Kingspan’s QuadCore KarrierPanel and Dri-Design rainscreen façades are designed to work together, combining the benefits of exceptional airtightness, high R-values, and quick installation with distinctive style and aesthetic flexibility.
QuadCore is Kingspan’s next generation of self-blended hybrid insulation core, delivering R-values 11% better than high-quality PIR and up to 60% better than PUR. Using Kingspan’s QuadCore technology, KarrierPanels significantly reduce thermal-bridging energy losses associated with standard stud/cavity insulation construction and are a lightweight, easy-to-install system that can help reduce construction time by about 50% compared to conventional multi-component wall assemblies.
KarrierPanel uses Kingspan’s fully engineered KarrierRail to provide a secure and safe method to transmit loads from a variety of non-combustible Dri-Design façade options to the structural supports behind the insulated panel. This innovative approach enhances structural integrity while offering flexibility in design.
A patented interlocking system that acts as a self-draining gutter, Dri-Design cassettes on high-performing KarrierPanels are offered in an unlimited palette of colors, finishes, materials, and textures, allowing architects to create distinctive, high style buildings that showcase a brand’s signature identity.
The Dri-Design product portfolio includes:
Dri-Design Shadow cassettes allow architects and designers to add depth and definition to any building design. Individual panels can be extended at varying depths to create texture or a dynamic variation in patterns, all while keeping the substrate and weather barrier in the same plane.
Dri-Design Tapered cassettes can be angled in any direction with varying depths and degree of slope, giving architects and designers the freedom to create a dynamic, one-of-a-kind surface on nearly any façade, without the need to modify the substrate or weather barrier.
Dri-Design Shadow, Tapered and Flat cassettes can be perforated. Using advanced computer-based manufacturing, the size, location and density of the perforations are varied, creating areas of light, dark and shades to form an image. Since images can be created from any digital picture, architects are only limited by their imagination.
Two stand-out projects which leveraged the innovative design possibilities and versatile features of this façade portfolio include Orlando City Soccer Club and the La Maison Simons Distribution Center.
The Orlando City Soccer Club project used Dri-Design's Perforated Imaging collection to integrate patterns and graphics onto architectural elements. This collection made it possible for architects to create a custom logo on the scoreboard, adding a visually striking and unique aesthetic dimension to the club’s surroundings. In addition to creating a customized look, perforations provide airflow needed to keep electronics from overheating.
Architects also selected Kingspan’s KarrierPanel in combination with the Dri-Design aluminum Tapered series cassettes to create an inspiring and architecturally modern façade for La Maison Simon’s massive distribution center and office campus in Quebec City, Quebec. Leveraging the ability to vary direction, depth, and degrees of slope with these cassettes, architects created striking façade patterns inspired by woven fabric thread to reflect La Maison Simon’s brand identity as one of the largest fashion retailers in Canada.
For buildings that need superior thermal performance and innovative, versatile design features, QuadCore KarrierPanels with Dri-Design cassettes are the solution.