Cladding build-up. Specifying the full system — substrate, insulation, cavity, cladding material and fixings — so it performs as a whole, not just as individual products.
Fire stopping and cavity barrier detail. Compartment lines, junctions and penetrations designed to maintain fire performance across the entire façade, not just at the points a surveyor happened to open up.
Thermal and weather performance. Insulation values, vapour control and drainage detailing that keep the building performing correctly once it’s reclad.
Junction detailing. Window reveals, balcony thresholds, roof abutments and other transition points — traditionally where façade defects originate, so they get particular attention in remediation design.
Buildability. Design that accounts for how the building will actually be worked on — access, phasing, occupied floors below — not just how the finished product will look on a drawing.
Design follows façade remediation strategy — you need an agreed scope and approach before you can design against it — and feeds into façade specification and tender. See the full façade remediation process for how the stages connect.
Because our in-house survey team, Trident Facades Surveys, carries out the condition surveys and opening-up investigations that inform every project, our design work starts from evidence gathered by people who understand what they’re looking at — not a third-party report with gaps our designers have to guess around.
We provide design services for building owners, managing agents and their professional teams, either as a standalone service or as part of a full survey-to-construction package where one team carries the project through.