Façade Engineering
When the building envelope is as much an engineering challenge as an architectural one.
What’s included
- Structural façade and cladding system design.
- Curtain wall and unitised system engineering.
- Glazing performance specification and solar gain analysis.
- Thermal bridging assessment and envelope airtightness design.
- Weatherproofing and water ingress risk assessment.
- Coordination with building services for integrated envelope-services performance.
For buildings with technically complex or high-performance building envelopes, façade engineering addresses the structural, thermal, and weatherproofing performance of a building's external skin specifically — curtain walling, cladding systems, and glazing performance — as a distinct specialism from general structural and building services engineering.
This is particularly relevant for commercial, institutional, and high-specification residential buildings where the envelope's performance determines a significant proportion of the building's energy behaviour, occupant comfort, and long-term maintenance liability. Early façade engineering input — integrated with architectural, structural, and building services design — prevents the more costly resolution of performance gaps once a specification is fixed or a building is already under construction.
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