Schüco: Energy efficiency in vibrant colour - RAL Building, Bonn

A total of 428 Schüco ALB large louvre blades with motorised solar tracking provide shading and reduced heat gain for almost all of the offices and meeting rooms. What makes this building really stand out is that the glass louvre blades are screen printed in the virtually endless RAL colour spectrum, which been synonymous with the institute for over 90 years. 

The representative, easy-access and incredibly energy-efficient office and warehouse building of RAL – Deutsches Institut für Gütesicherung und Kennzeichnung (German Institute for Quality Assurance and Labelling), along with its subsidiary RAL gGmbH, is situated at the Am Mühlenbach business park in Bonn. With the return to its home town of Bonn, the long-established institute also wanted to embody its values in the newbuild completed in 2017. “Functionality, quality of life, identity at the highest technical and sustainable level using the latest sophisticated components and technology relied on in day-to-day operations, with products and services that are quality assured by RAL.”

The building was also to reach beyond these “inner values” in its external appearance and be self-confident, high-class and attractive, to clearly allude to the core expertise of the RAL family and stand out from the crowd.