Case Studies
Unitised Curtain Walling GFRC Façade with Balconies
This course looks at unitised GFRC façade. The façade consists of standard and off-the-shelf spigot based unitised curtain walling profiles without project-specific extrusions. The building has a high-performance envelope with signature piers and openings, as well as the monumental, yet elegant outlook.
Sandwich Panel Façade with Expanded Mesh
This course considers the sandwich panel façade clad covered with expanded mesh. The façade consists of prefabricated insulating panels, curtain walling and mesh cladding. The building has a high-performance envelope with signature mesh coverage and a striking high-tech outlook.
Traditional Masonry Façade with Hit-and-Miss Features
This course is on façade constructed with traditional, as well as the hit-and-miss brick bonds. The façade has protruding feature piers of a varying depth. The building has a high-performance envelope with elegant hit-and-miss zones and a traditional masonry outlook.
Traditional Masonry Façade in Low-Rised Timber Frame Construction
This course is on a low-rised timber-framed façade clad in traditional masonry. As a the most popular envelope assembly, the masonry clad insulated timber frame often seen in residential ‘one-off’ houses or terraces. The building has a high-performance envelope with feature openings and a traditional masonry outlook.
Unitised Curtain Walling Façade with Single Transom Spandrel
This course is on façade constructed with single transom unitised curtain walling. This assembly offers an uninterrupted floor to ceiling outlook with only one transom in the slab zone. The building has a high-performance envelope with continuous glazing fabric and an elegant high-tech outlook.
Stick Curtain Walling Façade in High-Rises
This course looks at high-rise façade constructed with stick curtain walling. The building has a high-performance envelope with extensive glazing and a timeless modern outlook.
Part 1. Insulated Render Facade
This course is on façade insulated render and storey height openings. Over the last two decades, the insulated render became one of the most used façade-treatment systems. Most of the buildings with insulated render are now at the end of their service and design lives. Some of them require minor repairs, while others need to replacement of large areas. The building has a high-performance envelope with feature openings and a minimalistic, yet elegant outlook.
Part 2. Insulated Render Façade with Balconies
This course is the second part of the series. The course looks at the insulated render façade with storey height openings and balconies. Over the last two decades, the insulated render became one of the most used façade-treatment systems. The building has a high-performance envelope with feature balconies and a minimalistic, yet elegant outlook.
Unitised Curtain Walling with Stone and Glass in High-Rises
This course is on high-rise residential façade constructed with unitised curtain walling. The units of curtain walling are glazed with glass panes and covered in stone panels. All part of assembly are prefabricated and installed from the inside of a building. The building has a high-performance envelope with large feature protrusions and an elegant natural outlook.
Rainscreen GFRC Façade in Mid-Rises.
This course considers façade with traditional rainscreen constructed from glass fibre reinforced concrete (GFRC). The façade has full-height glazed openings. The building has a high-performance envelope with feature openings and a timeless concrete outlook.
Unitised Curtain Walling with Recessed Feature Spandrel
This course is on unitised curtain walling with a feature recess in a spandrel zone. The course solves an established problem of achieving visible spandrel recesses in unitised curtain walling with standard profiles. The building has a high-performance envelope with elegant slab-level recesses and a signature high-tech outlook.
Chimney Effect in Protruding Cladding Features
This course looks at chimney effect in hollow feature protrusions on facades with the three types window assembly. First – punched openings with rainscreen spandrel zone. Second – stacked windows with system-specific spandrel. Third – stick curtain walling opening with glazed-in spandrel panel. The building has a high-performance envelope with safe feature protrusions and a minimalistic, yet elegant outlook.
Unitised Curtain Walling Façade with GFRC Units
This course is on unitised curtain walling façade with prefabricated glass reinforced concrete (GFRC) units. This assembly offers an monumental corner protrusions and feature piers. The building has a high-performance envelope with monumental piers and a high-tech, yet natural outlook.
Storey-Height Precast Panel Façade with Masonry Outlook
This course is on façade constructed with prefabricated concrete panels. The panels have a layer of brick veneers in a vertical stretcher bond installed under factory conditions. The panels have storey-height openings. The building has a high-performance envelope with monumental protrusions and a traditional masonry outlook.
