Ultimate Retractable Profile Louvre from Sure Shade

The SURE SHADE® ULTIMATE 120S is a world first engineered design, that carries a worldwide tested patent. It has been developed and manufactured in Australia for the Australian climatic condition of high wind loading and high solar heat.

1. The SURE SHADE® ULTIMATE 120S slat wind stability has been enabled by a new evolutionary design that has a slat width of 120mm which allows both positive (+) and negative (-) air pressure to balance along the slat profile. A + air pressure at two locations, front and back, provides down ward pressure of the blind slat rather than upward lift as for the 100F and 80C slat profiles.

2. The world renowned Hagofix® slat support system of spigot tape with stainless steel connector has been modified and designed by SURE SHADE® The size, metal properties and design of the stainless steel connector has been developed by Sure Shade to increase the wind load capacity of the system and the distance between spigots has been increased to 107mm to suit rotation of the larger slat size.

3. The SURE SHADE® Ultimate 120S slat size meets Australian expectations of large viewing areas through windows while still meeting the European requirement of allowing 40% of the view when providing shade at a solar angle of 20 degrees. The SURE SHADE® Ultimate 120S with a 120mm wide profile has more open space area due to there being less slats impeding the view.

4. The SURE SHADE® ULTIMATE 120S profile has been designed to take part in the climate debate by providing a means of reducing peak electrical load for all building cooling, heating and electrical applications by reducing or increasing of solar heat transfer into the building in a progressive manner while still maximising natural light transfer into the building.

The SURE SHADE® ULTIMATE 120S could be optioned to will allow the control of solar heat and the capturing and reflecting of morning light up to11 metres into the room while preserving a glare free work environment at the window. The light is reflected by the 120S slat upwards towards the ceiling at a controlled angle and from there the light reflects downwards to provide increased luminescence up to 11 metres into the building. As the sun tracks from east to west the slat can be optioned to progressively close from 90 degrees to 135 degrees to reflect back solar heat and still allow natural light into the building. The blind slat can also provide considerable light control when fully closed.

5. The SURE SHADE® Ultimate 120S can be manufactured with wire guides if the wind loading is moderate and aesthetics of minimal visual obstruction is paramount. Since the 120S slat is inherently stable a higher wind loading can be accommodated when compared to the 100F or 80C constructed with wire guide. We recommend where possible to have wire guide only on one side with stability offered by a Zamac slat side pins engaged into an aluminium side guide extrusion on the other side. The intrinsic efficient slat Profile also ensures that with wire guiding the slat can close tightly upon itself to 3 degrees when in the closed position and minimise light intrusion.

6. The SURE SHADE® Ultimate 120S can be optioned for sun tracking. The package includes an intermediate logic interface control board manufactured by Liftmaster® that allows continuous monitoring of the angle of the individual blind slats.

This means that the building management system (BMS) system can reliably assume slat angles without the need for extensive re-referencing that occurs in current systems. (re-referencing in current EVB tracking solutions results in moving the blind to a full open position at determined times during the day or night and then returning the blind to the original position)

The SURE SHADE® ULTIMATE 120S slat will greatly assist in category points required in Australian Green Star rating tool calculation as glazing the single greatest building product that captures and radiates solar heat into the building.