Building Integrated Photovoltaics by Sapa Solar: an innovative, aesthetically and eco-responsible technology for buildings. Harvest the best from your building envelope.

1. Architectural active solutions
BIPV Solutions

3. 2 PV technologies
 product shapes
Concealed wirings and connectors
in Curtain Wall profiles
Advices and Energy Calculations
Sapa Integrated PV solutions

4. Expertise in BIPV integration
Ribbon windows Insulated glass roofs Curtain Walls
Greenhouses Sun Shaders Balustrades

5. Poly c-Si Insulated modules – 46 kWp
Belgium – Aalst Hospital

6. Lisboa – Curtain wall
Poly c-Si glass-glass modules – 24 kWp

7. Khartoum – Telecom
a-Si Thin-Films – 100 kWp

8. Utrecht (NL) – Train station
Multi cSi transparent modules : 135 kWp

9. Utrecht (NL) – Train station
Multi cSi transparent modules : 135 kWp
 Custom design of aluminium profiles
 Cold bended
semi-transparent modules
 Lot of different modules dimensions
 Very tight planning.

10. Highly insulated BIPV lift house
 19 kWp BIPV curtain wall with
see-trough cells on a nearly
zero building.
Offices in Liège (BE)

11. Videum Vaxjo (SE)
aSi insulated glass modules

12. BAPV applications

13. BIPV Integration
Logical in Aluminium systems

14. Sapa BIPV Solutions

15. Integration in Aluminium Systems
Sapa BIPV Solutions
 Harvest the best from the
building envelope
 From curtain walls, ribbon
windows, glass roofs, sun control to
balustrades
 Adapted room for
PV wires and connectors, Easier PV
wiring paths, additional features
 Bespoke projects solutions are possible.

16. Each
project is
different

17. Sapa BIPV Solutions
Stick System Curtain Walls
 Available with Elegance
52, NRG62 or 4150 system
 Bespoke solutions possible
 Quite easy wiring paths, with
limited milling for junction boxes
 Reduced shadows effect from
shallow cap profiles.

18. Sapa BIPV Solutions
Stick System Glass roofs
 Available with Elegance 52
 Bespoke solutions possible
 Quite easy PV wiring
paths, with limited milling for
junction boxes
 Reduced shadows effect from
shallow cap profiles.

19. Sapa BIPV Solutions
Unitized Curtain Walls
 Available with Elegance 72
 For vertical unitized curtain
walls, project based
 Improved quality and additional
features : modular units prefab
in workshop
 Quite easy wiring paths
 Reduced shadows effect from
shallow cap profiles.

20. Sapa BIPV Solutions
Greenhouses
 Available with
Variolux E26PV system
 Bespoke solutions possible, as
well as well as adaptation of
our other greenhouse systems
 With bespoke semi-transparent
module or standard modules.

21. Sapa BIPV Solutions
Horizontal Projection sun shader
Elegance SC Canopy
 Simple and efficient design
 Can be integrated with
Elegance 52 curtain walls
 Or applied on all regular
wall surfaces (concrete …)
 Regular modules
dimensions or bespoke
solutions possible…

22. Sapa BIPV Solutions
Horizontal Parallel Projection
Elegance SC Aero
 300mm wing shaped
blade, compatible with
the SC Aero range
 4 different lengths of
modules, bespoke
solutions possible
 Thin films or crystalline
technology.

23. BIPV, more than just a module
Construction of a ‘bespoke’ integrated solution

24. Sapa Solar BIPV Offering
See-through or Opaque with c-Si

25. Sapa Solar BIPV Offering
See-through thin film module
See-through or Opaque with Thin-Films

26. Sapa Solar Project Concept
From ideas to realizations