“When we bought the site, it wasn’t just one building. HEGO HÖFE is a mix of industrial space and offices, more than 100 years old,”
“When we bought the site, it wasn’t just one building. HEGO HÖFE is a mix of industrial space and offices, more than 100 years old,” Marcel explains. The part facing the main road had been given a ‘modern’ façade in the 1970s, but nowadays, it looks very bad, ugly, and it’s not on time anymore.
The city’s requirement and his own motivation were quite clear: the façade had to be renewed. But Marcel wanted more than a cosmetic upgrade. After reading about another project, he realised BIPV could do two things at once: a new façade, but also to gain power.
Today, the HEGO HÖFE façade delivers around 70 kWp. It can cover nearly half of the building’s power consumption per year. Marcel: “We have a perfect win-win situation. We have a new façade which looks very pretty, and we have an outcome by power, which saves us money. There are thousands of cars driving by day by day and people phoning me saying, ‘wow’!
That makes me proud.”
About the collaboration
Ask Marcel about working with Pixasolar and he doesn’t hesitate: “Brilliant. One word: brilliant.” He credits a lot of that to the people working for Pixasolar: “Jochen Weick was from the first moment convinced about the project. Everybody was on fire. And they said: this is an excellent idea and we will support it as best as we can.
I mostly appreciated that the team truly believed in the concept and kept the project moving, even through a longer preparation phase and site constraints. It was really a good teamwork without any problem.”