Unitised Curtain Walling with Semi-Recessed Terrace
This course is on unitised stone façade in abutment with the semi-recessed positively drained terrace. Eventually, the terrace becomes a working platform for installation of curtain walling on the floors above. The building has a high-performance envelope with feature terrace crown and a signature high-tech outlook.
Feature Banding in Masonry Facades with Balconies
This course is on façade constructed with traditional masonry, punched openings and feature slab protrusion clad in glass reinforced concrete (GFRC) panels. The façade has full-height opening and staggered balconies with both opaque and see-through balustrades. The building has a high-performance envelope with feature arrangement of balconies and a traditional masonry outlook.
Unitised Facades with Recesses
This course is on high-rise façade constructed with unitised curtain walling, which has a gradual horizontal recess. The units of curtain walling are glazed with glass panes and span to the top of the parapet. All part of assembly are prefabricated. The building has significant areas of glazing, continuous aluminium piers and a feature recesses repeating on each floor.
Unitised Curtain walling with single transom spandrel
This course is on high-rise façade constructed with unitised curtain walling. The units of curtain walling are glazed with glass panes and span to the top of the parapet, which forms a large-scale geometrical feature. All part of assembly are prefabricated and installed from the inside of the building. The building has significant areas of glazing, continuous aluminium piers and a feature ‘crown’.
Cantilevers with feature protrusions in Unitised Facades
This course is on high-rise façade constructed with unitised curtain walling. The units of curtain walling are glazed with glass panes and aluminium panels. All part of assembly are prefabricated and installed from the inside of the building. The building has significant areas of glazing, visible cantilever and a high-rise envelope with continuous unitised aluminium piers.
Serviced Roofs in Unitised Facades
This course is on high-rise façade constructed with unitised curtain walling. The units of curtain walling are glazed with glass panes and aluminium panels. All part of assembly are prefabricated and installed from the inside of the building. The building has significant areas of glazing, podium and a high-rise envelope with continuous unitised aluminium piers.
Hybrid Precast and Brickslips
This course is on high-rise residential façade constructed with precast concrete panels. The precast units are covered with brickslip panels and glazed with full-height windows. The building has masonry outlook and decorative recesses.
Cavity Closers
Part 1. Cavity Closers in Vertical Compartmentation
This course looks at cavity closers as a mean of vertical compartmentation for ventilated cavities of external cladding in accordance with the current normative base (2020). The façade type is a rainscreen cladding with punched openings. The building has a high-performing and safe façade.
Part 2. Cavity Closers in Horizontal Compartmentation
This course looks at cavity closers as a mean of horizontal compartmentation for ventilated cavities of external cladding in accordance with the current normative base (2020). The façade type is a rainscreen cladding with punched openings. The building has a high-performing and safe façade.
Part 3. Cavity Closers around Openings
This course looks at cavity closers as a mean of compartmentation around windows and doors in accordance with the current normative base (2020). The façade type is a rainscreen cladding with punched openings. The building has a high-performing and safe façade.
Movement and Tolerances
Movement and Tolerances in Unitised Systems with Spigots
The course looks at accommodating movement and tolerances in unitised curtain walling facades with spigots. The course pays particular attention to the movement of curtain walling units and their fixing to the slab. The movement and tolerances of the façade were achieved with all standard systems (profiles, fixings, subframes, etc). The curtain walling creates a robust envelope of the building.
Movement and Tolerances in Unitised Systems without Spigots
The course looks at accommodating movement and tolerances in unitised curtain walling facades without spigots. The course pays particular attention to the movement of curtain walling units and their fixing to the font of the slab. The movement and tolerances of the façade were achieved with all standard systems (profiles, fixings, subframes, etc). The curtain walling creates a robust envelope of the building.
Movement and Tolerances in Stick Systems
The course looks at accommodating movement and tolerances in stick curtain walling facades. The course pays particular attention to the movement of curtain walling units and their fixing to the slab. The movement and tolerances of the façade were achieved with all standard systems (profiles, fixings, subframes, etc). The curtain walling creates a robust envelope of the building.
Movement and Tolerances in Lightweight Steel Framing
The course looks at accommodating movement and tolerances in the lightweight steel framing. The course pays particular attention to the movement of vertical studs and horizontal tracks. The movement and tolerances of the façade were achieved with all standard systems (profiles, fixings, subframes, etc). The steel arrangement forms a robust framing for the rest of the envelope.
