Building Facade Consultant
Push The Envelop
Elevating Possibilities, Beyond the Facade
The facade of the building has a significant impact on the environmental and economic performance of buildings and projects. The specification of their elements during the first design phase depends on many technical, environmental and economic factors and involves several stakeholders.
The purchase and delivery of the facade work package from the initial design phase, through detailed design and manufacturing, to installation is a process with several inherent risk factors due to the costs involved, technical and engineering complexities and its position on the critical path in all projects.
Why Choose Outin Facade
A facade is one of the main influencers that determine the value, commercial success and project risk of a building, but it is also one of the most common sources of building failure. Few realize how complex a facade system can be. A façade is required to resist and accommodate many different factors in the provision of a suitable separation between the indoor and outdoor environments. It is required to:
- Have sufficient structural strength and rigidity
- Accommodate building movements
- Be air and water tight
- Resist the spread of fire, flame and gas
- Control sound and vibration
- Control heat flow
- Control light and solar radiation
- Be durable and sustainable
Therefore, OUTIN must be appointed from the earliest design stages of a project in order to understand what are the client’s objectives and what they can afford, so that façade engineers can assess different solutions and determine the performances required for the façade. In such manner, the project moves smoothly and all related parties are fully informed and satisfied.
Changing even one aspect of a design will affect other elements, and not always in obvious ways. If your project is being value engineered, assuming a systems wide vantage point will give you a more accurate picture of the implications of alterations. Changes to the design may end up costing the same or even more in the long run due to how these proposed changes affect other aspects of the project and what additional peripheral costs will be incurred by making the proposed change.
OUTIN evaluates and thinks about life-cycle costs of the projects, factors such as energy usage, material costs and fabrication and installation methods in order to make sure that a significant saving will be realized.
OUTIN will deliver clear, understandable options on how to improve the efficiency of a system, highlighting the pros and cons of each solution. This information can save managers time from having to sift through piles of information. Also, we offer gap analysis, providing better estimates and more realistic completion dates, by improving the construction programme in order to get the project finished on time.
One of the biggest advantages of a glass façade is how it looks. A homeowner can make a statement with their property by using glass creatively to build a magnificent structure. Glass has the unique ability to make a building look sophisticated and achieve virtually any architectural design you desire. Nothing is out of the question when it comes to incorporating glass into architecture, so use the aesthetics of glass to your advantage. OUTIN coordinates closely with the architect and building owner to accomplish the adequate image of the façade.
A major part of every Façade Consultant’s job is to keep up with current systems, materials, building codes, technology, strategies, and methodologies. When these skills are used, it’s normal for company leaders to require an in-depth explanation of these methodologies and how the consultant used them to reach his or her conclusions.
Employees are interpreters established in their own job descriptions. However, it can be difficult to get employees to implement short-term goals when it comes to using other skill sets. Employees who normally perform specific tasks may be bored of having additional tasks or may simply be unfit and too inexperienced for the task. Appointing OUTIN and their extensive expertise and knowledge in the building envelope field often ends up saving the substantial time and money that would be involved in retraining employees, organizing and prioritizing their schedules and implementing strategy.