Polycarbonate elements let daylight into your building
With more than 50 years of experience, Rodeca, as one of the world’s leading manufacturers of transparent components, produces innovative solutions for architectural highlights. With our transparent components, you can optimally use daylight in your building and create a pleasant indoor climate.
Our range of products is impressive, just like the countless ideas that have already been implemented. Convince yourself of the quality of our products!
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Our fields of application.
Translucent building elements
THE translucent
tongue and groove panels
Rodeca translucent building elements are translucent components made of polycarbonate, used for light-permeable facades, roofs, and walls. Due to their multi-wall structure, these elements offer high thermal insulation, stability, and high light transmission while maintaining a low weight.
These properties make them a popular choice in architecture, especially for projects where natural light and energy efficiency play an important role.
The Rodeca product overview
From translucent building elements to corrugated and trapezoidal sheets to system-integrated windows, there is bound to be something suitable for your project.
Our translucent facade and roof systems
have already created impressive projects in many regions of the world.
Greenland
Prototype of a residential building
The transparent house in Nuuk is an experiment to test the visionary concept for ‘Possible Greenland’ that Vandkunsten Architects designed for the 2021 Venice Biennale. About 350 m² of PC 2550-10 were used.
Portugal
Marmelo olive oil mill in Ferreira do Alentejo
For the Oliveira da Serra olive mill construction project, over 1300 m² of orange coloured PC 2540-6 elements were used as the illuminated ceiling structure.
China
Exhibition Centre Hangzhou, China
The opal coloring of the 40mm thick panels supports the operator`s multifunctional lighting concept.
Australia
St. Mary`s School, Adelaide
More than 1200 m² of translucent building elements in crystal and opal were used for the transparent parts of the facade. A double wall structure consisting of PC 2540-7 and PC 2560-12 optimizes noise and heat insulation.
Norway
Multi-purpose building Bygdeboxen “Bygda 2.0”
The multi-purpose building is a meeting place for children, culture, industry, research and education. The roof was covered with 50mm thick crystal light building elements, so that artificial lighting is largely unnecessary.
United Kingdom
South Essex Basildon College
The facade of the college building consists of approx. 1800 m² of opal coloured translucent building elements PC 2550-10.
Canada
Indoor-Sport Climbing Center
The transparent gable surface of the indoor sport climbing center provides the 2000 m² large sports hall with plenty of daylight.
Brazil
Papicu train station in Fortaleza
The Papicu railway station in Fortaleza Brazil was clad with Rodeca translucent building elements PC 2540-4 and appears as a light, floating structure above the tracks, especially in the dark.
Indonesia
National Museum Jakarta
Over 4000 m² of the translucent building element PC 2540-4 BiColor was used for the transparent cladding of the top floor.
Italy
San Giovanni in Persiceto Sports Hall
The 40mm thick light building elements in opal colour provide glare-free daylight inside the sports hall.
Belgium
Belgium
The roof of the train station in Ostend was clad with almost 16,000m² of PC MFP 2625-5 in different colors.
Sweden
Audi Quattro Lounge
The PC 2540-6 translucent building elements in clear design were attached to a honeycomb-shaped substructure made of solid structural timber.
Spain
Santa Monica school Rivas
The double-shell structure of the outer skin was implemented using the light building elements PC 2540-4 in BiColor and PC 2540-7 in crystal and opal. With a facade area of around 2600m², school rooms were created that can largely do without artificial light.
Scotland
Sports Centre Largs
The corrugated facade of the sports center in Largs was clad with approx. 2000m² of PC 2550-10 in the color combination DuoColor crystal – opal.
Denmark
Copenhagen Cruise Terminal
The cruise terminal in Copenhagen was clad with approx. 4850m² of PC 2550-10 in the color combination DuoColor Heatbloc – opal.
Rodeca worldwide
At home in the world
As one of the market leaders with intelligent system solutions for translucent components, Rodeca has been setting trends for more than 50 years. Be it in the largest metropolises in the world, or in the middle of remote natural landscapes, from aircraft hangars in China to holiday homes in Greenland
- The quality made in Germany is valued worldwide
Taking sustainability further – Savenergy –
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Time and time again we encounter the prejudice that our products cannot be sustainable. Plastic has made such a strong impression on everyone’s world and has attracted so much negative attention, especially in recent years, that it is difficult to break away from this misconception.
We produce components that remain as part of an overall construction for decades. Even if the building is renovated or modified, this does not automatically mean that it has to be disposed of or destroyed.
Plastics can be recycled and reused by us in many ways. Polycarbonate in particular is a very high-quality raw material that, even after recycling, can be used again for other applications or as a new raw material mixture for completely different purposes. The best examples of the sustainable reuse of polycarbonate elements that have already been used are our Savenergy panel and our Savenergy corrugated sheets.
We support our customers
with project planning and aftercare assistance.
We have made it our task to support architects and builders with creativity, competence and innovation in their daily work in the best possible way.
Thanks to original architecture, every building, whether new or old, can be designed to be visually exciting and at the same time highly energy-efficient.
Our goal is to bring a breath of fresh air into a market that tends to be saturated with new ideas and innovativations.
With us you have a reliable, competent and creative partner at your side.
We would be happy to advise you!
Project impressions
Facades made of Rodeca translucent building elements present a fascinating option for modern architectural projects, excelling in both aesthetics and functionality. Their versatility grants architects and designers a wide range of design possibilities, spanning from minimalist to avant-garde styles. The use of Rodeca translucent building elements contributes to making buildings more energy-efficient. Thanks to their special construction, they provide effective thermal insulation while allowing natural illumination of the interior spaces. This results in a reduction of energy consumption for lighting and heating, offering both ecological and economic benefits.
Would you like to set coloured accents, then visit our category Interactivity.
Questions and answers
about our products.
Rodeca stands for quality “Made in Germany”. Reliability, flexibility and versatility is what characterizes us. Customers appreciate our wide range of services, whether it is a commercial or technical question. We will be glad to accompany you with your project and are also available after completion. Constantly looking for new, innovative products and solutions, close customer contact is always important to us. Get in contact!
Polycarbonate is a thermoplastic polymer. This means that it is one of the few plastics that can withstand high temperatures. It is a strong, hard and transparent material that is 250x stronger than conventional glass. In addition, polycarbonate weighs considerably less than glass. Despite its very robust product properties, polycarbonate is very easy to process and can be used in a wide range of applications. Please visit our products section for more information.
Our products have more than one lifetime.
Thanks to our sophisticated technologies, facades and roofs made of polycarbonate can be converted back into moldable granules after use. Recycled by global value cycles, it can be incorporated into new products worldwide.
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