Velux VMS Ridgelight WSSA Legacy Building

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The Western Stock Show Association Legacy building (The Legacy), slated for completion in 2025, will be the National Western Stock Show’s world headquarters.

This building will serve as a home to all members of the National Western family. It will be a gathering place, gallery, and a watering hole for friends, cowboys and art lovers alike.

Artist rendering of the skylight over the club room.

Skylight Specialists, Inc. is installing one Velux Modular Skylight. The ridgelight will be over the Club Room of the new building.

Velux VMS Ridgelight

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With a skylight this large—an opening of 15 feet x 71 feet—there are numerous pallets to get to the site and craned to the roof.

Safety meeting and roping off an area beneath the skylight opening are an additional are also required before work begins.

Pallets of Velux Modular Skylights on the roof.
Pallets of skylight modules.
A safety area roped off because of overhead work.
An area is cordoned off/
Technicians removing plastic sheeting covering the skylight openingl
Uncovering the opening.

The modular system has been designed to simplify shipping and installation in order to reduce costs.
The end user gets more bang for his buck.

A view of the room showing the skylight opening above.
The skylight sits above the Club Room.
A technician installing the mounting plate for the skylights.
Attaching the metal plate to which the modules are attached.
n image of a technician celebrating the installation of the first pair of skylight modules.
The first pair of modules.
A closeup of a skylight mounting brackets.
Clamps secure the module to the ase plate,
A technician joing the tops of a pair of skylight modules.
The VMS system simplifies module installation,
An image from below of four pairs of installed skylight modeules.
Four module pairs are installed.
An image from the roof of five pairs of installed skylight modules.
Six out of thrrty three module pairs are in place.

Product used:

(1) Velux VMS Ridgelight Skylight.

  • Opening Dimension: 177 in. x 888 in.
  • Area: (1163 sq. ft.)
  • Fixed Modules: 66 pcs. 39.4″ x 94.5″.
  • Glazing: 12 pcs. HFC 100240 0011TB – 1000 x 2400 mm- Type: 11T Sun1 DG.
U-FactorSHGCVTCondensation Resistance
0.400.220.4252

SHGC – Solar Heat Gain Coefficient VT Visible light Transmitted

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Velux Modular
Brochure

Velux Modular Brochure

VMS System
Technical Handbook

VMS System Technical Data

VMS Unit
Technical Data

VMS Unit Technical Data

VMS Combination Possibilities

VMS Combination Possibilities

Interior Color: RAL 9010, gloss 30 (white)
Exterior Cladding Color: Akzo Nobel Noir 2100 Sable YW, granite 60 (dark grey)
Exterior Flashing Color: NCS S 7500-N, gloss 30 (grey)

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