Solar Facades Articles
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Project - Breidablikkgarden, Haugesund, Norway
This complex 3 dimensional facade provides indoor shade and sculptural depth to the new office building, and shows that energy producing BiPV facades affords new opportunities for creative panelisation in a cladding that pays for ...
By SolarLab
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Project - Trifolium, Copenhagen, Denmark
The energy producing facade cladding contributes to the reduction of the building’s energy consumption and environmental footprint. SolarLab has produced and installed the BIPV system as part of the ongoing restoration of the Trifolium Dairy in Copenhagen’s Sydhavn district. The building appears as it did at its inauguration in 1966 with blue panels under the windows, only now, these ...
By SolarLab
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Project - Trigeparken, Denmark
Energy renovation of the Trigeparken social housing complex with high efficiency black Crystal BiPV facades that adds an elements of refined sophistication and precision to the otherwise modest ...
By SolarLab
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Project - Ruselokka school, Oslo, Norway
The new grade 1-10 school in the heart of Oslo integrates the building wide shingled BiPV facade elements harmoniously with surrounding traditional brick areas both in color, depth and texture, to make the energy producing BiPV cladding a natural addition to the citys architectural ...
By SolarLab
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Project - Research Institutes of Sweden
SolarLab has produced and installed, in collaboration with EON, a new energy producing facade at the RISE EMC test center. SolarLab has developed, produced and installed the colorful new facade that covers 550m2 of the new RISE (Research Institutes of Sweden) EMC test facility. The active facade contributes around 50 000 kWh annually. The 2600 m2 building is a shielded and controlled ...
By SolarLab
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Project - ZEB-Lab, Trondheim, Norway
BiPV facades and roof cladding ensures that this ZEB-COM building by Link Arkitektur, will recoup the environmental investment in materials, construction and operation over the next 60 ...
By SolarLab
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Project - Det gronne hus, Aarhus, Denmark
SolarLab is supplying the new BIPV facade for the formerly bottle-green office building on Grøndalsvej The new BIPV facade is PVD coated and satin finished glass to completely hide the electrical components. The facade is designed with Schmidt/Hammer/Lassen (part of Perkins+Will) and as exterior facade cladding it naturally fulfills all fire requirements and acts as the buildings ...
By SolarLab
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Project - PowerHouse Telemark, Norway
SolarLab produced this BiPV facade on the amazing Powerhouse Telemark, designed by Snøhetta architects. Solarlab.dk custom designed and manufactured the system in all black and high gloss, with light weight and ventilated cladding panels. Hidden mountings and invisible electrical components fully integrate this energy producing facade cladding and compliments the buildings expressive ...
By SolarLab
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Project - Bornholm Hospital - Ronne, Denmark
The energy producing facade on Bornholm’s Hospital is mounted directly on the new facade insulation, and has an installed effect of around 200 kWp. As part of the complete renovation of Bornholm’s Hospital, SolarLab has developed, produced and installed the energy producing facade. The new BIPV facade is the building’s weatherproof rainscreen, completely replacing an ...
By SolarLab
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Project - Student Experience International, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The new SEI student housing with 596 units, on the waterfront in Amsterdam is designed by VURB architects and BREEAM certified. The facade is covered with 1770 sqm of tilted custom BiPV cladding and the largest energy producing facade installation i The Netherlands and provide a low weight, resilient and maintenance free facade that pays for itself with carbon free electricity for the next 60 ...
By SolarLab
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Project - Solar Covered Walkways & Canopies Power NeoCity Academy
NeoCity Academy, located in Kissimmee, is Florida’s first Net-Zero Energy K-12 School. In alignment with the school’s sustainability goals, the school integrated a unique, curved LSX solar canopy for food trucks in front of the school as well as solar covered walkways to access the school and a large solar canopy over the outdoor seating area. This beautiful project was designed by ...
By Lumos Solar
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Bornholms Hospital - Case Study
The Bornholms Hospital in Rønne, Denmark is retrofitted with approximately 1,400 sqm of solar panels using Kromatix™ solar glass. Danish company SolarLab, also responsible for the groundbreaking and award winning CIS project, has produced and mounted the 1,400 sqm solar facade on the hospital in collaberation with ...
By Kromatix™ SA
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Student Experience Amsterdam Minervahaven - Case Study
Amsterdam Minervahaven residence is the latest facility of Student Experience offering sustainable student housing. Amsterdam Minervahaven uses a Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) facade measuring approximately 3,000 sqm. The Kromatix™ light-grey coloured solar glass hides the internal structure of the solar panel while refracting colour, creating an elegant BIPV solution for solar ...
By Kromatix™ SA
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Red deer college residence - successful BIPV customization challenge in Canada - Case Study
Customization heaven – this is how we sometimes call this impressive BIPV solar facade of Red deer college (Canada) campus newest building. This five-story residence, opened in spring 2019, stands out as all of its east, south, and west facades are covered with altogether 163 kW of glass / backsheet photovoltaic panels. Numerous of differently shaped and sized solar panels were used to ...
By Metsolar
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ZigZag solar - ultra high efficiency solar facade system - Case Study
Solar architectural facade by ZigZagSolar in combination with solar panels by Metsolar results in ultra high efficiency characteristics. The name stands for itself – ZigZag can adapt to any architectural need by an adaptive repetition height to customly decorated panels. We provide glass/backsheet solar panels that adapts to every architects vision for efficiency and visual. Not only more ...
By Metsolar
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The future of Solar Power
When you think of renewable energies, what do you think of? Hydro power? Wind energy? In fact, they have proven to be the most popular in recent years. Hydro power in its current form is the cheapest of the renewable energies. Wind power is the fastest growing. However, there is a renewable energy that is far more versatile and has the potential to achieve a higher ROI than the ones mentioned ...
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2018 Top 10 Solar Panel Manufacturers & Companies In China
When you are looking for solar panel manufacturer & companies, you may want to know how much do solar panels cost? you would like to find some suppliers to ask their prices based on the same specification and then you can compare the prices and choose your best solar panels supplier which is in your budget. As we know, China is the largest solar panels supplier in the world and there are ...
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Nordseter School, Norway - Case Study
The secondary school building at Nordseter School in Oslo has been upgraded from a tired 60s building to a modern and environmentally friendly school building that both contractor, client and school students can be proud of. The building is equipped with 625 square meters of solar panels on the roof and a total of 374 square meters of vertical solar cells on two of the facades. The solar panels ...
By Racell
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Case study - Rain Screen
Gloucestershire System kWp: 0.6 Area: 8.53 m2 Inverter: Soladin 600 Modules Used: PS-A Opaque Polysolar were approached by the customer for a unique one off project to provide a vertical mounted facade on the South facing side of the house due to a lack of available roof space. Objective: Provide a presumed first ever domestic solar facade to boost the customers solar power portfolio with ...
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