Facades are the power plants of tomorrow

17. April 2023: New building requirements need new solutions. Architects create unique facade constructions with their designs. At the same time, buildings must become more sustainable. Facades have the potential to be the power plants of tomorrow, as questions of effective power generation become ever more urgent and pressing.

How can power generation and design be combined safely and at the same time aesthetically, in the truest sense of the word? Our new profile systems for suspended back-ventilated rainscreen facades provide us with the answers – no matter, whether we use them for visible or concealed fixing.

Profile system for visible fixing of Building Integrated Photo Voltaics (BIPV)
The new UKLA-BIPV distinguishes itself, with its solar-activated structural elements screwed onto vertical Aluminium-T support profiles from the outside, and as glass panels in the format 260 x 130 cm by means of coated brackets. All BIPV are completely reconditionable.

Carrier profiles are connected to wall brackets using rivets or screws. When doing this, sliding points accept horizontal (wind) loadings, and fixed points accept horizontal and vertical loads (deadweight). Wall brackets can optionally be equipped with an assembly aide, to enable simpler working and handling, as this makes fixing and holding carrier profiles possible.

Profile system for concealed fixing of solar energy activated thermal panels
With the help of solar energy activated thermal panels, solar heat energy and the cooling effect of facades can be used to charge up low energy stores. Through this use, heat energy pumps and ground probes can be used much more efficiently, or even for the first time at all. In summertime, the heat energy gain can be used to activate earth and soil as a store for ground probes.

The new UBE ECO with stainless-steel wall brackets makes discreet installation of photovoltaic-modules possible, by means of clinches and solar energy activated thermal panels. Clinches are secured to the reverse side of aluminium flat metal using welded studs. Height adjustment of panels is carried out via a levelling setscrew. No visible fixing points are discernible on the facing side. Thanks to this innovative solution, facade surface areas and elevations can be used for power generation, adding to positive values of sustainable buildings’ design concept accounts, alongside other objectives such as rainwater retention and greening.

It is not possible to distinguish between activated and not-activated elements in either the UKLA-BIPV System for Building Integrated Photo Voltaics, or with the UBE DUO System.

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