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Custom Circular Walkable Skylight

Case Study: Rounding the Corner of Design with Custom Skylights

Challenge After purchasing a unique and historic home in Armonk, New York, a residential client sought out Solar Innovations® to design and install a walkable skylight in their existing deck. The Teak board deck sits above a room with panoramic views of the 21-acre wooded lot with a residential pond at its center. The client […]

Fermenting wine

Fermenting Wine from Your Garden

  This week at Solar, we prepared three batches of homemade wine. After our grape vines took a hard hit from the deer last year, we were unsure whether we would be able to continue our wine making tradition. Thankfully, Mother Nature blessed us with wild fox grapes by the bunches, which are a great […]

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Vote for Solar Innovations – 2016 USGlass Magazine Reader’s Choice Awards

  Voting for the 2016 USGlass Magazine Reader’s Choice Awards closes tomorrow! Vote for Solar Innovations® today! Solar Innovations® is a nominee for Most Significant Curtain Wall / Glazing System and Most Significant Operable / Movable Wall Product. Please cast your vote for our Structural Glazing and G3 Narrow Lite Folding Glass Wall Systems. At […]

Case Study: Utilizing Greenhouse Accessories and Passive Solar to Create an Educational Greenhouse

Challenge While constructing a net zero energy school in Staten Island, New York, a board of education sought the experience of Solar Innovations® in the design of a greenhouse. The design intent was to create an educational space for students to learn about food growth while promoting passive solar design and allowing daylight into the […]

Conservation Food Plot

Wildlife Conservation Food Plots

With colder weather on the horizon, our wildlife food plots are becoming increasingly crucial to the local wildlife. Food plots are small clearings in farmland or wooded areas that are dedicated to planting food supplements for various species including white-tailed deer, turkey, mourning doves, and bobwhite quail. Though food plots are often solely used to bring […]