Research into daylight with roof windows
VELUX has a natural interest in – and feels a special obligation towards – ensuring that people focus on daylighting factors, and daylight quality in buildings in particular.
Research into daylight is an important part of our development activities as we spend up to 90% of our time indoors, either at work or at home. This makes it especially important to take into account the best possible daylight conditions in building design.
We have, therefore, commissioned extensive research into daylight quality and are now sharing the findings at conferences, in magazines and with the business community.
The research shows that roof windows provide more and better daylight than other types of windows and we hope this will lead to the development of
About VELUX Group
VELUX is a global company founded on a vision of daylight, fresh air and quality of life – and these benefits are enjoyed in millions of homes around the world.
Today, more than sixty years after the first VELUX roof window was installed in a Danish school, our vision and values have evolved – but fundamentally remain as first expressed by our founder, Villum Kann Rasmussen.
Our Vision
Our vision is to convince people all over the world that VELUX roof windows and skylights are the source of optimum living and working space. This is now expressed in the following way:
“To lead the development of better living environments with daylight and fresh air through the roof and to be rated as the best in the eyes of our customers.”
Our Values
The VELUX values are part of the foundation on which our company has been built. Everything we do is dedicated to improving the quality of people’s lives based on commitment, mutual respect, improvements, local initiatives and thoroughness.
It is only recently that we wrote these values down – but they have been at the very heart of everything we have done from day one: