Facades

The BG&E Facades team provides a proactive and innovative approach to design; encompassing a team of Architects, Structural Engineers, Materials Science specialists, Facade Designers and Building Physicists; enabling us to deliver a truly multi-disciplinary service to our clients.

Core Skills

  • Facade Concept Design
  • Building Physics
  • Materials Science
  • Facade Sustainability Evaluation
  • LEED Rating (U.S. Green Building Council)
  • Facade System Design
  • Facade Tender Documentation
  • Facade Procurement
  • Facade Fabrication Inspection
  • Facade Remediation
  • Facade Conservation
  • Expert Witness
  • Product Design

The Facade Consultancy Service

We enable the visual and technical aspirations of projects by providing knowledge of sustainability benchmarking, LEED Rating, materials science, precedents, cost analysis, life-cycle costing, maintenance, buildability, technical performance, manufacturing techniques, fabrication and installation.

Our project work consists of a diversity of client groups, which enables us to understand the needs of the various members of the design and construction team; including developers, architects and main contractors.

The core elements to our new-build consultancy can be broadly split into three distinct stages:

  • Strategic Conceptual Advice
  • Design Documentation
  • Manufacture, Testing and Inspection

Other Specialist Services

In addition to the design and construction stages of a project, we are also actively involved in diagnostic and expert witness work.

Facade Remediation

We provide a broad range of advice including the design of systems for the:

  • remedial weatherproofing
  • structural re-fixing and structural making good
  • on-site re-finishing of steel / aluminium / copper alloy

of curtain wall, strip window and punched window facades.

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