and provide the shading systems and controls that fall within our scope.
Frequently asked questions!
01. What does daylight management mean?
Depending on the project, the goal may include reducing glare, limiting direct sunlight, managing solar heat gain, maintaining views, improving occupant comfort, or coordinating shades with other building systems.
02. Do you perform daylight modeling or energy analysis?
Wilson Shade does not provide formal daylight modeling, glazing analysis, energy engineering, or building-performance modeling.
We provide shading systems and controls that can support requirements established by the project's architects, engineers, consultants, and other design professionals.
03. Can you help select the right shade fabric?
Different fabrics provide different levels of visible-light transmission, glare reduction, privacy, view-through, and solar control.
We can help evaluate available fabrics based on the project's requirements and provide samples or product information for review by the project team.
04. Can shades operate automatically?
Motorized shades can be controlled through schedules, local controls, sensors, compatible lighting systems, or other building control platforms depending on the products and control strategy selected.
The exact capabilities depend on the specified system and project requirements.
05. Can your shades integrate with lighting controls?
Many commercial shading systems can interface with compatible lighting or building-control systems.
We coordinate the requirements affecting the shade system and work with the appropriate electrical and controls contractors to clearly establish connection points and responsibilities.
06. Who is responsible for electrical power and control wiring?
Our proposals and submittals identify the requirements associated with our system, while electrical power, low-voltage wiring, network connections, or work by other trades should be clearly assigned within the project scope.
Early coordination helps prevent gaps between trades.
07. Can you upgrade an existing building with automated shades?
We can evaluate existing shading, mounting conditions, available power, control requirements, and access to determine practical options for replacement or automation.
08. Do automated shades require a building automation system?
Commercial motorized shades can operate using standalone controls, schedules, sensors, wall controls, remotes, or integration with compatible lighting and building-control systems.
The appropriate approach depends on the size of the project and the level of automation required.
Wilson Shade provides professional installation of the shading systems within our scope.
For automated systems, we also coordinate required startup, programming, testing, and integration responsibilities based on the selected products and project requirements.
Have a Daylight Management Project to Discuss?
Send us your drawings, specifications, control requirements, or information about the existing space.
We’ll review the shading scope, identify the information we need, and help determine the right system and next steps for the project.