The Tri Clad ventilated facade is an open joint system, based on rainscreen technology. The Tri-Clad Ventilated systems are sandwich panels, consisting of two sheets with an aluminium honeycomb core. Rainscreen cladding is the attachment of an outer skin of cladding with a ventilated and drained cavity to a new or existing building.
The system is a form of double wall construction that uses an outer layer to keep out the rain and an inner layer to provide thermal insulation, prevent excessive air leakage and carry wind loadings. The outer layer breathes like a skin while the inner layer reduces energy losses.
The structural frame of the building is kept absolutely dry, as water never reaches it or the thermal insulation. Evaporation and drainage in the cavity removes water that penetrates between panel joints. Water droplets are not driven through the panel joints or openings because the rainscreen principle means that wind pressure acting on the outer face of the panel is equalised in the cavity. Therefore, there is no significant pressure differential to drive the rain through joints. During extreme weather, a minimal amount of water may penetrate the outer cladding. This, however, will run as droplets down the back of the cladding sheets and be dissipated through evaporation and drainage.
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