Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Opaly : Active Solar envelope in buildings

OPALY SAS is owned by the family Balduini and Jean Maillard. The family Balduini has also Usiduc, business specialist machining and processing of composite materials. This brings to OPALY its reputation and its know-how. 

The developments OPALY respond to the problems of heating and cooling industrial buildings, commercial and logistics. These products include functions Siding classic (structure and insulation) and functions active (solar thermal…). In addition, eco-design adopted by the company OPALY takes into account environmental constraints related to the product life cycle. 

The principle of frontage, or active solar envelope in buildings, is one of the objectives described in the forward-looking document of the European Technology Platform on solar thermal (ESTTP Solar Vision, in May 2006). It should cover between 50 and 100% of heating needs of buildings, and therefore to develop products combining the functions support, insulation and energy generator.  
OPALY established a real process innovation, with particularly interesting options to meet the standards, such as the choice of materials used or integration of technologies into a building. Thus qu'OPALY based its project: to develop a solar cladding for heating and cooling of buildings, in line with future regulations (RT 2010, RT 2015…). These panels cover aesthetic, colored with the wishes of the client, especially for commercial buildings, and so on. In southern exposure, this facade could recover 50% of solar flux. In a second phase, OPALY plans to incorporate the generation of electricity panels by adding photovoltaic cells.

Source : Oseo
More information on : www.opaly.fr

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