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A new, energy-efficient commercial and office high-rise in a unique wood-hybrid construction was built on the site of the former goods station in the city of Tübingen. The new seven-storey commercial building ‘Westspitze’ is the flagship in the new city quarter of the old freight yard because the energy efficiency building is completely clad with PV modules on the façade. More than 600 bronze-colored solar façade modules from AVANCIS generate electricity with an annual forecast yield of more than 50 MWh. Thus, almost 30 tons of CO2 emissions are saved through the use of solar power per year.

AVANCIS, the leading German manufacturer of premium photovoltaic modules, has expanded its SKALA architectural panel for energy-generating facades with decisive product features. In addition to more colors, lengths and higher flexibility for the type and direction of installation, SKALA is now approved for the façade use with wind loads for heights up to 100 meters. The multiple product design awards winner once again sets a new benchmark for electricity-generating façade cladding elements “Made in Germany”. In 2015, the frameless PV module with the hidden mounting system already initiated a completely new standard for solar façade modules as first glued laminated glass module of its kind receiving the German general building approval (abZ).