Curtain Wall Details At Floor

Laws and building and safety codes governing the design and use of kawneer products such as glazed entrance window and curtain wall products vary widely.

Curtain wall details at floor.

A curtain wall is defined as thin usually aluminum framed wall containing in fills of glass metal panels or thin stone. Panel framing details of curtain walls. The tee bar is plug welded to the continuous bronze mullions. A curtain wall system is an outer covering of a building in which the outer walls are non structural utilized only to keep the weather out and the occupants in.

The wind and gravity loads of the curtain wall are transferred to the building structure typically at the floor. The steel structure is used to support the curtain wall at every floor slab. When glass is used as the curtain wall an advantage is that natural light can penetrate deeper within the building. The framing is attached to the building structure and does not carry the floor or roof loads of the building.

The bronze tee bar is bolted to the steel angles. Kawneer does not control the selection of product configurations operating hardware or glazing materials and assumes no responsibility therefor. The right side of the detail shows the condition at the window. Curtain wall and edge of slab fire barrier systems for single spandrel zero spandrel and steel back pan configurations hilti s vast library of firestop solutions ranging from traditional spandrel designs 100 vision glass or eifs are unrivaled in the industry.

Since the curtain wall is non structural it can be made of lightweight materials thereby reducing construction costs. Unitized system is identified by the split mullions and the transforms that are evident in the panel perimeters as shown in figure 5.