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Pro Design Tip: Coordinate your exterior panel designs early and often with your mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineers. Specifically, you want to make sure you know where they’ll have pipes, lights, louvers, and outlets on the outside of your building. And you want them to know where positioning and location of those penetrations is crucial to your design. That… Continue reading “Dang It! I Just found out my engineers want to poke holes through my porcelain cladding. What do I do?”

To be clear, we’re not talking about ceramic tile. Or interior porcelain tile. We’re talking about technical porcelain. We fire your exterior porcelain cladding panels so they absorb less than 0.1% of water. Making them virtually impervious to moisture. Compare that to industry standards for other tiles (water absorption rates): Porcelain: ≤ 0.5% (which is… Continue reading Another Hidden Reason Porcelain is the Best Material for Your Façade Design

Technical Bulletin: Ventilated Façade System Soffit Installation As you develop your design and details for your next exterior porcelain cladding project, don’t forget the soffits. And be sure to download our helpful technical bulletin to help you visualize and understand the best practices for detailing porcelain panel soffits as part of your ventilated façade system. Check… Continue reading Looking Up! The Upside to Using Exterior Porcelain Cladding for Your Soffits

Let’s just say, after looking through the 300+ porcelain colors and textures in our Stone, Concrete, Metal, Wood, Technic and Decorative Porcelain Series featured in our catalog… …You still haven’t found the just-right perfect porcelain façade panel. It happens. We get it. After all, we’re designers, too. That’s why we’ve created the “Design Your Porcelain” Program. Now… Continue reading Take your building facade design to the next level by designing your own unique porcelain cladding material

Whether you know it or not, you may have already been participating in some form of design assist services with product manufacturers. But maybe you’re not getting all the benefits that come with a design assist partner…In talking to other architects, we’ve found the industry term “design assist” isn’t as understood as we always thought.… Continue reading Do you make these mistakes when choosing exterior cladding systems?

Whether you know it or not, you may have already been participating in some form of design assist services with product manufacturers. But maybe you’re not getting all the benefits that come with a design assist partner…In talking to other architects, we’ve found the industry term “design assist” isn’t as understood as we always thought.… Continue reading How to Work With a Design Assist Partner

Architects and designers loved the look of architectural terracotta for centuries. And it’s making a return in our modern building facades. Now, you can have the look of terracotta cladding panels without the worries. The warm, classic look of terracotta without the danger of your cladding deteriorating or failing over the years. With technical porcelain, you… Continue reading New Product Alert: Terracotta Porcelain Series