Post by Nitin Bhatia

Everyone talks about the size of the world's largest office building. Almost no one talks about what's holding its skin together. Surat Diamond Bourse — Dream City, Surat — is nine interconnected towers and 3,50,000 sqm of façade. Impressive on a spec sheet. But specs don't tell you about the wind loads on a spine wall four storeys tall, or how you glaze a lobby to feel weightless without loading the structure behind it. FACET led façade consultancy on the entire envelope — the cladding, the glazing, the systems nobody notices until they fail. Swipe through for the scale, the materials, and two of the hardest problems we solved to get there → On projects this significant, the architect rightly gets the spotlight for the vision. But the façade consultant who engineers that vision into something that actually performs — through wind loads, thermal movement, structural tolerances — rarely gets any recognition. Should that be changing? Curious what this community thinks. #FacadeEngineering #FacadeConsultancy #BuildingEnvelope #StructuralGlazing #Cladding #ArchitectureEngineering #SuratDiamondBourse #IndianArchitecture #AEC