Rapid Selection Guide

The Rapid Selection guides are designed to enable you to achieve optimum benefit from choosing the right solar protection fabric.

The system is based on four comfort factors:

	level of incoming light
	glare control
	improved thermal control
	quality of exterior view

These factors are applied to each fabric in relation to its own features; the openess factor, weave, colour and size of the mesh and hence its energy and light qualities (transmission, reflection, absorption).

Simply, the rapid selection guide rates each fabric and colour from 1 to 40 for each of the four comfort factors, 40 giving you optimum performance. For example, Eye Comfort (glare control), a rating of 1 would mean little or no glare control, whereas a rating of 35 to 40 would mean excellent glare control.

There are three steps to using the Rapid Selection Guide :

1. Decide from the four factors (NL, EC, HP and CV), which two are the most important to your application.

2. From a colour swatch, choose the fabric colour that best suits the decor.

3. Check the Rapid Selection Guide to see if the fabric and colour meet your comfort requirements.

Rapid Selection Guide

Tip: for the same type of fabric, light colours let through more light than dark colours.

Tip: for the same type of fabric, dark colours provide better glare control

Tip: the quality of visibility does not only depend on the openess or light transmission, it also depends on colour. Darker colours will provide better outward visibility.

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