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Building Envelope
Protect the entire envelope with silicone solutions for more durable, energy-efficient and eco-conscious buildings
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Building Envelope Solutions
Innovative solutions for building envelopes
At Dow, our building envelope solutions can help you design eco-conscious buildings that offer improved comfort and safety conditions. We offer solutions for air, water and vapor barriers, architectural panel bonding and rainscreen, and weatherproofing to help improve energy efficiency, increase structure durability and reduce energy costs.
Our portfolio of technologies can help you design with confidence, knowing that even your toughest building challenges are surmountable. Together, we can construct buildings for a better world.
Air, Water & Vapor Barrier
We offer barrier solutions such as acrylic emulsion polymers and water-based silicone technologies to protect the building envelope. Our low-VOC solutions provide airtight performance in a wide range of temperatures, including exceptional durability and resistance to UV and water.
Architectural Panel Bonding & Rainscreen
Dow Building Science now brings its technical expertise and industry leadership to architectural panel bonding applications. Our system is specifically designed for non-glass panel applications that require high durability and fast handling.
Building Insulation
With Dow's customizable insulation solutions, architects meet market and regulatory demands while reducing environmental footprints. We offer flexible and durable technologies designed to suit each building's unique needs and help meet directives towards net-zero and energy efficient buildings.
Weatherproofing
Our broad range of weatherproofing silicone solutions improve buildings’ energy efficiency by stopping air and water filtration. These include long-lasting sealants with versatile movement capabilities and breathable silicone elastomer coatings that fight seasonal thermal expansion-contraction.
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DOWSIL™ Silicone Air Barrier System
Comprising a variety of silicone technologies, the DOWSIL™ Silicone Air Barrier System protects the building envelope from air, water and vapor infiltration, with benefits including improved durability and energy efficiency and exceptional airtight performance across a wide range of temperatures.
Sustainability solutions in panel insulation technology
Through the V PLUS Perform™ Program, we integrate panel insulation technology with mass balance ingredients to design more energy-efficient buildings. With this program, our customers access a collaborative platform, expertise, and capabilities to support innovations in insulation technology.
Featured case studies
See some of our latest case studies examining the impact of Dow building envelope solutions on applications around the world.
DOWSIL™ 758 Silicone Weather Barrier Sealant helps solve new hospital’s sealing challenge: Case Study
How architects of the Kaleida Health Global Vascular Institute in Buffalo, N.Y. applied state-of-the-art weather barrier technology to ensure the new hospital will withstand the city’s varying climate conditions.
ICE Kraków Congress Center, Poland
DOWSIL™ sealants were extensively used for the façade construction in this complex glass, ceramic, and aluminum structure.
Dow supplies silicone solution for curtain wall facade at China’s National Centre for the Performing Arts: Case Study
How two DOWSIL™ Sealants for insulated glass applications solved structural strength concerns involved with the complex, curved-glass curtain wall at China’s National Centre for the Performing Arts.
Building envelope product information videos
Watch brief videos on some of our latest product innovations for protecting the building envelope.
DOWSIL™ Silicone Air Barrier System
Learn about a more compatible system that protects buildings from air, water and vapor.
Bond with Confidence
Bond with confidence in five easy steps.
Resources
Learn more about the unique advantages of silicone sealants for meeting today’s building envelope challenges.
Submittal Generator
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Toward a more circular economy
Sealant cartridges from Dow are switching to recycled plastic made from PCR (post-consumer recycled) resin pellets.
Building Envelope Protection Program
Protect your building with proven sealant solutions, expert support and long-term warranty protection.
FAQs
We offer barrier solutions such as acrylic emulsion polymers and water-based silicone technologies to protect the building envelope. Our low-VOC solutions provide airtight performance in a wide range of temperatures, including exceptional durability and resistance to UV and water.
By stopping air and water infiltration with exceptional durability and resistance to UV, Dow’s solutions for air, water and vapor barriers; architectural panel bonding and rainscreen; and weatherproofing help improve energy efficiency, increase structure durability and reduce energy costs.
Cost-effective and easy-to-use, our system for panel bonding and rainscreens expands building cladding design possibilities while maintaining safety and control. This system has no visible connection points, and it offers primer-less adhesion on a variety of common cladding panel substrates, with immediate green strength directly after application.
Silicone sealants offer long-term durability, high movement capability and low modulus, particularly in cold temperatures. For example, DOWSIL™ 791 Silicone Weatherproofing Sealant cures to form durable flexible joints with medium-modulus, ± 50% joint movement capability, and excellent weatherability, virtually unaffected by sun, rain, snow, ozone.
DOWSIL™ Silicone Air Barrier System, comprising a variety of silicone technologies that protect the building envelope from air, water and vapor in both renovation and new construction support eco conscious building design with benefits including improved energy efficiency and durability and water-based, low-VOC formulation.
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