fischer: Fixing system for ventilated facades

The fischer A | C | T system offers architects and designers a comprehensive, innovative, and high-quality system for fixing ventilated facades. In addition to the technical and economic advantages of installation, it offers incredible freedom in architectural design.

It is the key to a new aesthetic for stone facades.

A wide range of applications for architectural design

The fischer A system | C | T is compatible with a large number of materials and allows the use of natural stone facade panels from 20 mm up to 70 mm thick.

It is possible to use large stone formats up to 3 m2, positioned in portrait, landscape or at an angle, while maintaining easy and quick individual replacement of the stones.  

Thanks to the truncated cone drilling technology on the back of the panel combined with the fischer FZP II anchor, The fischer A | C | T system ensures that no fasteners are visible at the joint. As a result, the aesthetics of the façade are preserved and, unlike stapled systems, there is no risk of drips appearing on the façade or of the stones splitting due to stresses in the edges. The A | C | T system also guarantees perfectly aligned façades.

Beyond the scope of the technical opinion, other facing materials can be attached such as glass, ceramic or HPL panels.

An anchoring system evaluated by CSTB

The fischer A system | C | T is assessed for natural stones by a Technical Assessment issued by CSTB.

Furthermore, the FZP II anchor for natural stones is the subject of a European Technical Assessment (ETA-11/0145).

Security in all circumstances

Quick and easy to install, both when placing and replacing stones, the fischer A | C | T makes it possible to reduce the construction time of the facades and to transfer a large part of the work to the workshop, which makes it an economical system. It guarantees a perfectly secure anchoring:

• for buildings located in seismic zones,
• for high-rise buildings,
• for significant temperature variations,
• for high loads due to wind or dead weight.

Anchoring from behind the stone considerably increases the mechanical strength of the fastener compared to a fastening system at the edge of the plate.
The positioning of these anchors makes it possible to optimize bending behavior, ensure the absence of accidents and reduce thicknesses by almost 30%. The reduction in the mass of the facing thus obtained makes it possible to reduce the loading of the structure, the quantity of materials to be purchased and transported and the handling efforts for the installation teams.

The innovative fischer drilling technology consists of a frustoconical drilling, carried out either on site or in the workshop, which allows the expansion of the FZP II anchor without constraining the stone.

A complete service dedicated to the fischer system A | C | T

The fischer A | C | T system is not limited to innovative fastening products. fischer offers a wide range of industrial machines for drilling natural stone, and the fischer A | C | T team provides architects, designers and installation professionals with comprehensive support from the design phase through to completion. This assistance extends from training engineers in sizing to installing the panels on site.

Fischer A system | C | T: know-how recognized through reference projects

Robert Schuman Congress Center in Metz

Covering an area of ​​15 m300, the Metz Congress Center opened its doors in September 2. For this project, the Wilmotte & Associés firm imagined a facade with slender blades made of Jaumont stone, a yellow stone characteristic of the city, over the entire height of the building.

This stone curtain gives an airy appearance and offers a real play of light and shadow. To ensure anchoring, without expansion constraints and perfectly invisible to this stone facade, The fischer A | C | T fixing system was chosen. 40 FZPII 000X13 M26/SO/8 CARBON form-lock anchors were used.

Great Arch of Defense

Built in the 80s, the Grande Arche de la Défense has become an emblematic monument of the business district. Architectural prowess, this hollowed-out glass and marble cube, 300 tonnes, 000 m wide, high and deep, has nevertheless withstood bad weather and the wear and tear of time. This is why this building has undergone major renovations.
The companies EDM - Ateliers de France and UNIMARBRES, specialized in the realization of prestigious, complex or original works in stone, were in charge of replacing the Carrara marble of the facade and the eardrums.
Partners with fischer on numerous construction sites, they have chosen the fischer A | C | T fixing system for anchoring the new Bethel White American granite slabs. It perfectly meets the architectural needs of the building, while preserving its aesthetics.
The fischer Technical Service specialists have developed a tailor-made solution using the fischer A system | C | T with FZP II anchors with rear undercut shape locking, to provide an invisible anchor.
In total, nearly 50 pieces were needed to fix the new granite slabs.

FRAC of Marseille

fischer participated in the construction project of the new building of the Regional Contemporary Art Fund (FRAC) in Marseille.
This building has a glass coat, with a facade of 1700 enamelled glass panels on 5 floors, which lets glimpse the interior life of the site. Suspended by an innovative galvanized steel frame, mounted on a wall on concrete walls, these panels constitute a modern and unique sunshade.
For the fixing of this floating glass curtain in front of the building, fischer, in collaboration with the company Hefi, was chosen with its FZP-GZ invisible expansion anchors and its FIS V injection system. For this project, the enamelled glass panels needed to have an invisible fixing, so fischer FZP-GZ inserts, which are non-through anchors specially designed for toughened safety glass and laminated safety glass, were chosen.

In total, no less than 6 anchors throughout the building were used for fixing the glass panels.
In addition, this project was the subject of a Technical Experimental Assessment carried out with the support of the Fischer technical service.Finally, the use of FZP-GZ inserts has made it possible to preserve the aesthetics of the facade.

PHOTO CAPTION: For the skyscraper at 99 Hudson Street in New Jersey, USA, 90 Fischer Zykon FZP II anchors secure the 000 m25 of natural stone slabs on the façade.