VELUX Modular Rooflights wins “Red Dot” for outstanding product design quality

VELUX Commercial is one of the winners of the world’s most renowned design competition in the category, Product Design, 2023. VELUX Modular Rooflights are flat roof windows with a glasstop construction, providing direct access to daylight.

All entries in the Product Design category were assessed according to their design quality and degree of innovation by the Red Dot Jury, consisting of 50 international experts, who tested, discussed and evaluated every single entry.

VELUX Modular Rooflights are currently offered in nine countries in Europe and are seen as a highend glass-solution for industrial, public and commercial buildings such as offices, schools, shopping centres, libraries, hotels, conference centres, railway stations, airports and healthcare.

All modules are produced at the VELUX factory, and every single component is rigorously tested and designed to comply with existing standards and regulations.

Anna Spring, Senior Vice President, VELUX Commercial, said: “We are very honoured to receive this acknowledgement for our product design.

Our products provide daylight and fresh air to improve peoples’ quality of life, that is at the core of our brand. With the Red Dot Label, we can raise the awareness of our products — in this case the VELUX Modular Rooflights — and associate our brand with great design and quality”.

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Sun safety Campaign targets skin cancer in construction

Constructionmanagement.co.uk has reported that construction charity We Build the Future has launched a sun safety campaign to help reduce the risk and incidence of skin cancer among people working in the built environment sector.

Construction workers and roof workers in particular, are at a heightened risk of developing skin cancer because of over exposure to UV radiation. Construction workers account for 44% of occupational skin cancer diagnosis and 42% of occupational skin cancer deaths each year – despite making up only 8% of the workforce.

We Build the Future’s preventative campaign aims to help reduce the risk and incidence of skin cancer by promoting sun safety practices on every building site.

The campaign will:

• Promote awareness of UV risk among built environment industry workers and employers;

• Provide access to simple advice on how to reduce UV risk;

• Campaign for sites and offices to adopt safe practices to reduce UV risks; webuildthefuture.org

• Promote access to information and advice for people with concerns about skin cancer.

As part of the campaign, the charity has also teamed up with Melanoma UK and Rainbow Signs to offer sun safety site boards to employers and main contractors.

Using a traffic light system to indicate daily UV risk, the boards should be positioned in a prominent location on site. The risk indicator should be checked and updated by site managers daily, after checking Met office data for the location.

The site boards also provide advice on how to reduce UV risk, and feature QR links to further support through Melanoma UK.