Working with KAWNEER means
getting the guidance you need to assist you in selecting, visualising, testing, costing, and implementing solutions for all your projects...
Our engineers, our selection guides, our aluminium systems-facades engineering and test centre, our specific software, are completely integrated in the global KAWNEER aluminium systems offer.
CREATION
- Kawneer e-book: dynamic electronic source of architectural inspiration used to discover a wide range of French and international projects that integrate Kawneer systems: facades and aluminium systems, classified by major category (Offices, Collective housing, Individual housing, Commercial, Education, Health, etc.)
- Thematic project brochures (Hotels, Pools, Education, Housing)
- Prescriptive guides that include all of the range's technical and site-specific solutions
- Technical and design solutions specific to each project: colour, shape, resistance
- Technical feasibility studies conducted by Technical Department engineers for the Architecture according to professional rules.
Each feasibility study is conducted using KAWNEER-specific IT tools:
Kalinertie: for calculating the strength of materials
Kalutherm: for calculating the thermal performance of the systems used
Kaluperm: the permeability threshold of KAWNEER aluminium systems according to building type (BBC)
- Availability of a database of technical solutions developed in other KAWNEER group units (England, Germany, Holland, United States)
- Technical collaboration with additional industrial groups in seeking a global solution
- Assistance of the architect during presentations of technical solutions to the project owner
- Special creations, adapted to the most ambitious projects
- Establishment of technical descriptions using KALUCAD and AUTOCAD software
COSTING
- Establishment of the technical descriptions for the KAWNEER solutions chosen in order to complete tendering documents
- Establishment of a project structure to create a winning synergy: process development engineer - specifier - partner company
- Economic survey of the project in partnership with the KAWNEER specialist manufacturer-installer:
Kalucad: KAWNEER-specific software for designing and costing standard or specific technical solutions
Creation of full-scale prototypes for technical and aesthetic validation
SIMULATION
- Simulation software downloads:
Kalutherm for calculating thermal performance
Kaluperm for determining airtightness performance. Permeability threshold of KAWNEER aluminium systems according to building type (BBC - low consumption bldg.)
- Technical choice according to the architectural project:
Representative cross-sections and simulation with environment
- Software for calculating sunshade frame width according to the architectural project and location
- 3D simulator for detailed viewing of the selected technical solutions
- Integrated engineering centre for manufacturing, testing, and validating all of the solutions developed:
Specific aluminium systems solutions test bench
Specific facade solutions test bench
- Technical solutions validation by official technical bodies
- Assistance with the manufacture and in situ implementation of the technical solutions developed
TECHNICAL
- Online technical database available 24/7 (
www.kawneer-online.com):
Technical catalogues
Tests and performance of KAWNEER systems
Technical descriptions of standard systems
Information regarding current regulations:
. DTU
. Professional rules
. Inertia and thermal calculations
- Project Information Service
Our email address "
projet@kawneer.com" is used to exchange information and obtain, within 72 hours, the answers to all of your specific KAWNEER facade and aluminium systems needs Integrated engineering centre for manufacturing, testing, and validating all of the solutions developed:
Specific aluminium systems solutions test bench
Specific facade solutions test bench
- Technical solutions validation by official and notified technical bodies
- In situ tests for system validation: acoustic, AEV (Air, Water, Wind)
- Assistance with the manufacture and in situ implementation of the technical solutions developed
IMPLEMENTATION
- Powerful and versatile industrial tools for quickly treating extrusion and surface treatment orders
- Project managers in permanent contact with architects and companies to monitor manufacturing and the site implementation of technical solutions
- Regional managers to study your most ambitious projects with you and your collaborators, every day, in your branch
- National network of partner companies specialised in the manufacture and implementation of KAWNEER aluminium architectural systems
GREEN
- Specific KAWNEER software to calculate the thermal performance and permeability of the systems according to current and future normative and regulatory requirements (BBC or low consumption bldg. - RT2012):
Thermal (Uw)
Light transmission (Tlw)
Solar factor (Sw)
- Integrated eco-responsible technical solutions development service
- Availability of MSDS (Material and Safety Data Sheets) dedicated to aluminium systems
- Partnership with engineering offices for BBC (low consumption bldg.) project certification - Effinergie