Aluminium Cladding
Part 1. Aluminium Rainscreen with Punched Openings
This course considers rainscreen façade clad in aluminium panels and glazed with storey-height windows. Aluminium panels have become the second most widely spread facade coverage after bricks. There are three ways of installing aluminium panel façade. First – fixing of aluminium cladding back to the lightweight steel frame with punched openings. Second - mixture of rain-screen cladding and stick-curtain wall system. Third – incorporating both aluminium panels and glass panes in unitised curtain walling. This course is on the first assembly type. The building has a high-performance envelope with extensive glazing and an elegant outlook.
Part 2. Aluminium Rainscreen with Curtain Walling
This course considers rainscreen façade clad in aluminium panels and glazed with stick curtain walling. Aluminium panels have become the second most widely spread facade coverage after bricks. There are three ways of installing aluminium panel façade. First – fixing of aluminium cladding back to the lightweight steel frame with punched openings. Second - mixture of rain-screen cladding and stick-curtain wall system. Third – incorporating both aluminium panels and glass panes in unitised curtain walling. This course is on the second assembly type. The building has a high-performance envelope with extensive glazing and a striking high-tech outlook.
Part 3. Unitised Curtain Walling with Aluminium and Glass
This course looks at unitised façade with glazed-in glass paned and aluminium panels. Aluminium panels have become the second most widely spread facade coverage after bricks. There are three ways of installing aluminium panel façade. First – fixing of aluminium cladding back to the lightweight steel frame with punched openings. Second - mixture of rain-screen cladding and stick-curtain wall system. Third – incorporating both aluminium panels and glass panes in unitised curtain walling. This course is on the third assembly type. The building has a high-performance envelope with extensive glazing and a striking high-tech outlook.
Masonry Protrusions
Part 1. Masonry Protrusions in Structural Precast Façade Panels
This course is on façade constructed with structural prefabricated concrete panels. The panels have storey-height openings and feature protrusions with a layer of brick veneers installed under factory conditions. The building has a high-performance envelope with monumental protrusions and a traditional masonry outlook.
Part 2. Masonry Protrusions in Rainscreen Façade with Brick-Veneers
This course looks at rainscreen façade with punched openings and brick veneers. The façade has storey-height openings and feature protrusions with a layer of mechanically-fixed brick veneers installed on-site. The building has a high-performance envelope with monumental protrusions and a traditional masonry outlook.
Facade Additions. Feature Entrance Canopy in Copper Cladding
This course is on the grand seven-meter tall entrance feature with canopy and cladding. The resultant entrance portal has an elegance of a thin metal structure achieved with the thin non-loadbearing side cladding.The building has a high-performance envelope elevated with the signature entrance portal and an elegant high-tech outlook.
Curtain Walling ‘Shopfront’ Façade with Roof Terrace
This course is on stick curtain walling seamlessly ending in a balustrade on a floor above. This assembly became increasingly common in commercial units with an accessible rooftop. The building has a high-performance envelope crowned with the feature balustrade and an elegant high-tech outlook.
Traditional Masonry Façade with Metal Feature Reveals.
This course is on façade constructed with traditional masonry and embellished with feature metal pressings in the form of reveals around two stories of windows. The full-height glazed openings divided into vertical pairs of two with reveals and spandrel-zone cladding. The building has a high-performance envelope with elegant feature reveals and a traditional masonry outlook.
Unitised Curtain Walling Façade with Aluminium and Glass in High-Rises
This course is on high-rise residential façade constructed with unitised curtain walling. The units of curtain walling are glazed with glass panes and storey-high aluminium panels. All parts of assembly are prefabricated and installed from the inside of a building. The building has a high-performance envelope with feature protrusions and a striking high-tech outlook.
Rainscreen Cladding with Brick Veneers and GFRC Feature Band
This course looks at rainscreen façade with punched openings, brick veneers and feature glass-reinforced concrete (GFRC) banding in the slab zone. The façade has storey-height openings and feature protrusions with a layer of mechanically-fixed brick veneers installed on-site. The building has a high-performance envelope with feature banding and a traditional masonry outlook.
