Bioclimatic Façades responds to the extremes of external environmental conditions by controlling heat loss and gain, managing daylight and enhancing the quality of the indoor environment.
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Daylight Management
Maximise use of natural daylight to ensure greater visual comfort, reduce the need for artificial lighting, lowering energy consumption and operating costs.
Heating and cooling strategies
Dynamic Insulation™ provides better control of thermal exchanges, enhancing energy efficiency and maintaining thermal comfort.
Natural Ventilation
Automatic window controls reduce the air conditioning bill, and create a healthier and more productive working environment.
Somfy’s commercial solutions can be used in various areas of the building: the entire or part of the façade <Facade Management>, in a specific room <Local controls> or on a single window <Motorisation>.
Facade Management Systems
Centralized controls of shading devices are processed through the Somfy bus lines or open protocols.
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Local controls
Somfy has a wide range of controls that allow each user to control their own shading devices, whatever the technology may be.
Motorisation of openings & closures
Somfy provides motors for all the major applications used in commercial buildings today.
Somfy’s solutions for residential buildings can be applied to the whole house <Home Automation>, a specific room <Local controls & automatic systems>, or to a single window <Motorisation>.
Home Automation
Somfy has solutions to power and move all openings in the house <Home Motion by Somfy>. They can be operated alongside other systems as well, such as lighting <Interoperable solutions>.
Local controls & automatic systems
Somfy has a wide range of controls and automatic devices. The choice of technology depends on the building configuration, its usage and the occupants' way of living.
Motorisation of openings & closures
Somfy provides motors for all the major applications used in residential buildings today.
Somfy New Segment Brochures
Date: 23/01/12
New segment brochures to present Somfy solutions towards 4 market segments : Offices, Education, Healthcare, Hospitality
Somfy reveals a system which enables to individually manage sunscreens
Date: 23/11/11
Source : www.lemoniteur.fr
"The specialist in building automation introduced in Batimat fair in Paris its "shadow management" functionality, which completes its sunscreens’ control system animeo."
Case Study Sequana Tower
Date: 30/09/11
Discover the Sequana Tower, a building where the "Philips Somfy Light Balancing solution" were implemented to meet better energy and comfort levels.
Philips & Somfy new brochure
Date: 24/08/11
Discover the new brochure resulting from the partnership between Philps & Somfy...
Somfy supports the initiatives of ES-SO
Date: 22/08/11
Somfy supports the initiatives of ES-SO
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Welcome!
For the past 40 years, Somfy has invented, designed and created controls and motors for openings and closures in residential and commercial buildings.
With our automatic controls, facades become bioclimatic: solar protections react to weather variations offering occupants greater comfort while saving energy.
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