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The European Facade Summit (EFS) will take place in Vienna from 29 February to 1 March 2024. The event location is the Hotel Meliá Vienna in the DC Tower. The congress will focus on intelligent and sustainable facade solutions in the context of climate change.
This new office building in Stuttgart, Germany, known as OWP 12 referring to its address, was created using the newest planning and building methods in accordance with the Cradle to Cradle principle and it shows what energy-plus architecture can do today thanks to the slimline, high performance facade with BIPV.
Schüco is expanding its range of services and acquiring 100,000 square metres of space at Gewerbepark Flugplatz Gütersloh GmbH. On the northern part of the site of the former British military airfield, the company intends to develop an additional location in East Westphalia-Lippe for product provision and distribution.
With Carbon Control, Schüco offers a modular range with which the decarbonisation of windows, doors and facades can be controlled on a project-specific basis. One specific value is becoming increasingly important: the Global Warming Potential (GWP).
Saint-Gobain has signed an agreement to sell its Swiss glass processing business to the German group Aequita. The glass processors of Glassolutions Kreuzlingen in Switzerland will then become part of the Vandaglas Group, the glass division of Aequita.
As a rental office property, the newly built K8 building in Cologne Deutz provides a high degree of flexibility. And Schüco floor-to-ceiling windows and doors provide daylight, access and ventilation.
Under the name AWS Optimized, Schüco is presenting its standard aluminium system to architects and metal fabricators in a variant with even better U values – right up to passive house standard.
Buildings are valuable deposits of raw materials, Schüco and Remondis agree. To ensure that the plastics recycling loop is really closed, these two companies are entering into a strategic partnership and have founded a subsidiary for this purpose. Read here what is behind this:
The facade of the new building of the Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy Systems Technology IEE at the main railway station in Kassel was equipped with triple insulating glass, including Gewe-therm solar solar control glass from Schollglas. Here you can find out what role this plays in the energy concept of the building.
Norway has set itself ambitious climate protection goals. The country wants to have its buildings be more or less carbon neutral by 2050. A shining example is the Powerhouse Telemark with its innovative facade.
In cooperation with Kuka AG, a robot cell has been developed that supplements the Schüco machining centre with an autonomous loading and unloading system for greater precision, speed and dynamics. This is also intended as a response to the shortage of skilled workers in the metal construction industry.
Richard Neutra’s Kemper House was designed and built between 1961 and 1967 and is one of only a few that the US architect. This special building has recently been refurbished to its old glory - also involving Schüco sliding windows. Here are more details:
Award-winning low-E glass, a smart locking sensor, a new extruding line in the Balkans and a look behind the scenes at Wicona. Here are our top stories of the week:
Schüco SensTrack wireless is an intelligent sensor that monitors the locking status of window systems. The wireless and battery-free lock monitoring system keeps track of whether the window is securely locked. The wireless sensor is powered by the movement of the hardware.
The new offices of the Triodos Bank in the Netherlands set standards for circular construction as a completely demountable, energy-neutral building with a wooden structure and a glass facade.
A window system that is burglary resistant even when tilted, a building in Copenhagen that is super sustainable thanks to Super Spacers, seven-day deliveries is spite of supply chain constraints. And installing wood windows in winter – what can go wrong? Here are our top stories of this week:
The new Schüco AvanTec SimplySmart OpenSecure hardware extension for aluminium window systems with tilt-before-turn operation enables ift-tested burglary resistance RC 2 in the tilt position. Find out here if it can also be retrofitted.
The long-lasting surface coating for Schüco window, door and sliding door handles as well as profile surfaces, reduces the transfer of all sorts of microbes. The microsilver used is free of nano particles and cannot penetrate human skin.
The German manufacturer has set itself the goal of becoming completely carbon-neutral across all of its business activities over the next 20 years. See here how Schüco intends to proceed along its path towards a low-carbon economy.
Modernity and functionality do not necessarily have to lead to the usual 'white box' design. This is proven by a single-family home in northern Germany designed by architectural firm Annette Scholz. See here how the design clearly delineates areas of use as visually independent cubes so that they can be seen from the outside, while combining them to form a conceptual whole on the inside.
Schüco FireStop ADS 90 FR 90 adds another aluminium fire protection system with 90 minutes of fire resistance at a thickness of 90 millimetres to the Schüco FireStop platform. Read what the new fire and smoke protection systems have to offer in terms of flexibility and assembly thanks to the open-seam profile geometry:
Every once in a while, we see building projects where holistic planning by the architect is paired with construction expertise and the client's distinct feel for style. In such instances, something extraordinary is created, which is exactly what happened with a private family home in southern Germany. Read on to find out more.
The KARMIN project in Germany is researching if rooms for hospitals can be build to prevent infection and multi-resistant germs. To this end, a team of scientists has designed a prototype of an infection-resistant double room. Here we show what role Schüco Aluminium windows play in this developement.
In the Greek town of Tolo, nestled among the Peloponnese mountains and with a view of the Argolic Gulf lies Villa NafplioBlu, both the private summer residence of the client and a luxury holiday rental.
In Karmøy an island in Norway a young family has designed their home to blend in with the surrounding fjord landscape. Architect Tommie Wilhelmsen used colours and materials from the natural environment and opened out wide areas of the building envelope towards the spectacular panorama – with highly insulated façades, windows and sliding door systems from Schüco.
