Quantifying Sunshade Heat Gain Reduction

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A long-standing practice of architects is to utilize architectural metals as a sunshade element to reduce glare, improve the quality of experience inside a building, and of course, to reduce heat gain. Typically, these designs are approached in three different ways:

1. Sunshade parallel to the ground over the window
2. Sunshade parallel to the window
3. Sunshade Perpendicular to the window.

But how effective are these sunshade elements at reducing heat gain?

To answer this, AMICO Architectural Metal Systems retained RWDI an international climate engineering and environmental consulting firm specialized in understanding how the built and natural environments interact to perform an independent study using digital simulations to quantify heat gain change for a sunshade mounted parallel to a façade.