The Challenge
The new building is a plus-energy house in hybrid construction, in which the PV façade was designed by the company Schweizer Metallbau. The substructure must be built on the wind paper level. As part of a federal P+D project, it has even been requested that part of the substructure be pre-assembled in the timber construction company's production hall on a trial basis. All building facades including balcony parapets are to be clad with PV modules.
The Ecolite Solution
In order to achieve the highest possible degree of freedom for the positioning of the vertical support profiles and at the same time an insertion rail for the cables of the PV modules, horizontal rings of an omega profile have been placed around the building. The secondary, system-specific UK could then be completely pre-assembled and prepared for the PV modules. The PV modules themselves were back-railed by Abadis AG using a façade-certified tape from tesa tape Switzerland.
Ecolite Products
These Ecolite products were used:
Omegaprofil OM construction depth 20 mm incl. profile connectors, support profile KA 25, painted black, secondary-UK system KA-Solar for fold-out modules.
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Photos: Peter Schäublin, © Ernst Schweizer AG.