Architectural Metal Wall Facade Cladding Systems
Metal wall facade cladding is excellent to provide architectural projects with structural functionalities and aesthetic elements. Facade cladding systems by TBK Metal include different metal types with premium quality and various styles, they enable the exterior wall of your buildings to be well protected and decorated with stunning and attractive designs. With our wide experience of designing, engineering, fabrication services, and numerous cases of installation for many projects, the metal facade cladding products are continuously optimized to provide outstanding fabricating and finishing processes and ensure that your projects can have unparalleled support and satisfactory services.
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Common Metals Used For Metal Facade Cladding
Stainless Steel Facade Cladding
In these decades, stainless steel has been widely used in exterior & interior wall facade cladding systems and other architectural structures and designs, primarily because of some beneficial properties such as rust resistance, and attractive appearance. Its flexible workability at fabrication allow us to design an extensive range of stunning styles. The surface of stainless steel cladding can be finished with various different processes such as brushing, etching, anodizing, sandblasting and more.
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Aluminium Facade Cladding
Aluminium wall cladding systems are the ideal solution for architectural and decorative projects, principally because of that aluminium comes with some favorable features such as lightweight, resistance, durability. The cladding panels and sheets are available in different sizes, patterns, shapes and any thickness, additionally, there are an extensive variety of surface finishes and color, the wide range options allow architects and designers to create a marvelous design and unique style in their projects.
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Expanded Metal Facade
Expanded metal facade is a modern and versatile architectural solution that can be used to enhance the appearance of a building. Made from sheets of metal that are expanded to give it a unique texture, it can be used as a decorative element or as a functional component of a building's envelope. The expanded metal facade can provide ventilation, shading, and privacy while allowing natural light to penetrate through. Its lightweight and durable design make it an ideal choice for modern buildings that require a high level of performance and aesthetic appeal.
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There are some different types of metals that are optional to be main material for metal facade cladding, each type has its own properties and benefits. The metal options will be decided by a series of specific external factors on your projects, such as architectural structures, local climate conditions, desired styles and designs, and other specific requirements, and your project budget will be the factor to influence what material to be used for your wall cladding systems.
Surface Finishes For Decorative Metal Sheets
For providing the buildings with appealing styles, surface finishes are as essential as the part of the metal options, it can significantly improve your projects with a visual effect and specific purposes. There are a virtually unlimited range of finishing types for your desired styles. But different options of surface finishes provide different properties, performances, and processing costs, and not all options are suitable for all metal materials, so it’s so critical to consider your requirements when choosing the proper surface finishes for your decorative sheet metal & architectural sheet metal.
Brushed Metal Sheet
The surface texture of brushed metal sheet looks like hairline, so it’s also called hairline finished metal sheet, it’s dully polished with a metal bristle brush, which is turning on a wheel or belt that moves in the same direction when polishing the metal surface ...
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Mirror Metal Sheet
Mirror metal sheet is mainly use stainless steel as the substrate for a highly polishing process, it can help the surface achieve to a shiny, bright, and highly reflective effects that look like a mirror. This is processed by directionally polishing with some abrasive ...
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Etched Metal Plate
Etched metal plate is also known as engraved metal sheet, as the engraved patterns and designs on it are achieved with etching method, which is a chemical process. This type of fabrication is widely used for various decoration and furniture ...
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Sandblasted Metal Sheet
Sandblasting process is that the metal surface is hit by some abrasive materials (such as sand, walnut shells, metal soda ash, etc.) which are forced at high speeds to clean and treat the surfaces. The surface of the metal sheet or plate comes with an ...
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PVDF Coated Metal Sheet
PVDF coated aluminium sheet is one of the innovative types of powder coated metal sheets. PVDF coating is a type of paint that is applied to the surface of the sheet, which is a mixture of polyester and fluorocarbon. PVDF coated aluminum sheets are ...
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Anodized Metal Sheet
Anodizing finish is a processing combination of electrolytic & chemical, it can help process the metal surface with a layer of natural oxide layer, which can make the appearance with decorative effect, and improve its resistance to corrosion and oxidation ...
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With many years of experience producing and marketing finished metal sheet products, TBK Metal has extensive know-how in the customer’s requirements, and we’ve always made our products to meet their purposes and needs, so all these pushed our processing techniques of surface finishes to get improved more and more. The surface finishes we serve can be utilized both for finished and semi-finished sheet metal products, no matter the products you need to process are in small or batch quantity, we provide our products and services to make you satisfied.
