On an office building, atria can be covered with glass/glass PV modules, which can be semi-transparent to provide shaded light. On a factory, large roof areas have been the best location for solar modules. If they are flat, then arrays can be mounted using techniques that do not breach the weatherproof roof membrane. Also, skylights can be covered partially with PV.

The vertical walls of office buildings provide several opportunities for PV incorporation. The first is as a curtain wall system that constitutes the weather barrier of the building. The second, as a rainscreen overcladding system where there is an underlying weather barrier that provides the insulation and sealing of the building.

The third option is to create sunshades or balconies incorporating a PV System. Sunshades may have the PV System mounted externally to the building or have PV cells specially mounted between glass sheets comprising the window.