FDB

Excel tool for EnEV pre-design of façade panels

The Trade Association of ­German Precast Construction (FDB) has augmented its eight design aids by adding a new Excel tool for EnEV pre-design pre-sizing large-sized reinforced-concrete façade panels.

In close collaboration with the FDB sponsoring member Halfen GmbH, in Langenfeld, Germany, the FDB, in its Curtain Wall Working Group – composed of staff of the FDB Façade Task Force – developed its new design tool for EnEV pre-design/and pre-sizing.

This design aid is based on an extensive parameter study for added factors for the U-value required as a result of fixing elements (the Halfen...

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