1. Which is GLASSCON ’s profile?

GLASSCON SA is probably the most specialized consultancy-construction company “façade engineering” of modern bioclimatic façade buildings, that is located in Greece and has offices and partners at Balkans and S.E. Europe.

Goal of GLASSCON SA is to satisfy the high architecture and aesthetic demands, as well as the efficiency and the maximum saving of energy from the cell, at any building, new or already constructed.

As a specialized company of “façade engineering”, GLASSCON SA is designing, before constructing, thorough, responsible and completed, the whole designing of the cell of any building, as doing at the stage of designing at first place:

• bioclimatic and energy façade design
• Structural design of the cell and materials like glass panels, steel structure e.t.c.
• Thermal isolation design of the cell structure
• Sound isolation design of the cell structure
• Design of light architecture of natural and technical lighting
• Photovoltaic systems
• Computation and specification of building’s “energy ID’

GLASSCON SA is collaborating with the architect, who has important role at the choice of the most suitable, aesthetic and “green” cell-skin of the building, studies the structure overall and offers “TURN KEY SOLUTIONS”. GLASSCON SA is an aesthetic, qualitative, functional, non-energy consuming cell building, according to modern world prescriptions and models and with resistance to time.

Only a balanced synthesis of “outside” and “inside”, drives us to the finest architectural and constructive harmony and efficiency.

Central and permanently developing core of the company is composed by its people (stuff) and the powerful consulting department that they are constitute. A polymorphic team of specialized engineers as architects, civil engineers, mechanical and electrical engineers, which is hardly developed elsewhere in Greece, is trained abroad and transmits the cutting edge technology at the domestic market.

With the unique opportunity of the Olympic Games 2004 in Athens, Greece has been modernized and has also developed a modern architecture and technological superiority in constructions. Each time choices are furthermore determined by the quality, construction details and the innovative “green” ecological design, as the beginning of a new area. The technological park at Thermi/ thessaloniki, Hilton hotel, the sheds at Acropolis and other projects, reflect and presage with clearness the near future these projects are considered to be reference marks for new construction and building renovations.

GLASSCON SA has already offices and partners in Athens, Thessaloniki, Bucharest, Sofia and Belgrade. At the same time, disposes certified business partners in Slovenia, Ukraine and Egypt. In the next years, glasscon sa is planning to expand at new markets as Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Albania etc.

Balkans is one of the most quickly developing areas in the world. Countries like Rumania, Bulgaria and Serbia have transformed to “el dorado” of global investments because of construction orgasm.

Finally, GLASSCON SA having the certification DIN EN iso 9001:2000 and long time experience on really important global projects, can insure the quality of its works.

2. Why services of “façade engineering’ of GLASSCON SA are compulsory?

European law that stands from 1/1/2007 for energy Id of buildings enforces, in long term, the non energy consumption cells and buildings. That gives to green structures important motivations like founding and increscent of building coefficient. On contrary, energy consuming buildings are punishing by penalty.

In the future, the choice of offices or residential buildings, for rental or selling will be determined by the energy ID of every building and the level consumption of energy.

At the same time, high increase of the cost of oil and electricity makes the turn to bioclimatic buildings with smart cells and production of energy with APE from the cell of the building, need of high priority.

3. Indicative applications and services of GLASSCON SA

GLASSCON SA undertakes completely the cell or the façade of the building, with all the necessary materials ( aluminium, glass, steel, facing etc). After GLASSCON SA finalize the architectural design and the 3D presentation (three dimensional photorealistic images), designs the cell structurally and against energy consumption. At the last stage, GLASSCON SA constructs the cell at its whole.

Finally, the shell of any structure is handed over complete and the company is the only responsible for the cell. By this way, the whole and complete responsibility is taken only from one company, hence, responsibility gaps; coordination and understanding problems can be avoided.

4. Indicative GLASSCON SA designs and constructs.

• Glass facades of buildings from high technology aluminium or others materials.
• Bioclimatic shells and buildings “smart energy & green houses”
• Modern specialized structures of aluminium, glass , etalbond, trespa, glass, titanium, spelter etc
• Canopies, atriums of stainless steel, st37 and glass or etfe fabrics
• 3 dimensional trusses of INOX, … and Inox equipments “glasscon PLANAR&SPIDER”
• Photovoltaic systems by flexible membranes, glass panes etc
• Automatic openable waterproof atrium structures made by fabric or glass, of large dimensions ( they can open in 3-5 min for building regulation and bioclimatic reasons) for malls, etc.
• Systems of external shading that they can also provide light guidance as louvers and fabric rollers.
• External, automated shading louvers by wood, glass, fabric rollers with electromotor system of rotation and connection with specific P/C software.
• Completely automated shading blinds out of special fabrics for external and internal use, Warema German.
• ETFE membranes with system that is combined by “airbags cushions” with controlled shading system “on/off’ for cover of atriums or building facades made in german, for example, atrium of 10000sqm area covered at the mall “ THE MALL ATHENS”.
• Architectural tensile membrane structures, that are consist of stainless steel cable