Reduce your carbon footprint by harvesting free solar energy!

For building owners who want to reduce their carbon footprint, Solar Steel™ Buildings is a unique way to integrate solar energy design for buildings to achieve energy efficiency. This method uses a patented air gap from a well insulated metal building to capture solar heat. The building captures solar heat energy and eliminates the need to use fossil fuels and reduces your carbon footprint by using renewable forms of energy.

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How it Works

• Metal building panels become solar collectors that use the patented air gap to collect solar heat.
• Heat from the sun rises through the air gap and collects in the ridge space or high point of the building.
• Heat that is transfered into the ridge space is harvested by the HRV units (Heat Recovery Ventilator) and reused as energy for heating and cooling.

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HRV Units

Solar Heat Pump Buildings concentrate heat energy under the ridge or high point of the roof. HRV units harvest the solar heat energy to provide space heating until the set point temperature of 68 °F in the interior of the building is met or until the solar heat becomes lower than the set point.

HRV units are installed in the Solar Building to circulate the solar air. They work by taking the hot air from the ridge space and sending it through the HRV and then into a duct back into the ridge space. The HRV unit also intakes the interior space air and transfers solar heat from the ridge solar air. After the heat is transfered, the space air is put back into the building space where it gets circulated by the ceiling fans to provide a wide distribution throughout the building space.