Franzen Expands its Range with Integrated Solar Facades Incorporating Odersun Solar Modules

Odersun AG, manufacturer of customer specific solar modules, and the FranzenGroup, planner and constructor of facade and solar systems, have announced that they will be cooperating in the sector of integrated building photovoltaics. Together, they are to further promote the integration of solar components in curtain wall type, rear-ventilated facades.

Franzen Ingenieur- und Montagebau GmbH offers comprehensive consulting services for the planning of solar-integrated façades as early as in the planning and design phase. Architects, specialist planners and builders are accompanied from design through to implementation of modern, energy-efficient photovoltaic facades. Odersun manufactures made to order CIS modules used in existing façade systems as well as according to individual specifications.

“Franzen combines, when it comes to the handling of our new types of solar components, a decisive, and until now rare, combination of skills, namely experience in façade construction and in the design of solar systems,” explained Dr. Hein van der Zeeuw, CEO of Odersun AG. “The constructional and artistic integration of solar in buildings can only be successful when the necessary systems and the decisive experience and competence in planning and installation are combined with suitable materials.”

“As a classical installation company, we were one of the first businesses to turn to the integrated use of solar energy in buildings. It was clear to us that there was a dynamic movement toward the incorporation of new technologies for sustainable energy supply within the building, a movement for which we wanted to be prepared,” says Dipl.-Ing. Jürgen Krämer, a managing director at FranzenGroup. “We have more than 40 years experience in installation and have been active in the solar sector since 2005. With the new components from Odersun, we can now combine both skills and offer solar facades, which also meet the requirements of aesthetic integration.”