Semi Unitized Curtain Wall System
If your project doesn t suit most of the criteria for a unitized system your other option is to use a stick built system.
Semi unitized curtain wall system. The opaque areas can be a wide range of materials including glass metal earthen and composites. Its basic structural principle is to fabricate other curtain wall components with the exception of main keels to assemble them into unitized panel and then deliver to site to be fixed on main keel. Curtain wall semi unitized system. 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.
Since the curtain wall is non structural it can be made of lightweight materials thereby reducing construction costs. A semi unitized curtain wall glazing system is a type of structural glazing where the primary structural framing components are erected individually as an erector set. Semi unitized curtain walls are more economically viable on smaller projects or larger projects that require many wall conditions. Elegance 52 sg is a semi unitised system with factory prepared structurally glazed frames stepped or non stepped glazed units secured into each aperture of the curtain wall for a flush glazed appearance.
Long pieces of aluminum hence the name stick are inserted between floors vertically and horizontally between vertical members to support and transfer the load of the glass back to structure. The vast majority of low to mid rise curtain walls are installed in this way. In this set the vertical mullions are attached first to the floor slabs and the horizontals are attached to the vertical mullions to resemble a grid. Semi unitized curtain wall has the combined features of stick curtain wall and unitized curtain wall.
Semi unitised curtain wall systems elegance 52 sg.