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Shining Light on 2023: A Year of Outstanding Achievements and Awards
We proudly reflect on Solatube’s achievements in 2023: We’re honored to have received over ten awards and certifications for our innovative daylighting solutions. These awards recognize our contributions to architecture, construction and manufacturing, highlighting our commitment to sustainable practices.
Continue reading to learn more about Solatube’s achievements.
Product Awards
Architect Magazine: Spring-Summer Product Call 2023
The Spring/Summer 2023 Product Call highlights new products representing lighting, textiles, smart appliances and more innovations. Architect Magazine honored our new SolaMaster Round Ceiling Fixture as a notable product for the roundup.
FacilitiesNet’s Facility Maintenance Decisions and Facility Cleaning Decisions: 2023 Readers’ Choice Award
The Readers’ Choice Awards honor innovation and excellence in products that contribute to the efficient and profitable operations, maintenance and cleaning of institutional and commercial buildings in the United States. This year, their readers voted for the SolaMaster Series as the winner for its exterior maintenance products category.
Architectural Record: 2023 Products of the Year
The Products of the Year competition engages a panel of six professionals who meticulously evaluate new products based on innovation, utility and aesthetic appeal. Architectural Record selected our SolaMaster Round Ceiling Fixture as a winner of its lighting category.
Spaces4Learning: 2023 New Product Award
The New Product Awards honor the outstanding product development achievements of manufacturers and suppliers whose products or services are particularly noteworthy in their ability to enhance the learning environment. Our Solatube 750 DS-C Tubular Daylighting Device (TDD) for Closed Ceiling ICC 500 and FEMA P-361 Compliant Storm Shelters won platinum in the building envelope – toplighting category.
Design Journal: ADEX 2024
The ADEX Awards recognizes the absolute best in quality, innovation, form, function and creativity that impact the design community each year. A panel of professionals representing a cross-section of the design industry selected our SolaMaster 750 DS-O ICC 500 Storm Shelter-compliant daylighting system as the winner of its skylights/floorlights category.
Design Journal: Best of 2023
The Best of 2023 Awards celebrate the best products in architecture and interior design of the year. A panel of judges, who are among the architecture and design industry’s most respected professionals in their respective fields, select the winners for each category. Design Journal selected the SolaMaster 750 DS-O ICC 500 Storm Shelter-compliant daylighting system as a skylight category winner.
Building Design + Construction: 75 Top Building Products Awards
The 75 Top Products Report showcases the “best-of-the-best” in new and updated products, materials and systems for the U.S. building design and construction market. This year, our SolaMaster 750 DS for Storm Shelters and safe rooms was named one of Building Design + Construction’s Top Products.
Project Awards
Commercial Construction & Renovation: Project Profile Awards
The Project Profile Awards feature some of the best commercial construction projects in the country in retail, restaurants, hospitality, healthcare and more. We received this honor for our contribution to an adaptive reuse project, where we played a pivotal role in transforming a dimly lit, historic bank into the thoughtfully designed and human-centric Hotel Emery. The project utilized 14 of our SkyVault M74 DS tubular daylighting devices to deliver natural daylight deep into the hotel’s lobby.
Modular Building Institute: Awards of Distinction
The Awards of Distinction represent the highest honors awarded in the modular construction industry. The Best of Show Awards is a part of the Awards of Distinction, in which attendees of the World of Modular conference and trade show vote directly for projects. This year, the San Diego Airport Project won the relocatable building category with the help of several Solatube Daylighting Systems, providing an abundance of natural daylight with minimal heat gain and loss from sunup to sundown.
Sustainability Certifications
California Green Business Network: Innovator Certification
The Innovator Certification honors businesses that have met the highest verifiable standards of sustainability. The City of Carlsbad Green Business Program awarded us this certification for implementing several meaningful measures at our Oak Ridge Way and Cousteau Court facilities, including enhancing recycling and composting programs, reducing computer and printer usage, using green-certified products, installing water-efficient fixtures and more.
As we reflect on the different awards and recognitions we received in 2023, we are given even more momentum to continue developing more innovative and sustainable solutions going into 2024. Thank you for your continued support, and we look forward to continuing to share our journey with you.
If you want to learn more about maximizing natural daylight to transform your next project to improve occupant performance and health, you can call 888.SOLATUBE to set up a free consultation, or visit Solatube.com to find your local distributor.
