Innovative cladding solutions from Wallspan

Wallspan has proved to be a competitive force in shaping the building façade industry since its inception, by introducing a range of innovative, high quality and sustainable cladding solutions to the Sri Lankan building facade market within the last few years. 

“Our passion for façade engineering and the know-how on the science of resolving aesthetic, environmental and structural issues have helped us to establish ourselves as the leader in the mesh cladding segment, where we have improved the appearance of a number of building facades of brand conscious corporates in Sri Lanka,” said Wallspan Director Fazal Fausz. 

A part of the Rainco Group of companies who have a 30-year plus history, Wallspan has been working tirelessly with their German, French, Italian, Spanish and Singapore partners to provide custom engineered façade solutions to those of international standards, improving energy efficiency, aesthetic values and comfortable living spaces, while establishing a link between the city and nature in today’s rapidly urbanising scenario. 

Wallspan Director Fazal Fausz and Ramzeen Rauff and some of the facades implemented by Wallspan

With Sri Lanka experiencing a steady economic growth in the past few years with massive development in urban areas, as well as in the tourist sector, the global green concept is becoming increasingly popular. 

“With more and more international chains entering Sri Lanka such as Shangri-La, Movenpic, Grand Hyatt  and the Port City Development, a high standard in architecture and design was identified and as a nation looking to secure a place in the international business hub, our design community is facing an increasing challenge to provide the right façade solutions to meet these multifaceted demands that include reducing the carbon footprint as well as keeping pace with international construction standards. But, unfortunately the availability of low quality cladding products with short term cost benefit objectives have let down building owners, contractors as well as the design community,” said Wallspan Director Ramzeen Rauff .  

According to Rauff, today, clients and architects are no longer looking for monotonous façades; they are looking for the combined benefits of functional values and aesthetics. “Functional values whereby the building needs to be more energy efficient vis a vis controlling of temperature, providing better comfort and safety, reducing maintenance and energy bills, reducing interruption to day-to-day business by avoiding regular maintenance, which are some key issues faced. Moreover, to attract global investors to our country, our cities and business have to offer greater facilities and services.”

Wallspan’s experience in the façade industry and the ability to work in partnership with some of the world’s largest façade engineers and manufacturers from Germany, France, Italy  Spain and Singapore have enabled them to recognise the issues faced by our building façade industry at an early stage and provide custom engineered façade technology, which ensures energy efficiency, life cycle cost serving, aesthetic values and other functional benefits which are achieved with their range of archiZINC, EXTEC mesh, Light Clad, PERF Clad and Plante façade systems, together with the expertise of their internationally trained technicians who have over 10 years of experience in the building façade industry. 

“Our key strength of providing well researched, high quality façade systems with ltryatest technologies helps to provide comfortable living spaces that increase productivity, individualised aesthetics to create corporate branding, and long term profitability to our clients,” said Fausz.