Aliva UK and architects Hassell receiving an FX Design award in the Best Surface Category for Elm House, Brighton
About Aliva UK
Aliva UK is an award-winning market-leading architectural solutions specialist, offering Italian flair in contemporary facade design. Our Italian parent company Gruppo Ivas has celebrated its 70th anniversary, demonstrating market strength and longevity of a global business.
Aliva has been operating in the UK for 26 years in 2026, with our headquarters in the South and an office and showroom in the North. Our bespoke A rated suite of Kiwa UK and British Board of Agrément certified facade systems, are underlined with Italian design spirit, to realise your creativity and architectural vision at scale.
Our customised systems and comprehensive suite of facade materials can turn your sketch into an architectural skin, creating signature buildings spanning the UK and on an international stage.
Transforming Sketch To Architectural Skin
See how our Italian inspired, bespoke facades can realise the scale and substance of your design intent, creating flagship buildings across the globe.
Elm House, Brighton
Avon Point, Bristol
Prada, Las Vegas
La Scala Theatre, Italy
Multi Award-Winning Facade Systems and Consultancy
Our multi award-winning External Wall Insulation (ETICS) and rainscreen cladding facade systems are suited to all sectors to deliver on your design intent without compromise.
Our facade systems feature on new build developments and refurbishment and retrofit projects spanning: private residential, Build To Rent, Purpose Built Student Accommodation and social housing through to hotels, leisure and car parks, education, historic buildings, corporate buildings and flagship office complexes.
We hold ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management Systems and ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management Systems.
Our unrivalled team can provide technical services through to specification counsel. We provide an end-to-end service covering: consultancy, including Gateway 2 compliance, design, structural calculation, manufacturing and supply, on site project training and installation assessment.
We recognise the importance of the Building Safety Act, Gateway 2, and its primary objective, to ensure building designs and construction practices meet safety standards.
Making sure facade system choice is managed to ensure regulatory compliance, minimise risks, improving construction quality, and providing ongoing safety support, a key part of the BSA Golden Thread, is why Aliva UK is an invaluable Gateway 2 compliance partner and system designer.
Aliva UK and architects Hadfield Cawkwell Davidson receiving an INCA award for Hayloft Point in the Best New Build Brick Effect category.
Customer Testimonials
Elm House, Brighton. Terra.covering
“This is a transformational design project and the result of a collaborative team effort. From concept to manufacture and delivery, Elm House represents our vision for a well-crafted, meaningful and environmentally responsive cladding.
A design that references both the historic mathematical tiles of Brighton along with the murmurations of starlings that gather over Brighton Pier.
The crafting and technical skill that Aliva demonstrated throughout the project led to an outstanding quality product and the stunning aesthetic of the final result.”
Julian Gitsham
Principal and Education & Science Sector Leader, Hassell
Morriss House, Nottingham. AlivaBrick and Stone.covering
“The scale and location of this flagship project dictated the need for an innovative approach to be taken to its construction, not least the material selection and methods of working. This made the decision to use the AlivaBrick slip system a reasonably straightforward one; especially when considering the programme gains against traditional brickwork construction.
We at Unite have set ambitious Net Zero Carbon targets, and here again the AlivaBrick slip system has contributed to us meeting our businesses expectations for delivering attractive, sustainable buildings.”
Adrian Muir
Morriss House Project Manager, Unite Students