FLEXBRICK SL

Their core work

FLEXBRICK SL is a Spanish SME that manufactures flexible building facade and cladding products, with a specialization in integrating photovoltaic technology directly into architectural envelope systems (BIPV). Their industrial value to research consortia is bringing real-world manufacturing know-how to the challenge of turning laboratory-scale solar innovations — particularly perovskite cells on flexible substrates — into deployable building skin products. More recently, they have extended into building envelope performance measurement, contributing product expertise to large-scale efforts to verify how advanced envelope systems contribute to nearly zero energy buildings. Their name and keyword fingerprint point to a manufacturer that treats the building facade as a functional energy and comfort surface, not just an aesthetic shell.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

FLEXBRICK's early H2020 participation (APOLO, 2018) was firmly in solar materials science applied to facades — perovskite cells, flexible substrates, colorful BIPV — signalling they were a manufacturing partner helping translate frontier photovoltaic research into aesthetically viable building products. By 2021, the focus had shifted upstream toward whole-envelope performance: measuring how building skin systems deliver healthy indoor environments and optimal renewable energy integration, with a digital marketplace layer added on top. The trend is a move from component-level solar integration toward systems-level envelope performance and market enablement — from making the product to proving and selling its value.

FLEXBRICK is moving from solar cell integration into building facades toward broader envelope performance verification and digital market platforms — positioning as a product-to-market bridge for advanced nZEB envelope systems.

How they like to work

FLEXBRICK has never led an H2020 project, always joining as a participant — a deliberate choice consistent with an industrial SME that brings specific product manufacturing capability rather than project management infrastructure. Despite only two projects, they have accumulated 38 unique consortium partners across 12 countries, meaning they consistently join large, well-connected consortia where their facade product expertise is a valued industrial anchor. This pattern suggests they are easy to work with as a specialist contributor and unlikely to compete for coordination roles.

With 38 unique partners across 12 countries from just two projects, FLEXBRICK operates in unusually large, internationally diverse consortia for an SME of this size. Their European reach is broad, though no single geographic cluster dominates based on available data.

What sets them apart

FLEXBRICK occupies a narrow but valuable niche: an industrial manufacturer that can physically produce flexible facade components and simultaneously engage with the science of integrating solar cells and measuring envelope performance. Most BIPV consortia struggle to find partners who bridge the gap between lab-scale PV research and real construction industry application — FLEXBRICK's name, sector keywords, and project history all point to exactly that bridging role. For any consortium building around building-integrated renewables or nZEB envelope systems, they offer what research institutes cannot: an actual product and a manufacturing process to test against.

Highlights from their portfolio

• APOLO
  FLEXBRICK's entry into frontier perovskite PV research — notable for combining flexible substrate manufacturing with colorful, architecturally viable BIPV, a technically difficult intersection rarely addressed by industrial SMEs.
• MEZeroE
  Their largest project by funding (EUR 637,289) and longest duration (2021–2026), covering advanced envelope measurement and a digital marketplace — a significant expansion of scope beyond solar cell integration.