A specialist facade design partner for contractors navigating the Building Safety Act — delivering buildable detail drawings and the compliance evidence trail behind them.
Ack Facades is a specialist facade design consultancy providing detail design, compliance documentation and design-responsibility support to cladding contractors and main contractors. Working in the industry since 2015 and independent since 2019, we have delivered detailed design on more than 32 projects across the UK — across zinc, aluminium cassette, fibre cement and GRC systems.
We help subcontractors take on more work without adding fixed overhead, and we help main contractors close the compliance evidence gap that the Building Safety Act now demands.
The façade industry has moved. Producing CAD details was once enough — and plenty of firms across the UK can do that. But under the Building Safety Act, serious contractors now need more than drawings: they need the compliance evidence that sits behind them, assembled to satisfy the Building Safety Regulator and the Golden Thread.
We have built our services around that shift. Detailed design remains the foundation — but everything below it exists to close the compliance gap that the market increasingly demands, and that most design consultancies still leave open.
Precise, buildable detail packages — sections, plans, elevations, fixing schedules and method sheets — produced to a consistent CAD standard and ready to issue.
A front-loaded, disciplined RFI process that resolves unknowns early and keeps queries off your critical path, protecting the design programme.
Documentation prepared to support Building Safety Regulator submissions, with the design rationale and evidence assembled the way the BSR expects to see it.
Design risk assessments that meet your CDM duties and sit cleanly within the wider compliance record.
Accurate as-built drawings and operation & maintenance documentation to close projects out properly.
Structured compliance dossiers and fire-safety (Part B) design support that stand up to scrutiny.
Most design packages are handed over without the design-responsibility record and competency evidence contractors increasingly require. We build that evidence into the package as standard — closing a gap most consultancies leave open.
We build the evidence trail, not just the drawings — so your package is ready for Gateway 2 and the Golden Thread from the outset, not retro-fitted later.
We detail for buildability and procurement — the way the site and the supply chain actually need it, not just the way it looks on a drawing.
We scale with your programme, giving you extra design capability exactly when you need it, without adding to your fixed overhead.
Every interface is resolved before it reaches CAD. Cavity barriers, ventilation routes, setting-out and fire-rated build-ups — thought through on paper, then drawn to a buildable standard.
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Detailed design for the standing-seam zinc cladding, dormers and mansard. Section, elevation and setting-out details coordinated to the existing structure.
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Detailed design for the recessed standing-seam zinc upper storey over the brick mass, including projecting reveals, parapet copings and the brick-to-zinc corner interface.
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Detailed design for the anodised and anthracite standing-seam wrap framing a full-height curtain wall, with fire-rated breather-membrane build-up behind the rainscreen.
A selection of typical detail drawings, illustrating our CAD standard and the way we resolve interfaces, fixings and fire-rated build-ups.
Ack Facades was built on a decade of detailing and delivering façade systems on live projects, and on a background in design management across complex cladding and rainscreen packages. The consultancy exists to give contractors something the market was short of: precise, buildable detailing backed by the compliance documentation that modern projects demand.
That combination — technical detailing and a compliance-first mindset — remains the core of how Ack Facades works today.