5 advantages of a solar facade for redevelopment properties

How sustainable is your building? Solar energy is seen as the most important source of energy in the future. With the increase in energy performance regulations, existing buildings urgently need integrated renewable energy solutions. Here, real estate redevelopment carries, from meeting the new energy label obligations to the energy output of the façade.

Discover the 5 benefits of a sustainable solar facade from Solarix for real estate redevelopment!

With new obligations under the 2012 Building Decree, an office building must have at least energy label C by 1 January 2023 to remain in use. According to the Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland (RVO) this means "a primary fossil energy use of no more than 225 kWh per m2 per year".

By integrating a solar facade into property redevelopment, you kill two birds with one stone, because you not only create a beautiful aesthetic facade, but you also make the building sustainable in terms of energy consumption. With a Solarix facade, you can even achieve at least one or two label jumps and thus generate energy as well!

First check your office's current energy label on central government EP online and then do our SolarCheck to see what we can do for your property redevelopment.

Solar panels are crucial in the energy transition, but their functionality often detracts from the aesthetics of a property. Indeed, black surfaces on roofs look anything but attractive. Aesthetics, however, are in our view an important part of the urban environment. As co-founder Reinier once said in the Financieel Dagblad: "solar panels don't have to be objects you hide away on the roof, you can also see them as the beautiful skin of a building".

With our vision, we therefore combine functional with beautiful. We do this by using coloured solar panels on the facade with different collections in structure, depth plays and colours. So we look much further than the standard black solar panels on the roof. Solarix thus creates more design and colour options for architects and developers to realise intelligent buildings.

The fact that our solar facades add aesthetic value to redevelopment projects therefore became clear with the realisation of Pharos business centre in Hoofddorp. For the project, 450m2 of the facade was fitted with our design facade solar panels. From boring to beautiful and sustainable. During the day, the façade contributes to energy production and at night, the LED points in the façade illuminate the station square in front of it.

Many existing buildings of 25 years or older that have cladding panels are in need of replacement. A new sustainable façade therefore adds value to a building. In addition, Solarix panels are not only sustainable but also attractive to look at. Give the façade an extra dimension!

Over the past eight years, our design philosophy has delivered beautiful facades with high efficiency when replacing existing cladding. With the current team and knowledge, there is a reliable and professional basis for developing facades from 100m2 to several thousand square metres.

We like to think along from a facade solution to a total solution for building or area. This allows us to step in and make our contribution to property redevelopment from the start, but also later in the construction process.

The facade as an energy supplier? It can be done! People still often only look first at rooftop solar panels for in property redevelopment, but solar energy from the façade gives a better distribution of energy yields and thus also prevents grid congestion.

Especially for high-rise buildings, buildings where there is little roof space or where roofs are unsuitable, solar panels on the façade are a beautiful and sustainable alternative on roof solar panels for energy production. The available space on the roof can then be used for roof gardens, which in turn also contribute to urban greening.

We design and develop our own colours and collections of Solar façade panels, with optimal efficiency. A great example of a building that used to have a regular façade but now generates renewable energy is the redevelopment project of the Kuijpers' office Helmond.

The Kuijpers office was the first building in the world to receive the innovative, energy-generating, coloured solar panel facade of Solarix got. There too, the new solar design facade is not only beautiful, but already generates so much energy that it supplies the entire lighting of the building! In addition, the LED lighting here also communicates with the surroundings.

How much facade space do you have available? Where a regular façade yields nothing, a façade with solar panels not only adds aesthetic value, but also literally yields energy. That way, you exploit the full potential of the building and even earn your money back with the facade.

With our SolarCheck we calculate the potential energy yield of the facade, as well as the payback period and installation costs. The more facade area you have available in property redevelopment, the greater the impact and energy yield.

Our vision is that all new buildings and renovation projects will be equipped with energy-generating solar facades in the near future. As the market leader in this, we offer the best and, above all, the most beautiful solution with our design collection with optimal colours, yields and integration options.

Wondering how we can contribute to your building's label leap? With the free SolarCheck we show through concrete examples and clear calculation models what solar facades can mean for real estate redevelopment.