Exterior Cladding materials impacting design

Summary

Tim Seims of Nichiha discusses how exterior cladding materials affect build design.

Nichiha uses a fibre cement rain-screen cladding system. The company says it helps commercial developers, homeowners, architects, designers, and city planners meet design intent while meeting or beating budget and construction schedule goals.

Product and approach

Materials the system competes with

Business scale

Nichiha says modular, offsite, and prefab accounts for over $250 million US dollars a year in Japan and North America.

Quoted statement

“Onsite installation with off-site building. Exterior cladding materials are changing the design of building.”

Tags

#nichiha #exteriorwallpanels #offsiteconstruction #prefab #manufacturer #building #construction #rainscreens