Realizing cost-efficient Building Integrated PhotoVoltaics (BIPV) is a challenge for every construction professional. This is partly due to the fact that the new legislation on sustainability targets sets different requirements for construction. For example NZEB 3: the renewable energy share of a building. This affects architects, designers as well as facade builders and other construction professionals.

The solar panels in facades can offer a solution to achieve the BENG 3. A solar panel also works with diffuse light that does not reach the earth directly, for example when it is cloudy outside. In that case, light is often absorbed and reflected by the atmosphere. However, the electricity yield is highest in clear weather and direct solar radiation on the solar panels. So once the sun comes up, your returns will start to add up. In addition, solar panels in the facade produce more when the sun is low, at the beginning and end of the day and in the spring in autumn and winter than the same panels on the roof. Looking over the whole year, a roof is still more productive. But when the electricity prices are high (when it is so low), the facade has its highest efficiency.

It can be fiscally interesting to incorporate solar panels in facades because they are seen by the tax authorities as sustainable (energy-saving) operating assets. The Energy Investment Allowance (EIA) also applies to this, which means that you can deduct an additional percentage of the investment costs from the taxable profit. This can be different per country. Check your local tax benefits.

BIPV.world is a user-friendly platform for designing BIPV projects and provides BIPV services. Solar panels can be easily and quickly designed in facades via this platform. This means that you are no longer forced to go through extremely long quotation processes. You can quickly design aesthetic solar facades yourself and thus create attractive buildings.

With a BIPV.world account you can get started right away in our environment. Our platform includes our REVIT plug-in that allows architects and other professionals to design and implement BIPV facades. With the help of our extensive product library, it is not only possible to design a facade. As a function of the design, you get direct insight into the costs and the expected yield of the solar facade. This makes it easier to draw up competitive business cases and you can quickly compare various designs. Furthermore, our platform enables the simultaneous management and co-creation of different projects. BIPV.world thus brings you flawlessly implementable BIPV solutions within reach. This way you can distinguish yourself from your competition in a professional way.

If you want to get started with BIPV.world and you don't have Revit, there are a few options:

- Request a design from one of our partner BIPV architects
- Request a design from one of our partner facade companies
- Request design via the BIPV.world design and drawing service

Our system is suitable for the design of new buildings as well as for the renovation of existing buildings. The solar panels can be attached to the building with the efficient “Click&Go” system. This consists of a mounting rail which will first be mounted on the facade. The solar panels are individually clicked into axle carriers on these rails. This is the most efficient method for almost all (commercial) buildings.

It is possible that the surface on which the solar panels could be placed on the roof is limited, or is not suitable for installing solar panels. With the specially designed system, the often unused surface of the facade can be used to provide the building with solar energy.