For a long time, glass plays an essential role in the facade. Glass is a uniform material, a solidified liquid. By its property of transparency it opens up our buildings to the outside world. In modern architecture, there is tendency to open up our buildings by using very large facades that are as transparent as possible. In the modern building ...

As a rule, every good curtain wall system has to be designed considering five key elements: safety, quality, cost, aesthetics, and constructability. All of these elements are very much linked with each other to achieve the desired outcome. In most cases, the key elements of the curtain wall system, or the definition of facade, is the ‘Barriers o...

Curtain wall facade makes a hit in the modern building construction in recent years. In most every instance, glass residential curtain wall systems require custom specifications and fitting. As it is well acknowledged, each project is unique. In most curtain wall construction projects, each glazing system requires careful integration with other ...

Today, curtain walls, the most common cladding for high rise buildings, have evolved in a variety of applications and present varying conditions at the slab edge. In general, the control of fire spread in a high rise building depends on a number of active and passive measures. Fire spread control at the perimeter slab edge involves an interactio...

Recently, various types of curtain wall systems are widely used in large high-rise commercial buildings. Especially office curtain walls become very popular due to careful integration with other elements including wall claddings, roofs and etc. As it is well acknowledged, one of the main reasons why curtain wall has been created is to make a bui...