Solatube International Awards Won Over the Years
2023
Spaces4Learning New Product Award – Solatube 750 DS-C Tubular Daylighting Device (TDD) for Closed Ceiling ICC 500 and FEMA P-361 Compliant Storm Shelters
Commercial Construction & Renovation Project Profile Awards – Emery Hotel
2022
Facilities.net 3rd Annual Vision Awards – Rooftop Fire Glazing accessory
Metal Construction News Readers’ Choice Awards for 2022 – OptiView Diffusers
A4LE Solution Provider Award – SolaMaster 750-DS for ICC Storm Shelters
Design Journal Magazine Hottest Products of 2022 – Rooftop Fire Glazing accessory
Design Journal Magazine Hottest Products of 2022 – SolaMaster 750-DS for ICC Storm Shelters
Architectural Record Products of the Year (Lighting) – SolaMaster 750-DS for ICC Storm Shelters
Architizer A+Product Awards – Rooftop Fire Glazing accessory won the residential design category
Facilities.net Maintenance Innovation Awards – SolaMaster Series
Design Journal Magazine 2022 ADEX Awards:
Rooftop Fire Glazing Accessory Finalist
SolaMaster 750-DS for ICC Storm Shelters Finalist
Integrated LED System Finalist
Legacy Magnet Academy Finalist
2021
IES ILLUMINATION AWARDS –Tustin USD Legacy Magnet School
IES ILLUMINATION AWARDS – Northeast Regional Library
Facilities.net 3rd Annual Vision Awards – Integrated LED Light Kit
Facilities.net Inaugural Maintenance Innovations Readers Choice Awards – Integrated LED Light Kit
Facilities.net Maintenance Innovation Awards – SkyVault Series
Metropolis’s Planet Positive Awards – Integrated LED Light Kit
JRA’s Northeast Regional Library project won the 2021 AIA Kentucky Honor Award.
Architizer A+ Product Awards – Flexible Design category – Integrated LED Light Kit
Architizer A+ Product Awards – Contract Recessed and Mounted Lighting category – Integrated LED Light Kit
Design Journal 2021 ADEX Awards:
The SkyVault Series won a Platinum Award
The Solar-Powered Daylight Dimmer won a Platinum Award
The Architect Series won a Platinum Award
The Emery Hotel case study won a Platinum Award
The Integrated LED Light Kit won a Gold Award
2020
The A4LE Solution Provider Award: Solatube Unit with Integrated LED Light Kit won, beating out Velux Commercial
The 12th Annual 2020 Golden Bridge Business and Innovation Awards: the Solar-Powered Daylight Dimmer received Gold recognition and the commercial Integrated LED Light Kit received Bronze recognition.
Spaces4Learning 2020 Education Design Showcase: the Sunnyvale ISD project won a Project of Distinction award
Architectural Lighting + ARCHITECT’s 2020 Product call awards: Integrated LED Light Kit
San Diego’s Favorite Natural Lighting Co, Union-Tribune (Solatube Home)
2019
Solar Impulse Award : Solatube received the Solar Impulse Efficient Solution Label given by The Solar Impulse Foundation
A4LE Solution Provider Award (runner up)
San Diego’s Favorite Natural Lighting Co, Union-Tribune (Solatube Home)
2015
GreenBuilder Magazine, Editor’s Choice: Hot 50 Products; the editors of GreenBuilder Magazine have chosen the Solatube SkyVault Series as one of the Top 50 Eco-Friendly Products
Metal Architecture Magazine, 2015 Readers’ Choice Awards: Solatube SkyVault Series was selected
Architectural Lighting, 2015 Annual Product Issue: Solatube SkyVault with Collector was selected for inclusion
Solatube International was selected as a LearningSCAPES’ Industry Partner Award
SkyVault Series received the Product Innovation Award (PIA) given out by Architectural Products, including a Special Citation: Best Product for Schools
Solatube was named a San Diego Business Journal Manufacturing Awards finalist
2014
SkyVault was selected as one of Architectural Products Readers Top 50
SkyVault Series received the Most Innovative New Product (MIP) Award at the 2014
CONNECT MIP Awards
Solatube SkyVault with Collector won the Architectural Record Product of Record award in the category of Electrical/Lighting
Solatube SkyVault with Collector was selected by the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) Progress Report, which recognizes advancement in the art and science of lighting
SkyVault Series was named a 2014 Record Product by the editors of Architectural Record
The editors of Visual Merchandising/Store Design magazine chose SkyVault as a Best New Product
SkyVault named one of the 50 Top Products by Retrofit Magazine
2013
SkyVault Series received the Product Innovation Award (PIA) given out by Architectural Products
The Smart LED System was selected by the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) Progress Report, which recognizes advancement in the art and science of lighting
Solatube Smart LED System won the LFI Innovation Award at LightFair in the Solar, Shades & Daylight Integration
2011
Solatube was named as part of a winning project in the BUILDER’S Choice Design and Planning Awards
Solatube received the Illuminating Engineering Society’s Energy and Environmental Design Award which recognizes quality lighting installations in commercial and industrial buildings that incorporate advanced energy-saving strategies and environmentally responsible solutions into the overall design
Published on: December 21, 2023