DOUBLE-SKIN FAÇADE OFFICE BUILDINGS IN EUROPE

Abstract

Occupants and investors in office buildings ask increasingly these days building designer professionals, be they architects, structural engineers or building services engineers about confortable, healthy, energy efficient buildings that use at maximum free resources, renewable energy sources, performant materials or systems. The multitude of office buildings built with double-skin façade across Europe is a good example in respect these goals, even if is still too little experience of their behavior globally and more so in Romania. This paper aims to provide some examples of double-skin façade from Europe, with the ultimate goal to take into account all its benefits and apply them into our country.