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Toronto-based WZMH has launched its digital online recladding guide at BuildGreen Atlantic, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
For over 60 years, WZMH has been designing office towers and has amassed over three decades of experience in renewing these buildings.
The WZMH Recladding Guide focuses on how building envelope redesigns can revitalize an aging office tower by updating its performance and appearance, while also enhancing occupant comfort.
The guide explores the “why’s” and “hows” of recladding and presents multiple case studies. Additionally, it outlines WZMH?s proven, seven-category suite of recladding options, ranging from the tactical replacement of one element, such as cladding panels or glazing, through to a complete reskinning. WZMH principals Nicola Casciato and Harrison Chan and WZMH strategic business development lead Jennifer Davis recently presented a seminar at BuildGreen Atlantic based on the recladding guide?s content.
While the need to replace building components nearing end-of-life is often what prompts building owners to undertake a recladding project, projects of this type are an increasingly important means of achieving an expanding range of objectives.
?A recladding is a real opportunity to give a building a new voice in many different ways ? from an aesthetic standpoint, from a sustainability standpoint, and from a user comfort standpoint,? states Casciato in Remake It Better.
Chan adds that growing emphasis on En...