The world’s first building facade element using large area Helia Film in combination with fiber cement panels features unique advantages, namely low weight and flexible dimensional design. It allows clean energy production on durable facade elements, as required by EU building directive 2020 for net-zero-energy buildings.
Growing urbanization and global emission reduction targets are calling for new energy efficient buildings, which require widespread usage of BIPV solutions. The current BIPV products are not yet mass-marketable and are often limited to prestige building projects.
This new low weight, large area product, based on pre-fabricated fiber cement elements with fully integrated Helia Film provides a wide range of design freedom in color, size, form and factor, a high degree of aesthetic appeal and ease of installation. These elements generate electricity efficiently in building façades and feature low total project costs.
SVK and Heliatek are already in the design phase of the next step, a pilot project in Belgium, which will showcase the newly created building façade elements in late 2016.