Performance Of Metal Wall Cladding Systems
In order to take metal’s valuable features to bring benefits to your project, there are some performance factors we need to take into consideration. One of the essential reasons why metal is the most popular metal for facade cladding systems is that metal sheet has a high resilience rating. When the proper material comes with favorable properties, a metal building wall panel can help architecture last for many years even several decades longer than other material types.
Durability
Using the metal with high durability can ensure your the surface of cladding panels come with resistance to scratch and impact from other tough objects. You should consider the local climatic condition and the desired lifespan of a building when choosing the material type, make sure if the metal type can be satisfied to your required conditions. In order to assist your designers and fabricators in specifying the proper metal for your project, try to let them completely know durability you require for the wall cladding panels.
Expansion And Contraction
Some metals will contract and expand once their temperature, pressure and humidity change, if your project doesn’t specify the proper metal type, this may cause some permanent potential safety hazard. Consult with your supplier to specify which cladding system is most suitable for the local climatic condition in which your building is to be set up.
Flame Resistance
It's necessary to confirm with your fabricators on flame resistance rating required for your facade cladding panels, though metal commonly comes with resistance to fire. It's also crucial to care about how the metallic material combines with other material types within a wall enclosure to avoid some unexpected consequences. Some unfortunate and tragic disasters remind us that utilizing safety grade building materials for high-rise building is extremely crucial, and it's necessary to communicate between all parties, including designers, architects, fabricators, contractors relative to the projects.
Thermal Insulation
Metal facade cladding generally doesn’t perform well as non-metal materials at thermal insulation, so there some methods to attach some additional things as the infill materials for climate and thermal resistance. If your project has a minimum functionality on that you need to find a proper solution to help achieve it, communicate with the specialist of material supplier to choose the idea cladding system. The thermal transmittance of material is defined as U-value, which is the energy in W (Watts) that pass through a sq. Meter of building per degree temperature difference from interior to exterior.
Sound Insulation
Metal facades generally contribute little to acoustic insulation between the interior and exterior of the construction. Fabricators usually figure out the ratings of complete wall structure, considering the STC (sound transmission class) or RW rating (weighted sound reduction index) of the whole cladding systems with infill materials.
Environment Conditions
It is essential to consider the environment factors in where your project is located, especially for the large scale constructions. At all the time including fabrication process, installation process and long-term maintenance. Before deciding what type of facade cladding system is the most proper one, each of these factors are measured by a strict method and life cycle assessment.
With different types of surface finishing processes for our metal sheet products, each option has its own benefits. Practiced and experienced technicians can help you find out the most proper way of sheet metal finishes, process your products with the most suitable finish. A perfect combination of advanced surface finishing techniques and premium-quality metal helps to improve the metal with more added value.
What To Consider In Building Facade Systems
- The facade cladding materials and whole systems should be well compatible with architectural factors and other exterior conditions of your projects.
- Architectural cladding material and systems need to feature resistance to the local climatic conditions where the project is built up, for example, the building must be resistant to stormy weather.
- The surface of the metal facades should be able to prevent deteriorate under the harsh environments, it should comes with resistance to the chemicals and the harmful effects of the atmosphere.
- Architectural metal cladding systems generally include more than one or two types of materials, the assembly of the materials should be arranged in a proper method.
- Metals utilized in cladding systems should be resistant to expansion and construction due to the temperature change.
Advantages of Architectural Facade Cladding
- Buildings with architectural cladding systems look stunning and will not get out of style even after decades. Additionally, the exterior walls can be protected by the facade cladding, otherwise, it will become old and fade over years due to the variable weather conditions. Without protection, the interior walls may be affected by the water and air leakage from exterior walls. All these issues may eventually cause the high cost of repairing.
- Facade cladding products are flexibly fabricable, and come out with high precision and ideal appearance. The style design, material, surface finish to be used to the project are presented by digital methods before starting the process, the drawings of everything can be made out in 3D formats by computer programs for user’s approval. And before the cladding products start to be finished with coating, some alterations and adjustments are allow before the process.
- With many beneficial features, metal cladding systems can adapt to various types of environment factors. They do not need to be constantly maintained, not like non-metal types of facade system, you don’t need to pain it every few years, with metal facade cladding, you don’t need to much worry for the exterior walls.
- As for the materials of facade cladding systems, stainless steel and aluminium are commonly used, additionally, the products can be made with many other different metals. No matter what types you use, all of them come with both durability and appealing aesthetic.
- As metal facades are made of thin metal sheets, so they do not increase much weight on the walls. In addition to the lightweight design, it’s cheaper than other types of cladding systems.
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