Tag Ventilated Facades

12-07-2022

Aesthetic quality, efficiency and energy savings: Granitech ventilated façades

The Iris Ceramica Group’s new-generation ceramic materials allow the Granitech ventilated façade system to optimise buildings’ performance and energy efficiency, improving living quality. With a vast catalogue of available collections, façades can also be renewed and aesthetically improved, in addition to being protected against atmospheric agents and pollutants

08-02-2022

Beauty and practicality: customised workmanship and decorations from FMG

Elegant customised workmanship is an important application of the beauty of ceramics. FMG Fabbrica Marmi e Graniti offers a variety of solutions including the borders of bathtubs and swimming pools, water jet engraving, washbasin countertops for the kitchen and bathroom, as well as a variety of steps and staircases. The quality of high-tech FMG porcelain makes all the difference in the long term with its unique combination of strength, compactness and versatility

06-07-2021

Granitech ventilated walls: the benefits of thermal equilibrium

Granitech ventilated walls, in combination with the Iris Ceramica Group’s porcelain cladding, offer the ideal solution for enhancing and improving the performance of buildings’ outer walls, solving many of the problems that can arise with traditional masonry. Granitech ventilated walls offer built-in thermal insulation, wrapping around the building and protecting it against atmospheric agents and heat dispersion or accumulation, deadening noise from outside and protecting walls against condensation and mould with an air gap and insulation. The resulting improvement in the building’s appearance and energy performance not only adds to living comfort but saves money and extends the building’s lifespan

27-04-2021

ACTIVE SURFACES™ ceramics: a concrete solution for fighting Covid-19

Continuing the lengthy process of research and scientific innovation that led to the invention of the ACTIVE SURFACES™ method, the Iris Ceramica Group has achieved an important milestone in advanced materials capable of improving people’s lives and the environment we live in. Recent scientific studies have confirmed the ability of ACTIVE SURFACES™ high-performing ceramics to destroy up to 94% of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in only 4 hours of exposure to low-intensity UV light (such as sunlight or a traditional lightbulb)

02-03-2021

Safety and hygiene in the kitchen with SapienStone’s Active Surfaces countertops

With their certified antibacterial and antiviral action, Active Surfaces offer a whole series of benefits for spaces covered with Iris Ceramica Group ceramic slabs. SapienStone Active Surfaces countertops are particularly recommended for the kitchen, the space in the home where hygiene, safety and easy cleaning are essential every day. The four refined, elegant SapienStone surfaces go well with many different decorating styles. A design choice that is also a preventive measure, improving our safety, quality of life and spaces

29-09-2020

Efficiency and beauty: Granitech ventilated façades on new and renovated buildings

The Granitech ventilated façade is a laying system in which Iris Ceramica Group ceramic slabs play the dual role of adding aesthetic value to buildings while protecting their walls. Buildings are given a facelift and preserved against long-term damage caused by atmospheric pollutants thanks to the innate properties of high-tech ceramic, such as lightness, strength and non-absorbency: a set of qualities which also provide thermal insulation, saving energy and money

28-04-2020

Everyday hygiene and prevention: the antibacterial efficacy of Active 2.0 ceramic surfaces

Antibacterial and anti-pollutant, with self-cleaning properties: these are the key qualities of the Iris Ceramica Group’s Active 2.0 ceramic slabs, which use the natural process of photocatalysis to augment their unique ISO-certified properties. Digital production significantly improves the distribution over the surface of the slab of its active components: titanium dioxide and silver ions, the combined action of which permits Active 2.0 slabs to act not only with natural light but with LED light and even in the dark. Active 2.0 surfaces, guaranteed by international scientific standards and certification, offer all the beauty and technical properties of the Iris Ceramica Group’s ceramic slabs and are ideal for indoor and outdoor use in community settings

17-04-2020

CMR project: De Castillia 23 Milano for Urban Up of the Unipol Group

With the technical assistance of Fiandre Architectural Surfaces, Progetto CMR has transformed a building in a historic neighbourhood in Milan into a building in the vanguard of sustainability. De Castillia 23, the new office complex designed by Urban Up, employs Active Clean Air & Antibacterial Ceramic™ technology for façade coverings.

18-01-2019

WOHA’s Iluma building has a multimedia façade and crystal-shaped fixtures

WOHA architects’ Iluma Building will have an interactive multimedia façade, making it an influencer in its Singapore neighbourhood