ECHO – TU Delft

Echo is a new educational building on the TU Delft campus in the Netherlands. It is an educational facility for all faculties with a wide variety of teaching spaces and also serves as an attractive meeting place. Octatube Services repairs Echo’s glass façade when needed.

Circularity

The building – designed by UN Studio – follows the principles of circularity as much as possible, thus meeting TU Delft’s progressive sustainability ambitions. Echo is the first energy-producing building on the TU Campus.

High glass façades

Echo’s tall glass façades stand out because of their very high transparency. Some glass panels measure 2.6 by 5 metres and are more than 5 cm thick. The glass is coated to provide an optimal combination of transparency and solar control. Deep aluminium canopies interrupt the façades horizontally and block solar heat. Climbing plants on vertically tensioned wires in front of the façade form a dynamic light barrier between the balcony and the roof, filtering daylight with their subtle greenery.

Maintenance

With our specialist knowledge and expertise of unique façade systems, we as Octatube Services are responsible for all repairs of Echo’s glass façades. During the inspection, we check all connections and glass fixings, among other things. Naturally, we also solve any other problems immediately.

Check out the website of Octatube to read more about the realization of this extraordinary glass façades.