Rainscreen Façade with Brick Veneers and Aluminium in Mid-Rises
This course is on façade constructed with traditional masonry and aluminium cladding in spandrel zone and balconies. The full-height glazed openings divided into vertical pairs with spandrel-zone cladding. The building has a high-performance envelope with feature aluminium zones and a traditional masonry outlook.
Protruding Feature Slabs in Masonry Facades
This course is on façade constructed with traditional masonry in angular piers and embellished with feature slab protrusion clad in glass reinforced concrete (GFRC) panels. The façade has full-height punched opening and recessed balconies with balustrades. The building has a high-performance envelope with feature slabs and faceted, yet traditional masonry outlook.
Openings and Cladding in Masonry Facades with Balconies
This course is on façade constructed with traditional masonry, punched openings and stacked balconies with both opaque and see-through balustrades. The feature balustrade transitions into the feature window sill clad in glass-fibre reinforced concrete. The building has a high-performance envelope with continuous balcony glazing and a traditional masonry outlook.
Top Floor Standing Seam Cladding for Extensions and New-Builts
This course is on façade constructed with standing seam cladding. Originating in roofing, the standing seam cladding have become increasingly popular in both extensions and new-builts. The building has a high-performance envelope with feature cladding and an iconic outlook.
Low-Rise Masonry Facade with Recessed Balconies and Traditional Bricks
This course looks at the low-rise masonry facade with recessed balconies and traditional bricks. The solid wall areas are covered in bricks and detailed as a rainscreen. The building has a masonry outlook and decorative recesses.
High-Rise Masonry Facade with Recessed Balconies and Precast Panels
This course looks at the high-rise masonry facade with recessed balconies and precast panels. The envelope consists of precast concrete panels that were covered in brick veneers. The building has masonry outlook and decorative recesses.
Mid-Rise Masonry Facade with Recessed Balconies and Brick Veneers
This course looks at the mid-rise masonry facade with recessed balconies and brick veneers. The envelope is a rainscreen type with lightweight cladding panels that were laid in brick veneers. The building has a masonry outlook and decorative recesses.
Mid-Rise Traditional Masonry Facade with Recessed Balconies and Cladding Panels
This course looks at the mid-rise traditional masonry facade with recessed balconies and cladding panels. The solid wall areas are covered in bricks and aluminium panels. The façade construction principle is a rainscreen. The building has a traditional masonry outlook with stylised cladding areas and balcony recesses.
Unitised Curtain Walling with Precast and Traditional Masonry Piers
This course provides an in-depth overview of the unitised curtain walling with independent precast and traditional masonry piers. The solid wall areas are covered in curtain walling with glazed-in insulating panels and aluminium feature piers. The building has a monumental outlook and decorative curtain walling recesses.
Precast Concrete Panel Façade with Glazed-In and Hollow Sections
This course looks at the high-rise precast panel facade with a masonry outlook. All parts of the facades are built with concrete panels that are either fully glazed-in or left hollow. The panels with glazed-in sections have a vision and non-vision areas. The latter comprises the solid walls in the building and covered with brick slips.
Traditional Masonry Facade with Staggered Balconies and Windows
This course looks at the traditional masonry façade with staggered windows and balconies that protrude inwards and outwards. The course will demonstrate realisation of the popular staggered outlook in traditional bricks. All solid wall areas of the facades are laid in traditional bricks. The balustrading of protruding and recessed balconies is made of aluminium. The staggering arrangement of the windows and balconies affects the masonry support configuration. The recessed balconies are thermally broken and have traditional masonry fascia with brick support on each floor, due to staggering. The façade construction principle is traditional brick cladding on masonry support brackets that also act as lintels.
Brick Slip and Terracotta Façade with Feature Piers and Juliette Balconies
This course looks at the rainscreen façade clad in brick slips and terracotta panels around storey-high windows with Juliette balconies. The course demonstrates realisation of the popular monumental outlook in contemporary brick slip and terracotta cladding systems. All solid wall areas include lightweight steel framing, which transfers the loads imposed on the façade - to the primary frame. The balustrading in Juliette balconies is made of aluminium. The feature protrusions are large and hollow. They require additional considerations for fire separation. The head reveals are cast-in brick, while the sills are aluminium.
