Curtain Wall Details At Floor

Panel framing details of curtain walls.

Curtain wall details at floor. 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. A curtain wall is defined as thin usually aluminum framed wall containing in fills of glass metal panels or thin stone. When glass is used as the curtain wall an advantage is that natural light can penetrate deeper within the building.

Since the curtain wall is non structural it can be made of lightweight materials thereby reducing construction costs. Unitized curtain wall. Kawneer does not control the selection of product configurations operating hardware or glazing materials and assumes no responsibility therefor. 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.

Each floor level therefore supports one level of wind load on a building. The wind and gravity loads of the curtain wall are transferred to the building structure typically at the floor. The framing is attached to the building structure and does not carry the floor or roof loads of the building. A muntz metal panel is used to cover the inside face of the curtain wall.

The tee bar is plug welded to the continuous bronze mullions. Unitized system is identified by the split mullions and the transforms that are evident in the panel perimeters as shown in figure 5.