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Integrated
Photovoltaic

A showcase of case studies, 
products and tools for IPV

Supported by:

IEA PVPS Task 15 project aims to create an enabling framework to accelerate the penetration of BIPV products in the global market of renewables.

Operazione co-finanziata dall’Unione europea, Fondo Europeo di Sviluppo Regionale, dallo Stato Italiano, dalla Confederazione elvetica e dai Cantoni nell’ambito del Programma di Cooperazione Interreg V-A Italia-Svizzera

Omicron Headquarter

new construction

Building use: 
office
IPV integration year: 
between 2011 and 2015

Omicron Headquarter

Oberes Ried 1, Klaus, Austria

Introduction

Stakeholders

Aesthetic integration

Energy integration

Technology integration

Decision making

Data

Producer and installer

Map

The new headquarter of Omicron in Vorarlberg presents a BIPV façade realized in the company colours.

(Sunovation)

STAKEHOLDERS

Main building designer: 

Dietrich | Untertrifaller

IPV components producer: 

Sunovation GmbH

Product type: 
Address: 
Glanzstoffstraße 21, Elsenfeld, Germania
Contact: 
info@sunovation.de +49(0) 6022 / 26573-0
Web: 
https://sunovation.de/en/

For the exclusive façade design, SUNOVATION combined colourful solar cells with special coloured glass, creating an architecturally sophisticated and colourfully homogenous surface. This is only opened by the specific structure of the solar cells and their reflections, through which an interesting contrast is created. A special highlight of the energy-producing designer facade is the integrated LED colour display in the company colours. At night, this highlights the facade spectacularly and reflects the affinity for technology and innovative power of the company.

The BIPV modules are estimated to produce around 66 MWh per year.

The façade consists of 510 high-efficiency glass-glass modules (eFORM color) and 90 LED glass elements (eFORM LED) that are specially authorised for vertical installation in the façade. The substructure consists of an extruded section measuring approx. 1,000m and over 1,200 retaining brackets, embedded in the wooden wall. The design as a "structural glazing" bonded joint enables a frameless suspension of the glass elements on the retaining profile that are each suspended at 4 points in so-called "bolt slides" in the substructure.

The client planned for its head office in Vorarlberg an innovative and sustainable facade in its blue, red and yellow logo colours. For this purpose, a glass facade with blue as the main colour has been designed with embedded solar cells.

PROJECT DATA

Project type: 
BIPV SYSTEM DATA
Architectural system: 
facciata ventilata
Integration year: 
2015
Active material: 
silicio cristallino
Module transparency: 
System power [kWp]: 
92
System area [m²]: 
780
Modules orientation: 
sud-ovest
Modules tilt [°]: 
90
Annual PV production [kWh]: 
66,000
IPV components producer: 

Sunovation GmbH

Product type: 
Address: 
Glanzstoffstraße 21, Elsenfeld, Germania
Contact: 
info@sunovation.de +49(0) 6022 / 26573-0
Oberes Ried 1, Klaus, Austria