TEKTA is once again delighted to be a part of the Verona Stone Fair 2017. It will be a great opportunity to meet us and discover our full range of innovative products.

We will be presenting TEKTA Cladding Technology in Hall 7 Stand B8 at the Verona Stone Fair 2017.

We are looking forward to meeting you!

STOA presents its energy efficient facade technology BILDA

Publication in STROITELI journal, issue 6, 2017

Energy efficiency is a powerful tool for stimulating the economic and social development of society and achieving  higher energy efficiency is a key element of ecologically sustainable development. The European Union is consistently pursuing a policy of enhancing energy efficiency and reducing energy consumption by adopting measures for the improvement of efficiency in the European community.  These measures include boosting the energy characteristics of products, buildings and services.

In the construction business the efforts to maximize efficiency are focused on the operation stage of buildings because the extraction, processing, transportation and use of materials that go into them are processes that consume a lot of energy and pollute the environment.

The building envelope plays a crucial role for reducing heat losses through its architectural form and orientation, insulation capabilities, protection of the thermal bridges inside it and control of infiltration through its elements. The choice of a fixing system that will ensure maximum characteristics of the building enclosure is the key to the execution of an energy-optimal project.

TEKTA system is an innovative, flexible tool for saving resources and energy due to the numerous advantages it offers:

• Optimized design of the system components, which leads to excellent strength-to-weight ratio and smaller quantity of metal for their production;
• Flexible design and capability to accommodate thinner outer and inner layers resulting in savings of material for constructing these layers;
• Low weight of the substructure, which allows for it to be transported with lower emissions of exhaust gases in the atmosphere;
• Durability and resistance to climatic conditions and corrosion of the material, which guarantees optimal functioning of the system;
• ‘Lego-like‘ method of assembly of its components and possibility for preassembly, which cuts down installation time by 50% and reduces energy consumption, noise levels and air pollution;
• The wide cavity between the substrate and the cladding slabs/panels makes it possible to increase the thickness of the insulation material, significantly cuts the loss of heat from thermal bridges and improves the energy characteristics of the building;
• Capability to integrate energy harvesting panels; Use of 100% recyclable aluminium to make the components; Special oval shape and size of the slot, which spares the integrity of the panels, allows for the use of thinner panels and reduces the quantity of cladding material;
• One-layer grid of horizontally or vertically positioned strut profiles resulting in substructure weight reduction and cost savings.

TEKTA is an innovative integral technology for building the vertical platform of the exterior wall and for forming the façade through intelligent and sustainable use of resources to ensure lower energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions during the whole life cycle of a building.

Publication in STROITELI journal, issue 1, 2017

STOA Ltd. has been active in the construction sector for 16 years and specializes in building facades. The team at the company has always striven to optimize their work in order to respond to the challenges the construction sector, and especially façade construction companies, are facing:

• Improvement of the energy efficiency of buildings;
• Great variety of materials for façade cladding;
• Stricter requirements for a thicker layer of thermal insulation;
• Complex design solutions related to the exterior appearance of the building;
• Shorter time for execution and many others.

At present the construction of the building enclosure is fragmented: one specialty contractor carries out the fixing of the load-bearing substructure, another installs the thermal insulation and yet another mounts the cladding panels. So many separate operations make execution more expensive, take longer and require more resources.

These are just some of the issues the team has to address in their everyday work and in trying to find solutions to these problems they came up with the idea of developing a single modular system for the construction of façades. The system provides a complex solution for mechanical fixing of ventilated facades and has enormous advantages.

Its main components are the fixing system for the horizontal and vertical profiles, which form the load-bearing substructure and support the full set of interface components.  The load-bearing function is transferred to the BILDA construction, which is attached to the main structure of the building only to the floor plates, thus minimizing thermal bridges and increasing the energy efficiency of the exterior wall. Specially developed fixing of the thermal installation removes the limitations for the thickness of the insulation layer and facilitates the use of technologically new insulation materials.

The Omega-channels of the strut profiles allow for their quick coupling and interlocking with the other elements on the basis of Lego-like principle of connection. The struts are lighter than the traditionally used rails because they are made of recyclable aluminium.

The interface components are specially modelled for the purpose of the present system. Each element has a part or a contour corresponding to a part of the element to which it is attached. The patented assembly principle is that of dual clamping and hooking.