Glass Curtain Wall Curtain walls, such as those on the Gold Building, are an innovation made possible by the use of interior steel construction. Steel (or in more recent buildings reinforced concrete), supports the weight of the building and exterior walls become merely a decorative barrier to the elements, applied as curtains might be to a wind...

Unlike traditional office spaces with solid walls, structural glass curtain wall systems prefer glass which opens up offices to more collaboration and natural light. For the one thing, curtain wall can add cohesiveness and beauty to a building. Appearance varies depending on the type of curtain wall design used and the materials chosen by the ar...

Benefits of Structural Glass Curtain Wall Structural glass curtain wall can generally create much space and look stylish for the modern high-rise buildings nowadays. Glass allows natural light to come through the walls or roof making your house lighter and more spacious. Apart from being visually attractive, structural glass doors, walls and roo...

Unitized curtain wall systems are typically custom designed in most cases. And also, unitized systems are typically pressure equalized rain screen systems. The units should be completely assembled in a factory and shipped to the site for installation on the building. The units are placed on the floors, bundled in crates, using the tower crane an...

In the modern times, building envelope / facades finished with glass such as windows or glass used extensively to wrap up the building perimeter is called structural glazing. Structural glazing systems, in their simplest form, are types of curtain wall systems consisting of glass that is bonded or anchored back to a structure without the use of ...