Ventilated facades offer numerous benefits including resistance to fire, dust, and humidity as well as better durability, as RAK Ceramics points out. RAK Ceramics sees ventilated facades as the best solution for maximising insulation while reducing unwanted condensation or thermal bridge problems.

Technal is an expert when it comes to providing customised solutions for facades and meeting design requirements of today’s complex architecture. The façades and fenestration market in the Middle East continues to scale new heights of sophistication, where bespoke solutions are the order of the day.

Headquartered in Sharjah with production bases in the UAE, Turkey, Serbia and India, Alubond USA is the flagship brand of Mulk Holdings and claims to be the largest manufacturer of aluminium composite panels (ACPs) in the world.

Given that buildings are responsible for 40 per cent of the total carbon dioxide emissions (in the EU), sustainability is now on the top of the agenda of the construction industry, says Reynaers Aluminium, which has been focusing on making a genuine contribution to a new way of building.