How do you see the prospects of the building curtain wall industry?

Environmental protection and energy saving are the two major themes for the future development of the building curtain wall industry. The environmental protection of building curtain walls helps to reduce building pollution, and the development of curtain wall energy-saving technologies, such as solar volcanic technology, effectively saves energy on the basis of environmental protection, and at the same time finds a more energy-saving way for urban development. It is foreseeable that in the future, the development of building curtain wall technology will be more deeply combined with science and technology, improve the environmental protection, energy saving, low consumption and other characteristics of curtain wall design, and effectively extend the service life of building curtain wall, which will become the general trend of building curtain wall technology development.

Although the profits of the building curtain wall industry are becoming more and more meager, and the competition is becoming more and more fierce, in the long run, China's urbanization has not yet been completed, and the demand for the building curtain wall industry still has room for growth, especially in the cities of the central and western regions and the construction of small and medium-sized cities around the provincial capital, and the demand for curtain walls has increased. In addition, there is also a large demand for building curtain walls in some new overseas countries and regions, such as the Middle East, Southeast Asia, India, etc. With the release of market demand, the prospects of the building curtain wall industry are still promising.

With the continuous acceleration of urbanization in China, it has also brought new vitality to the development of door and window enterprises, and enterprises should grasp the future development trend as soon as possible, adjust the development strategy, and meet the arrival of the transition period. Under the guidance of the new urbanization strategy, the state will build a large number of low-rent houses and affordable housing in the process of real estate regulation and control, and will continue to regulate and control speculation in the new urban market. Due to the economic development of new urbanization and the improvement of residents' purchasing power, house purchase and home decoration are rigid needs, which is a good development space for the curtain wall industry.

Commercial real estate, this type of building is the main carrier of the curtain wall. In the commercial center of every city, there are basically commercial real estate, and the materials used in these curtain walls are high-end products, which indirectly promotes the development of curtain wall technology in China. After the first wave of construction, commercial real estate in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Wucheng and first-tier cities has mainly entered a state of stable development, while the demand for commercial real estate in second- and third-tier cities is not so strong.

If you look at the projects undertaken by China's two largest curtain wall companies, you can see that most of the curtain wall projects are from commercial real estate.

Population growth will become slower and it will not be possible to provide a strong impetus for office demand for commercial office façade projects. However, it is predictable that the increase in urbanization can bring a continuous impetus to China's super cities and first- and second-tier cities. However, curtain wall engineering will not be as profitable as it has been in the past one or two decades, because the era of extensive operation will eventually pass, and refined operation is coming.

Residential buildings don't do curtain walls, that's just windows, and although the podium has some commercial elements, it's not the protagonist of our discussion. Commercial buildings are the carrier of the curtain wall, and the exquisite and beautiful glass curtain wall in our eyes is mainly used in transportation hubs, sports exhibitions, science, education, culture and health, hotels and entertainment, corporate headquarters, commercial real estate, administrative offices, etc. Therefore, the prospect of curtain walls is closely related to whether the above-mentioned building types can flourish in the future.

The building curtain wall industry is the industry with the highest gold content in the construction field, and correspondingly, it also has a high technical content. In addition, because the building curtain wall is the coat of the building, it needs to reflect its beautiful and transparent characteristics, so the core competitiveness of the enterprise is often in the field of design and development, and involves various disciplines such as machinery, materials, structure, and architecture.

With the changes in the real estate market pattern driven by the supply-side structural reform, in terms of curtain wall engineering, the market demand is more inclined to tilt the greatest advantageous resources to high-quality projects, especially prefabricated buildings. In the future, relevant enterprises should launch more prefabricated curtain wall products, conform to the development trend, and grasp new market opportunities.

Compared with general walls, building curtain walls have great advantages and are objectively impossible to replace. There are several main reasons:

1) It has good modeling ability and decorative effect;

2) Able to adapt to the functional requirements of the building envelope;

3) The use of curtain wall can greatly reduce the weight of the structure, and it is the best choice for the outer envelope structure of super high-rise buildings;

4) Able to withstand wind and rain;

5) Easy to maintain, repair and clean;

6) Reasonable design can achieve a good energy-saving effect;

7) It is easy to install other equipment, such as LED lighting, etc.

In the next few years, the aluminum door and window curtain wall industry will gradually enter a period of calm development, the total market will remain basically stable, and the aluminum curtain wall is expected to remain stable under the premise of stable raw materials.

The curtain wall industry is attached to the service and loss industry of the construction industry, the construction industry is prosperous, the curtain wall industry is in decline, and the curtain wall is also in decline.

China's curtain wall industry sprouted in the 80s of the last century, showing a trend of "late start and fast development". Over the past 30 years, with the sustained and rapid development of the national economy and the acceleration of the urbanization process, China's building curtain wall industry has achieved a leapfrog development from scratch, from foreign capital to domestic enterprises, from imitation to independent innovation, and by the beginning of the 21st century, China has developed into the world's largest producer and user of the curtain wall industry. And from the perspective of market potential, with the increasingly acute contradiction between the occupation of cultivated land and the guarantee of food security in China's urban construction, the available land in urban areas, especially in developed coastal areas, is close to the limit, so high-rise and super high-rise buildings are the best choice, and curtain walls are the best peripheral protection structure for high-rise buildings.

In addition, China is the country with the largest number of super high-rise buildings under construction and proposed, the number of buildings under construction and proposed for more than 150 meters accounts for the world, and the number of buildings above 200 meters accounts for the world, which will further promote the development of the curtain wall industry.

At present, curtain wall enterprises can be roughly divided into three camps, the first type is the first camp represented by the leading enterprises in the industry, such as Beiyuanda, Nanjianghe and Zhonglingyun; The second type is the second camp composed of curtain wall subsidiaries such as Gold Mantis, Yaxia Co., Ltd., and China State Construction, which rely on large construction or decoration enterprises; The third camp is the small businesses in the market.

The advantage of the third camp is that it is fast and flexible, but with the improvement of the scale of construction, the increase of technical difficulty, and the standardization of industry rules, the market space of such enterprises will be gradually squeezed. The level of the second camp is uneven, mainly depending on the parent company's main business and policy tendency, and the development trend is relatively uncertain. The first camp of enterprises are more than one billion yuan, complete technology, standardized management, and have strong core competitiveness in the country and even the world.

Under the current market and normative requirements, such enterprises will be stronger and stronger, and maintain a high scale of growth.

There are definitely prospects for curtain walls, and the salary is upgraded quickly, I have been engaged in curtain wall design for a total of four years from graduation to now, from assistant engineer to design engineer and then to design department supervisor, the salary has more than tripled in four years, do you say there is a prospect? Seize the opportunity, you can achieve yourself everywhere, I wish you all the best!

It's better to go to a design institute, and don't do structural design, do architectural design.

Curtain wall design should belong to the decorative category, right? The prospects are good.

That's okay, that's what I learned.