Beauty & Sustainability Customised Solar
Our innovative solar facades simultaneously provide free electricity and beautiful cladding for new or refurbishment projects.
We ensure durability and resilience by giving you unparalleled design freedom with proven technologies. Fully engineered and complete system packages that ensure rapid installation without waste and high quality results that last for generations.
Fanshawe College in Canada
ZEB Flexible Lab in Norway
Stavanger City Hall - Retrofit in Norway
Bornholm Hospital, retrofit in Denmark
Red River College in Canada
Student Experience International in The Netherlands
Grøndalvej, retrofit in Denmark
Breidablikkgården in Norway
PowerHouse in Norway
Fanshawe College Innovation Centre
New Build
We offer 3 customizable solar facade solutions that can be fully tailored to the needs of your specific project. Going beyond traditional BIPV, our solutions always include all cladding and electrical components to ensure a successful end result.
By leveraging proven technologies and installation typologies we make it easy for you to design beautiful and sustainable architecture. We provide low risk ways to get to net zero that are both cost-effective and can be implemented by any facade installer.
The ventilated rain screen is recognized as one of the best ways to increase durability and lower operational costs by protecting the underlying structure from the elements. The ventilating layer further more helps to lower the thermal load of the building by up to 66%, whilst generating free and sustainable electricity. The ventilated solar facade allows fast and easy installation, inspection and reuse, on both new-builds and retrofits
Irridescent colour changes achieved with a slight tilt, satination, and metallic-like colors
Flat and tilted panels with a satinated and irridescent metallic-like coating
Satinated and structurally coloured to create a dynamic, glare free, facade
Satinated, flat mounted black panels on roof and facades
Black gloss with mostly hidden PV technology for a black diamond appearance
Matt satinated with metallic-like color coating and shingled panels for depth & shadow
Shingled panels with satinated and metallic-like coating in varying sizes
Satinated and metallic-like colour coating that support precise architectual lines
Irridescent colour changes achieved with a slight tilt, satination, and metallic-like colors
Flat and tilted panels with a satinated and irridescent metallic-like coating
Satinated and structurally coloured to create a dynamic, glare free, facade
Satinated, flat mounted black panels on roof and facades
The aesthetic expression of the facade has both visual and physical qualities that can be customised. Our facades are made of fully tempered glass and seaworthy aluminium that ensures durability with a 50 to 80 year operational life. By customising surface finishing and the color coating on the rear of the glass, we make it easy to achieve any desired aesthetic expression.
With our range of highly reflective or matt metallics and glazed or matt ceramic-like surfaces in any color, you easily and cost-effectively construct a custom solution without compromising the performance of the solar facades.
Although your architectural possibilities with SolarLab are nearly limitless, our facade systems also incorporate predictability. Through meticulous collaboration we provide you with both dependability and cost-efficiency. Our design and engineering teams will be there to support you all the way from early concept to final design, as well as during the the installation and commissioning process.
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By utilising your 3D sketches and models, we can simulate your project’s electricity production potential and visualise our findings in 3D and data graphs to help you evaluate and develop your design from the earliest concepts. These simulations, along with cost estimates, provide stakeholders with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions and proceed with the supply agreement.
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SolarLab’s design and engineering team is always available to help eliminate any potential concerns. To this end, we make it a priority to support your design process with tools, guidance, samples, and technical solutions along the way. We offer prototypes of panels, mountings, or even complete facade sections, when needed for local approvals, testing, or to support the installation tendering.
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Once the architectural design is frozen and structurally approved, we begin final production engineering, manufacturing, and assembly. After third party inspection, the facades along with detailed installation guides are carefully packaged and shipped for installation and commissioning by the local installers.
To support your design from early concept to final documentation we provide a range of free design guides with typical details, ranging from how to optimally layout custom solar panels, ventilated rain screens and roofs, as well as our 3rd party verified EPD. We have also developed a range of dynamic BIM tools for the most common architectural CAD platforms. Available for SketchUp, Rhino7/Grasshopper, Rhino8, Archicad 24-27, and Revit. You will also find our brochure and EPD available for download here. Don't forget to use our RoM calculator to estimate production and cost for your project, and please specify that SolarLab.global is the basis for the design in your documentation. Please reach out if you’re interested in our virtual or on-site AIA accredited professional development sessions, or would like to discuss a potential collaboration.
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