The construction of a ventilated façade has a number of advantages, one of which is its thermo-insulating feature. In fact, by generating this continuous airflow within the cavity, ventilated facades are able to protect the building from sudden climatic variations, assisting in the removal of heat accumulated by solar radiation from the building and improving the retention of heat inside the building during the winter periods, thus minimizing temperature dispersion between the external environment and the building. In particular, during the summer, the air flows from the exterior plate to the insulating panel, and the overheated air that develops in the cavity is expelled, reaching the top of the structure.
Furthermore, the heat input from the outside into the inside of the building is decreased since the solar energy is reabsorbed and then mirrored by the insulating panels that serve the role of solar shielding. Besides that, air recirculation inside the cavity appears to play an active and dominant role in both shielding the walls from outside humidity and drying any water infiltrations, thus preventing their creation following the external installation cladding panels. During the winter, in particular, the ventilation and, as a result, the recycling of the air within the cavity favors the rapid removal of water vapor coming from within the house, significantly reducing the phenomenon of condensation and, as a result, all the negative effects that this entails, such as infiltrations, which include heat dispersion towards the outside.
It should also be noted that since ventilated facades are applied as panels to the perimeter surface of the building, they protect the exterior walls from atmospheric agents, especially rain, which can cause serious damage or deterioration to the entire structure. The fact that only one of the panels can be removed and replaced instantly simplifies the maintenance of ventilated facades.
The external cladding of ventilated facades, especially if made of porcelain, promotes the reflection of incident sound waves from the outside, owing to the interposition of porous material in the cavities. External noise emissions may thus be reduced to a bare minimum.