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Best Practice for Double Skin Facades

BESTFACADE

Double-skin façades have become popular over the last 15 years as people seek out
more natural interior environments. The double skin can offer a thermal buffer zone,
solar preheating of ventilation air, energy savings, as well as acoustic, wind and
pollutant protection, and the possibility to open windows and have night cooling.
Commercial buildings incorporating such facades can save large amounts of energy.
The critical issue is to ensure that the façades are designed appropriately to the local
climate and perform well. BESTFACADE aimed to use a range of media to provide the
designers with reliable scientific, technical, regulative and financial information on these
constructions.

Results
Best practice guidelines for double skin facades are now available for designers and investors.
State-of-the-art report on double-skin façades is available, based on analysis from seven
countries. Twenty-eight facades analysed from different buildings (offices, schools, service
buildings).
A centralised reference source of info on double skin facades built in the European Union has
been set up.
An assessment method for calculating the thermal and visual behaviour and energy
performance of façades has been developed. The methodology has been presented to
standardisation committees.
An Internet-based design guide allowing designers and investors to study the impact of different
facade systems has been produced.

Lesson learned
Please see the detailed deliverables indicated in the attached key report or visit the web-site for
access to all information and further resources.

Partners and coordinator

MCE Anlagenbau Austria GmbH & Co [1] Austria
Graz University of Technology - Institute of Thermal Engineering [2] Austria
Centre Scientifique et Technique de la Construction (CSTC) Wetenschappelijk en Belgium
Technisch Centrum [3]
Reynaers Aluminium N.V. [4] Belgium
Ecole Nationale TPE, Laboratoire Sciences de L'Habitat - CNRS-DGCB [5] France
Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. [6] Germany
C.Kiossefidis S.A. [7] Greece
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens [8] Greece
Instituto de Soldadura e Qualidade [9] Portugal
Lund University [10] Sweden
Skanska Teknik AB [11] Sweden
WSP Sverige AB [12] Sweden

Contact
MCE Anlagenbau Austria GmbH & Co
Austria

Contact point

Name: Reinhard Waldner

E-mail: reinhard.waldner@mce-gt.at

Tel: 0043 1 610 36 - 366

Budget
Overall budget: 1.450.318,00 € (EU contribution: 50,00 %)

Key documents
Best Practice for Double Skinned Facades [13]
PDF 2.93 MB

In brief
Sector: Buildings

Duration: 01/01/2005 to 31/12/2007

Contract number: EISAV/EIE/04/135/2004

Website: http://www.bestfacade.com

Tags:

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