Benefits
A self-cleaning façade cuts cleaning costs, takes people off the outside of the building and keeps every pane clear, including the solar glass that powers it. A 10,000 m² façade is cleaned in about 476 minutes.
What does a self-cleaning façade change?
Keeps solar glass producing
Cleans photovoltaic and solar glass in the façade and its shading, so it keeps generating the power the building counts on.
No contractors to book
The building runs its own cleaning, independent of external cleaning services and their schedules.
Lower cleaning cost
No cleaning contractor, cradle hire or rope access, so running costs stay low.
One button
The whole façade is cleaned at the touch of a button, or on a schedule set in the building management system.
Safe at any height
Nobody works at height to clean the glass, on any floor of any building.
Privacy and security
No cradles or operatives outside occupied offices, apartments or hospital wards.
Cleans what others cannot
Reaches glass behind shading fins, decorative elements and fixed external shading.
Automatic when needed
Integrated humidity and rain sensors can start a cleaning cycle automatically.
Cleaner glass, more solar power
Photovoltaic glass only powers a building while it is clean. On flat and tilted solar glass, dust can cost over 10% of the output in a year.
IKU Windows cleans photovoltaic and solar glass in the façade and its shading fins the same way it cleans ordinary glazing, at the touch of a button.
The figures
- 476 min Time to clean 10,000 m² of façade with the iku® system
- 480 l Approximate water used in one full cleaning cycle for 10,000 m²
- 10 years System guarantee on iku® Windows Two-year warranty on moving parts, wear parts excluded. Extendable with a maintenance contract.
Talk to us about your building
Send us the façade area, glass type and location, including any solar glass, and we will show you what IKU Windows would change.
Or write to wayneg@iku-firetech.com directly.