Unitised Curtain Wall Systems
Laasena offers highly adaptable aluminium Unitised curtain wall systems that enhance your building with a wealth of practical and aesthetic benefits. Our customisable facades look great while providing efficient drainage and ventilation solutions.
Currently we are offering the increase of offsite manufacturing revolutionising the way buildings are being built. Unitised façades are designed to exploit the benefits of building off site and allow modern methods of construction to be applied to the external envelope.
More specifiers, developers and contractors than ever before are recognising the benefits of moving elements of the construction process into a controlled factory environment. The build process can be speeded up, quality is improved and work on site is significantly safer.
How the approach works
Laasena Unitised façades consist of prefabricated and assembled units which can be moved direct from the factory environment to site for fast installation onto pre-prepared fixings. Typically, unitised façades are the width of a glazing bay and one or two storeys high and the panels are fully glazed and sealed off site, with gaskets and glazing beads pre-installed in factory-controlled conditions instead of on site.
The approach can be used for technically challenging projects, as well as fast track schemes, new build and refurbishment, and new designs can be developed for more complex and bespoke façades.
Unitised façades do not dictate uniformity- in fact an infinite range of design variations is possible within the façade structure, with a mix of panel sizes, colours and materials.
Conventional cladding can also be eliminated because the unitised panels can hold stone and cedar, for example, as well as glass. This gives a single point of responsibility for the building envelope, which is easier to manage, and there are no difficult interfaces between different cladding systems.
In design, we bring characteristics of the natural world into built spaces, such as water, greenery, and natural light, or elements like wood and stone. Encouraging the use of natural systems and processes in design allows for exposure to nature, and in turn, these design approaches improve health and wellbeing. There are a number of possible benefits, including reduced heart rate variability and pulse rates, decreased blood pressure, and increased activity in our nervous systems, to name a few.
Over time, our connections to the natural world diverged in parallel with technological developments. Advances in the 19th and 20th centuries fundamentally changed how people interact with nature. Sheltered from the elements, we spent more and more time indoors. Today, the majority of people spend almost 80-90% of their time indoors, moving between their homes and workplaces. As interior designers embrace biophilia.
Laasena Advantages
So what are the advantages of this alternative solution to façade design and construction?
Aesthetics – offer a wide variety of aesthetic variations allowing architects to use any combination of finishes, infills, external feature caps and glazing specification.
Versatile designs including stone cladding, metal, composite or polycarbonate panels; windows, doors and fixed lighting glazing; brise soleil and photovoltaic panels
Shorter lead times – help developers and architects meet the increasing demand for shorter programme times, and can achieve impressive reductions in time on site of up to 70%
Increase safety on site – units can be installed without the need to work at a height on scaffolding.
Reduced storage and handling of materials on site – particular advantage in city centre sites where space and access is restricted.
Precision engineered in a controlled production environment ensuring quality of façade systems are significantly improved
Less wastage – waste control measures are more stringent in a factory environment resulting is reduced costs from wastage, loss and damage.
