Edgetech spacer technology has played a vital part in completing a ‘striking, inspiring and highly sustainable’ new building project for oil and gas supplier, MOL.

MOL is said to be setting its sights on a net zero future and preparing for the transition that will entail.

As part of that process, the company envisioned a cutting-edge new headquarters designed to achieve BREEAM Excellent and LEED Platinum certification.

The resulting MOL Campus in Budapest is a 29-storey, 86,000m² tower able to house 2,500 workers.

It’s been designed to maximise natural light, rain is collected to water plants and flush toilets, and heating and cooling is provided using renewable energy.

Its glass facade blends a five-storey section housing restaurants and conference halls with the main tower.

Around 14,000m² of insulating glass, and over 500 cylindrically curved panes went into bringing the ambitious design to life.

A mixture of 16mm and 18mm Super Spacer SG warm-edge spacers were used to provide ‘outstanding’ stability, flexibility and performance.

Agnes Koltay commented: “The decision to use Super Spacer was driven by the curved insulating glass facade, which would have been almost impossible to realise with rigid spacers.

“In addition, small tolerance deviations can occur at the edges of the curved glass during the manufacturing process. The structural foam compensates for this with its ability to deform and adapt to the space between the panes.”

Edgetech managing director, Chris Alderson, commented: “Free-form, organic facades are one of the most important architectural trends of recent years.

“Without world-class flexible components like the Super Spacer, they would be extremely complex, slow and expensive to implement.

“We’re delighted that Super Spacer continues to allow some of the world’s best architects and designers to explore creativity without limits.”